Originally Posted by ASKBAP
I didn't say anything about the "average price" of a house in the ROI, I was talking about the "price" of a house in Dublin, my own house in fact
You're having a laugh right? Your own house? Can't see the relevance mate!
Surely nobody is that dumb they can't grasp the concept of the word
average?
Ah sure, lets carry on playing your wee game.
Originally Posted by AFBAKS
But seeing as you brought it up, it might be more accurate to show the average price of a house in 'Dublin' rather than the price of a house in the ROI as a whole because anyone working for Aer Lingus are more likely to live in Dublin (because thats where the airport is).
You wouldn't be trying to pull one over by comparing
specific areas in the ROI with
average values across NI, eh?
Noooo, not so fast you don't.
See, if you want to get into specifics, what you need to do is compare specifics! Apples with Apples and all that old boy, know what I mean?
Let me illuminate you further my fuzzy friend. Are you ready?
Here goes....
Average Belfast House Price =
331,214 GBP (source: BBC website)
SORT BY:
NAMEAV PRICE (£)QUARTERANNUALSALES
£389,289N/AN/AN/ANorth Down
£337,642N/AN/AN/AColeraine/ Limavady/ North Coast
£334,413N/AN/AN/A
Belfast £331,214
£317,141N/AN/AN/AAntrim/ Ballymena
£295,227N/AN/AN/ACraigavon/ Armagh
£291,584N/AN/AN/AEast Antrim
£291,400N/AN/AN/AMid Ulster
£274,950N/AN/AN/ALondonderry/ Strabane
£258,359N/AN/AN/AEnniskillen/ Fermanagh/ S. Tyrone
£253,000N/AN/AN/A
I'll help you out a bit now and convert that to euro for ya.
It's
488,633.69 euro.
Which is 64,000 euro more than the Dublin price (€424,631).
Or 15% more expensive in Belfast if you prefer.
By the way - we're talking 'average' house here, not a secluded 4 bed detached on the Malone Road (where I'm certain all the new ALT Belfast based pilots would like to live, but never will on Mannions 'loser-rate' salary).
Are you catching on to this concept of averages yet? Even you can do it if you really try. 
Maybe this is some kind of ROI snobbery actually? You seem to think the poor sods up North are all living in two a penny slums, compared to 'your house' in Dublin. Wake up and smell the coffee mate, NI is no impoverished knackerland, peopled with beggars and losers who are only too happy to scramble for the crumbs that fall off the Republics table, as you seem to believe.
I can sense Belfast hackles rising - and you don't want that, believe me you don't.