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Article: City living at a country pace.(PROPERTY)
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- Sunday Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- August 5, 2007
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Byline: John O'Keeffe
THERE you are now lying on the beach in Spain or Turkey, and all you can think about is foreign ownership and how nice it would be to say to the Yammy Mammies at the school gate in September that you and Feeergus ''have just bought that dahling property in Porto Bandius'' and how it was ''a steal''.
No missus, you was robbed. When you were all caught up with beachfront properties, you forgot that for 51 weeks of the year you live in cornflakes box off the M50.
You could instead have been a contender at home and bought Brook Lodge in Kildare, the mother of all family homes and the one that you can just not afford to ignore. ...