Watch Your Step

 These Streets are not Paved with Gold

There’s no prospects for a young man in Tralee and hasn’t been in a generation or more. Don’t talk to me about the Celtic Tiger, either. That “tech revolution” was over before it started around here. About all we got out of it was higher housing costs and fewer decent-paying labor type jobs. If you couldn’t code or weren’t in finance or real estate, forget it. I’ve been on the dole now for six years and live back with my parents. It’s embarrassing.  

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