Starting again in Ireland?

[secretmumoffour]

This country has just gone to pot! Everything is so expensive! Council tax has gone up 5%, water 10%, food.... I've lost count....but wages.... not a thing! (Public sector) nothing works anymore! Bin collections are a joke, postal services don't work.... can't see a GP or get an ambulance if we need one.... so, any pros or cons to leaving the dictatorship that has become this country and relocating to the Republic of Ireland? I'm already a citizen so that's not an issue. I have a professional job currently that I've looked into doing over there and should be fairly easily doable...

I think it’s fair enough when the OP strongly suggests she sees democracy in the UK under threat, I don’t think democracy in Ireland is too strong at the moment. No one could imagine the labour and Tory parties combining in a coalition government in the UK.

Actually, I think the worst excesses of the Dáil look like the dialogues of Socrates compared to recent antics in Westminster, but I think Brits who think that Ireland is going to be very similar to home because of proximity and language are often in for a big shock.

Politics in Ireland is in nowhere near as bad a state as the UK. It’s a pretty centrist place to be honest, although of course as migration increases we are seeing an increase in the kind of far right activism that has been seen in other countries. GP fees take a bit of getting used to, but at the same time I can’t get my head around how difficult it seems to be for my friends to get a GP appointment in the UK (holding on the line first thing in the morning etc).
Housing is the biggest issue. Are you thinking of Dublin or elsewhere?

Go for it OP. ! It has its issues too but seems far more centreist and a bloody sight cheerier too last time I went

@secretmumoffour €80 just to see the doctor - ambulance home from hospital €300 no hospice care without a lean on your house.... Ireland is just as expensive...

GPs are private services so can charge whatever they want. I pay €60 for a gp appointment. I pay more for a hair dresser appointment. And I do it more regularly too!

But but... the rain

Oh for Christsake, wanting to control immigration and preserve your identity doesn’t make you right-wing. It’s a perfectly sensible, rational desire. According to the left, anybody who dares disagree in any flippin way is a neo-Nazi. It’s pathetic. And you want to be careful, because if there ever IS a right-wing resurgence you’ll be like the boy who cried wolf.

If you think that this country is expensive then I don't think that you have done much homework on the cost of living in Ireland.

Yes, but if you said that, you’d be posting racially motivated stereotypes.

I was talking about evidenced-based facts: the OP is British, and whiny.

The cost of living is higher in Ireland than in the UK, but as far as I know it's higher in London than in Dublin. So I guess it depends which areas you're moving from and to.

How interesting, @JoonT. Which posters did you identify as Irish, rural and intellectually-backward? Or is this a magical insight based on still-prevalent anti-Irish stereotypes?

It’s plain what the poster meant by that post- if you genuinely believe she was calling all Irish people bumpkins, I have a bridge to sell you.

OP was asking a genuine question and that “whiny Brit” response was pathetic. And I say that as an Irish person.

oh dear I came from England 32 years ago to NI I'm not too whiney and I LOVE living here