To think about moving to uk from ireland

[Acorncat1]

Hi all
Please be gentle! Myself and my (English) husband have been talking about moving back to North of England. He works in It and we have two primary school age kids. We both love England and spend a good bit of time there. Think it would offer alot of the things we're in walking, climbing, outdoor stuff. But.... BREXIT And all the uncertainty. Due to ages of kids we'd have to move in summer as son would start secondary then..
Mad or not?? Pros and cons??

We are thinking of going the other way. Husband also works in IT - the big bank he works for have moved lots of ops to Dublin and one of the big 4 have bought a whole street of offices in Dublin recently. In my much smaller consultancy (management) a disproportion of our clients are in ROI and it feels like spending confidence here has dipped.

I suppose it depends on your beliefs and politics but we are so, so disappointed with the way the UK is going and have fallen out of love with it.

I live in Ireland but would love to move back to my native north England. I hate Brexit but I think a lot of nonsense is being talked at the moment. There's racist people in England but we need to drown out their voices. There's racist idiots in Ireland too. Nowhere is perfect.

There’s been a few articles in the news about racism towards Irish.
I could be just being skeptic here though.

I think expense wise it’s much of a muchness to be honest. No council tax or water rates here in Ireland and more child benefits. Plus my wages are WAY higher here!

Putting Brexit aside, if you’re relying on IT to provide an income, bear in mind that the IT sector in the U.K. is just about to be royally fucked by the Conservative govt changes to IR35.

Anyone who contracts in IT will be affected, anyone who is a perm staff member will be affected as well as the whole sector will be unbalanced by the changes. I would wait at least six to 12 months to assess the damage before thinking about moving.

I also agree with @Fanlights education here is less pressured in primary school, they start later, they are more play based for the first two years, shorter days, NO SATS pressure!! I also find secondary education in Ireland to be a much broader curriculum with more solid foundations.

Jesus no, England is going to be fucked for at least the next 4-5 years. It’s already grim. Go and live in Cork or Dublin.

Thank you all so much for your feedback, really helps to get an idea of what it's like on the ground over there. We need to see how things progress over the next few months....not looking great though.

It’s already grim

In what way? I am (very) worried about Brexit but everything is fine at the moment (assuming you're in a reasonable job and can afford housing, food, ok standard of living). There's nothing to suggest that the OP would not have that, and as an Irish citizen she could go anywhere else in the EEA or back to Ireland any time if things really do go wrong here.

Admittedly I live in an affluent area with plenty of yummy mummies (and dads) driving expensive SUVs but calling it grim doesn't really fit with my experience. People are just getting on with life. A friend who lives in Germany said she'd rather be dead in a ditch (ha ha) than live here, slight exaggeration I think.

Im english, live in rural so called posh northern england and I did live for a few years in rural scotland.
Its the attitudes of people Ive found have changed since the brexit vote, Ive not yet been hit economically but Im expecting to be. Have you considered scotland especially the central belt and south west?
Im economically tied to my particular area of northern england, if I wasn't id move back to scotland