Potential move Surrey to Dublin ish, yes another one must be Brexit

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OH works for American IT firm in London we live in a small village sw Surrey.Two kids year five (now) and year three. He's being sounded out for a dublin role in a new office with current company.Typical man description south side "near the river".

I'm Irish from a border town but uni in Belfast and then Scotland and England.Realised this year I've now spent longer out of Ireland than in it.

The role can be done from here with "regular visits" but could be based on dublin full time.

I'm just trying to think through would I actually want us to move?I work school hours in an a local authority contaminated land role that I don't even think exists down south.I'm also a very heavy nhs user (inflammatory arthritis).

So.....would you move? Would my unchristened with no Irish kids fit in? Etc etc.

My parents are going to get all excited if /when they get wind of this so if you're reading this as one of my cousins shush.

Hi
Kids not being christened wouldn't matter I don't think. And schools will give them an exemption from not speaking Irish - you would have to research the schools thoroughly.... lot of Dublin primary schools are very heavily subscribed.

Going to see a gp costs about €60 and a consultant could be in the region of €150. Long waiting lists for most things on the health system.

Dublin is expensive. Buying or renting property is going to cost a lot. That said it's a great city...

I could not live in newry (sorry!). Job would come with private health insurance but I'm not sure that helps with rheumatology. Just one of the drugs I'm on costs about 15k a year :(

I think we would go for down south if indeed this ever happens.I've been pleasantly surprised by the primary school system here but I'm still not convinced by gcses and a levels.it's just so soon to specialise when you grew up with leaving cert etc.

Does anyone know what the monthly drug scheme cut off is? There's fifteen items on my repeat perception i currently only pay abbot twelve quid a month for my prescriptions!!

Is there an age the Irish exemption thing kicks in?

I could ask my mother all these questions but then she would get all excited about what could turn out to be nothing

The drug payment scheme cut off is €144 a month...though you can also claim taxback of 20% on that too.
The housing situation is utterly dire in Dublin at the moment. Massive competition for extremely overpriced rentals.
Not sure what age the exemption thing kicks in, but I'm guessing if your kids would be going into 4th and 6th class they'd be exempt, it would be a lot to catch up on!

I'm 99% positive the Irish exemption requires than the primary school child is over 11 (maybe 11 and over). You should definitely find that on the department of education website somewhere.

We live in a tiny village I cannot imagine living in Dublin (or any city to be honest).I love it to visit now and again but not every day

I think it would be third and fifth class the years don't align. We have reception, year one two etc.They are ten and eight

I'm not sure id mind them learning Irish I'm just not that bothered about it to have taught them any and the compulsory element is (in my opinion) ridiculous.I was quite good at it too, b1 in honours.all forgotten now though.

It would be third & fifth. Year 3 is 2nd class and Year 5 is 4th class.

OP, in terms of GCSEs and A-Levels (I have the same concern), lots of secondary schools, including state ones, now run an International Baccalaureate syllabus which means your not forced down the GCSE/A-level route.

When we moved back (300 years ago), I was exempt but my 8 year old brother wasn't. However, we were all born there - I think the exemption rules are different if you weren't.

If "south side near the river" means city centre somewhere like Grand Canal Basin (lots of financial services companies on north side of river there and legal, IT and other services on south side), it's very handy for the trains to Connolly/Pearse St, and not dreadful for Heuston (via Luas up the river). Lots of commuter trains now bypass Heuston and go to Connolly/Tara Street/Pearse Street stations in the past year or so as well.

If so, you could look at DH getting the train into work daily, but living in a town or even village with a short drive to trains on the Belfast line (Drogheda and Dundalk commuter lines too) along east coast going north, Rosslare line (including Gorey commuter and DART to Greystones) on east coast going south, or spokes on the hubs going out from Dublin (see www.irishrail.ie/travel-information/station-and-route-maps for routes) - lots of smaller towns and villages would be a nice journey and many of the stations in commuter areas have decent parking.

Educate together schools are multidenominational so don't care about DCs being christened or not. There are some other multi- or non-denominational schools available now too, as there is a bit of a push away from fully catholic schools. But they are still dominant, especially outside of Dublin.

I would try to check out the rheumatology departments as part of your search as they are pretty stretched in my understanding. So you may need to be, not necessarily IN Dublin but close enough that you could also get up regularly as needed. You are probably looking at being a 2 car family if you are living outside the City. But between trains (depending on the hospital) and roads, there should be plenty of choice (some roads are busy at commuting times but ok the rest, others are busy all day - so bear that in mind - especially M1 and M7). M4 is bad a lot - but it's a huge commuter belt and very car dependent, getting stuck on the quays so one I'd avoid unless trains are options (like Celbridge/Maynooth/Leixlip - not Lucan).

HTH a little.

This is so helpful thank you.where could I find an income tax calculator or equivalent of the entitled to calculator that is in uk gov website.honestly I feel like a foreigner in respect of how ireand actually works as now thana five times a year visitor

The Irish thing is eleven /special needs /more than three years abroad /refugees for anyone following me you get it if you Google Irish language exemption

See Naples and die; see Newry and Mourne.

(Sorry not helpful, that just always makes me snigger)

I can give you more info on the tax stuff but it'll have to wait til later when I get home from work.

What kind of information do you want with respect to this?

I found something online just one of those calculators that gives you an idea of take home pay on x salary. We don't have usc etc here so I just want to be able to look at any job offer objectively.

I have an excel file I put together for myself that'll do it all for you once you add in a few pieces of info like your tax credits. I can try attach it if you want it?

Actually scratch that. It appears I can't attach excel. If you want it you can pm me your e-mail address and I'll happily send it on.

Quality of education is higher in the south. Does not have the same issues as the UK does in the public schools

Someone on Craicnet said it's better financially to live in the North but work in the South.