Good Places to raise a family in dublin area.

ziubzia

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a bit of advice really. I'm looking to move in the next few months we need to be within a reasonable distance of Dublin airport as i will need to commute to the UK on a regular basis.
As such my wife and 2 y.o child will spend time on their own while i'm away. I lived in Ireland for 2years about 10 years ago doing charity work with drug users spending time in Dublin, Cork, Limerick. As such am looking at the following areas;

Swords
Malahide
Balbriggan

I really need to be close to the airport, any advice on the areas above or alternatives that are family friendly and safe?

Thanks,

LeeHoffmann

you're going to get people telling you swords/balbriggan is great and others telling you they're really rough. You should go check them out for yourself to get a feel of the area. I live in north county Dublin myself and have done for years. Balbriggan's a good place these days as it's a growing town with plenty of young families (so loads of schools) and ever more facilities and good bus and train links. Choose the housing estate carefully though. Malahide's lovely, very quaint but more expensive. Swords is good too - good facilities, very close to the airport,but doesn't have a train station and can be a little rough at night IMO. If you're looking for a smaller village with all of the above, you might want to have a look at Donabate (beautiful beach there too). Good luck

dr.bollocko

Moved from AH.

Lord Derpington

Why not look at somewhere like Dunboyne?

kazul

ziubzia wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a bit of advice really. I'm looking to move in the next few months we need to be within a reasonable distance of Dublin airport as i will need to commute to the UK on a regular basis.
As such my wife and 2 y.o child will spend time on their own while i'm away. I lived in Ireland for 2years about 10 years ago doing charity work with drug users spending time in Dublin, Cork, Limerick. As such am looking at the following areas;

Swords
Malahide
Balbriggan

I really need to be close to the airport, any advice on the areas above or alternatives that are family friendly and safe?

Thanks,

Drumcondra ftw. Near airport and city, mature and settled. "The donnybrook of the northside".

kazul

greenfly wrote: »

Why not look at somewhere like Dunboyne?

Because it's in a different county and quite far from the airport for starters?

bamboozle

ziubzia wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a bit of advice really. I'm looking to move in the next few months we need to be within a reasonable distance of Dublin airport as i will need to commute to the UK on a regular basis.
As such my wife and 2 y.o child will spend time on their own while i'm away. I lived in Ireland for 2years about 10 years ago doing charity work with drug users spending time in Dublin, Cork, Limerick. As such am looking at the following areas;

Swords
Malahide
Balbriggan

I really need to be close to the airport, any advice on the areas above or alternatives that are family friendly and safe?

Thanks,

Malahide, Portmarnock, Raheny, Clontarf, Drumcondra, Glasnevin
or if you wanna brave meath Ratoath & Ashbourne are 10-15 mins drive to airport

Lord Derpington

kazul wrote: »

Because it's in a different county and quite far from the airport for starters?

The OP said Dublin area not Dublin.

Dunboyne is about 20mins from the airport with easy access to the M50, thats hardly quite far.

markpb

I'm going to pimp my old home, Larch Hill between Santry and Coolock. It's a 10 minute drive to the airport (I lived there while commuting to the UK and Amsterdam a lot for work), has a lot of green areas for your little one to play outside, has a Centra right outside and is between three shopping centres: Omni in Santry, Northside in Coolock and Artane Castle in Artane. I lived there for six years and had no problems at all, only (eventually) moved to be closer to work.

kazul

greenfly wrote: »

kazul wrote: »

Because it's in a different county and quite far from the airport for starters?

The OP said Dublin area not Dublin.

Dunboyne is about 20mins from the airport with easy access to the M50, thats hardly quite far.

No public transport link from dunboyne to airport and a taxi fare would be quite steep...

cosmic

I grew up in Beaumont. It's only a 10-15 minute drive from the airport (if you go onto the M1 from the Oscar Traynor Road) and a lovely area.

dsmythy

Swords is the closest more built up area to the airport. Only a couple of areas in the town to avoid, do that and it's a great place to raise a family. If you want a leafier and perhaps bit quieter town then Malahide is your best bet.

spurious

Raheny. Lovely area.

laoch na mona

ballymun

Gae

ziubzia wrote: »

we need to be within a reasonable distance of Dublin airport as i will need to commute to the UK on a regular basis.

How often will you be travelling? The Aircoach offers a pretty good service. You could live along one of their routes and have decent access to the airport.

ziubzia

Thanks for your suggestions everyone. I think i'll be giving 'the mun' a miss. I'll be commuting on a weekly basis doing 3days IE 4days UK. So being close is a must.

misslt

I live in Swords, I love it.

I'm just off the travelodge roundabout, so it's a stones throw from the village but its quiet, never had any hassle!

I lived in Boroimhe for a bit too which I couldn't recommend highly enough tbh. Perfect imo for a family - its quiet and safe etc. Got Supervalu, chemist, hairdressers and dry cleaners. Everything else is in the village, 5 mins away.

Close enought to the city to be handy, far enough out to be quiet

I love it, and I'm only here 2 years :P