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Quality of life living in the US vs Dublin

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    So please tell me something that is dearer in the States than Ireland...apart from a good pint of Guinness:p

    The price of freedom........... according to Fox News.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    So please tell me something that is dearer in the States than Ireland...apart from a good pint of Guinness:p

    Auto insurance, property taxes, granulated sugar(especially at tesco - so that may be half sawdust for all I know), health insurance, used cars(much cheaper here for a well cared-for documented used car). A good pint of Guinness in a halfway decent Irish pub(and they do have them) is much less than here :(

    Many other things are shockingly expensive. A new chainsaw is nearly twice the cost with the exchange rate included. New cars are ridiculous. Road tax here is 10X what it is in Texas. I registered my Truck at the Tax office in Texas 8 years ago for the equivalent of 28 Euro or so. The Texas version of NCT is 18 bucks and 20 minutes - and when they give you your vehicle back, it isn't smoking and still works.

    Don't get me started on fuel costs. But, in all fairness, what's Texas got if not loads and loads of fuel reserves? My gas bill was always 9 bucks - no matter how much I used. Petrol bill? Well, here:

    http://m4.i.pbase.com/u8/wyk/large/1524344.t2k1.jpg

    That's a year or two before I left. So, a buck a gallon/3.8 litres. I had a 5.7 litre hemi pickup truck. Man, I miss that truck. But where the hell would I park it here ;)


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    [QUOTE=Reindeer;

    Man, I miss that truck. But where the hell would I park it here ;)[/QUOTE]

    Texans really do adore the Pick Up Truck :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Video games. Going to a movie. Health Care when not going through insurance. Quality Used cars. TV and Broadband packages. Education is much more expensive.

    Video Games...not really average game cost 40 euro..same as here really

    Health Care....Obamacare FTW

    Quality Used Car.....American cars are all bollix anyways

    Broadband packages...wouldn't be very familiar with this

    Education...depends where you want to be educated for the most part


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    mikom wrote: »
    The price of freedom........... according to Fox News.

    And they would be right;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Reindeer wrote: »
    Auto insurance, property taxes, granulated sugar(especially at tesco - so that may be half sawdust for all I know), health insurance, used cars(much cheaper here for a well cared-for documented used car). A good pint of Guinness in a halfway decent Irish pub(and they do have them) is much less than here :(

    Many other things are shockingly expensive. A new chainsaw is nearly twice the cost with the exchange rate included. New cars are ridiculous. Road tax here is 10X what it is in Texas. I registered my Truck at the Tax office in Texas 8 years ago for the equivalent of 28 Euro or so. The Texas version of NCT is 18 bucks and 20 minutes - and when they give you your vehicle back, it isn't smoking and still works.

    Don't get me started on fuel costs. But, in all fairness, what's Texas got if not loads and loads of fuel reserves? My gas bill was always 9 bucks - no matter how much I used. Petrol bill? Well, here:

    http://m4.i.pbase.com/u8/wyk/large/1524344.t2k1.jpg

    That's a year or two before I left. So, a buck a gallon/3.8 litres. I had a 5.7 litre hemi pickup truck. Man, I miss that truck. But where the hell would I park it here ;)

    Did you misread my question?:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭whitey1


    Some things are cheaper some things are more expensive.

    Bottom line is you can live in the States cheaply if you do your homework and are willing to look beyond the obvious.

    Used cars, gas, and car tax is cheaper

    Public transportation in (some citieslike) Boston is good and cheaper than Dublin.

    Food in supermarkets is cheaper

    Booze is cheaper depending where you go. (Last week in Boston, I paid $8.50 in one bar and $5.00 in another for a pint of Guinness)

    Clothes are cheaper

    And there's plenty of stuff to do that costs next to nothing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Video Games...not really average game cost 40 euro..same as here really

    Health Care....Obamacare FTW

    Quality Used Car.....American cars are all bollix anyways

    Broadband packages...wouldn't be very familiar with this

    Education...depends where you want to be educated for the most part

    Video games.A new game around these parts is about 69.99 in the local gamestop. Obamacare doesn't make it cheaper..it just ensures you have to have a minimum deductible. For college, even when paying in state tuition it's more expensive than back home. If you go to a Community college, it's still more expensive, you tend to pay per the module.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    So please tell me something that is dearer in the States than Ireland...apart from a good pint of Guinness:p

    Health Insurance, Broadband, Mobile Phone bills, Cable TV are all more expensive pretty much everywhere in the USA than they are here. Electricity is cheaper, but you will probably have higher bills, because you need air conditioning in the summer and that eats electricity. If you live in the south west, expect to be shocked at how much your water bill is. Property taxes will be huge in many parts of the States compared to Ireland. Paying out of pocket for anything healthcare related is extortionate - $200 for a GP appointment is considered cheap. College fees are massive - you are looking at $50,000 a year for a decent University unless you get into the local State university.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Will you only get 2 weeks off a year OP, or will you keep your Irish holidays? Cause for the opportunity to work 50 weeks a year, I'd be staying in Dublin.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    FYI, the OP was a naughty user and won't be replying anytime soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    FYI, the OP was a naughty user and won't be replying anytime soon.

    Oh. And I had felt we'd really connected :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    FYI, the OP was a naughty user and won't be replying anytime soon.

    Did he get grounded by his parents?

    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    If you live in the south west, expect to be shocked at how much your water bill is.

    Currently living with two others. Our waterbill is about 23 dollars a month. When I lived by myself more north, I was averaging 9 dollars a month. When I lived alone in Tempe it was about 15 dollars..I guess it depends on the where. It's actually a little bit of an incorrect assumption. I went out for a few beers with a lad from Texas, you guys must be really screwed when it comes to water. We're not, we have a couple of sources for water..there's never any water restrictions like in Florida. The quality of the water is cr@p, they call it hard water, you need to buy a water softener if you want to drink it but it's not too pricey and not scarce at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Currently living with two others. Our waterbill is about 23 dollars a month. When I lived by myself more north, I was averaging 9 dollars a month. When I lived alone in Tempe it was about 15 dollars..I guess it depends on the where. It's actually a little bit of an incorrect assumption. I went out for a few beers with a lad from Texas, you guys must be really screwed when it comes to water. We're not, we have a couple of sources for water..there's never any water restrictions like in Florida. The quality of the water is cr@p, they call it hard water, you need to buy a water softener if you want to drink it but it's not too pricey and not scarce at all.

    Have you ever seen how waste water is treated? Your drink ****e regardless of how much you soften it:pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-DoisLwm0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,193 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Have you ever seen how waste water is treated? Your drink ****e regardless of how much you soften it:pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-DoisLwm0

    Our main water source if the Colorado River. Saw some ****e stating that California taps it for 45%, Arizona only uses a tiny bit. Have heard recycled waste water is used for sprinkler systems


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Wompa1 wrote: »
    Our main water source if the Colorado River. Saw some ****e stating that California taps it for 45%, Arizona only uses a tiny bit. Have heard recycled waste water is used for sprinkler systems

    Sure it is...and the drinking water in New York City comes from the Catskills:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    Health Insurance, Broadband, Mobile Phone bills, Cable TV are all more expensive pretty much everywhere in the USA than they are here.

    https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2014/0325/604547-broadband-survey-eu/ :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    That's slightly out of date by now I'd say. I recently got upgraded by vodafone from a 7mb connection with 300gb limit for €45 to a 24mb connection with unlimited download for €40 a month.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    ScumLord wrote: »
    That's slightly out of date by now I'd say. I recently got upgraded by vodafone from a 7mb connection with 300gb limit for €45 to a 24mb connection with unlimited download for €40 a month.

    :eek::eek::P


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    buytolet89 wrote: »
    i would definitely give it a shot
    I laughed.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    This thread made me curiously go off and Google "property in Nevada" and the value for money there in an area called Henderson, just 15 miles from Vegas, is incredible!

    Apartments starting from $40k and this house for $174k (all asking prices so Im presuming there's room for even more value) http://homes.yahoo.com/nevada/henderson/3183-via-seranova-9812274d174015ddb67c49e45a26e8ae.html

    Nearly 2,000 square feet, a short drive from America's playground and no income tax!

    But, of course, we've reached the bottom of the market here ;)


  • Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    This thread made me curiously go off and Google "property in Nevada" and the value for money there in an area called Henderson, just 15 miles from Vegas, is incredible!

    Apartments starting from $40k and this house for $174k (all asking prices so Im presuming there's room for even more value) http://homes.yahoo.com/nevada/henderson/3183-via-seranova-9812274d174015ddb67c49e45a26e8ae.html

    Nearly 2,000 square feet, a short drive from America's playground and no income tax!

    But, of course, we've reached the bottom of the market here ;)

    Im constantly googling House porn on Trulia.com. Its sickening what you can get over there size and quality wise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Welcome to America!

    Those mini-mansions are everywhere and usually pretty affordable.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    This thread made me curiously go off and Google "property in Nevada" and the value for money there in an area called Henderson, just 15 miles from Vegas, is incredible!

    Apartments starting from $40k and this house for $174k (all asking prices so Im presuming there's room for even more value) http://homes.yahoo.com/nevada/henderson/3183-via-seranova-9812274d174015ddb67c49e45a26e8ae.html

    Nearly 2,000 square feet, a short drive from America's playground and no income tax!

    But, of course, we've reached the bottom of the market here ;)
    Jake1 wrote: »
    Im constantly googling House porn on Trulia.com. Its sickening what you can get over there size and quality wise.

    What's the property tax though...............?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    mikom wrote: »
    What's the property tax though...............?

    Id bet my left and right ball its considerably less than Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    mikom wrote: »
    What's the property tax though...............?

    Here are the property tax rates for Las Vegas/ Clark county

    http://treasurer.co.clark.nv.us/TaxRate-District/

    They range from 2.5% - 3.3% per $100

    Also the money pays for things like police and fire services, road maintenance etc so at least you're actually paying for something you benefit from. Unlike Ireland!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Health care is probably the one thing that is more expensive in America. With that said lets think about the type of care your getting for your money..world class hospitals and treatments/surgeons are available. We can't even pick a decent location for a children hospital never mind deliver decent care.

    Ireland is a complete rip-off and has been now for 10/15 years. I will never ever get my head round the fact that people pay €300,000 for the privilege of living in some 3-bed pigeon house. Its farcical that this thread even exists. America is affordable....so much more than here...with that said the quality of life is so much better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Have you ever seen how waste water is treated? Your drink ****e regardless of how much you soften it:pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV-DoisLwm0
    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Sure it is...and the drinking water in New York City comes from the Catskills:rolleyes:

    Well, Well...we have two of them 300 ft deep - our water comes from the water table, and we recycle it into landscaping after running our own waste treatment plant for 100 homes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭mark17j


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Health care is probably the one thing that is more expensive in America. With that said lets think about the type of care your getting for your money..world class hospitals and treatments/surgeons are available. We can't even pick a decent location for a children hospital never mind deliver decent care.

    Ireland is a complete rip-off and has been now for 10/15 years. I will never ever get my head round the fact that people pay €300,000 for the privilege of living in some 3-bed pigeon house. Its farcical that this thread even exists. America is affordable....so much more than here...with that said the quality of life is so much better.
    The US is all good if you're wealthy, if you're not, here is better. my family pay a tax bill for their house of over 10,200 dollars yearly in New York and the house is in a good area, but made of pure wood...the house quality in Ireland is far superior.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭comongethappy


    Holsten wrote: »
    Welcome to America!

    Those mini-mansions are everywhere and usually pretty affordable.

    Affordability is easy enough when building on infinite acres of desert.

    Property will always cost more here when land is more scarse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Affordability is easy enough when building on infinite acres of desert.

    Property will always cost more here when land is more scarse.

    Please check the average house prices in similar sized countries to Ireland...and this doesn't even account for the fact most of them have double our population.

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-house-prices

    You will find there are nowhere near the ridiculous Irish levels in...

    Austria
    Belgium
    Netherlands
    Switzerland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ive lived in small town Texas, its fine :) people are very nice and welcoming

    Is it like The Last Picture Show in real life?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Please check the average house prices in similar sized countries to Ireland...and this doesn't even account for the fact most of them have double our population.

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/global-house-prices

    You will find there are nowhere near the ridiculous Irish levels in...

    Austria
    Belgium
    Netherlands
    Switzerland

    But there are no house prices anywhere in that graph. Do you understand what it is showing? It only shows the relative percentage change in house prices over the last 30 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Id bet my left and right ball its considerably less than Ireland
    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    Here are the property tax rates for Las Vegas/ Clark county

    http://treasurer.co.clark.nv.us/TaxRate-District/

    They range from 2.5% - 3.3% per $100

    Also the money pays for things like police and fire services, road maintenance etc so at least you're actually paying for something you benefit from. Unlike Ireland!


    What's the catch?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    mikom wrote: »
    What's the catch?

    The catch is you live in a hole ;(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    MayoSalmon wrote: »
    Did you misread my question?:confused:

    Nah, I did a comparo. It's just not as clear as I maybe should have made it. The first stuff listed is MORE dear in the states aside from Guinness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    buytolet89 wrote: »
    ** IRISH PEOPLE LIVING IN THE STATES **

    In about a years time i will be able to put in a request for a transfer to the states with my current company Boston, Arizona and Nevada are my options.

    If i choose to apply and somehow get the luck for it to go through i would definitely give it a shot i would have a sum of around 70-90k(dollars) to bring and would be in employment straight away but i just want advice from Irish people living the states

    How does the quality of live in Dublin/Ireland compare to the states,is it hard to purchase a home?How are the Americans in comparison to the Irish?Is working more rewarding?obviously money is important but is it worth the move if you already have a job here?
    Shouldn't this be moved to the Dublin thread?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,109 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    mark17j wrote: »
    The US is all good if you're wealthy, if you're not, here is better. my family pay a tax bill for their house of over 10,200 dollars yearly in New York and the house is in a good area, but made of pure wood...the house quality in Ireland is far superior.

    I pay $4000+ property tax in Boston for a two bedroom condo. It's worth every penny to be in Boston.

    The Irish horror of wooden houses is pretty funny.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    The Irish horror of wooden houses is pretty funny.

    But but they could burn down! :eek: :pac:


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