Moving to Ireland

gfdgdfg

Hi, I am not sure where to post this as there are so many different topic boards. I am strongly considering a move to Ireland, probably the Dublin area. I am British and living in the UK right now, but its just so horrible here. I used to live in the USA and since I have been back in England I cannot just settle. In the area I live there are few employment opportunities and I am reluctant to move closer to London. So I decided to myself maybe I can try to live in Ireland, and I figure there are always jobs available at the airport so I thought any place around there would be a good place to live. Can anyone advise good areas to live around the Dublin Airport? Maybe this little place called Swords sounds nice. Also, how do the Irish feel about the English coming there generally? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Hiberno12345

gfdgdfg wrote: »

Hi, I am not sure where to post this as there are so many different topic boards. I am strongly considering a move to Ireland, probably the Dublin area. I am British and living in the UK right now, but its just so horrible here. I used to live in the USA and since I have been back in England I cannot just settle. In the area I live there are few employment opportunities and I am reluctant to move closer to London. So I decided to myself maybe I can try to live in Ireland, and I figure there are always jobs available at the airport so I thought any place around there would be a good place to live. Can anyone advise good areas to live around the Dublin Airport? Maybe this little place called Swords sounds nice. Also, how do the Irish feel about the English coming there generally? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

BetsyEllen

Why would you not move closer to London?

I'm English living here for 10 years. There are more opportunities in London.
Swords is expensive to live in (as is all of Dublin) and you'd be silly to think you can just swan over and get a job at the airport.

Have you spent much time in Ireland/Dublin in the past?

Franz Von Peppercorn

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

His English is fine.

There’s a lot of English people living in Ireland Op

MonkeyTennis

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

WTF?

McMurphy

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

What poor English?

lorcand1990

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

OP's English is fine. Pakistan should have a capital letter though

MonkeyTennis

The only thing I would advise is to have a look at the price of rent in that area. It might give you a bit of a shock.

Cina

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

What better way to be introduced to Irish culture than some knob telling you your grammar is poor and you must be from a non-English speaking country. Well played.

JoeyJJ

Come on over we should ship the person out questioning your English skills.

bear1

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

Gob****e.

bear1

Op, have you ever been to Ireland?
If no then I suggest first coming over for a week or so and seeing first hand what it's like.
What's your background? I think you could easily get a job around the Google quarter.
Jp Morgan bought a building along the river so there will be jobs coming online there soon.
Does it have to be Dublin? Would cork or limerick be any use to You? Far cheaper to live, wages would go further and airports close by if you want fly home or anywhere else.

older i get better i was

Swords great location if working in airport, there's good bit of work around in general but a shortage of accommodation so rents are really expensive, you won't get any bad feedback for being British but maybe a bit of fun slagging! Best of luck

biko

Ya, comm to Dublin. It's grate heir

Mrs OBumble

OP what do you for a living?

murpho999

OP: I would suggest that you come over to Ireland first and have a look around and get a feel for the place before making the big step of emigrating.

Ask yourself why you think you would be happier here than in the UK?

rosmoke

If you are concerned being British, imagine how I feel as a Romanian
Seriously now, I haven't encountered any issues and Irish people are wonderful and very open minded.
A rational individual wouldn't really judge people based on their geographical place of birth.

Rents can be an issue, and I imagine there would be less jobs here than in England.
You sure it's not the weather why you can't settle? I know I miss the sun..

minikin

rosmoke wrote: »

If you are concerned being British, imagine how I feel as a Romanian
Seriously now, I haven't encountered any issues and Irish people are wonderful and very open minded.
A rational individual wouldn't really judge or categorise people based on their geographical place of birth.

Rents can be an issue, and I imagine there would be less jobs here than in England.
You sure it's not the weather why you can't settle? I know I miss the sun..

We get loads of sun in Ireland, we just hide it above the clouds for safekeeping.
op, come check us out, if you've useful skills or are a hard worker you'll be fine.
(even if, god forbid... you're from India or Pakistan)

job seeker

Here is a list of everything, that's good about Ireland:

(1)

davo2001

Just walk into the airport and ask for a job driving one of the planes, tell Brenden at the desk that davo sent you.

corner of hells

davo2001 wrote: »

Just walk into the airport and ask for a job driving one of the planes, tell Brenden at the desk that davo sent you.

There's a job available in the airport after yer man was caught smuggling in his mates .
Just don't try bring in anyone who shouldn't be here.

bigar

Having lived in Scotland, England and now Ireland, there is little difference between these countries. I would say that if you do not like living in England, it is unlikely you will like it in Ireland.

topper75

gfdgdfg wrote: »

Hi, I am not sure where to post this as there are so many different topic boards. I am strongly considering a move to Ireland, probably the Dublin area. I am British and living in the UK right now, but its just so horrible here. I used to live in the USA and since I have been back in England I cannot just settle. In the area I live there are few employment opportunities and I am reluctant to move closer to London. So I decided to myself maybe I can try to live in Ireland, and I figure there are always jobs available at the airport so I thought any place around there would be a good place to live. Can anyone advise good areas to live around the Dublin Airport? Maybe this little place called Swords sounds nice. Also, how do the Irish feel about the English coming there generally? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

His English is fine.

Fine, no. Passable, yes.

LirW

topper75 wrote: »

Fine, no. Passable, yes.

I see a lot of Irish people on local FB pages that write a language I don't even understand. Get a grip.

bear1

Is this a quiz on the OPs English level?
He comes on here to ask a question about moving to Ireland and 2 posters now are judging his English. One of them failed at it and the other seems to think that all English speakers have perfect grammar and sentence building.
Jesus wept

BetsyEllen

bigar wrote: »

Having lived in Scotland, England and now Ireland, there is little difference between these countries. I would say that if you do not like living in England, it is unlikely you will like it in Ireland.

Have to agree with this. I moved here from just outside London, almost 10 years ago with an ex partner.
There is very little difference and if I had the choice again I would have stayed in the UK.
However it's not as easy as just picking up your things and going so I am here to stay.

If you're looking for a total lifestyle change OP then Ireland is not the place for you.

As you're lucky enough to be in a position where you have the option of starting afresh in a new country, would you not think about going further afield?
You could go abroad for the summer, get a job in a bar somewhere like Ibiza. Great craic, a summer of guaranteed sunshine and you'll meet some great people. A lot of the workers then head to somewhere like a ski resort for the winter and get bar work there. The back to Ibiza again in April/May.

Or try and get a visa for Australia if want to be somewhere for longer then just a summer.

I think you should explore and research other options before definitely deciding on Ireland.

listermint

I call it fake thread and raise you made up story





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pilly

I agree with others on here OP, it's not much different here to the UK so maybe you need to think about it more.

What do you not like about the UK?

What do you work at?

It really depends on numerous different circumstances.

Please ignore the ignorance of some posters on here, it's not a fair indication of Irish people in general.

Luis21

Dublins a kip. A pint is a fiver or more. The weather is ****e. The Health service is like something from the 3rd world. The transport system is chaotic. The cost of living is a joke. Ungoverned rent is off the charts. Racism is rife.

Apart from that its lovely....

kneemos

Hiberno12345 wrote: »

Are you English or from an ex-colony?
Your poor English would suggest pakistan/India?

Both speak English I think.

pilly

Luis21 wrote:

Dublins a kip. A pint is a fiver or more. The weather is ****e. The Health service is like something from the 3rd world. The transport system is chaotic. The cost of living is a joke. Ungoverned rent is off the charts. Racism is rife.

Maybe you should do a swop with the OP?

porte

gfdgdfg wrote: »

Hi, I am not sure where to post this as there are so many different topic boards. I am strongly considering a move to Ireland, probably the Dublin area. I am British and living in the UK right now, but its just so horrible here. I used to live in the USA and since I have been back in England I cannot just settle. In the area I live there are few employment opportunities and I am reluctant to move closer to London. So I decided to myself maybe I can try to live in Ireland, and I figure there are always jobs available at the airport so I thought any place around there would be a good place to live. Can anyone advise good areas to live around the Dublin Airport? Maybe this little place called Swords sounds nice. Also, how do the Irish feel about the English coming there generally? Thanks for any help you can offer.

Who cares! Just make sure you've plenty of money or your probably end up as a homeless statistic.
Good luck.

ToddyDoody

You should be fine op if you're hardworking and keep your mouth shut

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