Your ideal location

KBD85

If money was no object (within reason) and you still needed to continue to work in your current
job where would you choose to live in Ireland and why?

For example Beaumont (Dublin 9) is a nice settled area but people will pay twice the price for a similar property in Blackrock as they value something in the area highly enough to pay a premium in excess of €250,000 for a similar property.

What is your ideal area to live in and why?

ELM327

Bray/South county Dublin.

LirW

I like where I live now, mind you, we're not living in Dublin because we couldn't afford to. If money would be no issue it would be Clontarf or Howth. Also if I could afford to pursue the career I really want to, I'd feck off to the Gaeltacht in Kerry.

KBD85

ELM327 wrote: »

Bray/South county Dublin.

Why Bray?

Specifically Bray or anywhere in South County Dublin?

KBD85

LirW wrote: »

I like where I live now, mind you, we're not living in Dublin because we couldn't afford to. If money would be no issue it would be Clontarf or Howth. Also if I could afford to pursue the career I really want to, I'd feck off to the Gaeltacht in Kerry.

Clontarf/Howth is a lovely part of Dublin.

What about this area appeals to you?

LirW

KBD85 wrote: »

Clontarf/Howth is a lovely part of Dublin.

What about this area appeals to you?

Howth because it's Howth, I gladly trade the distance to amenities for a prime location like that.
Clontarf because the Architecture and "oldness" of it appeals to me.

One thing that "bothers" me about Howth (which is rich coming from someone who can't afford Dublin) is the tackiness of some of the Houses there. There are some awful 70s buildings around and some just look like the owner did everything to show that they have money rather than taste.

Graces7

Where I am... small quiet island...safe... few folk. Off the West coast of Mayo which is where I lived when I first came to Ireland 16 years ago, from a small North Sea island ....Perfect, with enough challenges to keep me fresh.

KBD85

For those that have lived close to a luas stop and further away, did living close to a luas stop make much of a difference to your commute?

Alkers

I like the area between ranelagh and lesson street - nice laege red brick houses.
If money no objecrt, somewhere on the coast

Sleepy

I'd have a hard time leaving Portrane tbh. Moved here because we couldn't afford to buy in Clontarf / Raheny area where we'd been renting for years but I don't think I'd go back tbh.

If work wasn't a consideration, Barna or Oranmore in Galway would be top of my list.

dennyk

I love where I live in Killaloe, and frankly I'd buy the place I'm renting now in a heartbeat if the landlord were selling it.

adriaaaan

Great question OP
Thinking by the sea but near employment center. Nice community but also diversity . Affordable but ability to trade up later. Greystones Malahide Skerries Kinsale Barna

St Lawrence Road in clontarf,
The Howth Road between clontarf and Killester,
The Malahide Road between Kinsealy and Seabury or
Griffith Ave between Malahide Road and Gracepark Road

In that order

private

I moved from the city centre to skerries last year. Its a wonderful place to live. I hardly go near the city anymore. Commute to work at airport the same except for the odd tractor ��
I considered Clontarf Raheny, Rush and Donabate. The tidy town award swayed it for us. The sea was a must have. Good train service was important.

raheny red

Eannafort or Foxfield in Raheny due to coast/st.annes and very accessible to the city centre.

If I won the Lotto I still wouldn't move to Howth. Overrated imo.

Danger781

Seems like everyone here wants to live in Dublin! No thank you! I'd rather live anywhere but Dublin I think. Can't stand the place.

For me personally it would probably be Douglas. Seems like it has everything you'd need from a small City area and very close to Cork City / Cork Airport / Hospitals etc.. Only thing that would grind my gears is the traffic.

John_Rambo

Money no object?

Three seats obviously.

One in Dublin city centre, probably a superbly refurbished Georgian four story terrace on the Northside with a spotless underground garage for the car stable and the best wines known to mankind with a roof terrace with planted jasmine.

One in Kinsale, a town centre cottage close to the restaurants.

One on Achill island, a tasteful traditional Irish cottage that blends with the landscape with sweeping views over the sea.

Opera glasses in every room obviously.

Am I cheating?

Seems like it has everything you'd need from a small City area and very close to Cork City / Cork Airport / Hospitals etc

Dublin has a lot going for it that other places in the country just don't have, or at least don't have all of them:

Access to Cinemas, theatres, concerts, sporting events, top restaurants, public transport (quiet down the back!), international airport, infrastructure to reach the rest of the country, public parks and festivals, a ski slope, theme parks, swimming pools, shopping centres, late night shops & cafes & bars & nightclubs, international tourists, museums, supermarkets, IKEA, fishing, kayaking, rowing, diving, the Zoo, the Phoenix park, food festivals, horse racing, greyhounds, cathedrals, mountains, hiking, casinos, sailing, golf courses etc.

Of all those, the ski slope in Kilmacanogue is the furthest distance away from, say, Dublin 5 and that's only 45 mins by car. How many of those do you have relatively easy access to in Douglas?

That's before you get into the one-off / emergency places you might need visit like the NCT centres, hospitals, embassies or government departments, passport office etc.

Dublin is vastly underrated by a majority of people, most of whom are familiar around a small part and never experience most of the above. Others see junkies on the boardwalk when they get off at Busáras or Heuston and dismiss the rest of the city.

troyzer

Hard to argue with Grand Canal Docks. But I am only 25 and city living is what does it for me at the moment.

Right now I'm commuting from outside the M50 to my job in Ballsbridge from my parent's house, I can't afford to move out.

John_Rambo

Danger781 wrote: »

Seems like everyone here wants to live in Dublin! No thank you! I'd rather live anywhere but Dublin I think. Can't stand the place.

People are attracted to cultural centres. The ideas, customs, arts and social behaviour of people or society with other manifestations of human intellectual achievement collectively in one place.

The city.

heebusjeebus

Portobello.
Everything you could need withing a 10 to 20min walk or cycle and luas close by.

Creamy Goodness

Greystones or Killiney.

Far enough away from the city, but close enough to be there on public transport within 30-45 minutes. Mountains/forests a similar distance in the opposite direction.

Captain Flaps

I grew up in Rathfarnham but lived all over the city, north and south. I've settled back in Rathfarnham because it's close enough to the mountains that I can go on an adventure if the mood strikes, but close enough to the city if I'm going out. Of course there are nicer areas in the country but this is my favourite bit.

HappySerious

Are you looking for ideas OP? Moving?

mojesius

Right if I had to stay in my job in Dublin, I'd have to say Clontarf (st Lawrence's road was mentioned - beautiful houses), or somewhere like glasthule, killiney, seapoint...on the coast and on the dart.

If I could work remotely (which is my long term plan), Renvyle peninsula or Clifden area Connemara.

hmmm

If you're into mountains (hiking/mountain biking etc) and need to work in a city, then Dublin is probably the best location in Ireland. Anywhere along the southside would be good, but particularly those areas where the LUAS is close and you can put your rucksack on and walk out the front door

HappySerious

hmmm wrote: »

If you're into mountains (hiking/mountain biking etc) and need to work in a city, then Dublin is probably the best location in Ireland. Anywhere along the southside would be good, but particularly those areas where the LUAS is close and you can put your rucksack on and walk out the front door

Exactly my thinking too and myself and the wife lived and loved living near the Dublin mountains but just can't afford to buy there so are having to look in commuter areas. Such is life and the current crazy market unfortunately.

robo

KBD85 wrote: »

For those that have lived close to a luas stop and further away, did living close to a luas stop make much of a difference to your commute?

Yes I  bought a house in Citywest because of the Luas. Its reliable and you know how long it will take (once no idiot crosses the lights when they are amber) :ermm:

zweton

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Portobello.
Everything you could need withing a 10 to 20min walk or cycle and luas close by.

Is it hard to find a place to rent now in Portobello or are they there and just need to pay over the odds for it? Speaking as a potential move there.

catrionanic

If money was so object, we would probably stay in Ranelagh or maybe hop closer to the sea at Sandymount.

We are moving out of Ranelagh though as it's just too pricey. Looking at Malahide and Portmarnock and they seem lovely.

adriaaaan

Portabello is an excellent central location but I could see how it would be annoying for residents with casual drinking around the canal. They seem to be cutting it out at the barge, making charlemont a nicer spot for Yuppie millennials right now