Considering moving to the UK?

Exactly how sh1t is your job OP? Does it pay well but you’re bored or is it a low skilled dead end job?

I wouldn’t go to Engerland without qualifications or skills/experience behind me - there’s plenty of unskilled already there to compete with- I don’t think you’d survive very well. If you’re low skilled, forget buying a car and buy yourself an education instead- there’s tons of free or nearly free university courses out there sponsored by the state and EU on Springboard.

Also don’t limit yourself to UK- if you qualify, Australia and New Zealand have visas for in demand skills so check those out too

Lol.

None of the above is true except perhaps the unhappiness travelling with you.

The UK of 2005 is dead and buried the Conservative party dam well made sure of that through incredible funding cuts and deregulation.

Joke that anyone thinks it's well run and or the issues are related to an out of power labour party. Money comes from top.

I’ve spent quite a lot of time in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

work, leisure trips and way back in the day I was seeing a girl from Edinburgh so that and Glasgow are places I know well.

Never in a second would I contemplate a move from Dublin to there.

things I like about those places but living, no.

if I wanted to get out of here, Paris, Madrid, Nice, Rome, Bari are places I’d consider.

certain parts of the UK are very expensive, wages are low.

How long are you living there now? Would you not just move back to Ireland if it’s that awful?

I spent over a decade in London and it's an incredible place to live. Whatever your interests are, whoever you are, you will find like minded people and find endless things to do.

But it is also much, much more expensive than Dublin and housing is an absolute nightmare there compared to here. In recent years the NHS has been on its knees along with every other public service, and Brexit did have a real and noticeable impact - on more than one occasion I was on the receiving end of racist or xenophobic comments, and as an Irish person I had it easy compared to some of my other non-British friends. This only ever happened when I ventured outside of London though, the city itself remains a multicultural and welcoming haven.

If I was 20 again I'd still move back to London in an instant, but as someone starting a family with young children, Dublin is a far better place from the point of view of housing, safety, air quality, schools, social safety nets etc

And honestly, regarding your comment about Fine Gael, they are not remotely anywhere near being close to the Tories. I'd say Fine Gael would be analogous to the Lib Dems and Fianna Fail would be analogous to Labour. The Tories are off the chart that exists in Irish politics. Living in the UK and reading the news and seeing what the governing party were getting up to regularly was not good for mental health.

i assume your parents are over 60, its strange to move to the uk,unless they own property there or else they are gauranteed of finding a cheap place to live, with low rent. staff are leaving the nhs due to overwork and stress .the general quality of medical care in the nhs is going down.

the hse in ireland depends alot of eu non nationals and being part of the eu makes it easy for trained nurses and doctors to move to ireland.

brexit has been a disaster for the uk in terms of the economy ,eg most uk companys depend of free acess to the eu market.inflation is effecting every country including the uk.you could end up paying more rent in the uk than in ireland depending on where you live.

I work with probably with I'd say more than 35 different nationalities. The notion there isn't people from all over the world in Dublin is... bizarre.

My guess would be terminally single is terminally not doing anything about it

The op needs to understand how inflation is calculated.

8% is OVERALL inflation.

It's an AVERAGE.

Food price inflation is currently 16%. In the UK it hit 20%.

The UK is not cheap. Some items are cheaper, many are more expensive.

The UK is an impressive country. London is a world class city. Outside London I found Southampton the best to live in.

Thanks, you are probably one of the many thousands in both countries with the same experience.

There is the point that newspapers never keep a readership without emphasising the newsworthy which more often than not encourages disgust or fear.

Living in a UK city though it was like a zoo come Friday and Saturday night, I would find it hard to believe some of the people hurling abuse and brawling didn't make it to the hospital.

It is reputed to be a common problem, assaults on medical staff there although it is beyond my personal experience thank goodness. There was even talk of making assault charges specific regarding emergy workers, but it's difficult to gauge what is need driven and what is playing to the fear of the electorate there.

My only personal experience of assaults in the UK were a couple of vicious attacks on shop windows, the last one being on a kebab shop at pub kicking out time in the South of England. The management were obviously at fault though as the sign asking customers not to be violent only applied to staff and not the windows of the establishment.

Regardless really, despite it being the country I was born in and spent most of my "allocated span" in, Brexit and the hate it brought to the surface made it a pleasure to leave.

I was brought up around Southampton & I left to come to West Cork in 1986. I've been back three times since then & the area is unrecognizable : fields & woods I used to play in as a kid are now housing estates, places I would walk around in the early hours, including the red light areas & be safe are no longer. Apparently it's the Kurds fighting the Iraqi's or something, I used to go to sound systems with the Rasta's never a problem.

Don't get me wrong, there are some lovely places in the New Forest, but burglaries around Fordingbridge have been a problem according to my brother. The last time I was over was nearly ten years ago & was never so happy to see Cork again .

Funny you should say that, I was only saying to my wife the other day about a lovely little pond that always had moorhens on & dragonflies, we used to play around it : all built over now. Funny for all the massive housing estates there no more doctor's surgeries or new schools, my brother says nearly four weeks to see a doctor, Ireland's not so bad for all our problems.

I don't think the OP will return at midnight or the end of the day to share any more musings on mayonnaise.

i would think and hope so, but given the rhetoric against immigrants from the nasty party it would be naive to think they won't start going at white immigrants again and in turn cause such incidents to become more widespread unfortunately.

I lived in Soton back in the early 80's in the Derby Road area, it was fun and pretty safe. I went back after 30 yrs away and yes it has grown and a bit rougher but it is still a good city. You have the historic with the new though the design of new buildings now are ugly. It still has a good feel to it walking around and the people are relaxed. New Forest just 10 mins away etc.

Originally from Dublin, with rural roots, I lived in semi-rural Kent for a little over a decade and watched it get progressively more and more concreted-over. By the middle of that decade, I could not reconcile myself to the thought of raising a family there, as it looked like every aspect of life was on a downward trajectory. So we upped and moved, out of the UK completely.

With some family members still there, I went back semi-regularly over the following 15 years and both the county and its towns got progressively grottier and grottier. When working in Northern France, I used to enjoy scooting over at the weekends to see old friends and do a bit of shopping for things we just can't get in France, but I'm here working in Northern France again this week and after my most recent (pre-Covid, pre-Brexit) excursions, I have absolutely no desire to go back there now. The one person I might have gone to see let me know they were going to be in Dublin a couple of weeks ago, so we met up there instead.

Of four close family members who were still living in Kentfive years ago, two have left completely (also citing no desire ever to go back to the county after trips at the end of last year) - one for Wales, the other to the far north of Scotland; a third is hoping to move to northern England as soon as possible, and only "lives" in Kent in a notional sense but spends most of her time in London. The fourth has had to move several times as her rented accommodation was successively sold on to yet another highest bidder; she would also have left long ago, but was on a hospital waiting list and didn't want to have start at the bottom of another. She finally got to see a consultant and have her necessary treatment, last week, after six years.

I'm in the relatively fortunate position of being able to compare the life trajectories of several people who stayed in Kent with those who left on or about the same time. In every single case, those who left are way more successful professionally, way more satisfied in their personal lives, and generally way better off than the people who stayed.

The only person I know from Essex is emigrating to Australia next week, citing the abhorrent nature of life in England these days, especially the level of abuse from clients (she works in the same public-facing profession as me). She was previously considering coming to work alongside me in a French organisation, but Brexit killed that opportunity stone dead.

Graces7 your experiences from twenty years ago are no longer the case in many instances. Things have dis improved greatly in the UK and it is one of the most unequal societies in the world. Ireland is better in that regard at least.