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.