How do you emigrate

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Good luck with that these days unless your parents are minted though.

AH answer: OP, maybe try something a little less ambitious at first, like, say, Cork. Not much of a language barrier and most of the local foodstuffs will be familiar to you.

Christ is this just another AH thread whingeing about people on the dole (thread #9,999999) dressed us as something else?

If it is a real Q - Just quit your job and get a one way flight somewhere, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.

That would be around €230,000. And it is not the sale price. Other houses in that street sold from £220,000 upwards.

If money is the issue, a second hand house could be a better bargain than a new one. It is easy to check the real price achieved for all the houses sold in Ireland. Some under that sort of money in places like Balbriggan and Tallaght in the last few months.

https://www.propertypriceregister.ie/

Have you ever lived away from your parents OP? If you have then thats a help.

But if you have never lived away from your parents...or never lived in a different city or country to where your parents live you might find it very difficult.

Living on your own in a strange city with no one to come get you if something goes wrong can be a bit daunting. You need to be ready for the reality of what that means.

Otherwise- as said in this thread previously - decide where you want to go.

Research if you can get a visa there.

Research if you can get a job there.

Research how much that job will pay.

Research how much take home pay you will get before tax.

Research rents and cost of living and ensure that the sums add up - that you can surivive.

Research how to get temporary accomodation when you arrive.

Research how to get permanent accomodation and what the local market is like.

Figure out how much money you need to emigrate and keep yourself alive until first paycheck. Double that.

Maybe visit your chosen location for a holiday and see if you like it.

But most importantly - be sure that a move to a different country will actually solve your perceived problems.

when stating rates of pay, mentioning the rate of increase in rent and the price of housing should also really be included as this is where the real problems lie!

The problem is that 60k is kinda ****. Don't get me wrong, it's far more than loads make. But it doesn't go as far as it used to or as far as it does in other European countries. And the biggest thing is housing. If you're renting it sucks up your money. Here in germany I notice that some things like meat are more expensive. Some things like alcohol are cheaper. I'd say that excluding rent my cost of living is pretty equivalent to what I paid in Ireland. The big difference is accommodation costs.

Guy actually has a Wikipedia page!

Jolyon Maugham, a barrister specialising in tax law, has confirmed that an income of £80,000+ per year would in fact place Barber in the top three per cent of UK earners.

...the problem is, vested interests dont want things to change cause the current situation benefits them, so happy days!

That's the very same in Ireland. And probably everywhere. If you are willing to move to where property is cheaper, you will find cheaper property. If a person is prepared to emigrate because they live in a high property price area in Ireland, they could just as easily relocate within Ireland to solve the property price problem.

...again, this is a highly simplistic view on how to solve our property price problems, simply moving wont solve the overall problem, as theres clearly severe dysfunctions now occurring, as theres now serious fundamental problems with the overall model on how we approach housing, and yes, we re currently not the only country currently experiencing this, so this is a much bigger global problem....

You can buy a house in Ireland if you are willing to live in a small town. I have no idea if a hdip degree of the type you have will get you a job that allows remote work

I mean in the 80s house prices were alot cheaper than they are now in English speaking countrys

If parents are minted, they should just gift cash to their children while they’re still alive. Obviously not massive lump sums.

otherwise the state will come looking for one third of pretty much everything….

You’d probably need to be a psychologist to come to that assertion. Stunt growth as a person ? Bit of a dramatic statement… especially considering the amount of people miserable with big bills, sizable mortgages or rent, unhappy in pressure filled relationships barely making ends meet 👀

No, property prices are lower in our urban centres away from the cities as well. No need to go up any mountain. We have a much higher population density than Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA for example.

The OP only wants to emigrate to an English speaking country, but not the UK, so that limits their choices. They will find that the property prices in other countries depends on location, just like in Ireland.

I said some cities over others.

Clearly if you go to the depths of black forest you're not going to have a good time. I also assume OP is not looking for gambling and intellectual discussions in local villages.

Pick an EU country and you don't need to worry about visas or savings or what order to do things. Just get on a boat or a plane and go wherever you think you might find inspiration. With summer coming up, there'll be hundreds of opportunities to volunteer at various events and non-profit associations, most of which will offer you bed and board. As long as you're not too pretentious about what work you will (or won't) do, you won't be short of things to fill your time, and whatever limited vocab you might already have, it'll be greatly expanded by the time you're finished. You'll also meet a whole range of different people, one of whom may be exactly the right one to guide you into a more long-term, salaried position. At the very least, spending a few months doing that will help you decide how best to invest your time and energy over the following months or years.

If you decide to give France a go, drop me a PM - I came here in my mid-thirties and have never looked back.