Moving to Iceland

It's not thank god I'm moving to East Iceland Egilsstadir. No volcanoes haha

I'm on the housing list quite a few years I will keep applying for my choice based lettings as I'm away. Hopefully by time it rolls around I'll be due to come home to a house if not I'll be quite well off either way.

I'm out in a fjord where there is literally nothing, no bars, 1 gym, 1 grocery store, and water ha.

55 hour weeks is fairly standard for most engineers working on utilities. In Iceland anything above 168 hours a month goes into overtime earnings. So want to come back here in a few months time with at least 20k saved

I'm with my employer 2 years and I'm going there with them as a chief engineer to installation of Gas mains coming into the east of Iceland running off to salvage point on route to Greenland.

I worked for 7 years with my current employer before my breakdown after my masters. I will be financially in alot better place then most in Ireland when I come back home so homelessness will be done that's for sure.

From your post I understand you don't know alot about Iceland as in as far as People in Iceland speak English better then some folk in Ireland.

I am indeed nervous regards isolation, but I've huge supports in place my employer is well aware of my struggles. Financially it is a plan. It takes my wage from around the 50k mark or slightly under to nearly 90k annually. I cannot turn my nose up at this if you lived in my shoes for the last 10 years you'd make this move too.

I am going to use this thread to update with pictures and stories. Like an online diary per se

Rubbish. Switzerland everyone speaks in English my 2 years there socialising and work in Lucerne nobody spoke anything other then English. Where are you living?

I felt I owed it to myself to give it a shot if it doesn't work I can transfer home back to Dublin but where I stand at home at moment I'm homeless another statistic and not able to move forward. Here I've my own home, company car, a wage I'll never match at home

Thank you so much for your support lads and ladies. It's heart warming.

Be back during the week with an update and pictures when I've settled in.

Very surreal experience over here. I'm really feeling good and loving the move away from Dublin so far. In the area I'm in if you work for a company with a base in Iceland and you have a kinatalla (national insurance number) you get given a card like a swipe card. Shopping, and food eating out you swipe the card it comes out of your next taxable wage. This is lightyears ahead of anything I've ever seen in Europe.

Im never coming home.

It's like a federal thing, so even thought we've all cash and money in our accounts we just swipe if we eat out or work canteen or lads go for beers and let it deduct at end of the month. I'm working 17 hour days home sleeping for 6 7 and back in. Money is golden.

I can't complain about anything the Icelandic people are absolutely amazing speak better English then we do.