Don’t Come to Ireland for Work or to Live

This blog was originally setup to talk and give advice on moving to Ireland, the advice was aimed at non nationals.  Life has changed quite dramatically and so has Ireland.

I would no longer advice people to come to Ireland looking for work, the unemployment rate here is rising and the country is caught in a financial meltdown.  Where once all you had to have was a willingness to work and a little English, sometimes even none, you now need a lot more than that.  I would suggest that no-one now come here without having a job lined up first.

There are still opportunites for qualified people in the health service and in a few other areas but you will be coming to a country at war with itself.  The public and private service are at each others throats ready to kill – and this was started by the current government to get the public gaze away from them and somewhere else – anywhere else, they did not care how it would rip the country apart.  This government has no care for anyone bar themselves, really the way they have always been but it is much easier to see that fact now.

One of the results of this financial meltdown is the anger that you can experience here in your daily life.  When I first moved to Ireland in 1997 I found a great place to live.  The earning were not great, but they paid the bills without any issue.  The more we earned the more we became full of ourselves – arrogance and rudeness became too often the norm.

The norm now is anger.  All sectors of the country are still wondering how it got this bad and got this bad so quickly.  People are stunned and it looks like it may take a while for us all to recover.

Meanwhile we look forward to the next up coming budget that will break many.

From now on I will be writing about Ireland and Irish Business.

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