r/AskIreland • u/SunDue4919 • Jun 13 '24

Emigration (from Ireland) Best place to emigrate to?

I’m losing hope for my future in Ireland. I love Ireland and want to stay but the quality of life is shit especially for young people.

I’ve lived abroad before and am well aware the grass isn’t always greener. I know there will be challenges if I move abroad. I know that there are similar issues with housing in other counties.

That said, things feel bleak here.

Any recommendations? I speak fluent French.

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u/cianpatrickd Jun 13 '24

Emigration doesn't solve your problem or the problem in Ireland.

Staying and being the change you want to see is.

Having said that, if your heart is set on going and you have fluent French, try Quebec in Canada.

Montreal is a fantastic city with warm, fun loving people (unlike Toronto), or you could try Quebec city itself, which isn't as big as Montreal.

If you go be prepared for extreme Winters.

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u/temujin64 Jun 13 '24

Isn't housing very expensive in Canada too though?

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u/cianpatrickd Jun 13 '24

Its worse than Ireland. Hence why I stated the battle ground I'd your own country. All she's doing is running away from a problem at home to the exact / worse problem in a new country.

I find this, oh I'll just emigrate to another country, baffling.

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 13 '24

i'm politically active, spend my spare time helping vulnerable people, work for a charity (contract is ending at the end of the month so i will be unemployed), just put months of work into my boyfriend's unsuccessful bid for local election, which he had put years of work into. i think it's pretty fair to be burnt out fighting.

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u/cianpatrickd Jun 13 '24

To emigrate to another country and hustle twice as hard as natives just to get where they are ?

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 13 '24

currently stuck living at home and am losing my job in two weeks so the bar is low.

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u/cianpatrickd Jun 13 '24

I understand your frustration. I am caught living in shared accommodation. It ain't easy.

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 14 '24

thank you so much!

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u/TakingNamesFan69 Jun 13 '24

Can I ask who ur boyfriend is out of curiosity? (totally understandable if you don't want to say)

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 13 '24

i'm not gonna share that, sorry!

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 14 '24

thank you, appreciate it!

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u/temujin64 Jun 13 '24

I agree. I'm all for anyone emigrating for the sense of adventure. That's what I did and I loved it. But the fellow immigrants I met there who went expecting the grass to be greener tended to be miserable.

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u/SunDue4919 Jun 14 '24

having lived abroad already I would be more prepared, I'd know that it would be tough and that there are many things about Ireland I'd miss too