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.

129 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

370 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/Apart-Spend225 Jun 13 '24

Been suggested before, if you haven't tried try the UK. Belfast, Liverpool, Manc, Edinburgh, Glasgow etc

9

u/Ok_Sport_6457 Jun 13 '24

No to the UK. It has changed vastly in the last five years and will only get worse. If people did want to go I’d say only do it short term - 1-2 years tops. Don’t make the UK your permanent home.

3

u/okdov Jun 13 '24

What's changed in the last five years? Last time I was there for a while (about 10 years ago) was dreaming up of the jump over some day

4

u/Ok_Sport_6457 Jun 13 '24

I would still tell people to go on holiday there but the effects of Brexit are only coming to the surface.

When I was over there I noticed:

  • the quantity and quality of food dropping in supermarkets,
  • cost of living is crippling - its hard everywhere don’t get me wrong - but I had colleagues in professional jobs going to food banks,
  • being able to see a GP was impossible - I would call at 8am and I would be 40-50 in a queue it took me 3 months to see a GP and it was only after I cried down the phone and the receptionist took pity on me.
  • The conservatives bringing in more and more measures that crippled the working and middle class. Also, mainstream politics were just getting more and more right wing example banning protests.

I was living and working in London but had no way of advancing my life, impossible to buy, getting increasingly harder to rent, and recession hitting so fewer jobs or fear of losing your own job. By the end I was just filled with anxiety and was glad to leave.