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Sarah M
We are a young family with 2 children and one on the way. We are thinking about moving to Ireland, but need a family-friendly city with good job prospects and a decent hospital near-by. Any suggestions?
Although we have never lived in Ireland before, my husband and children are Irish citizens.
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I'm not Irish but I live in Ireland. If you are from Canada or America, you will not be satisfied raising your family in Ireland. I'm doing it now and I wish I had looked more in depth before we moved here.
If you HAVE to move to Ireland, I would recommend anywhere but Dublin. It is not a child friendly place. Ireland has the largest number of child pedestrian rates in the whole EU (mostly in Dublin), because there are few places for kids to play and unless you have a lot of money you will be stuck in a house that is attached to another having a postage stamp garden. Our standard of living went way down when we moved here. The food prices are the second highest in the EU and we pay about 1,000 Euro ($1,250) a month for 4 people just in groceries. Our average gas bill is 300 ($325) Euro and we don't use it very much. There is a problem with large school class sizes in Dublin (if you can find a school who isn't full to capacity), very bad medical care all over and almost non-existent jobs. They are really feeling the pain of some very bad decisions their politicians made, then retired to live off their high-paying pensions. If Ireland had any b*lls, they would demand that the last two presidents and their cohort's pensions go instead to pay off the debts of homeowners who are teetering on the brink of losing their homes, the failure of its banks and the bailing out of these banks by the taxpayer (yet giving multi-million bonuses to those who helped create the problem through greed (friends in high places), the massive debt to other countries because of the gov't not taking their responsibility to those who voted them in seriously, fixing the schools that are substandard and the medical care that is worse than all of the 3rd world countries I've lived in.
My wife and children are Irish citizens, as well, but we have a hard time finding any real friends here or feeling welcome. We've had to deal with stereotypes, isolation and a general disdain from the day we set foot here. Our children were bullied to a point that we had to remove them from school and home educate. I mean bruising and torn clothes bullying. I saw it happening to other kids in the presence of their parents and the school and parents did nothing. They are much more tolerant of child on child violence than I am used to. Mortgages start (in Dublin) at about $300k and that is for a very poorly constructed or in a bad area house, that is if you can even get a mortgage. The banks are being very stingy at handing those out due to the financial mess Ireland is in.
Edit: Police protection is almost non-existent. I don't know what the police do, but they sure don't stop motorists, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians from doing illegal things, so they pretty much do what they want on the roads and park whever they want (including the end of our driveway). They have not caught the burglar who broke into our house a few years ago.The police will not investigate a home alarm going off, and there is an alarm going off (loudly) every day (if not two or three) for hours in my neighbourhood. Our car was stolen from out driveway, in broad daylight, with us sitting in our living room 5 feet away with the window open, but because we are so desensitized by the noise of our neighbours, we didn't realize it. One of our neighbours got the license plate/registration number of the thieves, but the police told us that it would do no good. They knew who did it, they had done it before, but the police could never prove it. The neighbour who got the plate number would not appear in court, he said, because he was afraid of repercussions, due to the ethnicity of the thieves. When I called back a week later to see if there was any news about our car, they hadn't even filed a report. I had to remind the policeman who I was and why I was calling him. All this and we live in what is considered by the Irish as a good area.
The schools are cutting programs, yet keeping the Irish language and religion programs. So our children will be able to speak and write an almost dead language, taught by one of the highest paid teaching professions in the world who often cannot correctly pronounce or write the language themselves; and a program that is more suited for parents/churches to supply. But because most schools are run by the church parish they cut (although the Irish taxpayer subsidized it) other subjects like physical education and science.
I strongly urge you to think long and hard about this decision.
What is the cause of the riots in England?
EoinR
I live in Ireland and all I've been seeing on the news is these riots in England. My parents told me it was due to some black man getting shot by the police without motive in Tottenham but surely that can't be the only reason. I mean all those teenagers look like a bunch of fu*king r*tards destroying their own cities over that, no offense.
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okay, this is what happened, a drug dealer got shot by a policeman, the police man said that the dealer shot at him first but it was later proven that although the drug dealer had a gun, it had not been shot. so his family went to a police station to protest peaceful, but they were later joined by more and more people, most of them strangers and it soon turned violent and turned on the police by setting a police car on fire then they started looting and rioting. I dont know why people are blaming this all on the blacks when if you watch the news and see the rioters and looters you'll know that most of them are actually white people especially in Manchester and Birmingham. I live in London and although I havent been effected by this (thank god!) I have witnessed a lot of it on Sunday night and I can say this is not about Mark Duggan getting shot, most of them didnt even know who he was, this is about having 'a laugh' and getting free stuff and its not fair because they are making all us Brits look bad! they are idiots are just destroying their on land basically and they dont release the impact they are having on our economy and out reputation. the worst part is that the police cant use violence or guns so these people think they can get away with anything! but hopefully this will all blow over soon!
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