Considering moving to Ireland from UK?

Ignore Jimmy. He is well known here as a recluse from the middle East. He likes to live in the 1800s.

To move or not to move. Your atttude will simply determine its outcome.

I don't really think so, no. Something like what happened with the youth in London or Greece no. While there are protests, they are usually fairly peaceful and non-violent however, there have been exceptions to this with protests in the past where in a student protest it got well out of hand with some groups breaking off and creating violence (I understood at the time it was groups not connected to the original gathering).

Rioting though, I've never seen it, but things are much, much worse in Greece than here; I can't say it would never happen there would need to be a major trigger beyond anything that has already happened to set one off.

It is my belief that there will eventually be riots in Ireland. we are only now beginning to feel the effects of the austerity measures placed on us by the troika, the EU and the mindless puppets that refer to themselves as our government. Ireland will without doubt suffer more harshly over the coming years with regressive taxes being implemented on a year to year basis that attack the already growing poor. There is mass unemployment here, there is no work, there are no working systems in place to assist people who want to work and with all the cheap drink you could ask for we are becoming a nation drowning in alcohol. Move here if you want, Ireland is also a nice place but do not come with your eyes closed. Ireland is a place of political upheaval as is Europe and the road to recovery has not yet begun.

Well if your business is online your pretty much set up already so I say go for it! There is some really nice property over here and like you said its for practically nothing! The riot thing yea there's no fear of that happening over here the most you'll see is a few protests but generally calm and uneventful I think everyone wants just an easy life rioting is too much stress haha

We Irish are not known for rioting, instead we are far too apathetic and accept what is thrown at us with nothing more than lots of grumbling. We have had much the same financial mess foisted upon us as in Greece, and we the ordinary folk are not happy about it, but there have been no riots. Even the people hardest hit, those who have lost homes, jobs and businesses are trying to pull up their socks and move on with life. We see corruption in Government and waste of the highest order (at our expense) and we feel unable to do anything about it.

We probably aren't very happy that our loss will be somebody else's gain - that people will come in and benefit from our now cheap property, when our own ordinary folk can't benefit the same way - but perhaps we need some new blood to bring potential employment opportunities and new ideas.

er...the tax rates in Ireland are higher than UK! However - house prices have dipped about 40 -50% and the euro continues to fall which mean that properties are for nothin!!!

What's this about Irish not rioting? Plenty of riots in Dublin over the last few years. And does anyone ever watch the news about Belfast?

No... the Irish don't really "do" rioting.

The nearest thing to a riot in Ireland in living memory was more than 7 years ago... and it wasn't exactly spectacular in terms of size... and it was entirely political (sympathisers with British terrorist groups who carried out bomb attacks agianst Dublin, somehow though it would be a good idea to march through the middle of Dublin, and got a rather unfriendly reception from the locals).

In terms of economics, Irish people complain among themselves quite a bit... and then just get on with living their lives.

I'm living in Ireland myself the house is cheap mine is a double semi detached at 45k euros which is really cheap! I don't believe Ireland will have riots like Greece since the gov deeply cares for their ppl even if they are lazy(it's true)

All I can say is that Ireland will not riot the way Greece did.

despite the economic climate here, Ireland wouldnt be half as bad as england as in riots etc.

ireland is a lot safer than the uk

its a lovely place to live

and if your business is online, well come on over and enjoy it :)O

Ireland is in a bit of a mess at the minute, maybe in few years time.