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Ok, let's get down to it, from a Croatian that feels home for over 4 years now.. 1. Cost of living - yes, it's going up as everywhere in Europe (or world).. 2. Cost of alcohol - yes, overpriced, cca 60% of it goes on tax, unreal (but, I waas happy to pay €7 for a nice pint of Guinness in Croatia in 2019.. 3. Wages - yes, it's funny to be offered same wage today as I worked for in 2020, before 200% inflation and cost of living increases.. 4. Housing crisis - yes, been here for years, same as everywhere in Europe, but + tax on taxes tax with some extra tax to it.. 5. Safety - Ireland became very dangerous lately, compared to 4 years ago, it's a wild west, Dublin live portal reports a murder every single day now.. 6. Trades businesses - are dying as everywhere else in Europe, handymen, painters, electricians are to be booked months in advance.. 7. Burgers - very under-average, dry, overcooked, overpriced.. 8. Multi-national presence - Irish are becoming minority, and becoming adverse to migrants, well understandable in a way how many migrants have 0 respect for the country, people and language, it's hard for me to find fit people to work or hang around because of their lack of intention to integrate.. Great video again, thanks!
Stop reading the British owned Yellow journalism that is "Dublin Live". This is a rag that print lies, here's a headline they had during the pandemic: "Ireland has been barred from ordering doses of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine in an apparent EU bid to pay the UK back for Brexit." UTTER NONSENCE
O.K. here's the truth. 1. The weather is terrible, it rains a lot and the temperature is generally low and it's usually windy. Basically, it is a very cold damp climate, especially in winter when it's dull and overcast. 2. The cost of eating out is prohibitive. A small cup of coffee will cost you anywhere from €3.80 to €6. 3. Accommodation costs are astronomical, most people are working just to afford a roof over their heads. 4. Running a car is extremely expensive, fuel, tax, insurance, and maintenance all add up to become a huge monthly financial overhead. 5. Public transport is terrible. Buses are infrequent, unreliable and generally dirty, which is not good in a cold damp windy country. 6. Food prices are high and going up, although meat and poultry are high quality and still affordable. 7. Alcohol is only affordable if you drink at home, forget about going to a pub. Most young people get together in a friend's apartment first with alcohol from an off licence and then only go to the pub for the last hour or two. 8. Medical costs are very high, a visit to a doctor will be about €70 and then your prescription could be anywhere from €10 - €30, so a sore throat could set you back about €100. 9. City centres like Cork or Dublin have lots of beggars, drunks, and junkies living on the streets so expect to be hassled, sitting outside a cafe on a rare sunny day in a city centre can be annoying. 10. Security is an issue in the city centres, so you need to be mindful of your belongings, drop your guard and you will be punished. 11. Immigration has become a very serious issue, while most people don't have a problem with inward immigration of young professional fully documented individuals coming here to work and contribute to society, however, there is now a very real problem with undocumented, unskilled illegal immigrants mainly young males flooding into the country and living in tents on the streets. 12. Economy, the future does not look good and businesses that survived through previous recessions are closing down due to high utility, wage and service costs. Pubs and restaurants are closing down in increasing numbers and the few that remain have reduced opening hours. I am from Cork (the second largest city in Ireland) and in the city centre we have an increasing number of high street premises closed and boarded up, including the largest store on the main street, some buildings are even falling down, this is turning the city centre into a ghetto with an increasing number of immigrants living and sleepings in shop front doorways (where do you think these people go to the toilet?). The city centre is in decline and the middle class now increasingly confines their shopping to shopping centres out in the suburbs. 13. Drugs. With increasing poverty, drug use as a means of escape from misery is on the increase and the consequence of this is an increase in crime. 14. Hospitals. If you need to go to an accident & emergency in a hospital, expect to wait up to 24 hours before you get seen. 15. Legal system. The prisons are full, so custodial sentences are low. Unless it is murder, you are more likely to do time for committing a financial crime than an assault and battery. Don't expect justice from the courts, it's more about money than anything else. 16. The only good thing about Ireland is its people, they are the very best people in the whole world.
@@Corrky As for the weather, we just have to stick with it, those ancient Romans just called Ireland ,"Hibernia" so that's what get in our summers... cool and mild, it might improve hopefully, a lady from Poland that served me in the Deli counter of Dunnes supermarket said to me about our weather.... " here is just nice, it's burning up where i'm from, hitting 35C today in my home in Krakow...." she said... that's seriously Hot and also for there and it's so so early in our Summer...
Sadly this is the best description that I have found to describe what Ireland is like now. Ireland has changed dramatically in a short space of time and unfortunately not for the better. I find many places there to now be unrecognisable. Such destruction is horrible to see!
We have the same issues with housing, trades, rude newcomers, and inflation here in North America. I’m in Alaska and have family down south who share similar sentiments. Thanks for the video!
Safety would be my biggest concern in Dublin nowadays, wouldn't be wandering aimlessly around the city streets at night. Dublin ain't cheap, that is for sure 👍
There was a very old saying that I heard, If you are paying more than 20% of your income to the tax collectors You are a slave. In Ireland you pay tax when you earn and when you spend and a whole bunch of stealth taxes, It adds to about 80 to 90%.
Hi guys! I know that among many more serious things covered in the video my question might sound uninteresting, but I work as a butcher and I’d like to know what you meant by overcooked burgers. The burger is safe when cooked all the way through. If you meant burnt then yes, not good😂 Anyway, love your videos!! Keep up the good work
Oh that's just my personal preference. I like when they are prepared almost the same as steak which for me is 130F or Medium rare. By over cooked I meant to say most of them here I got well done and pretty dry.
Jonas Kahnwald and Martha Nielsen just phoned in from the power plant. The call took nearly 40 years to connect, but the message is: "They want their anorak back!"
I can suggest you brew beer in the bath like we all did. It's a race as to who ferments first, but a dunking off the high diving board in Blackrock keeps things under control until the hydrometer sits snug at 4.5 %
Mike Ashley is the owner of Sports Direct, an unsavoury character, to say the least. One of the things he does is buy brands that have a good/fair reputation for quality, then manufacturers them as cheap, as cheap as possible. Slazengers and Dunlop, are two examples. Good luck with resolving it.
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Hi Corrky , I'm from New Zealand currently living in Florida USA. Pretty widely traveled . I've been looking at buying a property in Ireland,my mother is originally from Cork . My Question is what does it cost for say a plumber, electrician per hour? I'm looking at a project property, A 15th century tower house built around 1410..im always up for a project.. i have to agree with you beef has to be medium rear ,be it Steak or good ground beef.. and around 15% beef fat for the flavor and sizzle factor .. the best burger is 50% venison & 50% beef with 15% fat .. i enjoyed your post.. cheers Sterling.
Hi there! I'm afraid I will be useless here. We never deal with stuff like that because our landlord is responsible for everything that goes wrong. And to be honest nothing ever did in our house so I honestly don't know. Glad to see you know your burgers :)
I also live now in florida originally from County Galway. My mom had been in the process of building a house there and it’s been very much an uphill battle to do anything with homes and getting tradesman. It’s pretty expensive not anything like Florida. Here in florida it’s super easy to call up tradesman and they are very professional and will show up quickly before you go elsewhere. Not so Ireland! lol 😂 They say sure I’ll be there in 2 weeks and they never show up. My mom had to chase people to get them to come to do anything. Then if they do start they will just abandon the job if they get a call for a bigger job. 😂 If you are going to take a project like that on leave it to a contractor and expect to wait 3-4 times as long to have the job completed. If you are dealing with them directly if they know you are American 🇺🇸 they will think you are rich and will expect you to pay 1/4 more. Good luck ! 🍀👍🏼
@psr1868 hope that helps somewhat. And hope you don’t mind and like living somewhere with about 300 days of various rain and clouds with wind per year maybe more.
@@jasonknight5863 I'm not actually American..I'm from New Zealand. I've already made tentative arrangements for stone Masons from Italy . I've submitted an application to the historic trust for approval on the restoration project and have had a very positive response thus far. I will be having projects taken on a contract basis by reputable firms with penalties. I'm by no means inexperienced with restoration projects. My experience is that no matter where you are there's fly by night so called tradesman who are basically useless. it's best to do due diligence. Cheers. Cheers.
Not as bad actually in Ireland there is plenty of of land to develop very nice living areas for people ! Won’t be necessary looking at it just as housing developments but rather nice sustainable areas with housing ! Same for Britain and France !! Much worse in case of Netherlands and Luxembourg considering the lack of land . But there are obvious state priorities (wasn’t really housing) and economic incentives in order to initiate those developments those are the hurdles 😅
Cigarettes are expensive in the U.S. also a t almost 10 dollars a pack. I get mine at a nearby Seneca Indian reservation for $3.30 a pack or $33.00 for a carton.
Gotta disagree with you on the housing crisis issue.... We lived in Galway for 4 years- took us two of those years living essentially homeless, hopping between the different hostels in town and airbnbs until we actually got a house to rent. When we moved up to Belfast, I went to look at 5 houses over less than a week and had secured a rental within days of starting my search. Our rent in Belfast is also less than half what we were paying in Galway. Granted, now we have to live in Belfast
That's okay too, we can't all think the same of course. Thanks for sharing your side of the story. Glad you are settled now even though it is in Belfast :) p.s. I was never there so have no idea what I'm talking about
About what Lorraine said about non polite immigrants behaviors, the funny thing is that I have been receiving this type of behavior especially from Irish people, most of the times. At least here in Dublin. Queue-Jumpers, people talking extremely loud.. most of them are Irish lads… anyway… huge fan of your channel guys, take care.
Wow, the clicking of fingers to get a waitresses attention is appalling behaviour! Tradies are lacking in our country too! Ive been dialing a husband, $60p.h., to help me out with some mending and fixing here!
Spent 2,5 years in Ireland and it was the worst country I'd ever lived in. Not one single day of good weather in 2,5 years. The money isn't worth it, not by a long shot.
It rains all the time but the rain is warmer in the “ summer” so you just wear lighter waterproof clothes , I like to hang my washing out to dry , so far this year since January I’ve only been able to do this less than 6 times as it rains off and on every day and sometimes for months on end.
Ofc highly skilled migration and semi skilled migration is unbelievably good !! But the whole ratio is wrong 😑 of all people coming to eu about 40 % is economically active ( you would need to divide that to ) 60 is not !! So we need as a whole EU to cup this off!!!
Hi from Australia, you're talking about €1000per month? Cause in Australia it's 700AUD Per week so at best it's 2500aud at worst 3500aud. Food with my husband is 2000aud per week
My view of something like that is if you would feel the cost of Patreon in any other aspect of your life than I would rather you use it for something else. I wouldn't want us to be part of you missing something else, however small it might be. If you get what I mean. Thanks for being here and thanks for watching, that alone means a lot to us.
Jacking up the price of booze and --fa-- cigs is fair enough, but when they do it year in, year out... We have a saying for that, we call it "trying to get blood from a stone"!
As much as I think that you guys seem like lovely people, I had stopped watching your videos because although your videos seemed so cheerful and positive, in the same sense you seemed to be quite blasé and dismissive of many comments or things that are happening in Ireland. This video is quite refreshing because it seems that the tone has changed and you are more open to differing opinions. I get that you want to keep this channel as light and cheerful but it is also good to see reality. Like yourselves, I have no problem with immigrants who are documented and well meaning. What I do have a problem with is the mass influx of single undocumented men who now just regularly sit around the streets of various towns which is intimidating. As an example I brought a disabled child to a park but had to leave because there were foreign men lying besides the swings drinking alcohol. It is interesting to hear Lorraine discuss people fitting in and having manners, when she discusses people clicking their fingers at her or pushing in front of her in a queue - that’s not acceptable, and to be honest not how the majority of Irish people acted over the years. I now feel safer when I am in London than I do when I am in Ireland. How bad is that? I know of five Irish families that wanted to move from London back to Ireland but now they don’t feel it is safe anymore. That’s worrying.
Ireland has great qualities but it is changing rapidly now and unfortunately not for the better. Then again, where in Europe is improving?! Personally I think that the cost of living in Ireland is now beyond ridiculous but then Irish people don’t seem to complain enough about it. We all know that Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, it’s excessive for sure. I have family that have just left Ireland after living there for five years. They found the costs to be excessive, particularly for car insurance, car tax, restaurants and food. They also felt that it was unsafe now for their children to go out alone. They were living in Kerry and themselves and local people were reporting groups of men regularly driving slowly around the country roads and hanging around the children’s area of the parks. An American friend visited and felt that Ireland had changed. The once vibrant pubs - many closed down. The change from the previous Irish welcome of strangers saying hello to you as you passed them on the street, to now being ignored when you politely greeted someone. They too felt that there was now an ominous feeling in the air when it came to feeling safe. My aunts now have cameras outside their homes and are scared to leave their homes when it is dark - yet in the past, many people left their doors unlocked. I don’t want to sound negative. Ireland still has beautiful scenery and many good people but it’s also good to not gloss over how much it has changed. P.S. No disrespect meant towards either of you because you both seem like good decent positive people but it’s also nice to see a ‘warts and all’ viewpoint.
@Corrky It was mentioned in your video, hence, I'm addressing it. Otherwise, the video was very informative and interesting. The lady made the reference.
I'll be honest I have no idea what ff and fg means. I also don't understand how you can comment on a video you didn't see yet so yeah... Irrelevant I guess.
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Ok, let's get down to it, from a Croatian that feels home for over 4 years now..
1. Cost of living - yes, it's going up as everywhere in Europe (or world)..
2. Cost of alcohol - yes, overpriced, cca 60% of it goes on tax, unreal (but, I waas happy to pay €7 for a nice pint of Guinness in Croatia in 2019..
3. Wages - yes, it's funny to be offered same wage today as I worked for in 2020, before 200% inflation and cost of living increases..
4. Housing crisis - yes, been here for years, same as everywhere in Europe, but + tax on taxes tax with some extra tax to it..
5. Safety - Ireland became very dangerous lately, compared to 4 years ago, it's a wild west, Dublin live portal reports a murder every single day now..
6. Trades businesses - are dying as everywhere else in Europe, handymen, painters, electricians are to be booked months in advance..
7. Burgers - very under-average, dry, overcooked, overpriced..
8. Multi-national presence - Irish are becoming minority, and becoming adverse to migrants, well understandable in a way how many migrants have 0 respect for the country, people and language, it's hard for me to find fit people to work or hang around because of their lack of intention to integrate..
Great video again, thanks!
Thank YOU for giving your point of view on everything! :)
Stop reading the British owned Yellow journalism that is "Dublin Live". This is a rag that print lies, here's a headline they had during the pandemic: "Ireland has been barred from ordering doses of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine in an apparent EU bid to pay the UK back for Brexit." UTTER NONSENCE
O.K. here's the truth.
1. The weather is terrible, it rains a lot and the temperature is generally low and it's usually windy. Basically, it is a very cold damp climate, especially in winter when it's dull and overcast.
2. The cost of eating out is prohibitive. A small cup of coffee will cost you anywhere from €3.80 to €6.
3. Accommodation costs are astronomical, most people are working just to afford a roof over their heads.
4. Running a car is extremely expensive, fuel, tax, insurance, and maintenance all add up to become a huge monthly financial overhead.
5. Public transport is terrible. Buses are infrequent, unreliable and generally dirty, which is not good in a cold damp windy country.
6. Food prices are high and going up, although meat and poultry are high quality and still affordable.
7. Alcohol is only affordable if you drink at home, forget about going to a pub. Most young people get together in a friend's apartment first with alcohol from an off licence and then only go to the pub for the last hour or two.
8. Medical costs are very high, a visit to a doctor will be about €70 and then your prescription could be anywhere from €10 - €30, so a sore throat could set you back about €100.
9. City centres like Cork or Dublin have lots of beggars, drunks, and junkies living on the streets so expect to be hassled, sitting outside a cafe on a rare sunny day in a city centre can be annoying.
10. Security is an issue in the city centres, so you need to be mindful of your belongings, drop your guard and you will be punished.
11. Immigration has become a very serious issue, while most people don't have a problem with inward immigration of young professional fully documented individuals coming here to work and contribute to society, however, there is now a very real problem with undocumented, unskilled illegal immigrants mainly young males flooding into the country and living in tents on the streets.
12. Economy, the future does not look good and businesses that survived through previous recessions are closing down due to high utility, wage and service costs. Pubs and restaurants are closing down in increasing numbers and the few that remain have reduced opening hours. I am from Cork (the second largest city in Ireland) and in the city centre we have an increasing number of high street premises closed and boarded up, including the largest store on the main street, some buildings are even falling down, this is turning the city centre into a ghetto with an increasing number of immigrants living and sleepings in shop front doorways (where do you think these people go to the toilet?). The city centre is in decline and the middle class now increasingly confines their shopping to shopping centres out in the suburbs.
13. Drugs. With increasing poverty, drug use as a means of escape from misery is on the increase and the consequence of this is an increase in crime.
14. Hospitals. If you need to go to an accident & emergency in a hospital, expect to wait up to 24 hours before you get seen.
15. Legal system. The prisons are full, so custodial sentences are low. Unless it is murder, you are more likely to do time for committing a financial crime than an assault and battery. Don't expect justice from the courts, it's more about money than anything else.
16. The only good thing about Ireland is its people, they are the very best people in the whole world.
That is one hell of a comment!
Thank you for this, I'm sure it will help people get better insight.
@@Corrky As for the weather, we just have to stick with it, those ancient Romans just called Ireland ,"Hibernia" so that's what get in our summers... cool and mild, it might improve hopefully, a lady from Poland that served me in the Deli counter of Dunnes supermarket said to me about our weather.... " here is just nice, it's burning up where i'm from, hitting 35C today in my home in Krakow...." she said... that's seriously Hot and also for there and it's so so early in our Summer...
Sadly this is the best description that I have found to describe what Ireland is like now.
Ireland has changed dramatically in a short space of time and unfortunately not for the better. I find many places there to now be unrecognisable. Such destruction is horrible to see!
another banger
Thank you :)
We have the same issues with housing, trades, rude newcomers, and inflation here in North America. I’m in Alaska and have family down south who share similar sentiments. Thanks for the video!
Thank YOU for watching and giving us some insight into USA :)
Safety would be my biggest concern in Dublin nowadays, wouldn't be wandering aimlessly around the city streets at night. Dublin ain't cheap, that is for sure 👍
But isn't that just the thing I was talking about? Why wouldn't you wonder around the city you live in in you want to?
There was a very old saying that I heard, If you are paying more than 20% of your income to the tax collectors You are a slave.
In Ireland you pay tax when you earn and when you spend and a whole bunch of stealth taxes, It adds to about 80 to 90%.
That doesn’t sound real to me to be honest. Something is wrong in that math. Nobody is paying 80% taxes.
@Corrky it's roughly 50%.... taxes taxes taxes. Socialist kip. Great for the lazy, shite for the working man. I for one am thinking of emigrating
Hi guys! I know that among many more serious things covered in the video my question might sound uninteresting, but I work as a butcher and I’d like to know what you meant by overcooked burgers. The burger is safe when cooked all the way through. If you meant burnt then yes, not good😂
Anyway, love your videos!! Keep up the good work
Oh that's just my personal preference. I like when they are prepared almost the same as steak which for me is 130F or Medium rare.
By over cooked I meant to say most of them here I got well done and pretty dry.
Jonas Kahnwald and Martha Nielsen just phoned in from the power plant. The call took nearly 40 years to connect, but the message is: "They want their anorak back!"
I will visit Ireland in the near future but will visit Cork first the land of my ancestors. I might visit Galway second.
If not Galway then something else of that size or smaller. Don’t just stick to big cities, it’s worth it :)
@Corrky hope ur not disappointed
I can suggest you brew beer in the bath like we all did. It's a race as to who ferments first, but a dunking off the high diving board in Blackrock keeps things under control until the hydrometer sits snug at 4.5 %
I actually did make my own beer when I was still living in Croatia! :)
Not in bath though! 😂
Mike Ashley is the owner of Sports Direct, an unsavoury character, to say the least.
One of the things he does is buy brands that have a good/fair reputation for quality, then manufacturers them as cheap, as cheap as possible. Slazengers and Dunlop, are two examples.
Good luck with resolving it.
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Hi Corrky , I'm from New Zealand currently living in Florida USA. Pretty widely traveled . I've been looking at buying a property in Ireland,my mother is originally from Cork . My Question is what does it cost for say a plumber, electrician per hour? I'm looking at a project property, A 15th century tower house built around 1410..im always up for a project.. i have to agree with you beef has to be medium rear ,be it Steak or good ground beef.. and around 15% beef fat for the flavor and sizzle factor .. the best burger is 50% venison & 50% beef with 15% fat .. i enjoyed your post.. cheers Sterling.
Hi there!
I'm afraid I will be useless here. We never deal with stuff like that because our landlord is responsible for everything that goes wrong. And to be honest nothing ever did in our house so I honestly don't know.
Glad to see you know your burgers :)
I also live now in florida originally from County Galway. My mom had been in the process of building a house there and it’s been very much an uphill battle to do anything with homes and getting tradesman. It’s pretty expensive not anything like Florida. Here in florida it’s super easy to call up tradesman and they are very professional and will show up quickly before you go elsewhere. Not so Ireland! lol 😂
They say sure I’ll be there in 2 weeks and they never show up. My mom had to chase people to get them to come to do anything. Then if they do start they will just abandon the job if they get a call for a bigger job. 😂
If you are going to take a project like that on leave it to a contractor and expect to wait 3-4 times as long to have the job completed. If you are dealing with them directly if they know you are American 🇺🇸 they will think you are rich and will expect you to pay 1/4 more.
Good luck ! 🍀👍🏼
@psr1868 hope that helps somewhat. And hope you don’t mind and like living somewhere with about 300 days of various rain and clouds with wind per year maybe more.
@@jasonknight5863 I'm not actually American..I'm from New Zealand. I've already made tentative arrangements for stone Masons from Italy . I've submitted an application to the historic trust for approval on the restoration project and have had a very positive response thus far. I will be having projects taken on a contract basis by reputable firms with penalties. I'm by no means inexperienced with restoration projects. My experience is that no matter where you are there's fly by night so called tradesman who are basically useless. it's best to do due diligence.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Lorraine, please don’t apologise for manners. It’s obvious some have and some don’t.
Your parents taught you well and you should be proud of that
Thank you! :)
Ireland is expensive no matter where you go!
Depends what are you comparing it to but in general yes, I would agree. Even though Dublin is still on another level compared to rest of the country.
Not as bad actually in Ireland there is plenty of of land to develop very nice living areas for people ! Won’t be necessary looking at it just as housing developments but rather nice sustainable areas with housing ! Same for Britain and France !! Much worse in case of Netherlands and Luxembourg considering the lack of land . But there are obvious state priorities (wasn’t really housing) and economic incentives in order to initiate those developments those are the hurdles 😅
Cigarettes are expensive in the U.S. also a t almost 10 dollars a pack. I get mine at a nearby Seneca Indian reservation for $3.30 a pack or $33.00 for a carton.
I think they are around $3 in Croatia too.
Why are they so much cheaper in reservation? Is everyone just getting them there then?
€4,90 for a box at the moment 🤣
I expect you've already tried it, but I found Handsome Burger in Galway pretty good 🍔😋
I did, that’s the best one we have currently.
Gotta disagree with you on the housing crisis issue.... We lived in Galway for 4 years- took us two of those years living essentially homeless, hopping between the different hostels in town and airbnbs until we actually got a house to rent. When we moved up to Belfast, I went to look at 5 houses over less than a week and had secured a rental within days of starting my search. Our rent in Belfast is also less than half what we were paying in Galway. Granted, now we have to live in Belfast
That's okay too, we can't all think the same of course. Thanks for sharing your side of the story.
Glad you are settled now even though it is in Belfast :)
p.s. I was never there so have no idea what I'm talking about
I would just start growing the economy instead of managing decline through deliberate miss-spending and overregulation etc…..
About what Lorraine said about non polite immigrants behaviors, the funny thing is that I have been receiving this type of behavior especially from Irish people, most of the times. At least here in Dublin. Queue-Jumpers, people talking extremely loud.. most of them are Irish lads… anyway… huge fan of your channel guys, take care.
Thanks!
I personally didn’t experience that but she says it happens often. She did mention Irish people so it too though.
Wow, the clicking of fingers to get a waitresses attention is appalling behaviour!
Tradies are lacking in our country too!
Ive been dialing a husband, $60p.h., to help me out with some mending and fixing here!
Spent 2,5 years in Ireland and it was the worst country I'd ever lived in. Not one single day of good weather in 2,5 years. The money isn't worth it, not by a long shot.
I guess we’ll agree to disagree. I don’t find the weather nearly as bad as people say it is.
Hey ... rain and mist is great for your complexion. Think of the money you saved in the beauticians. 😂
It rains all the time but the rain is warmer in the “ summer” so you just wear lighter waterproof clothes , I like to hang my washing out to dry , so far this year since January I’ve only been able to do this less than 6 times as it rains off and on every day and sometimes for months on end.
Ofc highly skilled migration and semi skilled migration is unbelievably good !! But the whole ratio is wrong 😑 of all people coming to eu about 40 % is economically active ( you would need to divide that to ) 60 is not !! So we need as a whole EU to cup this off!!!
Hi from Australia, you're talking about €1000per month? Cause in Australia it's 700AUD Per week so at best it's 2500aud at worst 3500aud. Food with my husband is 2000aud per week
Per month, yes. That’s crazy expensive for me what you’re saying. I don’t even earn that monthly.
@@Corrky euro is more expensive than our australian dollar anyway. PS love your accent 😊
Thank you! We won’t get a lot of viewers from Australia to be honest.
I want to join the patreon when I get make more money
My view of something like that is if you would feel the cost of Patreon in any other aspect of your life than I would rather you use it for something else. I wouldn't want us to be part of you missing something else, however small it might be. If you get what I mean.
Thanks for being here and thanks for watching, that alone means a lot to us.
The Irish tradesmen are working in England for higher wages.
Jacking up the price of booze and --fa-- cigs is fair enough, but when they do it year in, year out... We have a saying for that, we call it "trying to get blood from a stone"!
And purchasing power of majority of people down
Dublin needs a coat of paint!
Your words, not mine :)
As much as I think that you guys seem like lovely people, I had stopped watching your videos because although your videos seemed so cheerful and positive, in the same sense you seemed to be quite blasé and dismissive of many comments or things that are happening in Ireland.
This video is quite refreshing because it seems that the tone has changed and you are more open to differing opinions.
I get that you want to keep this channel as light and cheerful but it is also good to see reality.
Like yourselves, I have no problem with immigrants who are documented and well meaning. What I do have a problem with is the mass influx of single undocumented men who now just regularly sit around the streets of various towns which is intimidating.
As an example I brought a disabled child to a park but had to leave because there were foreign men lying besides the swings drinking alcohol.
It is interesting to hear Lorraine discuss people fitting in and having manners, when she discusses people clicking their fingers at her or pushing in front of her in a queue - that’s not acceptable, and to be honest not how the majority of Irish people acted over the years.
I now feel safer when I am in London than I do when I am in Ireland. How bad is that?
I know of five Irish families that wanted to move from London back to Ireland but now they don’t feel it is safe anymore. That’s worrying.
Ireland has great qualities but it is changing rapidly now and unfortunately not for the better. Then again, where in Europe is improving?!
Personally I think that the cost of living in Ireland is now beyond ridiculous but then Irish people don’t seem to complain enough about it. We all know that Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in, it’s excessive for sure.
I have family that have just left Ireland after living there for five years. They found the costs to be excessive, particularly for car insurance, car tax, restaurants and food.
They also felt that it was unsafe now for their children to go out alone. They were living in Kerry and themselves and local people were reporting groups of men regularly driving slowly around the country roads and hanging around the children’s area of the parks.
An American friend visited and felt that Ireland had changed. The once vibrant pubs - many closed down. The change from the previous Irish welcome of strangers saying hello to you as you passed them on the street, to now being ignored when you politely greeted someone. They too felt that there was now an ominous feeling in the air when it came to feeling safe.
My aunts now have cameras outside their homes and are scared to leave their homes when it is dark - yet in the past, many people left their doors unlocked.
I don’t want to sound negative. Ireland still has beautiful scenery and many good people but it’s also good to not gloss over how much it has changed.
P.S. No disrespect meant towards either of you because you both seem like good decent positive people but it’s also nice to see a ‘warts and all’ viewpoint.
ALL the issues you are discussing are common to all EU countries.
It wasn't a famine, it was genocide of the Irish people. Check out the history, it's still a very sensitive subject for some of us.
Not the topic of this video.
@Corrky It was mentioned in your video, hence, I'm addressing it. Otherwise, the video was very informative and interesting. The lady made the reference.
So what your basically saying is Galway is a dear kip😮
I don’t know what that means to be completely honest.
@@Corrky dear=expensive or overpriced, kip=dump,bad place
Tá tír bhreá s'againn fhéin millte ag an tsaint faraor...
I don't think it has been spoiled. Still a great place to live in.
So you want to talk about safety in Ireland but not talk about politics...
Ali G Indahouse 😂
I get that a lot. That and Walter White!
@@Corrky LOL
Opinion polls this week giving fg 24 and ff 20%. Show that nothing changes. Dont expect houses or rent to become affordable anytime soon.
I'll be honest I have no idea what ff and fg means.
I also don't understand how you can comment on a video you didn't see yet so yeah... Irrelevant I guess.
@@Corrkythink they talk about the political parties
Oh, thanks!
I don’t follow any news so that explains my ignorance I guess :)
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, top 2 political parties in Ireland, 100% same as HDZ and SDP in Croatia..
I left Dublin a short time before the riots and never felt unsafe. But then again, I am a horrible target for mugging.
I can’t say I ever felt unsafe but you can’t help but wonder when you hear something bad has happened pretty regularly.
Hey you two!! If you hate Ireland so much then maybe you should....... oh wait, that argument gives me a headache. Craic on.
As always, thanks for support :)