So i'm moving from Sweden to Dublin soon

Cowboyy

Hello. I'm an 18 year old who is going to move from Sweden to Dublin for work within the next month. I will be working in Lexlip for HP, my salary is will be between 21000-25000 a year hopefully in the higher range. One questions is though will i be able to save about 400 a month a such a salaray? I'm asking this because one of the reasons i'm making this move is because i want to make some money. Another question is how is social life? i'm from Stockholm so i'm a big city person. How is general is the public transport in dublin do buses and trains work efficient and does this also include lexlip, I'm still debating if I should share an apartment in Dublin or in lexlip close to work.

Hopefully i posted this in the right section

Dj Stiggie

Hey, I grew up right beside HP.

There is a bus every hour throughout the day from HP to Dublin City Centre. If your price range allows, I would move to Dublin. You'd be doing a reverse commute so traffic would be OK. There is also a free shuttle bus that goes between Intel, HP and the train station so that's also an option. A lot of foreign workers live in Dublin. Leixlip doesn't have a great social scene. Since you're coming from Stockholm I would definitely live in Dublin.

I can't comment on saving money as I haven't lived in Ireland for a few years. I'm 21 if you want me to get you in touch with some friends so you'll know some people in Leixlip? And if you have any other questions I'll do my best to answer them.

tommyboy2222

Hi Cowboy,

Social life should be fine. In Dublin you can pretty much find whatever you are in to.

On saving money, a lot would depend on where you live. Obviously the closer you are to the city centre the more expensive your rent is. I suppose your options are:

Leixlip 50 mins from city centre
Lucan 40 mins
Palmerstown 20 mins
Chapolizid 10 mins

One good thing is that you will probably be going against the traffic in the mornings ( most traffic will be going towards the city centre). That is if you work 9 to 5 .

The public transport issue is controversial, we love giving out about it !!! I think Leixlip is serviced by the 66 bus. You'll have to work out a routine . It would be handy to live near a bus stop.

On Fridays and Saturdays a late night bus service , the nitelink, runs at 12,1,2,3,4 and will service the areas above. Only costs 5 euro which is handy because a taxi to Lucan/ Leixlip might set you back 25 to 35 euro. Regular bus services finish around 11 30.

So to summarise, if saving money is an priority, maybe consider Lucan. Short commute to work, serviced by a lot of buses 25, 66,67 , some good pubs and cheaper rent than town. Even if you lived in Leixlip , you wouldn't be totally cut off from the city centre with the nitelinks.

Hope some of the info helps!

hfallada

OP if you do a house share you could easily enough save up that each month. Income taxes in Ireland are low compared to places like Germany, Sweden, Denmark etc. Use this site to see your earnings after tax http://www.deloitte.ie/tc/ Obviously use only buses(they dont follow the timetable generally, but the bus drivers follow their own time table eg the 10.05 bus arrives at 10.15 but always arrive at 10.15 every morning). Shop in Lidl and Aldi for food.

Dublin has dozens of nightclubs which some are free before 11.30 others you have to pay(check facebook).Every weekend there are dozens of nightclubs open.

liffeylite

I think you would prefer Dublin, for the nightlife benefits.

Dublin is a similar size to Stockholm, 1.8 million in the metro area compared to 2.1 million in Stockholm. Dublin is obviously slightly warmer, with a very mild consistent temperature. Though it does tend to rain a bit!

You will find lively bars, restaurants and clubs 7 nights a week in Dublin, checkout www.dublintown.ie and www.entertainment.ie www.lecool.ie and www.dublineventguide.com for an introduction to the entertainment scene.

Dublin has the best entertainment scene outside London in the UK and Ireland so you wont struggle for options.

for accommodation, look at www.daft.ie personally I would recommend somewhere in the D2, D4, D6 postcodes ideally, or if not D7 or D8. this you would have to align with your commute to work.

enjoy your stay in the fair city!:D

Cowboyy

Thanks for the replies. I used the tax calculator posted according to that if i get the lowest salary possible 21k a year it will leave me with 1.5k salary a month. Seeing as I can afford to live in Dublin I might as well do that.

My budget is looking roughly like this:
350 rent
170 food
30 mobile phone
100 transportation
100 entertainment
100 clothes

total of 850 a month +/-

650 left for savings. thoughts on this?

spurious

You need to re-adjust your accommodation costs. It's much more expensive than that in Dublin, even sharing.
Have a look at http://www.daft.ie

COYVB

I'm out of Ireland 4 years at this stage, but I'm not sure you'll get anywhere for 350 rent

I'd have thought double that

Cowboyy

spurious wrote: »

You need to re-adjust your accommodation costs. It's much more expensive than that in Dublin, even sharing.
Have a look at http://www.daft.ie

COYVB wrote: »

I'm out of Ireland 4 years at this stage, but I'm not sure you'll get anywhere for 350 rent

I'd have thought double that

these links are advertising rooms in that price range in Dublin or am I missing something

http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=723915
http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=723960
http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=719292

just 3 examples

thewayiam

Do you drink or smoke? Price of booze and fags are ridicolous in Ireland.

U'll get a room for around 350 to 450

Cowboyy

thewayiam wrote: »

Do you drink or smoke? Price of booze and fags are ridicolous in Ireland.

U'll get a room for around 350 to 450

Hardly drink and don't smoke. Prices of alcohol is not cheap here either

spurious

Cowboyy wrote: »

these links are advertising rooms in that price range in Dublin or am I missing something

http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=723915
http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=723960
http://www.daft.ie/searchsharing.daft?id=719292

just 3 examples

I thought you wanted to be in the city centre?
Factor in the transport costs if you are living somewhere you will need two buses or a combination of bus/Luas to get to.

Ben D Bus

spurious wrote: »

I thought you wanted to be in the city centre?
Factor in the transport costs if you are living somewhere you will need two buses or a combination of bus/Luas to get to.

OP seems to be clued in as the examples given are Chapelizod & Lucan, both on the City Center - Leixlip route.

How far is HP from Louisa Bridge train station?

Cowboyy

spurious wrote: »

I thought you wanted to be in the city centre?
Factor in the transport costs if you are living somewhere you will need two buses or a combination of bus/Luas to get to.

Maybe I've confused you what I meant was I'd prefer to be as close to town as possible while still being able to commute to work. Seeing as someone mentioned that there is a free hourly bus that goes all the way to work from some areas I might as well just live in those areas.

Stheno

Cowboyy wrote: »

Maybe I've confused you what I meant was I'd prefer to be as close to town as possible while still being able to commute to work. Seeing as someone mentioned that there is a free hourly bus that goes all the way to work from some areas I might as well just live in those areas.

It's not a free hourly bus from Chapelizod/Lucan, it's from the train station in Leixlip On the 66 you'll need a weekly/monthly ticket, which costs about €100 per month and you get tax relief, so it would cost you about €80 a month.

Cowboyy

Stheno wrote: »

It's not a free hourly bus from Chapelizod/Lucan, it's from the train station in Leixlip On the 66 you'll need a weekly/monthly ticket, which costs about €100 per month and you get tax relief, so it would cost you about €80 a month.

I counted it in my budget anyway and I think work will pay for a monthly ticket not sure

hmmm

20x thousand is not a big salary in a city like Dublin (if you want to have a social life - you could spend at least 50 euro a night easily), so I wouldn't get caught up in thinking you're going to save much money. Hopefully in a few years time you'll have more experience and either be promoted at HP or have got a new job somewhere else which will pay more money, in which case you will be saving plenty.

Chapelizod is a nice area and you're fortunate to be able to stay there, but it's quiet. It's near the city though. I think if it was me I'd stay there until I knew the city better.

Cowboyy

hmmm wrote: »

20x thousand is not a big salary in a city like Dublin (if you want to have a social life - you could spend at least 50 euro a night easily), so I wouldn't get caught up in thinking you're going to save much money. Hopefully in a few years time you'll have more experience and either be promoted at HP or have got a new job somewhere else which will pay more money, in which case you will be saving plenty.

Chapelizod is a nice area and you're fortunate to be able to stay there, but it's quiet. It's near the city though. I think if it was me I'd stay there until I knew the city better.

Well the salary range is from 21k-25k dont know yet how much i will be getting hopefully somewhere in the higher range. Am also aware it's not possible to follow a monthly budget every month

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Nightlife
As everyone has said, the closer you live to town the better the social life will be. Most activities/events/clubs are in the city centre.
Chapelizod and Palmerstown are very close to town so taxis will be cheap coming home at night
There is also a 66N (Night bus) which goes to Chapelizod, Palmerstown, Lucan and Leixlip which is 5 euro
Alcohol prices are high but not as high as Stockholm I think. I remember paying 15 euro for a Tequila and Orange juice in my hotel in Gamla Stan. Also, supermarket prices for alcohol are much cheaper than clubs.
Its probably safe to say you don't drink as much as the Irish will, so our budgets for socialising will be higher than yours will need to be.
We also have similar habits (particularly younger people) of drinking in houses before going to nightclubs. Personally, I always get the latest bus (11:30pm) into town when I am going out.

Rent
I noticed you haven't factored in electricity/internet and TV. Rent is cheaper if you share a house and I have found that most houses (even student houses!) still seem to pay for hundreds of channels they never watch. Possibly someone on here can advise what average electricity/TV/Internet bills come to a month.

Travel
Day to day travel, in my experience the 66 bus is regular enough. Sunday timetables can be quite sparse for all busses in Dublin. Here's the 66 Bus timetables, the A's and B's take slightly different routes so it would just depend where you live and where exactly HP is (which I'm not sure of):

http://dublinbus.ie/en/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/66/
http://dublinbus.ie/en/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/66a/
http://dublinbus.ie/en/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/66b/

The train also goes to Leixlip as far as I remember and only takes maybe 20 minutes to the city centre, depending on times.

And as mentioned above the nightlink (66N) go every hour until around 4am.

Food
Food can be as expensive or as cheap as you want it to be. Irish supermarkets are far cheaper than in Nordic countries. I can't remember how expensive Swedish supermarkets are but I went to Iceland and Denmark a few months ago and I was amazed at how expensive food is. I was in a small, sort of fancy supermarket in Copenhagen and 1 tin of soup, ham, cheese, a small bread, 1 tin of beans and a bag of crisps was 25 euro. Prices were not that much cheaper in the large supermarkets in Reykjavik. The same would be between 6 and 10 euro in any Irish supermarket.

Aldi/Lidl is very cheap for food if you need to save money, but overall I think our supermarkets are cheap enough

Hope this helps!