Is the cost of living higher in Dublin than Dubai?

lightspeed

Hi all

I friend of mine is back home for Easter from Toronto, Canada. He is telling me good things about Toronto and im thinking of moving over there but not for few years as i want to qualify in a field and get experience before taking such a leap.

That got me thinking, were would i live if i could live anywhere and had a decent well paid job.

I did some googling and came across the below website in which you can compare the cost of living of different cities.

http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/vancouver/dublin?

I read how high the cost of living in places like Melbourne in Australia and Vancouver in Canad is quite high.

However, according to the above website, Dublin is 19% more expensive to live in than Vancouver and about the same as in Melbourne.

However, it says also that Dublin is 23% more expensive than Dubai.

Could this be correct? It seems to me that the cost of living fell quite a bit here in some areas and salaries for skilled professional jobs such as accountants stayed about the same, at least from looking at salary surveys.

What do you guys think, is it about accurate?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Yes.

kneemos

What qualifications will you get in a field?

snubbleste

kneemos wrote: »

What qualifications will you get in a field?

Scarecrowing

biko

Another comparison site
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp

lightspeed

kneemos wrote: »

What qualifications will you get in a field?

Well im just finishing a business degree and hoping to continuing to study accountancy or taxation or both. Im hoping i can get a graduate job in accountancy, study the ACCA and then be qualified fully in 3 years as you need to have 3 recorded work experience to qualify.

From what i have researched, accountants earn this money as do tax managers and then there are also decent paid jobs for tax accountants.

So somewhere in the field of the above.

lightspeed

biko wrote: »

Another comparison site
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp

Thanks,

just compared Dublin to Dubai below and surprisingly Dublin is quite a bit more expensive than Dubai and more expensive than New York to live in.

It is just below Sydney and London for cost of living.

Ann Landers

Cost of living is lower in Dubai but the downside is you have to live in Dubai.

Probably the migrant workers
I thought they were lured in and forced to stay but I'm reading an article that says otherwise
Who knows
Be totally against it if it were the former, that's for sure

Many labourers arrive in Dubai saddled with debt, usually a result of visa fees and other charges imposed by local labour agents in their home countries. These practices are illegal in Dubai, but tracking perpetrators in Bangladesh or India is almost impossible for police forces in the UAE.

Mental

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/05/201352375248751541.html

kneemos

lightspeed wrote: »

Well im just finishing a business degree and hoping to continuing to study accountancy or taxation or both. Im hoping i can get a graduate job in accountancy, study the ACCA and then be qualified fully in 3 years as you need to have 3 recorded work experience to qualify.

From what i have researched, accountants earn this money as do tax managers and then there are also decent paid jobs for tax accountants.

So somewhere in the field of the above.

As a tax collector you'll be obliged to give half your belongings to the poor...Luke 19:1-10.

NoCrackHaving

lightspeed wrote: »

Thanks,

just compared Dublin to Dubai below and surprisingly Dublin is quite a bit more expensive than Dubai and more expensive than New York to live in.

It is just below Sydney and London for cost of living.

Dublin is not more expensive than New York to live in, it just isn't.

Arthur Beesley

kneemos wrote: »

What qualifications will you get in a field?

He's clearly outstanding in his field.

Arthur Beesley

Ann Landers wrote: »

Cost of living is lower in Dubai but the downside is you have to live in Dubai.

Exactly. If I wanted to live in a ****hole I'd move to Cork or Limerick, why bother going half way around the world to Dubai.

Einhard

Not a major fan of Dubai myself, but I'd hardly call it a $hithole.

lightspeed

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Exactly. If I wanted to live in a ****hole I'd move to Cork or Limerick, why bother going half way around the world to Dubai.

Better salary, nicer weather, and nowhere near the amount of crime and skangers in dubai and from what i read and hear, things run more efficiently elsewhere.

Im living with the parents for now and just few years left on the mortgage on the family home. Based on my calculations, if i do end up qualifying in accountancy, i should have enough saved and be on a decent wage to get a mortgage for a place of my own in the next 3 years.

However, im kind of thinking even if i could get a place in Dublin, where would i actually want to live?

I hate the inefficiency of this whole country.
I hate how public transports is so expensive and yet unions can just dictate and wages go up even higher regardless of economic circumstances.

I hate the way almost every part of Dublin is littered with junkies, and skangers and generally i hate the state of the whole explosive welfare system in this country.

I hate the way i could work my ass off to pay a mortgage and someone can just get pregnant and get rent allowance and live in the same area, while not even working.

I know plenty people who have been on the dole years with no intention of working or looking for worked and have been got one cut. This does not happen elsewhere in the world or even other parts of Europe.

I hate the state of the health service and the bottomless pit it continues to be.

I hate the state of politics, and the fact that there is no real or genuine alternative to current parties who want to maintain an unfair, inefficient welfare system and then try introduce and dicky up new taxes to cover the cost of the house of cards system that is already in place.

We have one of the highest pregnancy rates in Europe if not still the highest, maintain high child benefit, housing for single mothers, and inefficient under funded health service with people living longer than before.

It is my belief that the current system is completely unstable and much larger increases in taxes will be required in coming years on top of property taxes, waters rates etc, to maintain the current inequitable system.

So im asking myself, if was qualified, earning decent money and could live elsewhere, why would i stay in Ireland were we have such a higher cost of living and such inefficiency? Why would anybody?

RobbingBandit

Their leaders have oil and Premier League football teams to keep them occupied so they don't need to rape the good folks of Dubai, we have money hungry cabbage headed autocratic **** who bleed us dry to keep themselves in foreign diplomatic trips, business suits and bonuses for riding the country sideways.

flutered

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Exactly. If I wanted to live in a ****hole I'd move to Cork or Limerick, why bother going half way around the world to Dubai.

arthur old bean, cork or limerick could never come close to dublin in the schite hole rankings, this is just from reading the wapers, watching the news on tv, stroling down the main streets of cork and limerick, is easily done, but it is not advisable to try it in dublin, aslo dublin has various species of wild life not seen in cork or limerick.

Einhard

lightspeed wrote: »

I hate the inefficiency of this whole country.

Ha, don't come to the UAE then! Ireland is Switzerland compared to the UAE!!

I hate how public transports is so expensive and yet unions can just dictate and wages go up even higher regardless of economic circumstances.

I've traveled a fair bit, and while public transport in Ireland is a tad more expensive than the average, it's not ridiculously so. When you factor in that the tax take in the Scandinavian countries and the likes of Germany is far higher than in Ireland, then it's unsurprising that the cost of public services are nominally lower.

I hate the way almost every part of Dublin is littered with junkies, and skangers and generally i hate the state of the whole explosive welfare system in this country.

The first pat simply isn't true, unless you have an extraordinarily limited understanding of Dublin's geography. Also, many European countries have far more generous welfare systems.

I know plenty people who have been on the dole years with no intention of working or looking for worked and have been got one cut. This does not happen elsewhere in the world or even other parts of Europe.

It does happen in other parts of Europe. The UAE is basically one big welfare state for Emiratis. Also, you really know plenty of people on the dole for years with no intention of working? If that really is the case, then I'd suggest you broaden your circle of acquaintances.

I hate the state of the health service and the bottomless pit it continues to be.

Irsh health service isn't all that bad considering the amount spent on it. I imagine if we spent as much as other countrie with better services, then you'd be complaining about your taxes going to fund other people's healthcare. At least in Ireland, you'll get some level of care whether you have the funds or not. In Dubai you'll die without health insurance.

I hate the state of politics, and the fact that there is no real or genuine alternative to current parties who want to maintain an unfair, inefficient welfare system and then try introduce and dicky up new taxes to cover the cost of the house of cards system that is already in place.

So you hae the state of politics, bemoan the lack of an alternative, and yet seek to live in a place where there literally is no alternative whatsover, and which is, by it's own admission, not a democracy? Seriously?

We have one of the highest pregnancy rates in Europe if not still the highest, maintain high child benefit, housing for single mothers, and inefficient under funded health service with people living longer than before.

Surely having a high birthrate is a good thing, considering other countries are worrying about their ageing populations? Also, the health system can hardly be that bad if we're all living longer.

So im asking myself, if was qualified, earning decent money and could live elsewhere, why would i stay in Ireland were we have such a higher cost of living and such inefficiency? Why would anybody?

Because, despite its faults, Ireland is a great place to live and work. All the best in whatever you do and wherever you end up, but I think that you'll soon realise that you're picture of Ireland is far too negative, and your view of the rest of the world far too positive. Indeed, many of the things you condemn Ireland for are worse in Dubai, the place in which you want to escape Ireland? Doesn't exactly sound like a well-thought through strategy.

WellThen?

That site OP is a bit of a joke, just told me under other comparisons--"Cost of living in Genoa is about the same as in Genoa"

Haha mind blown

carlmango11

NoCrackHaving wrote: »

Dublin is not more expensive than New York to live in, it just isn't.

I disagree. I found New York to be cheaper to live in than Dublin.

Pints - $6-8 with tip
Rent - $700 for a bedroom in a 3-bed in a nice area in Manhattan
Eating out is probably the same/a bit cheaper

Although the Americans get ripped off when it comes to things like their phone bill, TV, Internet etc.