How would you rate the quality of life in Ireland?

seamus

Gonzo wrote: »

Safety:rural crime is rising, particularly towards the elderly. Dublin City is a scary place to walk at night especially if your on your own.

Rural crime has actually decreased significantly, burglaries are well down in the last five years. For all the complaints about closing rural Garda stations, it hasn't made rural Ireland more dangerous.

Crime overall is down, Dublin City is safer than it was 20 years ago.

Saipanne

According to Numbeo, we have the 55th worst crime rate in the world.

Fact.

MadYaker

Saipanne wrote: »

About 80% of the world's population lives on less than $10 per day. 50% live on less than $2.50 per day.

Educate yourself. You live in a first world country. There is no excuse for such ignorance.

I spend more than a tenner on lunch most days. Anyone who doesn't think we are privileged needs to open their eyes.

Irish_rat

The quality of life in Ireland can vary from person to person depending on their circumstances.

Personally I find the quality of life pretty good. I've a good job, new home, easy motorway commute to work and furthering my education. Where I am(Limerick) is not as overpriced as the other cities in the Republic.

I do believe you can have a good quality of life in the countryside but personally I prefer the city where you have all amenities close. That said things are becoming overpriced here and traffic levels on the up but it's something you have to pay to be in a top country IMO.

Another thing which some might understand, I absolutely hate hot weather, spring sunshine is different to heatwaves all year round. Many might complain about the weather but in reality it's actually not that bad at all.

Overall Ireland is a great place to live

snotboogie

MadYaker wrote: »

Saipanne wrote: »

About 80% of the world's population lives on less than $10 per day. 50% live on less than $2.50 per day.

Educate yourself. You live in a first world country. There is no excuse for such ignorance.

I spend more than a tenner on lunch most days. Anyone who doesn't think we are privileged needs to open their eyes.

Is there anybody saying we have a 3rd world quality of life in this thread? Can you link to one post saying this?

Saipanne

Quality of Life?

19th in the world, baby.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

Boom.

Professor Moriarty

Saipanne wrote: »

Quality of Life?

19th in the world, baby.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

Boom.

Interestingly, on that list our healthcare index is very low. Just below Bulgaria. Out of 70 countries, we are ahead of Vietnam, Iran, Ukraine, Egypt, Brazil, Hungary and Romania.

snotboogie

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Saipanne wrote: »

Quality of Life?

19th in the world, baby.

https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp

Boom.

Interestingly, on that list our healthcare index is very low. Just below Bulgaria. Out of 70 countries, we are ahead of Vietnam, Iran, Ukraine, Egypt, Brazil, Hungary and Romania.

He's trying to derail the thread by making flippant references to a website that admittedly has questionable data collection. I made the critical mistake of saying it was the best source (only recent) that was available in relation to comparing healthcare and he is still agro about it.

Saipanne

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Interestingly, on that list our healthcare index is very low. Just below Bulgaria. Out of 70 countries, we are ahead of Vietnam, Iran, Ukraine, Egypt, Brazil, Hungary and Romania.

It's a solid survey. No denying that. Sure, their sample size is miniscule and they have zero sample selection criteria, but that stuff hardly matters. It's on Google. It has to be right.

Saipanne

snotboogie wrote: »

He's trying to derail the thread by making flippant references to a website that admittedly has questionable data collection. I made the critical mistake of saying it was the best source (only recent) that was available in relation to comparing healthcare and he is still agro about it.

It's important to admit your mistakes and move on. I'll drop it now.

swimming in a sea

I can't take the weather, I'm as cold as f%uk today and so hard to keep the house warm.

Idbatterim

people saying taxes are high, its simply not true. We pay virtually nothing here in terms of property taxes or water charges, they are a token gesture. The vat rate at 23% is high. The only rate that is a joke and really is ridiculous, is the marginal tax rate, that is scandalous. A huge amount of workers pay in virtually nothing in direct taxes.

A relatively small amount of tax payers are being absolutely bled dry to keep everyone else relatively comfortable...

Ben D Bus

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Utter bollocks. You are simply comparing us to some peasants in Uganda.

Why so dismissive? Do you consider Irish people inherently deserving of more than Ugandan people?

snotboogie

Ben D Bus wrote: »

Stonedpilot wrote: »

Utter bollocks. You are simply comparing us to some peasants in Uganda.

Why so dismissive?  Do you consider Irish people inherently deserving of more than Ugandan people?

Ireland is in a much better position than Uganda, surrounded by the wealthiest nations in the world, part of the worlds richest union and has deep trade and cultural links to the largest economy in the world. Uganda has none of those advantages.

Skommando

TimeToShine wrote: »

You seem to be taking this personally for some reason.

For the record, in my opinion there are probably 5 cities in California alone that would be better to live in than Dublin. God forbid you live in one of the lesser cities or the country, there are probably close to a hundred worldwide. It probably comes down to personal preference as well, young Johnny from Monaghan is unlikely to want to leave the family/lifestyle behind and move to San Diego or Vancouver, but if we’re talking open-minded people who are looking at matters objectively with no binding family ties I stand by my view that there are plenty of far better places. It’s a pointless discussion regardless because people rarely downgrade - if you move you’ll look to raise your standard of life be that with higher income or living situation, you will not be drawing a city out of a hat so even if only 2% of the world is better to live in you are still entitled to aim for it. The way the Irish system works now has graduates coming out of college straight into graduate programs at which point the pressure to get a mortgage will start mounting. Moving abroad now is a lot more difficult than it was 10 years ago – subverting expectation by not settling down by age X especially when the beaten path is so established nearly requires external triggers (such as a recession) for people to start seriously considering it.

All of this is my opinion, of course.

a very well reasoned one, unlike the don't dare fix any problems/problems don't exist in Ireland brigade.

Skommando

snotboogie wrote: »

Ireland is in a much better position than Uganda, surrounded by the wealthiest nations in the world, part of the worlds richest union and has deep trade and cultural links to the largest economy in the world. Uganda has none of those advantages.

Uganda? that's the bar you set for Ireland ? "we're not as bad as Uganda" :rolleyes: as if that's anything to aim for.

Skommando

seamus wrote: »

Rural crime has actually decreased significantly, burglaries are well down in the last five years. For all the complaints about closing rural Garda stations, it hasn't made rural Ireland more dangerous.

Crime overall is down, Dublin City is safer than it was 20 years ago.

The recent accuracy of Crime stats in Ireland are very doubtful indeed, even the Central Statistics Office has complained about it.

Senior Cops love to aid political promotion by massaging figures and downgrade and reclassify crimes.
Burglary was often changed to trespassing, or damage to change the figures.

Ask an rural business, particularly farming, if thefts from the property have gone up or down, and you'll get a very different answer.
Gangs of armed farmers have taken to patrolling and policing rural areas themselves at night.

http://www.thejournal.ie/cso-crime-stats-2999899-Sep2016/

snotboogie

Skommando wrote: »

snotboogie wrote: »

Ireland is in a much better position than Uganda, surrounded by the wealthiest nations in the world, part of the worlds richest union and has deep trade and cultural links to the largest economy in the world. Uganda has none of those advantages.

Uganda? that's the bar you set for Ireland ? "we're not as bad as Uganda" :rolleyes: as if that's anything to aim for.

No I'm saying the exact opposite, comparing us to Uganda is a wasteful exercise, developmentally they are decades behind us, everybody know this. However there are plenty of countries (many in a very similar geographical and political situation to us) who are doing better than us, I think that is conversation worth having.

MPFGLB

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

If you think the quality of life in the UK is better, you've probably not lived there.

London is the most overrated city in the world. Quality of life is dreadful there - everything too expensive, too crowded, dusty and dirty, people are cold as ice.

Coudn't disagree more...my quality of life in London is great as is that of my freinds... Great social life , lots of cultural and diverse pastimes...good wages...sure housing is expensice if coming on to the market now but Dublin with lower wages seems worse...Would walk around London at 1am ...never woul in Dublin

Love London and love the west of Ireland....torn between both but here in London now and when not working maybe west Ireland ...in the meantime try to enjoy both

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

The health system would be even better if we closed down utterly useless hospitals that specialise in nothing. Hospitals in places like Roscommon and Monaghan are a relic of a different era. Centralise the provision of services around a few strategic population centres. Alas, there's the gombeen parish pump crew who think having a shït hospital in their home town is absolutely necessary.

You sir I hope will consider entering polictics ....minster of health would be a good portfolio

JupiterKid

Despite the perpetual whining, it's pretty good. Mild weather, friendly people, fairly tolerant of diversity. Public transport and health really need major improvement though.

Goya

Skommando wrote: »

a very well reasoned one, unlike the don't dare fix any problems/problems don't exist in Ireland brigade.

Who said "don't dare fix any problems in Ireland"/"problems don't exist in Ireland"?

The quality of life in Ireland is high because we have easy access to clean water, education, healthcare (even with the problems we still have easy access to it), we are at peace, food is plentiful, we can criticise the government. Doesn't mean there aren't problems here or that there aren't places in which people would prefer to live though.