Commute to the UK?

x43r0

Is anyone here doing or has done, the weekly commute London or somewhere else abroad?

We might be looking to move back home soon from London (Wife has a potential job too good to turn down) and my current role is potentially open to a flexible arrangement of Tues-Thurs in London and the other 2 days remote. I have somewhere I could stay in London if needed so that's not an issue but I'm worried about the toll it could take on me in the long run

I'm only considering it because of how good my current role is and I expect that finding something as good would take quite some time considering we wouldn't be living in Dublin (It'd be Cork or Limerick)

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Really depends on your proximity to an airport here. Where would you be basing yourself here? If you're no more than 45 mins from SNN/ORK, I'd call it very doable.

x43r0

Yeah in either scenario we'd be in that range. Definitely in Cork anyway - I'm not as familiar with Limerick but if going to the trouble of moving I'd put us in that range of Shannon to make it worth it

RiseToMe

I do Dub-London, Tuesday - Thursday or Sunday to Wednesday, very doable though I'm very close to airport here. Now I don't go every week anymore but when I did I found it fine.


Biggest consideration should be tax/pension wise what you're going to do. I have a Ltd company here which I run my UK work through.

3DataModem

Did it for 5 years.

The key is how early you get up Monday and late you get home Friday (or better yet, Thursday).

colm_c

Doable yes, but consider the impact it may have on your relationship and what you're longer term goals are, kids, family etc.

The commute is only one part of it!

vectorvictor

It is doable but draining despite the relatively short flight.

I did it for 18 months in reverse with Manchester out at 630am on a Monday and back to Dublin at 5pm on a Thursday. I didn't have the benefit of flights being paid for and reckoned it cost me 8k a year with flights , taxis, parking, airport sustenance etc.. If your employer is covering flights then this isn't as much of a factor.

Making it into work for 9am on Monday was relatively easy but the return to Ireland was invariably a nightmare with traffic, flight delays etc.. I had to come home twice unscheduled for micro emergencies and the cost was close on £300 each time.

The reality was going to bed extremely early on a Sunday night, up at 330am, four days in the UK , home about 8pm on Thursday, sleeping in late on Friday to recover , 2.5 days of home time and back to do it all again.

I was single(ish) at the time and it was just about doable but it's no quality of life for anybody with commitments or trying to keep a stable home life . I would be wanting a salary multipler of 2.5x to even consider it again

If you are even going to attempt this I'd strongly suggest working it out in fortnightly rather than weekly blocks

x43r0

Can anyone offer some knowledge on the tax situation of earning in gbp (into a gbp bank account) and living here?

If I was transferring money into my Irish account would I need to declare it?

RiseToMe

x43r0 wrote: »

Can anyone offer some knowledge on the tax situation of earning in gbp (into a gbp bank account) and living here?

If I was transferring money into my Irish account would I need to declare it?

If as per your original post you are only working there Tuesday - Thursday then you are normally resident here in Ireland and therefore you would need to do cross boarder relief. Somebody else will be along that can clarify further how that works or look at the boarder people site.

(I do the same commute etc as per my above post but I operate through a limited company as I have a consulting business that deals with other clients on Mondays and Fridays)

vectorvictor

x43r0 wrote: »

Can anyone offer some knowledge on the tax situation of earning in gbp (into a gbp bank account) and living here?

If I was transferring money into my Irish account would I need to declare it?

Only thing I would say is be cautious about having your income in GBP and outgoings in EUR, you could be getting some surprise pay cuts depending on how the Big B goes. Certainly factor in a worst case scenario (look at historical rates) when budgeting the pros of this idea

£5000 would have gotten you €6800 2 years ago , you can shave €1300ish off that figure now