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How much money does a family of 5 need in Dublin?

Thehedgehoginthefog

Hey folks,

We are moving back to Ireland from abroad. We have paid off our mortgage and have substantial savings that we plan to invest.

What would a family of 5 need to live comfortably in Dublin? Our three kids are primary school age.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

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Count Dracula

I would say it depends how and where you are living.

How old are your kids at this point? Are they passed nappies etc, do they want their own room?

is your partner crap with money ?

How do you plan to school?

Where are you currently living, how much is all that costing you.

Welcome home by the way, we missed you.

Still stihl waters 3

450 000 a year would be comfortable

Count Dracula

450 is aggressive with 3 maybe 4 kids, it depends on how old your money is?

I was on hand me downs for most of my youth, kids this epoch are destroying the environment with their Synthethic footwear and other garments. Those soccer jerseys are a crime, quite genuinely.

Are you bringing home any equity at all hedgehog? I am presuming you are still with us, be careful crossing the road there btw.

Have you considered fast tracking your kids into national stardom via some over priced drama group like the William Barold adventure story? If you have cute kids, who can smile and clap, some cretins might even watch reruns of them on their media player?

Take care. For the record fee paying schools are overrated agus overpriced and the Gael Scoils' are essentially fascist recruitment camps, think about it.

Don't get involved in watching soap operas unless you are going to do it properly, far better off spending your time developing a screenplay for a domestic fantasy that centers around a relocating family settling in Cabinteely, into a large private house, that one of their kids reckons is haunted by Brendan Grace, sniggering obscenities from the Attic.... which secretly houses a life size Bosco stage set that the Lamberts' sold for charity, which actually now shelters a 19 year old girl who claims to be Brenda Fricker stuck in a time loop. Give the real Brenda the nod first, she should be ok about it, if she isn't I would go for either Maureen Potter or at a stretch Sinead Cusack? Keep it simple.

Every episode the Bosco Stage set is reinvented as a modern time machine, you basically get under it and stick your hand up Bosco's skirt and before you can squeak " oh Graine that's bwilliant " the audience is transferred to Cabinteely in another time zone with dramatically different parallels.

After that you just need to decide what your target audience is, up to you. Just remember that in Ireland if you are hell bent on recreating coy sex scenes featuring nudity, that you will obliterate your audience by half. Don't bother, people are not interested in lame sex scenes anymore, although if you are hell bent on doing a few you could always concentrate one episode per series on a post water shed pornographic phuckfest that will certainly get the woke brigade up in arms. I would go for one of the kids time travelling to the future were he also transforms gender and remerges from Bosco's arse looking like an Androngenous Alien called Fransesca McKenna.

Good luck.

Thehedgehoginthefog

Food for thought...

Xidu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119951740#Comment_119951740

I can’t believe you spent so much time typing this. 😂😂

Spear

Moved to a forum that's actually related to the topic instead.

Count Dracula

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119951990#Comment_119951990

If you do manage to reach the promised land please remember that it may not be all it is cracked up to be?

Too many cars, its' crazy when you think about it. I actually find myself congratulating joyriders on incinerating another one when I suddenly realise that they are actually keeping waste of oxygen insurance underwriters in a job, the irony would make you seethe?

Do you really think those spikes on your back stand a chance against some overpriced electric car driven by a failed Surgeon who fills teeth for a living? Orthodontists are psychopaths with a grudge. Just be careful you don't end up looking like a broken jam jar that tried to eat a honey comb.

We love you Hedgehog. We really do.

I think I might short South American rubber production, something has gotta give hedge?

Kaybaykwah

Why use stimulants when one’s mind races so effortlessly?

Why?

Moonbeam

It depends...

will you both be working? if so you need to include creche fees.

will you have a mortgage in Dublin?

1 or 2 cars?

With no mortgage and no creche it cuts your expenses by 5-6k a month...

maninasia

No mortgage or rent is key.

Am in similar position but the value for money puts me off along with diabolicallly bad public services in many cases.

Thehedgehoginthefog

Thanks guys, we are mortgage free and the kids will all be attending public schools, so no creche fees either. My guess is 4-5k is ok in our situation.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058528#Comment_120058528

Unless you have a life or death reason for choosing Dublin, don't.

Far better quality of life outside it.

Thehedgehoginthefog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058554#Comment_120058554

We like Dublin 😀

[Deleted User]

Have a look at the "What's your energy bill like?" Thread.

BlueSkyDreams

South East Dublin has the best quality of life in the country I would say.

Lots of nice villages with plenty of restaurants, bars, shops etc and easy coastal access + the Dublin mountains.

Theatres/Cinemas and plenty more for kids to do vs other counties in Ireland.

Also good schools.

But with all of the above comes the heaviest price tag in the country for property...

triona1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119952060#Comment_119952060

I even read it! Thinking exactly what you just typed smh.

walterking

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058528#Comment_120058528

assuming no mortgage, this would be quite comfortable. My brother lives south Dublin, has mortgage, large house, 2 kids going to private school and their joint income before tax is circa €150k and he has a very comfortable life. His net is about 8k, I know his mortgage is 2.5k as I advised him on it, and school fees about 1k a month. So 4-5k is about right for a decent lifestyle

saabsaab

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120058554#Comment_120058554

Need about 200k I'd say expensive place if you want a nice area. Glad I moved out eventually.