Renting without a job

If you asked me the same question 5+ years ago, I would have given you a different answer, but at the moment, it's not impossible, but it is extremely difficult to find accommodation-not impossible. There are lots of jobs here, but most are minimum wage jobs, unless you have a qualification. Public Transport is available in urban areas, but not fit for purpose in rural areas.

I can't see any country being any better really, unless ye had some money and could go back to the Phillippines?

North America, Canada etc. are a lot worse than here or any part of Europe , even for citizens, not to mind Immigrants- the quality of life there is dismal.

Whether you like it being brought up or not, any disability is going to be a problem for anyone, no point in pretending it's not an issue, it makes life a bit more difficult, which is why it's a disability. There is no judgement on you, or any other person that has one, but if you want help, then you are going to receive honest answers, whether you choose to accept them or not, is your prerogative.

We don't mind taking buses. So as long as there's a bus stop nearby we're okay.

You are seriously underestimating the public transport situation in Ireland. The last house I lived in was a 3 mile walk to the nearest bus stop. That bus stop was serviced by two intercity busses every two hours. Edit: I should have pointed out, it wasn't even that rural of an area. Some villages have a bus stop but the bus is twice a day to the next major town. Not suitable for anyone relying on it for work.

You mentioned you found 45 properties in Ireland which are €1000 or less. 45 properties in the entire country? That alone should be telling you its not a good idea. Were any of the 45 in a small village? I doubt it.

We have to get out of Germany

Unless you're on the run from the mob, you really don't have to get out of Germany.

I've ived in a few different countries and I'm genuinely not trying to be unkind or unhelpful, but there is nowhere to rent for 1000e per month other than a room in a shared house and the owners will not rent to a couple with a baby in one room. This is reality.

… and Letterkenny is like a suburb of Birmingham these days, my sister lives there, she's been there all her adult life, and none of the locals go into the town anymore, its full of asylum seekers and migrants so I would imagine it will be very hard to get accommodation there.

Consider your Dad in this, while it might work for a year, if eventually you want to live alone, what is he going to do then, on his own here in Ireland with very poor English , it will be very hard to rent a place as a single person, and the quality of places will not be as good as in Germany.

I also agree with the childcare, there are waiting lists everywhere. There was a woman on the radio last week, she had moved from Kildare to Cork and thought it would be a breeze getting childcare. She couldn't get her baby in anywhere, so she had to resign her job .

OP you need to really really really think long and hard before coming to Ireland. We are in the worst housing crisis in the history of this country and its getting worse. The cost of everything is a huge consideration too. Ireland these days is not like Ireland even 5 years ago. Its changing so fast most of us can't keep up.

So where will your 60 year old father go after a year of living with you?

Honestly, OP, I think you're so set on moving here, that you're working hard to stretch and bend the advice being given to you to make it fit what you want to hear, instead of accepting what posters are telling you - that this is just not a good time to move to Ireland.

But it is impossible, OP. Certainly in your current circumstances. That's what people are trying to explain to you. Your current "plan" isn't a plan, it's a pipe dream.

I suggest you start reading Irish news sources such as the journal.ie on a daily basis. It will give you a much more realistic picture of how bad things are here at the moment than the very romanticised view of Ireland you currently have.

To put it in context for you, I couldn't find a place to rent on a salary of €70,000 a year. That's how bad the rental market is here. The issue isn't just affordability, it's availability. I was a single, child-free professional competing with couples for one-bed places; obviously a landlord is going to want the security of two salaries over one. You're going to be doing the same, only as a family, with a baby and possibly a pensioner in the mix, potentially on HAP. Please take it from me in the kindest way you possibly can - this is not going to happen for you. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, OP, but the fact that you're even asking all these very basic questions about how to move here speaks volumes about how naive you're being about this whole thing. Apart from asking randomers on an Irish website, have you done any *actual * research on the logistics and realities of moving here (even assuming it was feasible, which again, it isn't)? Spoken to an immigration lawyer about how to get your wife a visa? Even looked at the Irish immigration service website??? The fact that you think Ireland has a good health care system says to me that you've done little to no actual research about what Ireland is actually like.

Again, I'm sorry to be harsh but a couple of visits here and conversations with people online who are also suffering from grass-is-greener syndrome are not enough to give you anything even approaching a realistic idea of what a country is actually like to live in. Especially on the margins, which is 100% where you'll be if you make this move.

An example of the difficulty in finding a place to rent in ireland OP: just saw an ad for a rental at €1400pm which had 11000 views in one day, and another for almost €1600 that had 20000 views. They were in dublin ok and well above your budget but even a tiny one bed flat in tralee in your price range had over 5000 views of the ad in a couple of days.

If even half a percent of those viewers manage to get an appointment to look at the place, you can see how it is almost impossible to find somewhere to live. Bear in mind that private landlords will only rent to people with secure employment, previous references etc. and will not rent a one bed unit to 3 adults and a child. You would need at least a two bed place if your parent is living with you. If you also factor in the problems with finding a childcare place and the cost of that, then you are making things very difficult for yourself. There's no easy answer to your dilemma.

It could potentially be 3 adults and 2 kids, assuming his wife will want to eventually bring her older son over from the Phillipines also.

(The OP mentioned this other child a couple of posts ago).

Everybody here is just being honest.
If you don’t want to listen by all means continue your reverie - but you will end up having to go back to Germany if you arrive here with no jobs, unfortunately.
As another mentioned - why not move to another area of Germany? The whole country isn’t the same. Or the Philippines?

If you’ve never had stable employment - what makes you think that you’ll be able to cope with working in Ireland? I imagine it would be very hard to find a good job, you’d definitely be looking at minimum wage and you’d have to be willing to take whatever you can get. Most fully remote jobs available in Ireland are highly skilled tech jobs.
The best advice I’ve seen is to try and get degrees in Germany and some experience behind your belt and then to try - surely you can hang in there a few years, life isn’t always easy and sometimes a bit of work and putting up with less than ideal is needed to get what we want.

I know this sounds harsh but it seems you’ve spent your whole life changing countries and jobs and a wife and maybe need to consider that running and changing external elements of your life is not going to change who you are. I know plenty of people with autism who work full time and have great careers, so I’m not sure that’s an excuse for never having settled into work - albeit it’s a lot more challenging, it’s doable.

The only type of landlord who would rent to attendant in this situation is either crooked or very very naive.

OP hasn't a hope of getting a job as a carer in a rural area without a car. It's *just * about doable by bus in Dublin.