N.ireland V Ireland As A Place To Live

philologos · 17-09-2006 03:56PM

faceman wrote:

As beautiful some parts of NI are i wouldnt live there. Cost of living is cheap but salaries are low too. I had 2 mates who married northern girls and laughed at us "paddies" paying out on high mortgages.

one of those friends has been unemployed a few times due to poor construction industry opportunities. The other mate is a knob but thats not anyone from NI's fault i guess! lol

then live on border and go shopping or whatnot in the North. Like Lifford and Strabane, or Dundalk and Newry

lodgepole · 17-09-2006 08:28PM

Catney wrote:

I dont think this is right, our min wage is EUR 10.50, could be wrong though

Been a while since I was on the miniumum wage, but as far as I know it's €7.65. I took a quick peek at oasis.gov.ie to get that figure too, so unless it's been changed recently. Certainly I know people earning less than 10.50.

Sangre · 17-09-2006 08:40PM

Get a job thats not minimum wage?

Zillah · 17-09-2006 09:19PM

There's also the fact that you're still just the bitch of a foreign empire.

Oh yes. I went there.

Mmmm, sovereignty...

Capt'n Midnight · 17-09-2006 10:00PM

In Derry you can nip across the border to get cheap petrol. You could even commute to a job in the south, or visa versa.
But down here you would need to budget for health cover and education and other services that provided up north but aren't down here or only after a very long time.

if you pass your test up north you are a restricted driver for a year, but you only have to wait six weeks to do the test. down here it the best part of a year and half fail ..

1huge1 · 17-09-2006 10:28PM

uberpixie wrote:

Move to Limerick, you can get a house in Moyross for €30,000 last I heard :-)

it was 70,000 and no one would want to live there
its giving us limerick people a bad reputation which is so unfair
i hate all those media people who dont have a clue what there talking about
bringing the whole cuty down with moyross
and i thought this stab city crap was over

i know you wernt going on about it but i just thought id say it

1huge1 · 17-09-2006 10:30PM

would you still condsider it foreign? like the UK are all one no one in it is foreign to each other
maybe thats just my view

il gatto · 18-09-2006 04:35AM

Catney wrote:

I dont think this is right, our min wage is EUR 10.50, could be wrong though

€7.65 last I heard. Maybe €10.50 is minimum for the civil service. It'd be typical if it was. Overpaying civil servants, of whom there's too many, has helped artifically inflat our average industrial wage to €30,000. There's too many jobs which pay minimum wage in Ireland. It was concieved to stop fast food employees and casual students from being ripped off. What's happened is that it's been paided (or a little above it) to full time employees who need to pay bills and mortgages. Because it's so common to pay €8-€9, it's hard to escape. That's why many people work so much overtime and highly unsocialble hours. They can't survive otherwise. It affects family life and social life. Minimum wage was supposed to be just that. Not a guideline for employers to see if they can get staff to work for as little as legally possible.
With regards to the North, food's cheaper, cars are cheaper (no VRT) and healthcare is cheaper. That's a good place to start.

greenkittie · 18-09-2006 11:19AM

I moved from Belfast to Dublin a few months ago and so far I'm finding it alot more expensive to live here. I'm getting paid more than my northern contemporaries and yet they still end up better off just by general all round savings. Always have to stock up on alcohol every time i go home!

cujimmy · 18-09-2006 12:21PM

dj9928 wrote:

Pay up here is awful, the lowest in the UK, apparantly we earn on average £100 per week less than our English counterparts and food etc is more expensive here than in England, infact houses are the only thing that is cheaper here than the rest of the UK

But you folk in the north dont pay council tax, everybody else in the UK does

Naked Lepper · 18-09-2006 06:28PM

Apart from the financial aspect of things, would you really want to live in N.I?

I know for sure that I definetly would not!

fireblade1 · 18-09-2006 06:41PM

min wage is 8.08 euros i know cos im on it unfort!
and i seriously doubt im getting more than it considering who i work for!

dlofnep · 18-09-2006 06:59PM

Average price of a house here is about 250k. I'm not going to spend one cent in Ireland on anything long term. I'm outta here after college. I can't afford a house for 250k, especially when there aren't the jobs here for what I need to do to make that kind of money to pay for it.

Either I marry a rich man's daughter or I get realistic. My parents bought their house for 20k 24 years ago. It's now 12 times that.. Inflation isn't enough to justify that. You think you have it bad up north, it's even worse here.

Students can't afford car insurance, end up living on diets of beans on toast. It's no fairytale.

N.ireland V Ireland As A Place To Live

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