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So Who Is Going to the UK?

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  • #32
    ameeee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭ameeee


    Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but if you want to job hunt in the UK you better get over here tomorrow. The ****'s hitting the fan here too and thousands of public sector jobs are going which means the jobs market will be flooded with job hunters very soon. I live here with my fiance and we both have decent jobs but it's drying up.


  • #33
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    ameeee wrote: »
    Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but if you want to job hunt in the UK you better get over here tomorrow. The ****'s hitting the fan here too and thousands of public sector jobs are going which means the jobs market will be flooded with job hunters very soon. I live here with my fiance and we both have decent jobs but it's drying up.

    The UK is not booming, to be sure. And it probably wont create jobs net in the next few years, because the public sector will take a hit.


  • #34
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    Cameron is going to torpedo the Uk public sector, includes teaching, lecturing research et al.


  • #35
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's much easier to go to England, seeing as how no Visas are required.

    No visa required for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus (South), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.......

    Of course a couple of these countries are just as deeply in the crapper as us while there may be language issues in others but surely the latter shouldnt be much of a problem for our well educated workforce (TM) ?


  • #36
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    I lol'ed at teh option which said "I blame an older generation who refuse to retire, so I went somewhere I might find a career type job", as you will be the "older generation who refuse to retire" in the end :D


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  • #37
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    BTW I might come back to Dublin if house prices continue to tumble. Tubling house prices for the win.

    You vulture! You parasite! It was paying reasonable prices for a home that stopped this country from becoming unjustifiably rich in the first place :mad:

    /plans to do same. :)


  • #38
    Fran79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi
    I came over from the UK 2 years ago and would never go back to the UK.
    I love it here......
    No sitting for ages in traffic (and I didn't even live in a city in the UK), no council tax or water rates (ok I know these will probably come in soon - but they will be less than I was paying in the UK).
    The cost of living is not that high here....if you look at the cost of buying things the UK prices have evened up a lot over the past year (with a few exceptions) Check www.mysupermarket.co.uk for a comparison on food prices.
    Bear in mind the really low UK minimum wage and dole rates (£5.93/hr and £65.45/week) - even on minimum wage here I have to work less hours to do the weekly food shop here than I did in the UK.

    By all means if you still want to go to the UK go - but just remember that the streets are not paved with gold.

    You may find this website usefull
    http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm

    Fran


  • #39
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    I came to the UK for a few years a few years ago. It is alright, although London is a bit too crowded. I like elsewhere but work in London.

    mostly Irish people over here are still thin on the ground, but generally we are are a happy bunch but we mostly emigrated by choice. I am worried that a new generation of Angries will gather at the local pubs. On the plus side I may find a pub showing a hurling final now and again.

    So welcome: but shut up about Ireland. English people dont want to hear you whine about FF. Learn to hate the Tories instead.

    as long as you don't end up in a pub where they want to watch a celtic match instead of the hurling final you'll be grand, they're a different sort of angries, with funny accents.


  • #40
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    Are you English Fran?


  • #41
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    Oh I should say - that it really wont be like the 1950's. I have just arranged to meet a friend of mine in the pub next Friday at 10pm. In Dublin. Talked online, and arranged a flight between this and my last post. Will stay with my sister, who was also on IM at the time. In reality there is no real distance anymore, being in London, or elsewhere in the UK is not different than Cork-Dublin. People will come and go.


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  • #42
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    When ye go to the UK and they laugh at our economy just reply with 'well at least we've got a leprechaun museum'!


  • #43
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Even if the Irish economy was booming I'd leave, there's something about Ireland I've never liked but I can't put a finger on it, the weather, the people?..I'm not sure. I've always wanted to get out of here. Maybe I'll find I dislike other countries as much but I'll have to give them a go first :D.


  • #44
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    No visa required for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus (South), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.......

    Of course a couple of these countries are just as deeply in the crapper as us while there may be language issues in others but surely the latter shouldnt be much of a problem for our well educated workforce (TM) ?

    The 'educated workforce' is the greatest lie we've inflicted on ourselves. The Brazilian economy is beginning to grow rapidly at the minute and visas are relatively easy to get apparently but an Irish person learn a new language??? Not a hope.


  • #45
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    HavingCrack wrote: »
    Even if the Irish economy was booming I'd leave, there's something about Ireland I've never liked but I can't put a finger on it, the weather, the people?..I'm not sure. I've always wanted to get out of here. Maybe I'll find I dislike other countries as much but I'll have to give them a go first :D.


    Yes, it could well be you.


  • #46
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    HavingCrack wrote: »
    The 'educated workforce' is the greatest lie we've inflicted on ourselves. The Brazilian economy is beginning to grow rapidly at the minute and visas are relatively easy to get apparently but an Irish person learn a new language??? Not a hope.

    Hmm, I agree on the languages but economic migration never goes from a richer place to a poorer place.


  • #47
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭dasdog


    I'm not going anywhere. We managed to contain the cancer of the Catholic church. I will take pleasure in watching the FF cancer being removed. The PIIGS acronym may be getting a U prefix next year. If the dominoes start to topple they are in line after Espanga (+Portugal/Italy) for market scutiny.

    As of March 31, the latest data available, the banks had exposure of about $222 billion to a variety of Irish institutions, according to BIS. That's about one-fourth of the world's exposure to Ireland. About $42 billion of the U.K. banks' exposure is in the form of lending to Ireland's battered banking sector.

    http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/11/european-banks-have-650-billion.html

    After them, the USA. That's when the pound of mashed up Dundee cake really hits the fan.

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  • #48
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    dasdog wrote: »
    I'm not going anywhere. We managed to contain the cancer of the Catholic church. I will take pleasure in watching the FF cancer being removed. The PIIGS acronym may be getting a U prefix next year. If the dominoes start to topple they are in line after Espanga (+Portugal/Italy) for market scutiny.

    As of March 31, the latest data available, the banks had exposure of about $222 billion to a variety of Irish institutions, according to BIS. That's about one-fourth of the world's exposure to Ireland. About $42 billion of the U.K. banks' exposure is in the form of lending to Ireland's battered banking sector.

    http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/11/european-banks-have-650-billion.html

    After them, the USA. That's when the pound of mashed up Dundee cake really hits the fan.

    They can print their way out of recession.


  • #49
    dasdog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭dasdog


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    They can print their way out of recession.

    + they have massive Chinese/Saudi interests but the knock on will be felt unless Obama starts getting his act together to fix the mess he inherited.

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  • #50
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Yes, it could well be you.

    It is me :D. Ireland and I just don't get along :pac:.
    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Hmm, I agree on the languages but economic migration never goes from a richer place to a poorer place.

    Well apparently there's been quite significant immigration to Brazil from Portugal within the last 3 years or so and Portugal would always have been considered better off so...I don't know. The standard of living in some parts of Brazil is better than Ireland also so I can't see it being beyond the bounds of economics..


  • #51
    jaysusake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭jaysusake


    How do ye work that out? In what sector?


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  • #52
    Fran79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Are you English Fran?


    Yes...

    Why do you ask?

    Fran


  • #53
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    but economic migration never goes from a richer place to a poorer place.

    I wouldnt say never

    Unless the place is totally in the crapper there are going to be some opportunities there (albeit restricted to a select few perhaps) Plus the cost of living is often considerably lower in such places. During the Celtic tiger bubble years there were Irish people working in Eastern Europe. I moved to NI myself at a time when the conventional wisdom was that I was insane to do so.


  • #54
    keano_afc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    We're off to London in February. Wife is a qualified nurse and hasnt found a job in 4 years of looking so she applied to hospitals in London and got a job pretty much straight away. She starts in May so we're gonna start looking for work for me next month. Have no idea when we'll be back, if at all.


  • #55
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Technically I emigrated to the UK 11 years ago when I moved to Northern Ireland.

    Not for any of the reasons on your poll but for several other reasons (the cost of living in the Republic being the main one) A lot of people at the time told I was mad (it was the height of the celtic tiger bubble) most of them are on the dole now.

    No immediate plans to move again but wouldnt rule out doing so in the future to Germany or Holland probably.
    So you moved to the UK then. Northern Ireland is in the UK.


  • #56
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    So you moved to the UK then. Northern Ireland is in the UK.

    I am fully aware of that and I even mentioned it earlier
    Do pay attention !


  • #57
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    keano_afc wrote: »
    We're off to London in February. Wife is a qualified nurse and hasnt found a job in 4 years of looking so she applied to hospitals in London and got a job pretty much straight away. She starts in May so we're gonna start looking for work for me next month. Have no idea when we'll be back, if at all.
    Good luck. The UK is brilliant.


  • #58
    KeithAFC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,239 ✭✭✭✭KeithAFC


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    I am fully aware of that and I even mentioned it earlier

    Do pay attention !
    Yeah i know, its just the way you put it. 'Technically'...


  • #59
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    Fran79 wrote: »
    Yes...

    Why do you ask?

    Fran

    Oh I am Irish-English in England ( although I grew up in both places). Just wondering if you were returning immigrant, or not. You seem quite positive about Ireland, as I am but I haven't lived there for a while.


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,773 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Moved to London but only waited for a year, it was good fun but overall it wasn't for me so I moved back, much prefer living in Ireland.


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  • #61
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    I left the UK 7 years ago and would never think about moving back unless things changed, which they wont.

    4 most important thing for me - Liberty, Freedom, Democracy, Justice. although FF have tried to destroy democracy Ireland are still scoring way higher on the others.

    Is a shame I was born a 'commoner' and 'subject', both labels were used on sky news this week.


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