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Best place in Ireland to live on the dole?

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  • #52
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Is this before or after rent allowance is taken into account?

    I am not eligible to claim rent allowance. Just dole.
    I owned a house before, but lost it as I couldn't keep up with the mortgage repayments. You have to be renting for 6 months before you can claim rent allowance you see.


  • #53
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Father Damo wrote: »
    I would, without a shadow of a doubt, rather take my own life than spend a year in Galway. Easily one of the most miserable towns in Ireland (mainly because of the weather, but still). Always astounded every time I went there at the amount of foreigners from warm countries (or at least countries that get a great summer) who lived in the place.

    Galway has the best and worst of Irish weather like anywhere on the coasts. I live in Malahide and we get just as much good and bad weather on the East coast as the West. True there are a lot of foreigners in Galway, but again its the same all over Ireland now. Its a product of the Celtic Tiger boom years when many Eastern Europeans flocked here for work. Many have now returned though as the economic situation here is no better than at home for them.
    One trend I am seeing though is the number of Brazillians in Ireland is increasing rapidly. The Brazillians are replacing the Eastern Europeans as the cheap labour force in Ireland, many of them prepared to work under the minimum wage in the black economy as they are not eligible to claim any social welfare.
    Nice warm weather doesn't put food on the table, so that's why they leave.


  • #54
    Rigol
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭Rigol


    In a flat above a post office, massage parlor, and pub/restaurant with free wifi.


  • #55
    Ronin247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭Ronin247


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Malahide, but planning on moving to Carrick-on-Shannon. The post Celtic Tiger property oversupply in Leitrim has meant cheaper rents.

    You will get no dole if you move to Leitrim as moving to an unemployment blackspot cannot be construed as "actively seeking employment"


  • #56
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    RidleyRider wrote: »
    Where are you living yourself?

    :rolleyes:


  • #57
    catbear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭catbear


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    The Brazillians are replacing the Eastern Europeans
    Lads, you don't know how good you have it. There were no good looking Brazilians or Polish girls around when I was on the scratcher back in 80/90s.


  • #58
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    My family are all based in Galway/Leitrim/Sligo. But there is no work in my field in those counties. I moved to Dublin for work, but was laid off as the firm I worked for went bust due to the recession. I have working friends in Galway that are living in Celtic Tiger estates with most of their neighbours on the dole now. These people are in mortgage arrears and at risk of losing their homes; so I don't think their is much stigma to being on the dole in Galway these days. Its not about being a lazy git scrounging, when your firm goes bust; then you have no choice but to go on the dole to survive. I worked from 21 to 35 full time. I paid 14 years into the EU social fund, and now I am claiming dole; that's what its there for; I feel no shame in that.

    Sorry. Wasn't getting at you, but maybe you could have included that info in your original post. Theres obviously no shame in claiming your hard earned entitlements and good luck finding a new job


  • #59
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Ronin247 wrote: »
    You will get no dole if you move to Leitrim as moving to an unemployment blackspot cannot be construed as "actively seeking employment"

    I construe this as "actively making stuff up".


  • #60
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Well currently I am renting a room in Malahide for 290 Euro per month plus 70 Euro bills (internet/bins/electric/gas). So for 360 Euro per month I am surviving here. Dublin is better for jobs, but the higher rent costs make it harder on the dole. I am looking at other options locally like renting a cheaper room somewhere.

    Cant you get rent allowance to cover with the cost? Also theres a winter fuel payment if you have been unemployed 1 year or more.


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  • #61
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    Enniscorthy,there's feck all left open to spend the dole on but the pubs are busiest on Mondays & Tuesdays so at least you can have the craic when you get 'paid'.
    Downside,there's feck all jobs & all the good looking foreign wimmins are married or in relationships.


  • #62
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    zerks wrote: »
    Enniscorthy,there's feck all left open to spend the dole on but the pubs are busiest on Mondays & Tuesdays so at least you can have the craic when you get 'paid'.
    Downside,there's feck all jobs & all the good looking foreign wimmins are married or in relationships.

    I was thinking of living on one of the islands, maybe the Aran Islands or Inishbofin? I like living by the sea in Malahide, but the rent prices are high here.
    I know someone who lived on Valentia island on the dole and they had a great time as it was cheap.


  • #63
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    I was thinking of living on one of the islands, maybe the Aran Islands or Inishbofin? I like living by the sea in Malahide, but the rent prices are high here.
    I know someone who lived on Valentia island on the dole and they had a great time as it was cheap.

    Do you mind me asking what sort of work you do?


  • #64
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Do you mind me asking what sort of work you do?

    Don't worry I am not a journalist!
    I am on the dole. I was a Hotel Manager.


  • #65
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Don't worry I am not a journalist!
    I am on the dole. I was a Hotel Manager.

    Any of these? http://46.245.211.41/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1202038


  • #66
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Any of these? http://46.245.211.41/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1202038

    That link provides no information about where the best place in Ireland to live on the dole is :confused:


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  • #67
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Any of these? http://46.245.211.41/ApplyForJob.aspx?Id=1202038

    Off topic, but thanks; I already found jobs.ie by the way.
    I suppose you will give me a link to fas.ie next...


  • #68
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    3GAINSBOROUGH wrote: »
    Off topic, but thanks; I already found jobs.ie by the way.
    I suppose you will give me a link to fas.ie next...

    Was only trying to help, no need to get smart.

    Enjoy Leitrim so.


  • #69
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    Ronin247 wrote: »
    You will get no dole if you move to Leitrim as moving to an unemployment blackspot cannot be construed as "actively seeking employment"

    You are mistaken. I am currently claiming dole. I can move to wherever I choose in Ireland and simply transfer my dole there. I simply walk into my local dole office with a utility and passport and transfer. Whether the area is an employment black spot of not does not come in to it.


  • #70
    3GAINSBOROUGH
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 144 ✭✭3GAINSBOROUGH


    jjbrien wrote: »
    Cant you get rent allowance to cover with the cost? Also theres a winter fuel payment if you have been unemployed 1 year or more.

    I haven't been renting for the mandatory 6 months to claim rent allowance.
    I have only been claiming dole for a month you see.


  • #71
    catbear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭catbear


    I believe Western Australia has a big recruiting push for experienced hotel and catering professionals. A few years in the sun and a nice pile of savings sounds very tempting.


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  • #72
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    catbear wrote: »
    Lads, you don't know how good you have it. There were no good looking Brazilians or Polish girls around when I was on the scratcher back in 80/90s.


    There was sod all great looking Polish women in Ireland during the tiger years either if truth be told. Irelands biggest export may now be people, but in the CT years our biggest import must surely have been frumpy tight arsed munters.


  • #73
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    muff .
    near muff diving centre.so i could get muff diving lessons to kill time.


  • #74
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,305 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    crazygeryy wrote: »
    muff .
    near muff diving centre.so i could get muff diving lessons to kill time.
    You called?


  • #75
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    What you call Postman Man on the Dole?
    Pat


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