Moving to ireland,Just want sum information Luv the help!

Question

Me and my friend are from egypt,Im actually american living in egypt and shes an egyptian,anyways what kinda visas should we apply for?We want to move to ireland in a month or so.... wheres the best place to live in for u know New comers and ppl just starting off,How r they with jobs?We are both college dropouts both ages 19 and 20...Is the rent Affordable or to die over?Any kind of help on the idea their would be helpful! We just thought of going somewhere totally random for the expierence =]

Answer 1

College dropouts?

Right, here's the thing - people in Ireland are EDUCATED and HARD-WORKING. As a college dropout, you haven't a snowball's chance in h**l of getting a halfway decent job. It is no longer the Disneyfied Oirland that Hollywood is so fond of projecting and exploiting, it is a real place with a real economy, and to be frank, with such a laid-back attitude like yours, you come here and you would be in for one nasty surprise after another.

The Euro, which is the currency used in Ireland, is now one Euro to $1.60. Weekly rent in the smaller cities like Limerick STARTS at €90 per week, so you do the maths and see what you come to. Dublin and Galway are easily twice that.

Ireland is no longer a place for college dropouts to f**t around in. Those days are long over. Do yourself a favour, and find a real source of information for the country, and go back and finish your college.  

Answer 2

Rent varies. The best place to look is www.daft.ie - most estate agents use this website to advertise their properties.

You aren't likely to get a work visa unless you have the offer of a specialist job, the economy was good and at that time they were more lax on issuing work visas, but it has recently gone down the toilet and jobs are hard to get, and its still getting worse.

Unless you had a qualification or experience that really sets you up to do something we are short of (e.g. a doctor or a nurse), you aren't going to get one. Even if the economy improves and they needed more immigrants, it would still take more than a month to get one.

Because of rules around immigration between EU countries, you would be competing against Europeans (esp Poles) for immigrant jobs, and they have the advantage that they aren't restricted to what they do.

Cost of living (food, phone, electricity, gas (if your area has it) etc are all sky high and still rising.

Answer 3

Don't come unless you have buckets of cash.  It's very expensive here.  Two teenage dropouts could only expect to earn the minimum wage of 8 euro an hour.

Answer 4

wouldnt advise you to move at the moment...i really am sorry to say but after year on year double digit economic growth ireland has entered recession for the first time in 25years.Unemployment levels are increasing at record speed...we are seeing the quickest monthly unemployment increases since records began in 1975.For a decade 100s of 1000s of people were coming here for work and now they are going back home because there are no job oppurtunities here.Irish people are starting to emigrate already(it was on rte 2fm this morning).Im just giving you a heads up.If ur still moving here then dublin has all the amenities but the west(clare,kerry,mayo,galway)have the most beutiful scenery in the world(however there are much less amenities and services in rural ireland)Failte(welcome)!