Almost 60 per cent of 18-29-year-olds in Ireland would consider emigrating to lower their cost of living
, according to the Our Lives, Our Money report published by the Central Statistics Office at the beginning of December.Similarly research carried out by Red C in September for the National Youth Council of Ireland indicated more than 70 per cent of 18-24 year olds were considering moving abroad for a better quality of life elsewhere.
“The plan always was to go back,” she says, “but now that we’re here, it’ll be very hard to go back. Mam won’t like hearing that!” His primary reason for emigrating is job opportunity, having secured an entry level data analyst role. “I’ll be on €40,000,” he says, “as opposed to in Dublin maybe 35.” He compares his accommodation, a room in Bow, northeast London, for £700 per month, with bills, and close to the Tube, which he found in a couple of days, to that of his friend in Dublin. “She’s not even near a Luas line and she’s paying €800 a month without bills,” he says.
Brian Garvey , from Salthill, Galway, is currently living in Maynooth, with his uncle, while commuting to his banking job in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin. Some of my friends in Galway are working from home even though they’re dying to become independent, but they’re using the excuse that they’re saving money even though they’re 24, 25 now
“Some of my friends in Galway are working from home,” Garvey adds, “even though they’re dying to become independent, but they’re using the excuse that they’re saving money even though they’re 24, 25 now”. Kehoe rents an apartment in Berlin for €486 per month. “It has only ever increased by €51, and that was in the last two months due to the rise in heating costs,” she adds, “and I can also stay there indefinitely.”
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