Argentine Experience As Expat In Ireland

Know a lot of Irish people and the majority from Dublin, great people, great humour, love the accent. They mainly complain about the weather and the economy. The economy hasn't been good for over 5 years now.

But, having said that Lamarque if you can land a "normal" professional job, I imagine your standard of living is going to be a helluva lot higher than Buenos Aires. Plus the chance to improve your english & work traits is going to help your career significantly when/if you move back here. Good luck.
 
Very interesting perspective, lamarque. Please keep posting about your experience. I would not have guessed that Ireland has gone through so much change in recent years. I have seen quite a few Irish folks here in Seattle lately and can understand why now.
 
There was a flood of free money into the country via the EU. Ireland was a casino, with less regulation. Some of the things the politician said wouldn't have been out of place in the Simpsons "The boom is only going to get boomier" was my favourite, anyone complaining about the economy should throw themselves off a bridge etc...it was the greatest party in we had seen for a while, we were richer than the English and beat them at the rugby fairly regularly. Irish companies were buying landmark properties all round the world, a square ft in Dublin was more expensive than a sq ft in London and Paris. You could turn up in work at midday with a hangover and survive. Sure, you were probably out drinking with your boss! Fun times indeed, I worked for a variety of the banks and financial instituites on lucrative contracts and foreign travel was just a matter of picking where and taking the time off. As an IT contractor you could more or less announce you would be gone for a month, i did it myself for the rugby wc 2007. The cost of food, drink and clothes barely entered your mind and you could guarantee (seriously, guarantee) that you could leave your role and get another within 2 to 3 weeks. Unless you fancied another wee break. It sounds like an exagerration but i promise it isn't.

You were no one if you hadn't bought a house, taxi drivers had property portfolios, we bought jacuzzis fitted on decking out the back but then all of a sudden the worm turned.

Now we're back playing our traditional role of kowtowing to our masters, this time in Berlin rather than London. Economic sovereignty is a forgotten dream and the bills are stacking up. EU's open borders provided us with a flood of economic migrants who were all to willing to pull long shifts on hotels and restaurants, nobodied really minded as anyone who wanted a job more or less had one. The sentiment is getting a little nastier now as unemployment is around 11% and the welfare bills in enormous.
 
No one forced Ireland to join the Euro...

Of course no one forced them to join the Euro? Who said they did?

We joined, we grabbed what we could and got caught by the same systematic failure as everyone else, it was exacerbated by non existant regulation so we were able to dig a deeper hole the most, that coupled with no proper risk controls in the lending process on behalf of most european banks led us to our own grave.
 
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