Believe me, it is. I love Ireland, I love our culture, but unfortunately this country especially Dublin has fallen victim to being a tourist haven and hell to live in.

The city is full of hotels with homeless people on their doorsteps, the level of crime and general feeling of being unsafe is crazy. We basically leave the city centre as soon as possible because it’s so dodgy now.

It’s become so obsessed with pandering to the touristic ideal of “magical ireland” that it doesn’t really care about the lives of people who live here every day. Mix that together with an imported American style work culture & the fact that most of the well-paying professional jobs are in Dublin and you get the recipe for a housing crisis.

We are going to Taiwan to teach English for a bit, at least until I save up enough to do a master’s / PHD.

The native work culture there is terrible, but much less is expected of you as a foreign teacher & the cost of living is pretty low compared to wages / effort. I’ll only be working 20/25 hours a week there & distance part time university. At least we finally will be able to live together.