Quality of Life in Dublin, Ireland

Dublin is too expensive for what it has to offer, which is virtually nothing, given the fact that ~2 million people live in its conglomeration.
I have lived in Dublin for 20 years and I am really glad I left the city. I've come to regard Dublin (and Ireland as a whole) as the evening shop of Europe. Like a Londis you see on every corner, you can get the bare necessities to live and a price that is at least twice as high as in any other European country. And even within these bare necessities, choice is appallingly meagre. Or better: you have no choice to eat varied in a country that somehow still considers something common like mayonnaise a "luxury". For meat on your sandwich for example, you get to choose between ham, ham, ham, ham, chicken filet, ham, ham, ham, ham and the odd roast beef. And all of them in the plainest version - only "foreign shops" like Aldi and Lidle sometimes have chicken fillet with curry or paprika edges. Pate, they've never heard of - only at Xmas that magically appears in said Aldi or Lidl - and it's not even good pate either: tough factory sludge that lacks any taste and has the consistency of a brick. But sure, "luxury". And all of these rather boring food choices at the highest possible price: 2,50 for 5 slices of a little above average tasting ham. 5 Euro for a pot of mayonnaise at Lidl. If you like your beer - alcohol and being drunk out of your stoke is part of the culture, which goes for men and women. Dublin was the place where I saw so many girls in a drunk stupor at an average Saturday night as I saw for the last 10-20 years in the country I am from. Wine is unaffordable: you pay a tenner at least for poor quality wine and for the better wine you pay 30 quid and you have the bottom of the rank. A night out costs easily 100 Euro when out with 2-3 friends. Stay at home and drink there! Sure, if the pint-cans you'd buy in a shop weren't nearly as expensive as you'd pay in the pub for one: the cheapest I ever found were 8 cans of Bavaria beer for 15 Euros at the shop. You could get a little cheaper: 6 for 8 Euros, but you get the lowest graded beer there is: Dutch Courage. That stuff is really undrinkable, the gross taste it has. But still it costs 8 Euros for 6 cans. I could go on and on, but what it all comes down to is that I am really GLAD I have left Dublin and Ireland.
Summarizing: Dublin is great if you love living to the bare basic foodstuffs for triple the price, no choice and want to wreck your head with the knowledge that in the country you're from you will have a ten- to twenty-fold choice in food varieties for which you pay one third of what you pay for the lack of choice in Ireland. If you enjoy having to order everything you want that's not strictly within the range of what a poor country offers, instead ordering it from the UK or Germany, being charged higher for delivery and have to wait at least a week before it arrives. If you enjoy living in a country that considers basic stuff like mayonnaise "luxury" and charges 5 euro for an average sized pot, don't mind paying 2000-3000 quid for tiny places that in normal places wouldn't even cost 200 euro a month, that have no decent insulation, no decent kitchen, no decent bathroom equipment and like to think you live cheap for 1200 a month for 12 square meters, Dublin is your place. I am very good with money, know how to budget very well and hardly go to pubs because I don't like people. But even I found that even with finding cheap shops like Aldi or Lidl, you NEED to earn at least 60K a year if you want to be able to survive pricing hell hole Dublin. Not sure why people want to go there: no choice, everything is overpriced, the weather is crap and people are not friendly at all and drunk most of the times.

lived in dublin all my life, the cost of living has spiked dramatically. can barley live here anymore. crime has increased too, people publically doing drugs on the streets and more attacks are happening.

I have lived in Dublin since 2004 and oh boy. The country was great and all before 2020 but since 2020 it's been really fucked up. Covid is most likely to blame.
- The average salary here for 1 person is €3000 per month while the average rent for 1 bedroom is €2000 per month. Yeah, not great.
- Public transport is terrible. I haven't really had any bad experiences with trains or the Luas but buses are not on time half of the time. There's not even a metro system.
- For healthcare you have 2 options, public healthcare or private healthcare. DO NOT get public healthcare because it is very very slow. There have been cases when people died because they didn't get the care they needed in time. This is especially the case with surgery.
- And finally, safety. I always thought Dublin was very safe before Covid but since covid it has really gone downhill. As a whole I still think it's generally safe and that you should take the same precautions as you would in other european cities but it's still been worse in recent times.
Dublin is still enjoyable as long as you make at least €75K per year and Ireland is still an enjoyable country but I would recommend you to live anywhere but Dublin.

We live in Dublin for more than 15 years, it always was expensive city but now its much worse, eating out is 25e for main course; electricity, gas, petrol prices raised; medical prices up again! GP visit is 70e, if you have private insurance you can claim 30e back.
No free childcare, quality of private childcare is not the best.
This is first year when they started giving school books for free in primary school, good move!
For secondary school books and ipad you still have to pay more than 1000e!
Public transport is not good. There are no buses to the airport from Dublin 15 - one of the biggest areas in Dublin.
So cost of leaving is high for Dublin, quality is different.

No joke, Dublin is out of control. Rent is insane and the people who think it's fine are seriously out of touch. I know multiple people in their 30s who have moved in with their family to save money for a deposit which they're likely not going to be eligible for unless they decide to buy with their partners. Theses people are not on a bad salary, they just know that paying mid 1000s for accommodation in Dublin is never going to be worth it. On top of that pints can easily scoot towards 8 euro and a meal out is never under 30 euro a head not including drink. Every single form of socialisation is trying to squeeze as much money out of you as you can. There is no future for anyone under 35 in Ireland at the moment unless their career is already established. There is no sign of improvement and there is no legislative action being put in place to prevent things from getting worse. Inflation is whittling away any disposable income that people would have had and the people getting hit hardest are the most vulnerable.

Rent prices have soared 100% in the last ten years and now there is almost zero rentals (300, actually) in Dublin city. 300 rentals in the city of 1.8m people! The cost of living comparisons don't tell that the full picture shows you pay high rents but have no choice in what you rent, you are lucky to get anything. The economy is a house of cards today (July, 2022) and will likely decline for the next few years, largely as a result of growing too big too quickly.

Heathfield cappagh dublin

Neighbours harrasing each other and getting third parties involved.

Drug issues, gun crime
Shops and business are been targeted.
This is not colombia welcome to dublin

Im from Ireland and i agree city center can be bad as is it over crowded and young ppl travel from all over to hang around city center. If you go a to surrounding areas you can rent a bit cheaper i know of 2 self contained home,s in ppl,s back gardens for €1k for a 1 bed, sitting room, toilet per month. Theses are hard to come by. Drugs, crime, homeless, is a major problem here because there is plenty of money around and this is the problems money brings with it. To live here you need to earn at least €700 per wk to live a some what desent life. Thats why there is such crime & drug problems cause ppl are trying to survive. Its sink or swim here there is not much middle ground. If you are will to work hard and be smart with your money you can do well in Ireland. If your comeing for an easy life, unless you have plenty of money it wount be easy. If willing to work hard and have a trade you will do well here. We now have a shortage of trade men in every trade since covid. Trades can earn from €750 per wk to €1500 plus depending on your trade and the right contacts which doesent take long to make.

I would really like to move to Sligo Dublin, for a change of scenery. I really need to get out of Sheffield England.

Dublin is only suitable for the very wealthy, if you have an average income you have 0 chance of finding accommodation unless you are prepared to pay the majority of your wages for a shared room in a slum building. tax is quite high , you get nothing back for it. City center youths beat innocent people all the time with no interference from the guards. often ending in murder, few are charged and most incidents dont make the newspapers. Homelessness a huge issue. roads really bad, sitting in traffic all day. Rents have not come down much despite of covid, there is no supply therefore thousands fighting over what little substandard accomation there is. Anyone thinking of coming here do your research, there are much better cities in Europe.