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I’d tell em to read about Finna Fail but I don’t want to disappoint them.
The seem like your bog standard neoliberal "conservative" party. I'm not into Irish politics, can you tell me more?
That’s the gist of it. They’re very pro-business, and beyond that are pretty milquetoast. Typical catch all party that will chameleon into whatever is popular at the moment. That’s my take as an outsider, at least. I’m sure someone that lives in Ireland could speak with more authority on the matter.
Yeah, after having two of my friends move to separate places, neither which is Dublin, I'm fairly convinced that Ireland is just simply not that good of a country. They have good social services for artists, but the country as a whole is just not very family friendly, and keeps up with that tradition. Which is why their population never recovered from their historic peak.
Childcare is definitely expensive there, but I don’t think that’s unique to Ireland. Sure as shit beats raising kids in the US considering they have universal healthcare, free preschool, paid maternity and paternity, and low violent crime rates. Cost of living and housing availability are definitely issues though.
I love it over there; I’d consider emigrating if they’d take me
The US is a low bar sadly. I'm comparing it to Canada, Germany or Hungary primarily, as those are the countries that I have lived in.
I don't think Ireland has free preschool. Or rather, not enough coverage of it. One of my friends was really struggling with this, as they were not able to resume their career until their kid turned 2 and they've found an early childhood education centre.
It's also devoid of any sort of comprehensive rail or other transit systems outside of Dublin. It's very car centric, meaning your children will depend on you to ferry them around between locations until they can drive a car by themselves.
Canada is very similar in most of these aspects. Except for Québec maybe.