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DUBLIN HAS RANKED worst out of 82 cities for affordability and ease of finding housing in a worldwide survey of expats.
Overall, Ireland’s capital ranked 72nd out of 82 cities worldwide in rankings based on the annual Expat Insider survey by Internations, an online network for expats around the world.
In the housing category, Dublin ranked dead last out of 82 cities for housing affordability and ease of finding housing in 2019.
The city ranked in 71st place overall for quality of urban living. In terms of getting settled, it ranked in 27th place for expats.
The city performed quite well in urban work life, in eighth place among 82 countries around the world. It came in third place for job and career, and fifth place for job security.
For cost of living, it ranked in 76th place overall.
The best destinations for people moving country around the world are:
At the other end, the worst places to move are:
Nationwide
The report said that Ireland as a whole put in “its worst-ever performance” in 2019 for ease of settling in.
Overall, Ireland ranked 43rd out of 64 countries in the Expat Insider 2019 survey.
It dropped ten spots since last year, from 17th to 27th this year. The country also fell from 17th to 44th place for feeling at home in the local culture.
Fewer than two in five expats in Ireland feel their disposable income is more than enough to cover everything they need in their daily lives. Globally, almost half of people feel this way.
27% are satisfied with the general cost of living, compared with the global average of 47%.
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Climate change. Any bad weather is a direct result of global warming / climate change
@Christopher Byrne: Was It global warming that caused the flooding over a century ago or was it just a freak storm?
@Slippy ❤️: sarcasm mate…sarcasam. I live in Perth and we’ve has the coldest winter in the 6+ years I’ve lived here but Ive no doubt it will be reported as the hottest on record
@Christopher Byrne: higher average global temperatures result in more moisture in the atmosphere which makes storm systems powerful. So yes the strength of this storm was added today b the fact that GLOBAL temperatures are rising. Weather is a global system, it doesn’t care if it’s been cold in Australia lately. Some models suggest that Europe might actually get colder over the coming decades as a result of GLOBAL average temperatures rising if it continues.
@M: Yes, climate models. Very reliable they’ve proven to be….We can’t predict weather reliably 2 weeks in advance but we’re supposed to believe in these models forecasting 30 years down the track as gospel. Despite the fact most if not all of them have failed to accurately predict the future
@Christopher Byrne:
I think you’ve been living in the colonies for too long….mate.
@Tweed Cap: wow I don’t know how to even begin talking to you when you say something as clueless as that . climate is not the same thing as weather. Are you saying that releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will not cause global temperatures to rise? …Why not?
@Christopher Byrne: don’t stray too far from home you’ll fall off the edge of the earth
@Christopher Byrne: I love listening to people who have read some articles and now know it all. Just proves studying and practicing science is a waste of time, we just need an opion
@Christopher Byrne: isn’t winter 2 months away yet? Also weren’t there record highs recorded in summer in parts of Oz? Also, true or false, don’t parts of Oz have a monsoon season and isn’t this just an extreme version of that?
@Dave O Keeffe: No, on all counts
@Boganity: I think you’ll find you’re incorrect on all points. Australian winter is our summer months. They had record temperatures over Christmas, and there is indeed a monsoon season in parts of Australia.
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