[syrgian]

2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...

I moved in 2020 and it has been the best decision I could have made. Taking into account everything (savings rate, safety, working hours, job security, politics, closeness to my home country in Europe) it is the best place I could be by far.

All other places trade off too much in exchange of something else. For example, I would have better savings rate in California (maybe 60-100k instead of 30-50k a year), but it would be worse in every other metric, except perhaps weather, although I dislike hot weather.