One piece of advice that's missing: be sure to be born in Europe.
nitpick: probably you mean "be sure to have a citizenship in a EU country or Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway", which has nothing to do with the place somebody is born.
Moving to Ireland
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Re: Moving to Ireland
#22I am constantly thinking about moving from the US to somewhere nice, please advise me some countries, here are my "wish list" of the country where I would love to live:
- Civilized people
- No extradition
- Government is small and it respects people's freedom and privacy (which are protected by constitution), real freedom of speech, not the one when you can be arrested for a tweet, even if it leaked state secret or offended someone or infringed a copyright. No copyright laws at all would be awesome.
- No secret services
- Reasonable laws, no death penalty or life sentence, very small quantity of law enforcement
- Small ratio of NumberOfPeople/NumberOfPeopleInJails
- >1 million population in at least one city
- At least some IT industry
- Good and affordable health infrastructure
- No CCTVs in public places and no traffic cameras
Re: Moving to Ireland
#23Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
I feel that a vibrant tech industry is often a reflection of a vibrant tech community. Granted, a community is only a small part of an overall industry, but an industry without community is lacking heart and soul. And I can say, with authority, that Dublin has a vibrant tech community . My company, Engine Yard, runs or hosts two meetups a week in our Dublin office, covering subjects such as Ruby, PHP, Node JS, Scala,…
I am totally agreeing with Eamon. Besides the mentioned meetups there is a paper reading meetup, a google developer meetup, devops, python, coding grace, coder dojo, TOG (a really great hackerspace) and plenty more.
I arrived a year ago in Dublin and was surprised about the variety and diversity of the tech scene in Dublin. I really think that Dublin has a strong and thriving tech scene.
Re: Moving to Ireland
#24Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
Stagnant is definitely not the right word for the IT industry in Ireland. It's anything but. There have been some huge native successes in the industry in such a short time frame. Look at the likes of soundwave or the guys in trustev whom are winning startup awards left right and centre.
The amount of meet ups help make the IT industry in Ireland thrive. There barely goes a week without there being an event on sometime even three to four each week.
Re: Moving to Ireland
#25Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
Speaking as a designer the tech community as a whole has gone from strength to strength. We've often tried to organise events only for them to conflict with another tech event on the same date.
Get out there, meet people and I'm sure you'll have a different perspective
Re: Moving to Ireland
#26I am constantly thinking about moving from the US to somewhere nice, please advise me some countries, here are my "wish list" of the country where I would love to live: - Civilized people - No extradition - Government is small and it respects people's freedom and privacy (which are protected by constitution), real freedom of speech, not the one when you can be arrested for a tweet, even if it leaked state secret or o…
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Re: Moving to Ireland
#27Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
Depends who you work for, Ireland is full of big name companies, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter..... Not only that there us a tonne of big financials there too... So, there's a wealth of choice.. From what I hear, the Google offices are really something, they have an amazing setup... I live in Belfast, and there isn't the same variety of big tech, but still tonnes of IT jobs If I lived in Dublin, I'd go al…
I'm sure large corporations like Google would suit some people, for everyone else there are plenty of startups hiring in Dublin.
Unless you're a sysadmin, I don't think there are a whole lot of jobs going in Ireland at Facebook, Twitter or Amazon.
Re: Moving to Ireland
#28Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
I feel that a vibrant tech industry is often a reflection of a vibrant tech community. Granted, a community is only a small part of an overall industry, but an industry without community is lacking heart and soul. And I can say, with authority, that Dublin has a vibrant tech community . My company, Engine Yard, runs or hosts two meetups a week in our Dublin office, covering subjects such as Ruby, PHP, Node JS, Scala,…
+1 for Pub Standards. Also, on the Apple/iOS side, a group of local (Irish and non-Irish) developers, called XCake meets monthly in the science gallery in Dublin. http://xcakelabs.com
Re: Moving to Ireland
#29Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
I've been organising various tech events (Python Ireland, Coding Grace, Global GameCraft to name a few) for quite awhile, but mainly Python events since 2005, and I have seen the growth of so many technical user groups in the past 5 years.
It use to be a case you can count the tech groups on one hand (for me anyway)! Also there are many entrepreneurs meetups happening around town as well. It's really exciting to be in Dublin at the moment, although I do wish the same amount of activity would happen in other cities/towns around the country.
As many mentioned before me, go and check out the meetups around town (via meetup.com, lanyrd.com and sign up to Dublin StartupDigest). This all leads to a vibrant tech community (good cafés also helps). I might warn you though, there is something happening most nights every week. Enjoy!
Re: Moving to Ireland
#30Do you still think that there's a dynamic fast-paced IT industry here? I'm a native, and to me it feels, for the most part (excluding some exceptional companies), stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour.
Stagnant is definitely not the right word for the IT industry in Ireland. It's anything but. There have been some huge native successes in the industry in such a short time frame. Look at the likes of soundwave or the guys in trustev whom are winning startup awards left right and centre. The amount of meet ups help make the IT industry in Ireland thrive. There barely goes a week without there being an event on someti…
Don't forget Intercom, who've hired around 10 people over the last year.
Edit: 10 people in Dublin, I think their headcount is double or triple that in total.