Does anyone have information about living in Belfast, Cork, or Galway Ireland?

Question

i am looking to move there with 3 of my best friends next year around september/october. I am starting to research it. What is best city to move to? Do most citizens speak english? What is the currency, transportation, and food like? Are there alot of different religions and cultures? Are the art gallerys and clubs good? What is best and cheapest area to rent a house or apartment? Thank you!

Answer 1

yer apparently there is a good swing band going to cork soon if you go there, watch and listen to them they are well good

Answer 2

Best city: Personally, Cork

Speak English: I can't believe you asked that. We speak the best English in the world here. However, in Galway you will occasionally hear Irish.

Currency: Euro

Transport: Best is in Belfast, it is after all the UK there.

Food: Potatoes and meat, but lots of new things coming in. We're very fond of Italian food in Ireland.

Religions and cultures: Much more so now than 10 years ago, but still predominantly Catholic in the Republic and Protestant in Northern Ireland. But we have Muslims, Jews, Pagans, Buddhists, etc.

Art Galleries and clubs: Pretty good. The city of Limerick (which you didn't include) has an undeserved bad reputation and has a thriving arts scene.

Renting in Galway or Cork is on the up and up. Don't know about Belfast.

Answer 3

I lived in Northern Ireland for 6 years from 1996-2002. I lived in cabin hill in Belfast and thought it was ok, but I spent five years living in Bangor and thought it was fantastic. Obviously you have serious religious diversive issues that do effect the social side of life. Nationalists do not get on with English people at all, I constantly got ludicrous stick for this. If you are catholic and English I would forget it, as it is totally impossible to integrate. Being protestant and English is fairly acceptable, but i still got stick going to a 90% protestant school. I never met anyone who could only speak Gaelic, even in the Republic and these are probably backward nutters.

Clubs in Galway and cork! Ha ha, Galway is perhaps the sleepest city I have ever been to.House prices used to be next to nothing, but are rising all the time. Belfast is now very pricey. Galway and Cork are the best for scenary, but as a young person, I reckon they would get very boring very quickly!

Answer 4

I live in Ireland I moved 16 year ago from Wales. I have a lot of family here, which had a lot to do with the move.

The Country is a fantastic place to live, weather is crap, most things are really expensive, but apart from that we are in Euro currency, but the North Ireland is still in sterling, things are cheaper there too. The Craic is good, that means Socially good. People are more frendly here, in the past few years the floodgates opened for Overseas emigrants, lots of nationalities, usually keep themselves to themselves, but Ireland is not the same, but yet I wouldnt live anywhere else.
Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Cork, best restaurants. Galway City, best pubs. Belfast, Best George.

Answer 6

My great Grandparents are from Co. Cork. I`ve been once, back in `79. And it was brilliant :-)