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On the second call from my recruiter at Nigel Frank, UK, he asked how much notice would I need to move to Dublin, and he told me to do some serious research on the affordable availability of a single bedroom place in the city, being on a package of €65,000 p.a. It could even be a bedsitter to start with.
Any advice would be welcome, and if it happens, meeting a familiar name or two around the isles would be great. But no beers.
modified 20-Oct-16 1:48am.
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Brady Kelly wrote: Dublin
Brady Kelly wrote: no beers
Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me 
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It sadly does, even more so for whiskeys, but I'm a recovering alcoholic. I'm also a Thelemite[^], and their order, the O.T.O.[^] is much, much stronger in Ireland, or the UK in general, than in SA.
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In that case you're forgiven.
Hang in there in not drinking.
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Dublin is expensive (especially the part I live in  ) but not compared to London. Also the personal tax rates are higher so you won't be trousering as much of that €65k as you would do in the UK. A 1-bed should be €800 - €1000 pcm[^]
Areas to avoid*: Darndale, Coolock, City Centre / Sherriff Street
Areas to look at: Dalkey, Dun Loaghaire, Blackrock, Ballsbridge, Fairview, Drumcondra, Howth (ish)
* This is, obviously, my opinion and is mostly because of poor their transport links. Dublin is small and easily cycle-able but the busses basically don't work so you need to be near a LUAS (tram) or DART (rail) unless you are close to work.
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Thanks, Duncan, this is excite the kind of info I need.
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Are in contact with Paul Watson, previously of this parish? He has just done the reverse, going back to SA from Dublin, but he may well know of people to ask.
veni bibi saltavi
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No, indeed not. Matter of fact, I knew Paul from CP while h was still in SA. I'll be sure to ask him.
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Dublin is the biggest city in the world.
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Pom Pey3 wrote: Dublin is the biggest city in the world.
Bigger than the village of Treblinka?
It must be smaller than Quinta do Anjo.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I wouldn't move there on that package TBH. Tax is high, public transport is a joke. A decent apartment will probably cost you 1500 EUR per month. Try www.daft.ie for rental listings. Depending on where you will be working and your personal preferences, the city centre could actually be fine to live in, but most people choose to live by the sea, Sandymount or such. Proximity to the ocean is one of the best things about Dublin. That, and the craic...
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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Are there 10 people who are smartly convinced that women shouldn't vote?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes; Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jnr.
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 The binary interpretation, I shouldn't have expected different.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hey, cheers for pointing out yet another web-site that I can add to my hosts file! 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Why should they vote? They already have full powers! At least, the women in my family...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Those women sound just like... Men 
Could it be that we are all just people? 
What I never understood though is that even women fight against rights for women 
I mean, when was the last time you heard a man say that men should not have certain rights?
I guess that makes us the marginally smarter sex after all
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Sander Rossel wrote: I mean, when was the last time you heard a man say that men should not have certain rights?
Well, dunno where you are coming from, but here you could hear a lot of men complaining about suspension of mandatory military service. That's just one example.
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I'm so glad I live in a country where military service is a thing of the past 
I wouldn't survive a day 
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Sounds quite reasonable to me.
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An internet poll. I'm sure it wasn't trolled. By 4chan. At all.
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I set it up in Windows, even got some REST endpoints working, both in a rather raw form as well as using Rest Framework[^], which is really cool.
It's interesting how working with Django for "a client", and the cruft that has been added to it, colored my view (no pun intended.) It amazes me the garbage that has been added to Django by a certain person I have to work with. We've been using Django 1.7, just upgraded to 1.9 (still one version behind), and still using Python 2.7. A very painful process because of all that cruft.
The irony is, I could probably rewrite, much more cleanly, everything that the current system does in a couple weeks, which has taken months of "cruft-work" of afformentioned someone else's time.
The docs on Django are, well, "decent", but really missing some good "how do I do this?" examples. SO and DjangoGirl to the rescue.
Marc
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