I guess I can say this without it being too specific. With the kind of field I’m in, I can work for an Irish company that offers visa sponsorship while we’re still living here, and we aren’t going to move until we have housing confirmed. I can make enough there to still live better than here even while shelling out for rent. The medical costs are also a major factor in why we’re moving to Ireland as well.

As far as the political situation, yes the Irish government are performative shills. But I don’t expect any government or population to get through the next five years without collapsing or becoming more socialist. Hopefully the population of Ireland has enough leftist sentiment to adapt to the changing world in the near future. If not, maybe they’ll start letting people into China for more than five years eventually. Maybe Korea will reunify and it will become more viable to move there? With how strange things are right now, who knows how things will go. One thing I do know is that I’ve been seeing the ultimate collapse of the U.S. unfold throughout my entire life. It’s now rapidly accelerating.