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Ireland - Eurozone, English speaking, light touch regulation, strong IT and customer support culture. However the high cost of accommodation in the cities, particularly Dublin, is starting to make recruitment difficult. I've anecdotal evidence of several 20-30 year olds looking to emigrate because they can't resolve the high cost of accommodation with their after-tax salary.

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Good luck hiring fast against the large IT companies over there.

There are a lot of good potential employees who don't want to be a part of the "burn 'em and churn 'em" practices employed by some of the larger IT companies. But, I agree, it's always a struggle in any country for small businesses to compete in the recruitment process with large corporations.

Ireland is an entirely different matter: it’s hard to find people on LinkedIn for example, since many of them are only in Ireland due to being hired by corpos with huge offices over there.

That’s not the case for London as people don’t generally move to London purely for a better salary as companies don’t get a tax discount over there.

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