When you live in absurd country in EU and speak English fluently, sooner or later (unfortunately) you are compelled to go to find a job, or preferably career in Ireland.
Knowing how many Polish people moved to Ireland, and Poland is one of few EU countries that never felt economic crisis, no wonder that so many EU citizens in countries that were devastated by 2008 crisis want to come to Ireland.
As I always had a green heart and fell in love with Irish traditional music 28 years ago, when I lost a job and was forced to close my private trade, moving to Ireland become a reality.
It is not easy to leave a wife and two little kids behind, but with a prospect that they will have to live on the street because you cannot find a job and don't have a money for paying a rent, all that has left for me to do was a huge leap of faith.
Luckily, since there are some 10-20.000 people from Croatia living in Ireland (with hundreds leaving every couple of weeks), finding a helping hand and information was not too hard.
Of course, typical for Croats, some formed closed groups on Facebook not to mingle with "ordinary" still in Croatia but "elite" already in Ireland. Such behavior just made me sick, since all my life I was helping others no matter of gender or nationality and it is still a line of my heart and soul.
Pretending to be a "nobility" while you are just a simple yokel or hick and with a mentality that will always stay on Balkans level and never transcend above it, is actually something pitiful rather than something to hate.
So, knowing how it all started, let's move on.
As advice should be a child of experience, I won't give you advice, but rather tell you my story and all I did to go to Ireland.
