u/AdInevitable3716

Hi everyone,

I'm from India and my girlfriend is from the US. We're considering Ireland as a possible country to eventually move to and settle in.

One of the main reasons we're interested in Ireland is the clean environment, countryside, farmland, and overall quality of life. We'd ideally like to live somewhere outside a major city, potentially in a rural area with some land in the future.

I'm a software developer working mainly with web/mobile development, and I'm trying to understand how realistic it would be for me to move to Ireland through employment.

A few questions for people living/working in Ireland:

- How difficult is it currently for a non-EU software developer from India to get an Irish job with sponsorship?

- How competitive is the market for software developers?

- Is getting a Critical Skills Employment Permit realistic for someone with a few years of experience?

- Do companies outside Dublin (Cork, Limerick, Galway, etc.) sponsor international candidates?

- If we eventually want to live in a rural area, is it practical to work in a city and commute from the countryside?

- How expensive is farmland/rural property compared with what people might expect?

- Are there any major things about rural Ireland that foreigners tend to underestimate?

I'm not expecting Ireland to be perfect. I'm mainly trying to understand whether this is a realistic long-term plan rather than just an idea that sounds good from abroad.

Any honest advice, especially from people who have gone through the immigration/job-search process, would be appreciated.

I'm from India

And I'm seeing a lot couples Like woman from Russia and men from India etc

Why do Hindu girls date Muslim men when they already know marriage is 100% not going to happen?

We can't even marry within our own caste in many families, so why enter an interfaith relationship with no future?

Is it love, attraction, lust, or something else?

Genuinely asking.

I'll start: taking blurry Snapchat photos with random captions.

What's yours?

I'm a software developer, and I'd like to build something that actually helps people who own or manage farms and farmhouses.

I'm not here to promote an app—I want to understand the real problems you face.

For example:

- Selling farm-produced products directly to customers

- Finding reliable workers

- Managing expenses and inventory

- Equipment maintenance reminders

- Water and irrigation management

- Livestock records

- Weather alerts and planning

- Farm security

- Connecting with nearby farmers

- Or something completely different

If you could have any app or software built for your farm, what would it do?

Even if your idea sounds small or impossible, I'd love to hear it.

If someone has a larger idea but doesn't have the technical skills to build it, I'm also open to collaborating or partnering.

Let's build something that farmers actually want to use.

What is the process to get degree and does have to pay any fees ?

I've spent the better part of a year building a farm plan on paper before touching a single shovel, and the one part I keep coming back to — the part that either makes this whole thing brilliant or makes me an idiot — is the waste loop.

Here's the theory. Cold-press oil unit produces oilcake as a byproduct. Oilcake feeds the livestock. Livestock dung goes into a biogas plant, which gives cooking gas and a liquid slurry fertiliser. That slurry goes back into the crop fields. Separately, ducks sit on the fish pond a few hours a day, their droppings feed plankton, plankton feeds fish, and the nutrient-rich pond water gets used for irrigation. Trees like Gliricidia get chopped every 45–60 days and just left to rot in place as green manure. On paper, almost nothing leaves the property as pure waste. Everything is an input for something else.

It looks great in a diagram. I'm genuinely not sure it looks great in a monsoon.

The thing that worries me is timing and volume mismatches. Biogas slurry production doesn't care what your crop calendar looks like — it just keeps coming, every day, whether or not the field can use it that week. Duck droppings on a pond that isn't fully established yet can crash the oxygen level and kill your fish before the "loop" even starts working — I've read this can happen if you let ducks stay too long before the pond ecosystem matures. So the loop isn't really closed, it's closed eventually, after a bunch of sequencing and patience most farm-plan diagrams don't bother to show.

And the honest question underneath all of it: is this actually more efficient, or am I just adding five more things that can go wrong for the aesthetic satisfaction of a system that "feeds itself"? A guy with 2 cows and a biogas plant that just gets emptied by a tractor once a week is simpler than what I'm building. I don't have a clean answer for why complexity is worth it yet — I have a hypothesis, not a result.

I'm 7–8 years from actually living on this land full-time, so everything I'm describing is still theoretical. What I don't want is to find out in year 3 that the loop only works if you already have three other things running first, and I built it in the wrong order.

If you've actually run something like this — even partially — I'd rather hear where it broke than where it worked.

1. Has anyone actually run a duck-into-fish-pond-into-irrigation loop long-term, and did the nutrient timing ever line up the way it's supposed to on paper?
2. Biogas slurry produces fertiliser daily regardless of season — how do you store or buffer it so it's not either wasted or dumped somewhere it shouldn't be?
3. Is there a point where a "closed loop" farm actually becomes more fragile than a simple one, because one broken link (sick livestock, dead pond, drought) stalls three other systems downstream?
4. For those with Gliricidia or similar chop-and-drop green manure trees — how long before you actually saw a soil difference, and did you measure it or just trust it?

This bast3d are not protesting for student

Me

Lack of Civic sense

I love this movie Because It's based on village life

Etc

And I'm Gen-Z

One regret that still stays with me is not talking to my grandmother during what became our last conversation.

She had called and was talking with my father. At the time, I was busy and went out to play instead of taking a few minutes to speak with her. I thought there would always be another call, another chance to talk.

I was wrong.

Just a few hours after that call, she passed away.

Because my exams were going on, I didn't attend her funeral either. At the time, I convinced myself that exams were important and that missing them would hurt my future.

Now, years later, I realize exams can be taken again. Opportunities can come again. But you only get one last chance to see someone you love.

What hurts the most is knowing I never spoke to her one final time and never got to see her face one last time.

That's a regret I'll probably carry for the rest of my life.

What's a regret that still stays with you years later?

I'm curious what products people no longer buy after becoming more self-sufficient.Whether it's food, household items, cleaning supplies, or something else—what did you completely stop purchasing?

Did you start making it yourself, growing it, or simply realize you didn't need it?

I'd love to hear:

• What you stopped buying.
• What replaced it.
• Whether it actually saved you money.

Always interesting to learn from real experiences rather than YouTube videos.

They spend their younger years chasing exciting guys, hooking up, and rejecting the guys who would have actually treated them well. Then, after years of bad choices, they suddenly want a stable, loyal, hardworking man to settle down with.

A lot of men don't see that as "maturity." They see it as being the backup option.

Nobody wants to feel like they were ignored when they were wanted, but chosen later when they're needed.

If a woman genuinely desires and respects a man, that's different. But if she's only looking for security after years of chasing other options, many men will walk away.

And before the usual attacks start: people are free to have standards. If a woman prefers an experienced man, that's her choice. If a man prefers a woman with a similar relationship history to his own, that's his choice.

people are generally happiest when they find partners whose values, lifestyle, and relationship history are similar to their own.

Agree or disagree?