Nial, you forgot about the congestion charge! Quite right about the price differential, but Ireland is now as bad. When in 2001 I sold my 2 bed high-rise condo in NYC (Upper East Side) the funds would not have bought me a semidetached home in most of Dublin. Here, when we read about a "star's" USD2 million luxury home, we smile, as that price would buy a small family-home in an ordinary Dublin suburb. Larry B posted elsewhere about US land costs of $5k an acre - ORDINARY farmland is selling for euro 20k an acre here (+/-$30k)
Shuddered when you mentioned the General, I was caught (was delivering a yacht) in Portimao during that revolution and got locked up!
Blowing hard from the SW, indoors, nothing flying!
Km.