I'll agree with you on the weather part but it seems that it's not a deal breaker for many people. Ireland has a huge amount of highly skilled people ready and

I'll agree with you on the weather part but it seems that it's not a deal breaker for many people. Ireland has a huge amount of highly skilled people ready and willing to work. People come and go all the time. The Irish government invested heavily in STEM education for 2nd and 3rd level students in the 90's and 00's. Emigration and immigration are as big a part of Irish history as the potato. Also many foreigners come to work in Ireland all the time. During the boom years hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world came to work in Ireland and seemed to like it. Added to that, in most places in the world people don't have the entitled mentality to work that is rife in SV where it seems to be a sellers market for jobs.