Ireland and Europe have plenty of problems; we’re simply in a position now where we have the same ones. We used to mock them for their high taxes and high unemployment and low birthrate and expensive gasoline and foreign invaders, and now we have become them. Ireland is not in good shape, but you’d have a hard time convincing northern Europeans that they don’t have a MUCH better life than we do.
I live in an area full of foreigners, and have yet to meet a German, Dane, or Austrian who moved here.