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City living versus country living..gossip difference

  • 04-08-2006 4:23pm
    #1
    fdfdsfdfdf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Two years ago I moved from Dublin to lets say, the west.
    I have a great job and we’ve a decent quality of life but one thing has shocked me.
    The nosiness, and gossiping that goes with it.
    I mean the people are friendly and all the rest but I’m seriously considering moving back to Dublin because quite simply its impossible to have any privacy.
    In Dublin on my street I knew nobody and it was great, I didn’t even know who my next door neighbour was.
    Now I’m living in rural Ireland and whenever we happen to walk into a local shop/pub the people seem to know everything about everyone…and I mean everything.
    At first I thought it was quite nice, but recently I was working on a business deal..and a lot of people whom I hardly knew were able to tell me what I was doing before I even did it.
    Its quite astonishing really to me, I thought the peeping through the curtain mentality had left Ireland 50 odd years ago, but since leaving Dublin I’ve found things differently.
    Anyone experienced the same? Or am have I misunderstood people?
    Is it just me or does this gossip not happen in Dublin?..


Comments

  • #2
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    More rubbish generalisations. Pighead used to live in the country and nobody knew nothing they shouldn't have known about him. What happened in the fields after midnight stayed in the fields after midnight.As for your business deal becoming public knowledge, answer me this, DID YOU TELL YOUR WIFE?GIRLFRIEND? Of course you did. Problem solved. WOMEN TALK!

    You can embrace the gossips or you can shy away from them. Its the same in any city too. You'll get your gossips and you'll get your people who prefer to keep themselves to themselves. Stay where you are. The city is noisy.
    PS Don't be offended but your username is pants and Pigheads gives it a 0/10.


  • #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Well I lived in a small town in the country (north meath) with a tiny population, moved to live in London and now in the US for a while. I miss the gossip of a small town to be honest, actually maybe not so the gossip but people knowing who you are and such. I'm living in a town of 150,000 as opposed to around 1,000 where I'm originally from and sometimes I feel quite lost. :)


  • #4
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    did you live in some secluded part of Dublin?
    gossiping is part of the Irish way of life. it always has beenn and it always will be. it's one of the things that define us as a people.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    fdfdsfdfdf wrote:
    In Dublin on my street I knew nobody and it was great, I didn’t even know who my next door neighbour was.

    Ummm, isn't that what lots of people say is wrong with society now?

    I'd hate to know noone. I like being able to walk in to any pub in my local town and know that I will meet a few fellows to have a few pints with. Sure, there's gossip, but that's the price you pay. And frankly most of the fellows I know just want a bit of a laugh after work and are not interested in any gossip themselves. I hear so much of it that goes in one ear and back out the other.


  • #6
    no leaf clover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 476 ✭✭no leaf clover


    while i seem to know alot of people in my area, i have no issues of acknowledgin strangers,/ waving at people i know driving by, but theres something about goin into the city, and choosing who knows you, and the buzz of knowing u are a face in a million, able to disappear at will, that not get anyone else???


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  • #7
    lightening
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭lightening


    fdfdsfdfdf wrote:
    In Dublin on my street I knew nobody and it was great, I didn’t even know who my next door neighbour was.

    Whats great about not knowing your neighbour? I am a Dub, spent most of my life in the inner city, live in the burbs now and I find it weird that you didn't know your neighbours. You say you like it that way, which makes me asume you are a private person, or just unfriendly! Your country neighbours in the "lets say" West are probably just being friendly.

    Where are you from anyway? I find a lot of country people who move to Dublin assume everyone is unfriendly and ignores their neighbours. In the inner city I have found that country people consider every neighbour scumbags and wont talk to them.

    Pighead, why do you talk about yourself as a third person? Its a really bad habbit, Liam Lawler did the same..


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