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San Diego?

  • 06-03-2007 1:59pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭


    I am applying for my J1 today.Is it too late to apply for San Diego.Heard that it would be extremly hard to find jobs there.


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  • #2
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I went to San diego on my J1 and if i were you i wouldn't go there. I went almost three years ago and there was just so many Irish people there. It was fun at first because I partied with loads of people but after a while it got a bit depressing. i kept bumping into people I knew from home walking around downtown. Sometimes I felt like I was on Grafton Street!

    My friends who didn't have jobs before they went had trouble getting them. I'm actually an american citizen so i wasn't on a J1, all my friends were. This made it easier to get a job but some of the others struggled and some went home early without getting a job.

    This is just my opinion but there were just so many Irish students there that I felt i didn't get as much of an experience i wanted. It also made it harder to get accommodation because they thought all Irish people would trash the place.

    I didn't like the city that much either, I think San Fran or Santa Barbra were nicer (from friends who were there the same year) It is nice to be in California though. We got to LA, Las Vegas and Hawaii at the end of the 3 months.


  • #3
    HBK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 411 ✭✭HBK


    san diego is a great town..i went on J1 bout 3 years ago now...great fun..alot of irish go there but you can avoid them no probs...like stay away from PB if needs be...but i have heard the irish j1s have ruined it at this stage..i experienced this last year when iw as back for a week, and went to get into some bars that we frequented, and they would let us in cos we had irish passports..when asked why..they said that 'we caused to much trouble' during the summer....d4 twats have ruined it..i rmember readin article in a sunday paper on the state they left the places they were in...


  • #4
    keryl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 289 ✭✭keryl


    I am looking to go to San Diego can anyone tell me more about it?

    I would try the option of using the J1 meet and great but its limited to cities etc.

    Is work hard to come by in S diego and accommodation?


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