Bye bye Alison...

mloc123

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/I-never-thought-Id-leave-Ireland-for-the-American-dream--118159014.html

As of today I am officially a statistic.

I read on a daily basis about 1,000 people a week leaving the Emerald Isle in search of greener pastures for a greener future, but to be personally thrown into this mess is completely overwhelming.

How has it come to this?

I want out.

I am now one of the 1,000 this week.

Lately I had become nauseous at the failure of the Irish government to keep its people employed and prevent them from jumping willy nilly on great big planes to foreign lands.

With further cuts required under the IMF-EU bailout terms, I am at a loss for words. I feel suffocated, and the only means of resuscitation is coming from the Land of the Free.

I never thought I would choose to leave my beloved country because of economic factors. Nor return to education at the age of 30 in a foreign land. Nor look to better myself in the hands of an education system other than the Irish one.

Yet this is becoming the established practice. Emigration, so long the bitter wrath undergone by our ancestors, has come back to bite the younger generation with a vengeance, and we have no option but to all fall into line.

It was late at night when I got the email heralding a new life in America.

I applied on a whim last year, thinking it could be an option if things became bleak and dried up dramatically in Ireland, never really expecting them to for me.

However, I was shaking in anticipation as I clicked into the email from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York, as I now really needed to get a place in this prestigious university.

One night two and a half years ago a small group of Irish politicians gathered in Government Buildings to make the biggest financial decision in Irish history which not only crippled our country, but derailed and damaged the lives of so many of its citizens.

What happened behind those closed doors in the last days of September 2008 is one of the reasons I know Ireland can no longer offer me anything of interest in the short term. I have become restless with it all.

I have given up on the country I love so dear, in search of a new beginning, a fresh start, a different outlook on life.

Why wait in Ireland and pick up this exorbitant tab when I could be bettering myself elsewhere and increasing my chances of job prospects in the long run?

The chilling blow of departure is only softened by the fact that many of my friends are now casually dotted across the sphere, and that I will actually have good friends on arrival in New York.

What has for generations been the land of promise is where I hope I will get my next break, like generations of Irish before me.

When I saw my application for Columbia University accepted, it was not overall joy but mixed feelings that I experienced.

Who would pay my mortgage on my Irish home when I was overseas?

What about the loved ones I leave behind?

Am I doing the right thing returning to study after all these years?

But when those people most important to me urged me to look at this as an opportunity with Ireland still being in a state of limbo as the rest of the world is on the road to recovery, I knew I must take the risk.

For Forks Sake

and her parting shot: more badly written guff.

Also, who's paying the mortgage?

Luxie

Who IS paying the mortgage anyway?

I'm gonna sort of miss her drivel.:(

Snakeblood

mloc123 wrote: »

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/I-never-thought-Id-leave-Ireland-for-the-American-dream--118159014.html

She's fulfilled a good proportion of my Irish Dream by leaving.

RichieC

I love how people still call America the Land of the free...

Snakeblood

Luxie wrote: »

Who IS paying the mortgage anyway?

I'm gonna sort of miss her drivel.:(

Us, I'm guessing. Get onto her mortgage provider sharpish.

PrincessLola

"The chilling blow of departure"
Seriously I could write better articles than her. How did she get hired?

And is she defaulting or what??

Dravokivich

Lately I had become nauseous at the failure of the Irish government to keep its people employed and prevent them from jumping willy nilly on great big planes to foreign lands.

If you have recently found yourself unemployed, I would be among many to suspect it is a direct result of your dire skills as a journalist and a writer.

For Forks Sake

Graduate School of Journalism me hole. Probably off to Clown College

Luxie

At least she might actually learn how to write.

However, I was shaking in anticipation as I clicked into the email from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York, as I now really needed to get a place in this prestigious university.

Nodin

RichieC wrote: »

I love how people still call America the Land of the free...

No free lunches over there, certainly...

IvyTheTerrible

Luxie wrote: »

Who IS paying the mortgage anyway?

I'm gonna sort of miss her drivel.:(

More to the point, who is paying for her place in an American university, which are not known for being cheap. And, then, why isn't that fee money going into her mortgage?

Snakeblood

Luxie wrote: »

At least she might actually learn how to write.

I think the average writing ability of the United States will decrease fractionally.

DrumSteve

Who is paying for her college course?

It might be the land of the free but its not the land of free education.

Dirk Gently

I wonder home many times she'll change a few words around and resubmit this article over the next few months.

SeaFields

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

More to the point, who is paying for her place in an American university, which are not known for being cheap. And, then, why isn't that fee money going into her mortgage?

Indeed. US universities cost a bloody fortune. I wonder will we see another article in years to come "i signed away my life for the sake of a 'prestigious' 3rd level education"

brianthebard

She obviously didn't have to submit an example of her writing so...

Dravokivich

SeaFields wrote: »

Indeed. US universities cost a bloody fortune. I wonder will we see another article in years to come "i signed away my life for the sake of a 'prestigious' 3rd level education"

I find it funny that she's a jurno... studying to be a jurno...

Dirk Gently

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Probably off to Clown College

nah, we have minimum standards.

mawk

Who is going to pay for the children!?

Won't somebody think of the children!?

Turtyturd

Alison has watched one of those movies where an undercover reporter returns to school and attempts to fit in......with hilarious results.

"How about we go back to my place and make out?...It's only a 6 hour flight away and mammy and daddy only paid for it, they don't live there."

midlandsmissus

Alison is like AH's official mascot , what would we do without her.

hardCopy

The chilling blow of departure is only softened by the fact that many of my friends are now casually dotted across the sphere

How do you causally dot yourself across the sphere?

Don't let the door hit you abruptly in the ass Alison

Nodin

brianthebard wrote: »

She obviously didn't have to submit an example of her writing so...

...she'll get rather a shock when trying to get criticism of same taken down too....

temply

She is a dreadful muppet.

Whats the story with her mortgage?!!

RichieC

temply wrote: »

She is a dreadful muppet.

Whats the story with her mortgage?!!

If she can afford to up and fk off to america and buy her way into college I don't think a measly mortgage will bother her much.

Super-Rush

This same thread was started yesterday and was also closed.

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