Do you think your life would've more exciting had you grown up in America?

whiteboy

I think you could count on being a different person, you'd still have the same family only your upbringing would've been that little bit different.
Picture what it would have been like if you were to have grown up in a suburb of Colorado and gone to high school there and played baseball for your school opposed to gaelic etc.
It's and interesting idea.

Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

danger mouse

And you would probably be a mormon...

avalon68

id imagine it would be a lot like ireland.....the rockies probably wouldnt seem so great if in your backyard......how many times have you visited Irish landmarks

mickydoomsux

America is a huge country.

It would depend where in America you grew up. Some places over there are utter dumps, a million times worse than Limerick or Inner City Dublin.

Try growing up in Flint, Michigan or downtown Detroit.

Kojak

Well, you'd have the american twang (which is an accent I detest), you be saying "Oh my God" every two minutes and you'd be looking to come to "Eyreland to find my great-great grand-daddy".

So no, my life would not have been more exciting if I grew up with the yanks.

FloatingVoter

America's a big place. Life in New York city is a million miles away from life in the Bible Belt. I'd take NYC over Ireland, but I'd be miserable in the land of creationism and the KKK.

robman60

Social cliques supposedly play more of a part in American high schools, which would be something I'd hate, so no thanks.

tan11ie

Yes I'd be a serious shopaholic by now!

kfallon

What's so great about America

RichieC

I'd have that tendency to go woooo yea! every time I see a camera.

listermint

You my friend would have lost your father as he walked out, then quit school young, picking up drugs and such from you mother whom you hated as she was into drugs too.

But it ends up alright as all this aggro and trouble at such an early age allowed you to have some crazy materials yo to write some ill rhymes, and you eventually get picked up by a west coast rapper.



And well then...................

PseudoFamous

tan11ie wrote: »

Yes I'd be a serious shopaholic by now!

...and you can't be in Ireland?

FatherLen

WHAT!?!
you mean to tell me that we're NOT the kids of america
woh-oh

ejmaztec

The downside of being brought up and educated in the US is being sh1t at geography.

tan11ie

PseudoFamous wrote: »

...and you can't be in Ireland?

Nope we only have the Kildare outlet.... which is ****!

XxMCRxBabyxX

I grew up in Botswana.

Growing up in Ireland or America would have meant a worse childhood for me imo

Misticles

I'd be on Teen Mom

So no.

Latchy

I don't like baseball much and can take or leave American football but love my 'soccer ' and rugby to much .I could pick the good and bad points about grown up in America but as previous poster said ,if your born on the wrong side of the tracks then lifes not much fun and a big uphill struggle as with similar circumstances in Ireland /UK or any western country .

sinjin_smythe

Would be good to have grown up in LA, everything seems to have happened in that place.

Caraville

Bit of a vague question OP, sure America is huge. Big differences in the different parts of it. Obviously things would be different but doesn't necessarily mean it'd be better or worse than how I grew up here.

Although I'd be less likely, statistically speaking, to have travelled to as much of the world as I have. Or to even own a passport. I would imagine my knowledge of geography is better than the average American having grown up in Ireland.

The education system is better in Ireland and whilst it's not as good as it was, there's a better sense of community here. So overall I'm glad to have grown up here.

chicken fingers

whiteboy wrote: »

I think you could count on being a different person, you'd still have the same family only your upbringing would've been that little bit different.
Picture what it would have been like if you were to have grown up in a suburb of Colorado and gone to high school there and played baseball for your school opposed to gaelic etc.
It's and interesting idea.

Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

Just like the 99.9% who have never climbed carrantuohill, you wouldn't have gone camping in the rockies just like 99.9% of Americans.

clintondaly

I would probably be overweight,say"awesome" & "Oh my God" in every sentence,not able to point out Europe in a map,say "eyeraq" instead if Iraq,etc. etc. etc.........

EverEvolving

I grew up in a tiny village with nothing but fields and cows as far as the eye could see. There were 4 people in my national school class for 8 years. I think growing up in the antarctic would have been more exciting, at least there would have been polar bears.

man.about.town

avalon68 wrote: »

id imagine it would be a lot like ireland.....the rockies probably wouldnt seem so great if in your backyard......how many times have you visited Irish landmarks

its a shame irish people dont visit landmarks and our many points of interest throughout the country, i regularly do and i really appreciate how beautiful and steeped in history ireland is.

last year, i took three days off and was a tourist for a day in dublin, did as many museums i could, i even did the open top bus and viking splash tour. it was great, since then, ive seen just about everything in dublin, its soo interesting. every dub should do it

Elba101

whiteboy wrote: »

I think you could count on being a different person, you'd still have the same family only your upbringing would've been that little bit different.
Picture what it would have been like if you were to have grown up in a suburb of Colorado and gone to high school there and played baseball for your school opposed to gaelic etc.
It's and interesting idea.

Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

I'm sure I would be either obese or aneroxic.

blaze1

Would've like to wrestle, I played a good level at basketball as well but as I stopped growing at 15 i dont think i wouldve got to far.

Wouldnt have had enough cash for college so I'd probably be flipping burgers or running my own meth lab by now......

So yes it wouldve been better :P

castletownman

Yeah dude, it would have been far out

Siuin

Tbh I wouldn't like to live in America at all- people in Ireland are a lot more down to earth and relateable, whereas (broadly speaking) I found there to be something quite disingenuous about American 'friendliness', especially their shop assistants who can be particularly nauseating.

Ireland's no paradise, and it is pretty sweet how many parts of the US experience actual seasons, but having come in contact with American tourists lately, I find them to be very naive and a rather OTT and dramatic, possibly because of the 'movie culture' they've been subjected to.

My cousin married an American woman, and we practically piss ourselves laughing whenever she comes to visit. She told us about how during 9/11 she had screamed around the house "WE'RE UNDER ATTACK, WE'RE UNDER ATTACK! OH MY GAH!! GET SUPPLIES!!" and there we were trying to keep a straight face. Later, she wandered into the bathroom and decided to have a bubble bath without informing the owners of the house, except to call her husband to ask if they had any magazines to read while she was in there...

Anyways, I know I've completely gone off on a tangent, but my point is that maybe my life would have seemed to be as being more 'exciting' but not necessarily because it was different but because I would have been brought up in a phony society which treated life like one big epic film. Give me the peace of laid back Irish mentality any day.

curlywurly26

Not to be stereotypical but if I grew up in America I'd probably be fatter with around 10 times the student debt I'm in now....think I'll stick with Ireland!

Siuin

Agreed about the overweight thing. They have cookie dough in tubes.
I rest my case.








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SheroN1

EverEvolving wrote: »

I grew up in a tiny village with nothing but fields and cows as far as the eye could see. There were 4 people in my national school class for 8 years. I think growing up in the antarctic would have been more exciting, at least there would have been polar bears.

Polar bears only live in the Artic. You would have had penguins in Antartica though which would have been cool.

Mr. Denton

The U.S. is overrated. Anyone who thinks it's a great place is probably watching too much tv. Say America and it conjours up imagines of New York and Hollywood. There's more (or more specifically less) to the place than that. They're also culturally bankrupt as a people and put less value on human life than the developed world does.

Big Nasty

Yes!













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Jopari87

Different but not necessarily more exciting. You could live in the middle of Manhattan and have the most boring life ever.

And you could live in the middle of nowhere and live a very exciting life (even if that would require a fairly low threshold of excitment).

pragmatic1

I'd probably be in jail.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

whiteboy wrote: »

I think you could count on being a different person, you'd still have the same family only your upbringing would've been that little bit different.
Picture what it would have been like if you were to have grown up in a suburb of Colorado and gone to high school there and played baseball for your school opposed to gaelic etc.
It's and interesting idea.

Also there'd be a lot more to see and do, over there they have the rocky mountains and other incredible landmarks.

If would have been horrible.. the the Rockies wouldn't have done you any favours if you grew up in a ghetto in New York. Baseball is a boring, boring sport. And they're more hung up and socially conservative than we are.

My idea of hell.

Chuck Stone

I used to think like that when I was a kid. Used to wonder how come I was born in Ireland and not on the A Team.. I mean, America.

I love being Irish.

Seloth

Was inter-railing recently and I found Americans to be...not arrogant to the world but very ignorant.They didnt know much about the world outside...and my god I couldnt get on with them...

Lived in the Bronx for a month as a baby before the boom came...My parents hated it...Complete and utter **** hole it was from how they described it.

So happy they came back to Ireland where everything worked out

jester77

I'd be fatter
I would only be able to speak English and would have my s's and z's backwards
I wouldn't know how to change gears
I would have already been shot at least 3 times
I would be divorced at least twice
I would speak at volume level 11

careca11

America is ok for going on holidays etc , but to live or grow up ?
hell no , I'll stick to this crumbling country any day

southsiderosie

Oh look, another thread about Americans.

Sigh.

southsiderosie

jester77 wrote: »

I'd be fatter
I would only be able to speak English and would have my s's and z's backwards
I wouldn't know how to change gears
I would have already been shot at least 3 times
I would be divorced at least twice
I would speak at volume level 11

Yes, because the Irish are slim, quiet polyglots who respect the sanctity of marriage.

Needler

If I lived in the country and was going hunting and staying in cabins every weekend while during the week I ran a massive farm or worked in some shed designing some new type of experimental combine harvester, chainsaw or similar contraption then yes

If I was living in the "burbs", drove some GM people carrier with automatic transmission, worked at the "mall", watched 4 hours of TV every evening and obsessed over getting the latest 4 year contract smartphone from AT&T or other consumerist gadget then most certainly not

Siuin

Seloth wrote: »

Was inter-railing recently and I found Americans to be...not arrogant to the world but very ignorant.They didnt know much about the world outside...and my god I couldnt get on with them...

So true. I was on a tour and the New Yorker guide approached me afterwards to ask where I was from. When I replied "Ireland" he started speaking to me reeeeeeeally slowly, asking "Were... you... able... to... understand... the... tour... ok??" When I explained to him that yes, I did because English is my first language, he just walked away.

#15

southsiderosie wrote: »

Oh look, another thread about Americans.

Sigh.

The Pamela Izevbekhai thread is coming to a close, and the thread about foreign women is a multi-pager by now. AH needs to turn its generalised ire on someone.

Needler

#15 wrote: »

The Pamela Izevbekhai thread is coming to a close.

Don't count your chickens, who knows they'll reprocess the material contained in the 60 odd pages of that thread and drag it out some more or they'll start to follow Pamela's life where ever she got deported to. Or else another snoregasm of a religious thread will be started to pick up the slack although there's a few of those on the go already

guitarzero

Good question. America is the full spectrum, absolute poverty to fame and riches, liberal to ultra conservative. I wouldnt mind being fairly well of living on Venice Beach.

OneArt

Try growing up in Africa, osterich meat biltong and apocalyptic thunderstorms. Mmm. Osterich meat.

Saila

Yes, there would have been undercover soldiers patrolling the hallways in highschools and I would have seen first hand an idiot blowing his head off playing russian roulette

Tubsandtiles

I wouldn't like to have grown up in America just because of the whole gun laws, racism being very high and the whole world having a negative view on the place alot of the time but saying that we have these problems here too . If all the users on boards went over there on a holiday we would probably be arrested for simple things like singing, having the "craic" walking down the road after a nightout or taking a piss down a laneway after six pints. Things like these = an arrest in America. Running from the "shades" would probably lead to a great laugh over here while in America they would probably shoot at you