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Extreme Commuting

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  • #2
    LGiamani
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭LGiamani


    The schoolteacher was a major hottie


  • #3
    T Corolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭T Corolla


    Tremelo wrote: »
    On here: http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1119578

    Just watching now...


    I thought the people who were travelling to London was a tough but when I seen the lady going from Donegal to Dublin it seemed worse. I felt a bit for the midwife in Cork as she had a good number of kids


  • #4
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    I watched it last night, it was a fairly decent program.

    The London-Sligo commuting guy who takes the ferry etc - that was really sad. He admitted that he was not wise with money when he was earning a lot - a harsh lesson that many people are going thru right now.


  • #5
    Jehuty42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Jehuty42


    Yeah, I watched it last night, it was very sad alright. I don't understand why a few of those people didn't just go the whole hog and emigrate completely- it would have to be a better life than the one portrayed in the show.
    Luckily I work in a field where if the worse came to the worst, I could work from home, so hopefully this will never be me.


  • #6
    Amtmann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,093 ✭✭✭Amtmann


    Jehuty42 wrote: »
    Yeah, I watched it last night, it was very sad alright. I don't understand why a few of those people didn't just go the whole hog and emigrate completely- it would have to be a better life than the one portrayed in the show.

    Most of these people are emigrants in denial. Some I had no sympathy for - the Donegal girl for one, or the man who does Limerick to Dublin every day. These people should just move instead of moan.


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  • #7
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,165 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Tremelo wrote: »
    Most of these people are emigrants in denial. Some I had no sympathy for - the Donegal girl for one, or the man who does Limerick to Dublin every day. These people should just move instead of moan.

    I didnt see it all - flicked over and saw bits of it. I assume they had families in Donegal and Limerick and their partners had jobs there so they couldn't move?


  • #8
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,070 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Watched it and felt disgusted that our so-called Government are needlessly giving away 710 million tomorrow to the very people who were the cause of these poor people having to take on such punishing journeys away from their loved ones.


  • #9
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,391 ✭✭✭markpb


    Dovies wrote: »
    I didnt see it all - flicked over and saw bits of it. I assume they had families in Donegal and Limerick and their partners had jobs there so they couldn't move?

    Most of them had a house (+ mortgage) and children so emigrating would be a tough. One came home from (from Limerick, I think) each day because he wanted to and the other came home (from London) to play hurling.


  • #10
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    Felt fairly bad for these people because they couldn't see past their careers. At the expense of any quality of life whatsoever.


  • #11
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,070 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Oh_Noes wrote: »
    Felt fairly bad for these people because they couldn't see past their careers. At the expense of any quality of life whatsoever.

    Yes indeed but many people want to instill a good work ethic into their children rather than make the dole seem the norm. They also want to make sure that their mortgages are paid too so really have no choice. I don't know if i could start to do all that travelling even to keep a roof over my head as i am a good bit older than them and wouldn't have the energy but fair play to them for doing it.


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  • #12
    positron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭positron


    Long thread in AH about this: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056437632


  • #13
    Oh_Noes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭Oh_Noes


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Yes indeed but many people want to instill a good work ethic into their children rather than make the dole seem the norm. They also want to make sure that their mortgages are paid too so really have no choice. I don't know if i could start to do all that travelling even to keep a roof over my head as i am a good bit older than them and wouldn't have the energy but fair play to them for doing it.

    I didn't suggest anywhere in my post that they go on the dole or tell their kids to go on the dole. There's no quality of life in that either.


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