I am no longer coming to Ireland

ferguson1951

Hello everybody.
I am 68, Italian, widely travelled.
I have been years in India, UK and France plus Argentina (were I was born) , Chile and Peru when I was in my teens. Plus the odd touristic plunge now and then (USA, Ireland, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand). basically I am a travelled, not a tourist.
Now I had reserved accomodation for 9 months in Ireland, plus my train tickets and I was planning to stay there for much longer.
But no, I give up.
I have been planning this trip for months but something happened.
First, I contacted over 50 Irish people just to ask what the weather was really like. Nobody replied.
Then I contacted 7 or 8 foreigners living in Ireland just to ask how in their view foreigners were treated in Ireland. Nobody replied.
The only one reply I got was from a Spanish guy who told me about one more important issue with Ireland, accomodation.
I got a very bad impression of the people living in Ireland.
I was not going to settle in Dublin, but in a small small inner city.
I got the impression that Ireland is too much of a country with too much of a modern minset, with people worried about all the options that current modern societies fill your life with, too many options to choose from in order to "have a life" that will make an in person out of you.
That's not for me.
I think I prefer to stay in lovely Italy. We are more backward here and have many political and economic problems, but i can speak to anyone about any subject and I can talk freely.
I do not need a modern lifestyle. It means nothing to me. In fact, I resent the fuzzy, confusing modern trends. I need the simplest possible life.
Thanks a lot for bearing with me.
Cheers

Hobosan

The weathers fine.

ferguson1951

ferguson1951 wrote: »

I got a very bad impression of the people living in Ireland.

I think I prefer to stay in lovely Italy.

Your prejudice is rather obvious, exaggeration included. You would be better served remaining in Italy, if unwilling to endure/accept a mentality contrary to your own.

ghostfacekilla

Better the devil you know.

ferguson1951

I get the idea that the Irish people, having become very modern, always have to be doing something (especially drinking), whether it is trekking, cycling, visiting Waterworld, taking pictures, the lot. I am more of a philosopher, I enjoy the odd conversation about the way world's societies are going and compare them with the simple life I knew before, full of friendship, jokes, Beatles music. Just meeting friends and doing something simple which would not interfere with reflection on what you were doing. In those days we were not consumers, we were not victims of the multinationals. That was just starting but there was still room for learning to cultivate friendly relationships: simple parties in someone's house, a football game in the park, some tv (because that was all the technology there was). The fact that I am in this forum means that I have not yet made up my mind about the Irish people. In fact, I did a lot of research and according to the news I discovered, the Irish people seemed to be hospitable and cooperative. But, being a traveller, I know that that is said just about any nation in the world. Just propaganda, like most of what we are submerged with nowadays regarding any topic.
So I just started enquiring whether that was true. I try to live on true knowledge, not prejudice.

Lackadaisical

1. You can’t stereotype an entire country. I would never attempt to do that with Italy or anywhere else. There are all sorts of differences between places and people within Ireland, just like there are anywhere else.

2. How did you contact 50 Irish people? Just randomly approached them online? Rang 50 random telephone numbers? That’s not going to get you a great response.

3. What do you mean about modernity?

4. You realise this is a form about relationships, not tourism? There are hundreds of specialist forums on boards.ie - maybe look at some of the travel and tourism ones or regional forums for Ireland.
I would avoid posting the question on ‘After Hours’ as it’s basically a catch all and very satirical.

Tokyo

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Not a relationship issue - thread closed.