Why do we settle for this?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119820273#Comment_119820273

Dunno if it's the most expensive in the world, but I hear it's quite expensive. Vancouver is very expensive too.

riclad

i read about the canadian property market , house prices are high .it attracts a lot of foreign investors who need a safe place to spend their money.ireland is suffering from success , plenty of jobs, a safe place to live, but a housing crisis and a shortage of rental units at a reasonable price .canada gets very cold during the winter, energy costs are rising in most countrys right now. i agree with most of the comments above, but our government needs a 10 year plan, build x amount of houses per year, give more money to local authoritys , don,t just build in dublin.

i think canada has many of the problems that ireland has .At least we are part of the eu, the uk is in a state of chaos due to brexit.it turns out leaving the eu is a bad idea for a country that depends on acess to international markets and exports to many eu countrys.

i think you could just google country x news and get bad news about most countrys considering oil, gas,energy prices are rising ,there are still problems with supply chain even if we are in the closing stages of the pandemic. these issues effect canada as much as any other country.

they call it doomscrolling, if you read the news everyday alot of it is bad ,its hard to be optimistic

but i prefer not to give in to all the negative storys.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119820273#Comment_119820273

The problem with going to any other Anglo Sphere country is that not only have they the same problem, they have the same basic legal system, political system and mindset as to what the solution should be.

Real Donald Trump

Hate to break it to you Op, but Canada is way more woke than Ireland, in fact it's even worse than California.

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119821944#Comment_119821944

The OP didn't give out about woke

Another poster did.

maninasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119818923#Comment_119818923

I don't think you understand what I mean.

I'm not exaggerating.

On a national level the availability of housing, to rent, is probably the worst in the world of any functioning country.

Go on daft.ie and check yourself how many rentals are available across the entire country and in each county.

Cork City Popn 220k, rentals 35 units

Limerick County Popn 205k, rentals 25 units

Kildare County Popn 247k, rentals 41 units

Ireland Popn 5,065k, rentals 1079 units

It's completely broken on a national level. That is definitely an achievement others will find hard to match.

The irony is that while there have never been more jobs available in certain sectors, getting employees to fill them is becoming impossible when they have nowhere decent to live.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/this-is-the-worst-ive-seen-it-in-my-life-maternity-hospital-staff-shortages-at-critical-point-as-cost-of-living-takes-its-toll-42112477.html

https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2022/1028/1331821-teacher-shortage/

maninasia

Are you trying to claim Irish people don't pay inflated taxes? There's a lot that would disagree with you.

Cool Fool

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Cool Fool

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058269904/why-do-we-settle-for-this

Having a look at your posting history you seem constantly overwrought with everything from pvc windows to burgers to the weather to boards.ie etc etc

Is your diet ok? Perhaps you are masturbating too much or not enough? Are you properly hydrated?

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119819070#Comment_119819070

no thanks ;) I’ll stay put, seemingly discernible democratic machinations might be less prevalent here now but I apparently have that choice to stay where I am 🤪

Ireland is not going to where I’d like it anytime soon yes… but the future roadmap is often drawn courtesy of the evident mistakes / problems of the past. What’s happening now…

we don’t have to look very far to see what can happen when people say ‘enough’… rightly or wrongly. That’s our choice.

Graces7

I have family in Canada and I send them food parcels. The cost of living out there compared with here is shocking and as for the benefits system... Some had their homes smashed in the hurricanes and were in emergency accommoadtion for six weeks then had to pay,,, they pay less in motels than they had to on emegency accommodation

And yes re not obsessing re news. I have no TV etc for that reason. I check online a couple of time a day is all

Oh family sent me this laptop and msn shows the Canada news! NO WAY would I advise Canada,

Murph85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119818615#Comment_119818615

Canada wont be taxing you fifty percent over a pittance of an income. It's far more vast, cosmopolitan and open minded...

TheIrishGrover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119820768#Comment_119820768

Yeah, I think you are right. I think it s actually Vancouver I meant. I know it wasn't the OP, it was another poster who bemoaned the "Rise of the woke" (Grooming, they emphasised) and all things "What about the locals?"....... Boy, they say they were in Canada before... Really? They must have had some SERIOUS blinkers on as, by their "definition" of "woke", Canada is, and always was, "woke".

And I know I have used that half-baked, ill-defined, catch-all, lazy term three times in one post and I hate it. It is such a cynical, intentionally broad term.

A friend of mine moved to Canada about 5 years ago. He does like it. He has a nice house (He had a nice apartment here too which he sold). A family and a good job. Yes, his money is better and some things are cheaper but some are MUCH more expensive. His house is bigger than his apartment, sure. But he's not living/working in or near the capitol or similar His town of about 40K is about 2.5 hours from Toronto. Utilities and essentials are very expensive. I have been over to visit and found it pretty expensive, that's for sure.

Now my friend is beginning to spiral down the YouTube/fox"news"/Facebook rabbit-hole. Becoming more and more right-wing - and vocally so (Which is why I have had reduced contact with him over the last few months. Each to their own but don't try to convert me. Conversations ALWAYS seem to eventually shift to immigrants (The stuff they get that I don't!!!) or Trans rights or, of course "Liberal Media". I have my own opinions on these and others. I just want to know how your wife and daughter are doing, man). But, as a result, that is his biggest gripe with Canada... This perceived "Rise of The Wooooooooke". Even though his Canada-born-and-raised wife has tried to tell him "Nope, this is the way Canada has been since I grew up. Maybe more migrants but that's the world over"

So Ireland has its problems. Of course it does. The UK is just as bad. An imploding government and Brexit woes yet to manifest totally. The US tearing itself apart by hate and partisanship at all levels of society. A country that (always) hates and abandons its disadvantaged. There is no utopia. In the words of Kyle Reese 😀: "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves"

"The grass is always greener" is an old old ooooooooooooold phrase for a reason. 2000 years ago people were saying the same thing. 2000 years from now they will still be saying it

Swaine

Amazes me how the young folk of Ireland reacted to the death of George Floyd but not a peep out of them when actual issues are affecting them personally. Protests for some criminal thousands of miles away but nothing when they essentially are being screwed over by their government.

Strange.

Murph85

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119823490#Comment_119823490

Rte have them brainwashed...

BattleCorp

Yiz are all bollixes. Don't mind them OP.

The streets of Canada are paved with gold. Canada has absolutely no social problems or any other kind of problems. It's unique in that it's the only perfect country in the world and doesn't have even one of the problems we have.

Sure everyone knows that the grass is always greener on the other side.