people who emmigrate-are they really happy?

synchro

fair enough they probably got better jobs drive bigger cars and sexier wives and portray an image of happiness and success, but aer they really happier though, without their family in the same country and watever else you mite miss from home
plz comment

BizzyC

My sister lives in the states, and she's perfectly happy, as are all my other relatives who live abroad....
Are you going abroad to find that girl you're looking for?

fischerspooner

I find that it doesn't matter where you are, you just have to be happy with what you have around you. You can be happy at home but also abroad. I lived abroad in Canada for a while, where you can buy big houses for dirt cheap etc. and go skiing and swimming in the sea on the same day etc. But it doesn't make up for having your friends and family around. I'm sure most of these Polish etc. that come to ireland would much rather be at home, they're just here for the money and will go back eventually. Maybe not Africans though, too much of a living standard difference there.

shellby

BizzyC wrote:

My sister lives in the states, and she's perfectly happy, as are all my other relatives who live abroad....
Are you going abroad to find that girl you're looking for?

lol

Tar.Aldarion

synchro wrote:

fair enough they probably got better jobs drive bigger cars and sexier wives and portray an image of happiness and success, but aer they really happier though, without their family in the same country and watever else you mite miss from home
plz comment

yes they are perfectly happy
its just a different place.most people move far from home anyway even if they say in ireland.

Mossy Monk

my sister in London is very happy
lot more to do in that city alone than this whole country

Spicy Lauren

That's a bit of an odd question you're asking!!
I've been living in Ireland almost 6 years now, I moved when I was twenty years old and I am very happy to be living here!
No I do not miss 'home' at all, in fact the idea of going over there even gives me goose pimples!
I try to go back once a year for a week though, to visit mammy and daddy; but I wish I didnt have to go... I'd rather have them coming over, show them where I live and the reason why I appreciate living in Ireland.
When you emmigrate to a different country it is very important to adapt to its cultures and traditions, otherwise you can quickly feel like you dont belong there and wonder why you ever left home in the first place.
I do miss a few things from home - my friends, but we keep in touch - and of course food - but there's always a way to get a package posted out, or I stuff my bags with loadza stuff whenever I go back!

Boggle

I've a friend living in australia and the last time he came back he said that the best thing I'd ever do was get out of this country.

Hope he's right cos I've accepted a job in London starting in 2 weeks and I guess I'm goin to find out the hard way...

JackieChan

Boggle,
If he left Ireland anytime up to 1990/1991 his view of Ireland will be very different to how the country is today.

Kintarō Hattori

Of course you can be truely happy in another country synchro, but it's all down to the person in question.
I have a brother and sister who went to live in the UK and they are happier there, leading more fufilling lives there than they ever were here. They have good jobs, great friends and found loving partners. I know they would never come back and live here, not because they don't like it, but they have better lives else where.
In contrast my brother was studying in Glasgow University for a few years and hated being away from home. He was really really homesick and has always said he won't live anywhere else but here.

On a more personal note, my girlfriend is Polish and I spoken with her in regards to being truely happy in a foreign country. She loves Ireland and doesn't plan on going back to her own country anytime soon. She's made good friends, found a great boyfriend!! here, has a good job and more here. Yes she does miss her family, but the world is a small place these days. She can hop on a plan and in a few hours she's home, there's the phone and the internet!

You can be happy elsewhere, truely happy, but it all depends on the individual in question. It suits some people and it doesn't suit others.

Boggle

Boggle,
If he left Ireland anytime up to 1990/1991 his view of Ireland will be very different to how the country is today.

He left 2 years ago for Australia so he knows exactly what kind of a place this is.

Megatron

I've a mate who said the same thing , and left during the Celtic tiger crap....
Now i have left ireland , lived in a different country , and tbh , the sooner i can get the f00k out of here the better.

While i do love Ireland ( and dublin) to see what is out there compaired to this sh1thole , i'd happly move away. well i am moving but not untill september

Hobbes

Boggle wrote:

He left 2 years ago for Australia so he knows exactly what kind of a place this is.

Ireland actually changes a lot over two years.

I lived in the US for 3 years, and I came back 6 months, 12 months then 24 months (then year again). In the space of two years culture had become alien to me. This is partly because I had fitted into the culture but also because of changes.

A good example was mobile phones. Between last visit everyone had mobile phones even children.

digitally-yours

I emigrated to ireland perfectly happy
love it here all the educated people here are really nice and very open minded

pleces without people are nothing. Ireland in nothing without its people
its the people that make the place a good or a bad place

the number of good people here is rising all the time and
people who are shortsighted and dont make it easier for forigners is decreasing

at the end of the day we are all humans and we must respect eatchother

WhiteWashMan

synchro wrote:

fair enough they probably got better jobs drive bigger cars and sexier wives and portray an image of happiness and success, but aer they really happier though, without their family in the same country and watever else you mite miss from home
plz comment

there is a certain type of person whos family is their life.

for the rest of us, our lives are about us and who we are.
sure you may miss your family if you live abroad, but you may miss your family if you live the other side of dublin. you'll probably see your family more often if you live abroad mind you.

life for me is not about the little things that i might miss.

life for me is about the adventure of doing new things, of meeting new people, of trying different things. its about making the best of myself and my life and enjoying it with my family.
if i felt i could do that in ireland, id move back. however i dont.
i feel there are better things to do out there somehwere. there are more interesting things, more exciting things. newer things to do and see and learn.

but everyone is different. if you feel you cant do without tayto crisps and club orange, dont go abroad.

BEAT

I was perfectly happy when I moved to Ireland, I didnt miss my family so much because I called them every other day and emailed them almost everday so it wasnt like I was that far away...even though I was. I mean you have the holidays for visiting really. I had to move back home again for reasons beyond my control but thats life.
Id love to move back to Ireland someday but for now I am content back home...I can be happy anywhere I go probably as I am happy with myself and life in general.

sanncoo

I moved to the UK in March. There were a lot of reasons but primarily for a better job. I really like it over here and I'm really glad that I moved. Sometimes I miss home but not half as much as I expected to.

bucks

I have lots of family and friends who have emigrated and they are very happy with there decision. I recently returned home myself from living in australia and i can definetly see myself moving back down under in a couple of years as this country cannot compete with there way of life and cheap living costs.

Another thing, cheap and plentiful air travel has made the world a lot smaller place and heading back home for regular visits is common practice for a lot of emigrants so been away from home is not as big of a problem as it used to be.

MorningStar

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

yes they are perfectly happy
its just a different place.most people move far from home anyway even if they say in ireland.

Spot the bogger In Dublin that is not so easy if you are from here. Statistically you tend live, die, work and meet your partner within 20 miles. It's the figure they use when trying to calculate out armies etc... with historical picture.

You will never be any happier than you are is apparently is the way it goes. They did studies with lottery winners, emigrants and other people with sudden increases in wealth or lifestyle changes. And you will be the same person and just as happy or sad it's personal changes that make the difference.