Why are a lot of Irish people such home birds

JakeArmitage · 12-08-2016 10:38PM #1

It really irks me, the world is there to be explored but I have friends that wont even move an hour away from Mammy and Daddy despite the obvious increase in career options it would serve

Dirty Dingus McGee · 12-08-2016 10:40PM

Maybe some people are happy living near home.

Moving away from home maybe isn't all it's made out to be for some people.

Wigglepuppy · 12-08-2016 10:44PM

I'm not having a go but as a home bird myself, is it worth getting annoyed by if it does not affect you directly? (I did live three hours from my family home for a few years but then came back to the same area). I can totally understand not getting it, in the same way that I don't get why people want to go backpacking. But I wouldn't let it annoy me.

OldMrBrennan83 · 12-08-2016 10:45PM

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GLaDOS · 12-08-2016 10:46PM

Family is important to a lot of people, for better or worse.

JakeArmitage · 12-08-2016 10:48PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

Family is important to a lot of people, for better or worse.

Thats true but unwilling to move 1 hour away from your parents so you can leave your job you hate doesnt make sense to me

groucho marx · 12-08-2016 10:49PM

Why search for greener grass when your happy to have people that actually care about you around you

keeponhurling · 12-08-2016 10:50PM

It's not just Irish people who can be home birds

Wigglepuppy · 12-08-2016 10:50PM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

Thats true but unwilling to move 1 hour away from your parents so you can leave your job you hate doesnt make sense to me

Oh well yeah if a person never stops whingeing and their problem would be solved by them moving a small distance away, that's annoying all right. Sometimes people can be set a little *too* in their ways.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 12-08-2016 10:50PM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

Thats true but unwilling to move 1 hour away from your parents so you can leave your job you hate doesnt make sense to me

Do many people do that?

You seem to be picking one example from your life and saying loads of people are like that.

1 hour is not much of a commute either so most people probably wouldn't need to move form home if the great job is supposedly only an hour away.

groucho marx · 12-08-2016 10:51PM

Dunno why it would "irk" you unless your selling condos in never never land where the grass is greener groceries are cheaper and people are less judgemental and more attractive

cbyrd · 12-08-2016 10:53PM

Some of us like our mammys and daddys.. don't feel the need to run away or be far away. It's not for everyone, don't dis the family lovers ....

The Raptor · 12-08-2016 10:53PM

Why does it bother you how somebody else lives their life?

Your Face · 12-08-2016 10:54PM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

It really irks me, the world is there to be explored but I have friends that wont even move an hour away from Mammy and Daddy despite the obvious increase in career options it would serve

Good story bro.

Arsemageddon · 12-08-2016 11:48PM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

Thats true but unwilling to move 1 hour away from your parents so you can leave your job you hate doesnt make sense to me

So your idea of ' whole world to explore' is moving an hours drive from your hometown?!

Christopher Columbus eat your heart out.

12-08-2016 11:57PM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

It really irks me, the world is there to be explored but I have friends that wont even move an hour away from Mammy and Daddy despite the obvious increase in career options it would serve

I like living abroad but it does get tiring... and there are plenty of advantages to staying near home. Anyway, I didn't really move away from ireland until my late 20's/early 30's. How old are your mates? Probably have plenty of time should they wish to do it later. Fact is, Ireland's economy is bouncing back pretty well... it's a good time to stay.

SEPT 23 1989 · 12-08-2016 11:59PM

What are you running away from?

13-08-2016 12:00AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

What are you running away from?

huh?

Samaris · 13-08-2016 12:05AM

Well, first of all, are they? You give one example, and I'll point out in response that many people the world over stay close to home, especially if mobility is not particularly easy. Look at the East End of London. Until the councils actively started knocking down ancient and condemned tenements, many people were born there, grew up, married, had children and died without ever going beyond the East End.

Villages can build entire communities based on everyone knowing everyone else and having a tight web of social and familial links that means everyone can rely on everyone else.

Also, Ireland is a nation of emigration. Our main export is people. We travel so much that 70 million people around the world are (may be) descended from Irish people that hike off into the wild blue yonder with little more than what's in their pockets.

Er..in conclusion, I respond to your anecdotal evidence with unsubstantiated evidence, because I don't really have the time to go link-hunting. :pac:

cml387 · 13-08-2016 12:11AM

I saw a documentary once where this guy warned his daughter not to go out foreign because she'd be kidnapped but she went anyway and then she went with this friend and they arrived in this foreign airport (it might be Paris I dunno) and then they met this guy and it looked like he was friendly but he was really an evil kidnapper and she was kidnapped and the father he had to come and get her but he phoned the bad guys first to tell them he was coming.

So stay at home in the corner with your arms folded thats what I say.

JakeArmitage · 13-08-2016 12:30AM

Arsemageddon wrote: »

So your idea of ' whole world to explore' is moving an hours drive from your hometown?!

Christopher Columbus eat your heart out.

NO NO Your not getting my point, the world is one ones oyster but this person wont AT LEAST move an hours drive away from home to better their job prospects

Son Of A Vidic · 13-08-2016 12:39AM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

Why are a lot of Irish people such home birds

Probably due to the ongoing & long term damaging effects of The Troika.

Akrasia · 13-08-2016 12:45AM

Some people had a happy childhood, like where they were raised and would like to raise their own family in the same place.

Also, many people have parents who they deeply respect, and want them to have a close relationship with their children, and also want to be there for those parents when they get older and need a bit of support themselves....

Work life balance is a personal issue. My preferences are totally out of whack with others who have very different priorities.

Arsemageddon · 13-08-2016 12:47AM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

NO NO Your not getting my point, the world is one ones oyster but this person wont AT LEAST move an hours drive away from home to better their job prospects

Well allow me to retort.......

There is nothing as tedious as someone who thinks that because they have spent a year in Australia and then stopped off for a few weeks in Thailand on the way back they have the right to bore the tits off everyone who has to listen to them with stories of their totally amazing adventures.

If you want to go somewhere, grand, off with ya and I hope you enjoy yourself, but it doesn't make you superior in any way.

RobertKK · 13-08-2016 12:53AM

I don't care if people are home birds or not. Once you are doing no one any harm and are happy, then I don't see the problem.

humberklog · 13-08-2016 12:54AM

JakeArmitage wrote: »

It really irks me, the world is there to be explored but I have friends that wont even move an hour away from Mammy and Daddy despite the obvious increase in career options it would serve

For such a small nation there's loads of Irish all around the world.
We're hardly a nation of homebirds ffs.