Do you know anyone who has never been outside their county?

Galwayguy35 · 05-02-2017 10:00AM

Lyle Lanley wrote: »

Why is Leitrim getting such a hard time? It is infinitely less **** than Cavan or Carlow.

Imagine being from Tyrone either? Is anyone from Tyrone?

I've travelled through Roscommon quite a few times and it's every bit as bleak as Leitrim so I suppose it's a bit unfair that it always gets singled out as the dump of Ireland.

r65 · 05-02-2017 10:14AM

Was at a wedding of a colleague, a true blue Dub. Reception was in Glendalough, and photos at the round tower,etc.
The bride and groom laid on a bus for the guests, as most had no car.
The amount of older ones chatting about the "long journey" was amazing!

Conor Bourke · 05-02-2017 10:25AM

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

I've travelled through Roscommon quite a few times and it's every bit as bleak as Leitrim so I suppose it's a bit unfair that it always gets singled out as the dump of Ireland.

Leitrim is actually a grand county, more scenery than Roscommon without a doubt.

Longford is the true dump of Ireland. I reckon if we have another bad flood like this time last year we should just divert all the flood water into Longford, sink the county to make a new lake smack bang in the middle of the country. Nobody'll miss Longford.

Phoebas · 05-02-2017 10:29AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Less surprising is that most (53%)Americans have never left America in their lives.

I wonder what the figure is for Europeans who never left Europe. I'd say it might be even higher.

Also, I wonder if you asked the Americans who had been abroad where they had gone to, how many would answer Iraq or Afghanistan (or Vietnam or Korea).

andekwarhola · 05-02-2017 11:03AM

A few.

Wouldn't be for me as I like going away but it doesn't bother them and I certainly don't find it shocking. People overstate the extent to which travel is important, especially the kind of travel that most of us do which is often list-ticking pit stops really (even the 'niche trips') and nobody can say travel is exactly hard to do these days.

Travel bores are amongst the worst type of bores.

mfceiling · 05-02-2017 11:08AM

Brother in laws mother has only ever left the Aran Islands twice and only then was a day trip to galway for a christening and to the midlands for her sons wedding. I was on the island once and I met her. She is 70 but doesn't look a day over 50 and is so well read and articulate that she could hold her own in any company.

andekwarhola · 05-02-2017 11:11AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

According to a survey, 22% of Americans have never travelled outside their own state. Imagine growing up in a state like Iowa, flat as a pancake and full of corn, wheat and barley fields. Depressing.

Less surprising is that most (53%)Americans have never left America in their lives. Affordability is a big factor, but many who didn't leave the country were too scared to do do so as they thought the world outside their borders was a "dangerous" place.

Very sad.:(

America is huge though with lots of different cities and habitats so people can satisfy a lot of basic travel requirements without leaving the country.

If you scrapped the amount of people that only travel from European countries to see other cities or experience different weather like sun holidays or ski trips, you'd probably see similar percentages.

MilesMorales1 · 05-02-2017 11:12AM

Yes I know quite a few. Some people are perfectly happy to live in their own community without leaving it, which is fine.

Teyla Emmagan · 05-02-2017 12:33PM

I worked with a guy and the joke about him was that he'd never left Dublin. He was in his forties and still lived with his folks. A very nice fella, but a real home bird. I know he went to Wexford once to play golf but it is very possible he'd never left Leinster. Used to paint the house when he took time off work, that type of thing. But he was still very happy.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 05-02-2017 12:37PM

A fella near us won the lotto and he'd never been out of the county in his life.in some way you'd think that was a huge waste of a lotto win and people who might want to travel or try something different would be more deserving (of course that isn't the way the lotto works) still people of his generation are much more easily pleased and I'd say the lotto win made no difference to his life.

feargale · 10-02-2017 03:56AM

Pherekydes wrote: »

Most of the counties are made up. We (in Dublin) just refer to that wilderness as 'Outside the Pale' [i.e. beyond civilization]

Most Jackeens aren't at all as sophisticated as that. The more common term is "Down the Country." Brendan Behan said he grew up believing everything west of Inchicore was bog. The great danger of travel lies in its propensity to broaden the mind.

Mint Sauce · 10-02-2017 10:26AM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

I just knew somebody would say that. I am NOT making it up.

I swear on my life, that between Donegal, Fermanagh, Cavan and Longford, there is County called Leitrim.

I have actually met someone from there in fact and so you can claim I am making it up as much as you like.

I actually keep forgetting that you pass through a tiny corner of it to get from Sligo to Donegal. Blink and you would miss it.

Boom_Bap · 10-02-2017 10:32AM

My father-in-law has never left Germany.

I used to go out with a girl from a rural part of Michigan, some of her relatives had never crossed state line or met someone from another country. I was their first, they were nearly taking their rags of their washing sticks to poke me with them.

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Do you know anyone who has never been outside their county?

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