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Is anyone considering a one way ticket out of Ireland?

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  • #92
    Fireball81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭Fireball81


    Have you ****ed off yet?


  • #93
    BarryD2
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    TravelTiger wrote: »
    I'm single. No kids and no mortgage and my gut feeling on how this is going to play out in Irelsnd is not good at all.

    If you're anyway young and in decent health, probably nothing to be too concerned about, other than the economy tanking for a while.

    Different for older/ immune compromised people.


  • #94
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,115 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Going to be seriously hard on frontline healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, carers, physios etc..

    Special thought for people only recently diagnosed with long term or chronic conditions..the path to treatment / recovery is bound to have a few twists and turns so there will be worries there naturally but all will work out.


  • #95
    BorneTobyWilde
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    The Fair Hoe Islands ? Do they have it ?


  • #96
    BorneTobyWilde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,023 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Twatt?


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  • #97
    Cupatae
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Cupatae


    TravelTiger wrote: »
    I'd like to keep the country to myself. But if you know how to work Google you'll find out in a few seconds that there's some options left.

    For now.

    These restrictions are being slowly implemented so there's not a full scale panic. Or st least not more than it is now.

    how you gonna try keep a country your moving to on the DL lmao


  • #98
    Cupatae
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    bet ya its the north pole!


  • #99
    auspicious
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    TravelTiger wrote: »
    I'd like to keep the country to myself. But if you know how to work Google you'll find out in a few seconds that there's some options left.

    I think it's Wakanda.
    I can't find any flights though.


  • #100
    Galwayguy35
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    Easter Island?


  • #101
    str8talkingguy
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    I'm with you op completely.Seems most of the hotter countries aren't hit nearly as bad.

    People have gone mad talking about locking up our elderly for months on end.

    Most old people rely on their grandkids and whatever social life they have to survive and would rather take the chance with a flu not be forced into isolation.

    Its the isolation that's gonna kill more of them than the actual virus itself.


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  • #102
    un5byh7sqpd2x0
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    Ronaldinho wrote: »
    It was a balmy 18 degrees a few weeks back.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/hottest-day-on-record-in-antarctica-as-temperature-hits-18-degrees-1.4165652

    The OP wants to go soon, not a few weeks ago. It's -63 now - https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/vostok-station


  • #103
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    Can I ask you a personal question OP?

    Are you mental?


  • #104
    Westernyelp
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    I think OP has headed of lads.


  • #105
    Cupatae
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    Westernyelp wrote: »
    I think OP has headed of lads.

    to where tho...


  • #106
    Corca Baiscinn
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    scamalert wrote: »
    serious question are canaries off limit now :confused: id rather chance being in +20c and climbing then enjoying the ever lasting global freezing in ireland. as seems there will be f all to do for good next month or so.

    Afraid so, heard reporter from Teneriffe saying on radio today that the Spanish Government want EVERYONE to leave who is not native. They want to get to grips with this and then start all over again. so, the flights will only be one way for the next while


  • #107
    embraer170
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭embraer170


    China is probably one of the few safe places to travel that. For that, you need to get a Chinese visa (is that even possible now?) and prepare for 14 days quarantine at your expense on arrival.


  • #108
    [Deleted User]
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    embraer170 wrote: »
    China is probably one of the few safe places to travel that. For that, you need to get a Chinese visa (is that even possible now?) and prepare for 14 days quarantine at your expense on arrival.

    I'm pretty sure new visa's are not being issued. Their offices have been shut down and gone automated, although they have put in a service for someone like myself who might need their visa renewed. There's a two month automatic renewal when the expiry comes due. (Mine being in July).


  • #109
    mrcheez
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    Apparently Tanzania doesn't have it yet.

    So perhaps building a fort on top of Kilimanjaro might be the last refuge?


    EDIT... whoops spoke too soon: https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1516607/coronavirus-tanzania-somalia-eafrica-starts-closures


  • #110
    Raconteuse
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    TravelTiger wrote: »
    I was waiting for a righteousness reply like this, just not so soon!

    - I've no symptoms. Yes I'm aware I don't need to have them to have it
    - It's still early days for Ireland yet
    - if the country I'm going to thought Irish visitors were a threat then they'd have added them to their current "Nope. No chance" list of banned countries. They haven't.

    Not yet anyway.

    I feel the window is closing for anyone who wants to escape this country in that regard though.
    It's not a "righteousness" reply just because you don't like it. It's correct - tough. It's not just about you not having symptoms - it's about you picking them up from others.

    But actually I don't think you're serious.


  • #111
    Dodge
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    Great thread.

    Wonder why the OP is still single...


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  • #112
    jmreire
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    TravelTiger wrote: »
    I'm very tempted to get a one way ticket out of the country at the moment. To a place with no closed borders yet and who have been doing an amazing job of containment. I also have a friend in the same area there for chats.

    I do NOT trust that our health system can handle this. I'll be surprised if they can deal with 20% of it.

    I can feel tension brewing in my family over difference of opinion over how serious this is. About 80% of them can't see what this has the potential to do.

    I'm single. No kids and no mortgage and my gut feeling on how this is going to play out in Irelsnd is not good at all. Like; really not good. Perhaps it's only a matter of time till either Ireland completely shuts up shop and/or the other country does the same and I'm trapped.
    Have you considered doing the same? Leaving the country?

    Question is to where???? Because this virus will go global,,,,so you may run, but you can't hide ( except maybe China? )


  • #113
    BetterWay
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    OP is clearly talking about Australia. Hasn't it free healthcare for the Irish? For it's size it also hasn't been hit hard by this. It has only 25 million people if memory serves and you can fit Europe one and a half times inside it.


    If I hadn't got kids I'd be gone too tbh. Europe is riddled with this.


  • #114
    cj maxx
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    I have a place in Belize. I might go there for awhile


  • #115
    Shefwedfan
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    Is the OP gone yet? Hopefully


  • #116
    s7ryf3925pivug
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    No cases in North Korea. Probably gone there.


  • #117
    [Deleted User]
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    I’d imagine if anyone was leaving, they’d be busy making arrangements and not making a thread on boards.


  • #118
    Monokne
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    The OP in this made my day.

    He's going to outrun the coronavirus by going to a magical land that won't be affected and is so secret he can't even tell a couple hundred boardsies for fear we may come and infect him.

    I hope he never has to come back and join us all in the real world. :)


  • #119
    Monokne
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    BetterWay wrote: »
    OP is clearly talking about Australia. Hasn't it free healthcare for the Irish? For it's size it also hasn't been hit hard by this. It has only 25 million people if memory serves and you can fit Europe one and a half times inside it.


    If I hadn't got kids I'd be gone too tbh. Europe is riddled with this.

    Right, but it's going to go everywhere eventually so unless you plan on inter-railing the entire planet in perpetuity until it catches you, what is the end game?


  • #120
    [Deleted User]
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    Dunno why anyone has to leave Ireland... just head into the countryside of Kerry or Connemara. Rent a place out there and in many areas, your closest neighbor will likely need a car to visit you.


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  • #121
    Xertz
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    One of the issues with this is that during recessions and times of crisis here we have historically had places to bolt to - the US, Canada, the UK, continental Europe and right now all of those are in similar circumstances and the recession is very likely to be symmetric and global.

    The countries that have it under wraps like New Zealand is just extremely far away from everything. Ireland, despite being an island is deeply connected, an hour and a bit away from most of Western Europe and mega hubs like London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan etc and also closer to the US Northeast than some parts of the US and flights were plentiful and cheap.

    The likes of NZ will not be open or welcoming to European visitors for some time to come. Nor will Australia and neither have ever had open doors for residency - there’s a complex visa process, as there is the other way around too btw.

    As for China? Would you really want to live there long term and do you believe their stats? I would tend to read them with a large degree of suspicion. You’re not exactly talking about a country known for transparency - a lot of things never officially happened there ...

    Basically I think we’re just going to have to ride this one out and I would hope that Ireland is quite capable of doing so. We have one of the saner governments and political systems. A lot of the employment drivers here are also like to do relatively ok - IT sector companies do used on cloud infrastructure that’s hugely in demand, pharma / biophama and so on and if they keep ticking over, the domestic focused economy may be able to pick up relatively quickly and we have a stable currency so you’re unlikely to see massive inflation.

    Overall it’s going to be a hair raising few years no maybe where you are and this time around Ireland could be one of the places that does relatively ok.

    It remains to be seen but, so far, I wouldn’t be rushing to boom a plane ticket. A lot will depend on how things on out in the 12 - 24 months ahead.

    There are big risks but they’re similar everywhere. I would be iffy about jumping out of the frying pan and into some other frying pan, if not the fire. A lot of things are far too soon to call and the whole situation is without any precedent in a modern economy.


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