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Leaving Ireland next week...

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  • #32
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    haha!! sloggin yer guts out for tinned feckin pears isn't all that meaningful either! None of us want any of that "material" shyte like money but you might want a bit more when you're on your 4 millionth pack of noodles.


  • #33
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    So Glad wrote:
    I'm really looking forward to it and embracing it. Rather that expecting bad things to happen, because thoughts become things in reality. I'm not expecting the grass to be greener, but at least a little more interesting! Dublin seriously just bores the **** out of me.

    I'm not worried about earning **** all on a farm, as money is not my main concern in life. I'm trying to use this oppertunity to be more self-sufficient and do PROPER jobs. Like like, paperwork and call-centers, they're ****ing irrelavent. I long to be around nature for a while. I haven't seen the Sun in Dublin for months, and everything's grey.

    So, I've also the Irish winter that I'll be missing and going straight into the Aussie summer, that'll be a shocker!

    I've got many musical contacts there already, so hopefully I can get my music up and running when I'm there.

    I undertsand the sentiment: imagine how Luke Skywalker felt trapped on Tatooine :rolleyes:

    the point is you need a little adventure. Everyone does: I'm shocked when I hear about people who have never even been to the other side of the Island, let alone a holiday - you need to break out of the norm sometimes. Its not that theres anything wrong with the place (there may be but its not entirely the issue) but dont you ever just feel everything gets stale, people?

    And about the OP trying to run away from Ireland and Irelands problems: thats rubbish - everywhere theres problems. and theres way worse places to be than Ireland - but if you havent been out of the country in a while you might get caught up in really trivial things like... Irish Politics. I just dont bother to be honest, and im happier here for it :p


  • #34
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    So Glad wrote:
    I haven't seen the Sun in Dublin for months, and everything's grey.

    Thats nonsense! I've only been back from Australia a month and I've seen tonnes of sun, more than I did in the last two months in Perth.


  • #35
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    Maybe I should get out more often! hehe


  • #36
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Overheal wrote:
    was there a famine then Too? Janey Mack.......
    That's when I left. :D


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  • #37
    mental07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭mental07


    It's good to get out of Ireland and broaden your horizons. I'm earning less money than I would be at home, but hey, at least I don't spend about 4 hours in traffic going to/coming home from work everyday.


  • #38
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I'm moving to Canada for a year in December sometime.. Twill be interesting indeed. I'm going because of a woman!!!! Grrr those pesky love demons


  • #39
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    mental07 wrote:
    It's good to get out of Ireland and broaden your horizons. I'm earning less money than I would be at home, but hey, at least I don't spend about 4 hours in traffic going to/coming home from work everyday.

    Exactly my friend! Lord know I just need change more than anything!


  • #40
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    mental07 wrote:
    It's good to get out of Ireland and broaden your horizons. I'm earning less money than I would be at home, but hey, at least I don't spend about 4 hours in traffic going to/coming home from work everyday.
    lord above...... you can move within ireland so you dont have to do that!!


  • #41
    North&South
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭North&South


    Awww, OP - just as I was about to ask if there was room for 3 more 'little' ones in Ireland, you bugger off & make room for us anyway!

    Seriously though, go have an adventure - as other folks have said already, you only get one shot, so make the most of it. Just make sure that as you travel through life, you don't burn too many bridges - you never know if you may have to make your way back.

    People keep asking us 'Why Ireland?'.... and we keep asking them 'Well, why not?'.

    For us, it's a way of having our mid-life adventure together without being too far from certain family members who may still need us (think 87yr old mum-in-law & 17yr old daughter) but far away enough for us to feel like we've really made a change - who knows where we may decide to move to when we retire....

    I have visions of a cute little grass hut on a barbados beach swamped with hunky rastas, & drinking rum outta coconuts on a daily basis..... All I havta do now is persuade hubby it's a good idea! ;)


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  • #42
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    Well, I'm too young to get into the 9/5 office job crap of Dublin! There's a whole world out there! Lots of talented musicians in Aussie too, so I'll be sure to set up some form of band! Although, knowing me, I'll start writing lots of nostalgic songs about Ireland!! Then wish to go back, get back, then want to get da funk back out again!!

    Such is life!!

    :D


  • #43
    mental07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭mental07


    nice1franko wrote:
    lord above...... you can move within ireland so you dont have to do that!!
    True. But there are other things I prefer about here than home. The ease of travelling to work was just one example.


  • #44
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    So Glad wrote:
    Well, I'm too young to get into the 9/5 office job crap of Dublin! There's a whole world out there! Lots of talented musicians in Aussie too, so I'll be sure to set up some form of band! Although, knowing me, I'll start writing lots of nostalgic songs about Ireland!! Then wish to go back, get back, then want to get da funk back out again!!

    Such is life!!

    :D

    If you are in the Perth/Freo area make sure you check out Matty Gresham in the Orient on a Tuesday night. No matter what kind of music you like, if you don't leave there with a smile on your face there's no hope for ya! His cover of Paul Simon's Graceland is just magic. Plus, he's only 18.


  • #45
    gary the great
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭gary the great


    Ive lived in London for the last 8 months and my God I miss Dublin, the grass isnt always greener. Dublin is a fantastic place to live, in most places around here you wouldnt speak to people you dont know on a night out as it will end in a fight even if your being realy nice, people over here just love to fight! U dont really get that in Dublin.
    Traffic in Dublin is nothing to London. Price of regular stuff is more expensive here. Theres tonnes more craic in Dublin. For the most part you'll feel safe walking down a street in Dublin at night. Irish people have a nice accent (the english one is horrible) etc etc

    So go enjoy your adventure, but your opinion of Ireland will change when your away from it it for a while, you'll start to relaise what a great place it really is and why the Irish people have a great reputation.


  • #46
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    London, though. OF COURSE YOU'D MISS DUBLIN!!!

    London's a hell hole!


  • #47
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Yeah, London does indeed suck... Was in Manchester earlier in the year too, my god what a shít hole.


  • #48
    gary the great
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭gary the great


    So Glad wrote:
    London, though. OF COURSE YOU'D MISS DUBLIN!!!

    London's a hell hole!

    Your right, but have also spent 3months in both Toronto and New York and have felt the same, the only place i actually havent missed Ireland was when I was spending a few months in Thailand, now thats a place to emigrate to!


  • #49
    North&South
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭North&South


    gary the great wrote:
    Ive lived in London for the last 8 months and my God I miss Dublin, the grass isnt always greener. Dublin is a fantastic place to live, in most places around here you wouldnt speak to people you dont know on a night out as it will end in a fight even if your being realy nice, people over here just love to fight! U dont really get that in Dublin.
    Traffic in Dublin is nothing to London. Price of regular stuff is more expensive here. Theres tonnes more craic in Dublin. For the most part you'll feel safe walking down a street in Dublin at night. Irish people have a nice accent (the english one is horrible) etc etc

    So go enjoy your adventure, but your opinion of Ireland will change when your away from it it for a while, you'll start to relaise what a great place it really is and why the Irish people have a great reputation.
    Oh my! Whereabouts in London are you based?
    I was dragged up in London & have you not realised yet that most Londoners don't actually live in London anymore? We leave that for the foreigners!
    Why don't you try somewhere like Canterbury/Dartford/Ashford....still busy large towns but without the expense.
    Even the Brits don't like the London prices! When hubby & I bought our house in Blackpool (ex guest house, 4 floors, 5beds 2 baths) 6 yrs ago, it was 50K sterling - a friend of mine was buying her 1 bed basement flat in Brixton - 282K Sterling - ridiculous!


  • #50
    The Sweeper
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    I haven't lived in Ireland since July 2002.

    I spent July 2002 to April 2007 living in various places in the South East of England around Surrey. I also spent a lot of time commuting to London.

    I love London. It's a vibrant, interesting, historical city and if you know your way around you can have a blast. As with most cities, the best pubs and restaurants are the ones off the beaten track.

    There is a bit of a rough, binge-drinking 'yoof' culture in the UK, but it's the same everywhere IMHO and you can avoid it if you try.

    Since April 2007 I've been living in Australia. I like it here. The weather is certainly cheerier, and there's more space. The cities are surprisingly "young", but it's nice to deal with a bureaucratic system that appears to be better organised than those in either the UK or Ireland. I've been based in one place so far, in Victoria, and haven't managed to travel much yet but I will.

    I'm very lucky in that I spent a long time in the UK working to get myself into a position where I am self employed and can telecommute - so wherever I am in the world, as long as I have internet access I can work, and I invoice in sterling - which is pretty damn strong against the pacific peso that is the Aussie dollar.

    It means essentially that the world is my oyster - travelling, working, no debt, no commitments. Perhaps that's why I'm feeling less claustraphobic about Dublin - the last time I was there I found it a more cosmopolitan place, felt it benefitted from the influx of different races (the restaurants are better) and recognised the on-street friendliness as being more attractive, where previously I would have considered it dull and nosey.

    At the moment, I have no desire to return and settle in Dublin for good. (Or anywhere else in Ireland - my home town is in Wicklow, and I don't want to go back there either). There's too many other interesting things to see everywhere else in the world.


  • #51
    So Glad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    Minesajackdaniels wrote:
    It means essentially that the world is my oyster - travelling, working, no debt, no commitments. Perhaps that's why I'm feeling less claustraphobic about Dublin - the last time I was there I found it a more cosmopolitan place, felt it benefitted from the influx of different races (the restaurants are better) and recognised the on-street friendliness as being more attractive, where previously I would have considered it dull and nosey.

    You feel that too??

    I feel Dublin is way too...........hmmm.........choose my words carefully............."shackled" if you get my drift.......most people are servants to work, debt, tele then pub on weekends, get drunk and everything's fine...

    I know this is universal, but hey....


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  • #52
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 36,733 CMod ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Play "Johnny Apple Seed" while in Oz.;)


  • #53
    magooly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭magooly


    So Glad wrote:
    So, I'm leaving Ireland next week to go to Australia. I've got a job and accommodation and many contacts waiting for me there, I've never been so happy in my life! I shall hopefully be pursuing my music career there in between working on farms! :rolleyes:

    OP.. I see where u come from. IMOH theres nothin amazin about OZ farming this time of year, typically with farm work u will live miles away from the city and more important far away from available totty.
    So Glad wrote:
    So anyways, anyone else utterly sick of the country? Obviously, if you knew me from posting here, I'm quite a "hardliner" on delicate topics, but this one's a no-brainer. Anyone have any plans on leaving this place?

    I c ur point, but lets see how much u think about home once you up and leave, really annoys me to see affluent young people slag off home. Oz is so Ireland it will make u feel at home if thats why u are travelling to the other end of th world. 5 yrs on the road tells me that if u want a real different experience stop off in Seoul, or Tokyo and teach English. I have lived there for 5 yrs (currently at home for fam reasons) but what a mindblowing experience. Seoul is an easy and rewarding life, Tokyo is for the brave but the rewards are greater. All u need is a pair of b5lls.

    PM me if u want some advice / contacts.


  • #54
    Willymuncher
    Closed Accounts Posts: 450 ✭✭Willymuncher


    I thought I was completely sick of Ireland.

    Now that I have lived here, I realise how much I miss it there. When I move back I'll be glad to be around people that generally have a little more sanity and humour to them...and get away from the radical christians n rednecks.


  • #55
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Good luck in Oz OP !

    And don't forget to check out the Abroad forum once you've joined us expats :)


  • #56
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    The grass is always greener and all that. I've spent the last 5 years in Oz. When you're in holiday mode it's great. When you're in work mode the only thing different about it is the weather. We used to talk about the same things that we talk about here.
    Some topics for ya.
    1: The politicians are idiots. I don't think they're corrupt but they seem to be more idiotic than here.
    2: Traffic in the cities is terrible.
    3: The price of houses. If you want to buy you have to live a long way away. Most other guys in my team had commutes of > hour.
    4: Foreigners coming in and takin ur jobs.
    5: Disasterous city planning. A while before I left Sydney they opened a new tunnel under the city. Great you say. Except as the tunnel was half private they agreed to shut down lots of roads in the city to filter people into the tunnel (the toll was a fortune).
    6: Mortgage rates are high, much higher than here. I think 8% is average. However, eveybody I spoke to remembered the old rates of 18% so 8% is brilliant to them.
    7: Lots and lots of outsourcing to India. I'm in IT, lots of college courses closing down (while I was there) because people just weren't going into them because the jobs weren't there.

    However the main positives
    1: The weather. It's a million times better than here.
    2: Public transport is brilliant even though it's overloaded (trains & ferries, the buses weren't so great). Until they go on strike then you're totally stuck.
    3: People are more positive than here. When I was in Sydney I couldn't believe it when I met Irish people constantly complaining about Ireland. When I came back here I got it X 100. And it's not that bad. There's plenty thats crap but there's plenty more thats good.
    4: The weather.
    5: The weather.
    6: The weather.

    So what's my point. Every city country seems great when you see it on the TV or go there for a holiday (when you saw Ireland on the TV down there it always looked glamerous and a lot of my workmates had come to Ireland for holidays and loved it). When you live somewhere else for a while you figure out that everywhere has problems. I think we just talk about ours more (not in a positive way) so they seem magnified.


  • #57
    oleras
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭oleras


    So Glad wrote:
    So, I'm leaving Ireland next week to go to Australia. I've got a job and accommodation and many contacts waiting for me there, I've never been so happy in my life! I shall hopefully be pursuing my music career there in between working on farms! :rolleyes:

    So anyways, anyone else utterly sick of the country? Obviously, if you knew me from posting here, I'm quite a "hardliner" on delicate topics, but this one's a no-brainer. Anyone have any plans on leaving this place?

    Most of my friends are planning on leaving somehow or another. Seems a popular thing among Irish people (still hehe)...

    Dav.

    :cool:

    Best of luck dude, hope you have the time of your life, and dont forget there is more to Australia than Sydney, make it your business to see WA, spend some time in Perth.

    You will miss your family, but with email and mobiles its a lot easier.


  • #58
    Muggy Dev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭Muggy Dev


    Best of luck OP.

    Moved to Spain myself 6 months ago.Was tough going initially but getting nicely into the groove now.If you´re clear in your mind about the reasons for leaving and you have researched you´re new home country well, then you have a good chance of success.

    Money and employment are big issues wherever you go.Without a skill,profession or trade it´s difficult to avoid slipping into the poverty trap,especially in Oz.Climate and quality of life issues compensate to some extent but there´s no joy in working for peanuts (or peppers) in the longer term.


  • #59
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Rabble rabble rabble.


  • #60
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    i'm moving to canada as soon as they'll let me back in


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  • #61
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    |Cookies wrote:
    You are the most annoying mod of all ****ing time.

    that is all.
    I rest my case.


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