Leaving Ireland next week...

I love you too. :Kisses:

You'll have a great time in Australia. One word of warning though - if you're looking to get away from all things Irish, it might be a little difficult in Australia, especially Sydney. Im thinking of goin out there for a year-ish in early 2008, but some of my friends are having second thoughts because of the idea of being surrounded by loads of other irish people all the time. We do tend to congregate in similar places, us Irish. Anyway I may end up going to Canada for a while instead.

Regarding Dublin, I just got back from living in Edinburgh for a year (and was travelling round the world for four months before that). Beautiful city and going there is one of the best choices i ever made, but by the end i was definitely looking forward to coming back to Dublin for a while. Dublin has so much that i dont like - ****e weather, ****e public transport, ****e food (compared to places on the continent, anyway) and expensive everything. And a lot of its true of Ireland in general. But it does have something fun about it that i havent yet found anyhwere else and that i missed in Edinburgh. Irish people really are good fun i think, especially now that ive got friends from other countries and have some comparison to go by. And anytime I ask a non-irish person what they liked about ireland/dublin, they nearly always say the people and the atmosphere.

I should also add that, in my opinion, Dublin's getting better every year (with the BIG exception of it getting more expensive). Having lived in Edinburgh, about half the size of Dublin and very uni-cultural, I actually have a new appreciation of Dublin as a reasonably big and diverse city with a buzz that only comes with big diverse places. And the transport is slowly getting better, food is getting better and while its really expensive, its a price im willing to pay to live in today's Dublin rather than Dublin 15 years ago when everyone was emigrating etc.

Dudess wrote:

All this "you might want to leave Ireland but things aren't so great elsewhere either" crap is just begrudgery. Reminds me of The Truman Show - the way every time Jim Carrey's character tries to leave, he's asked why the hell he'd want to do that. Even in the travel agent's there's a poster of a plane being struck by lightning with the message "It could happen to YOU..."

The OP wants to go travelling and is really excited by it. Stop pissing on her parade. She's fulfilling an ambition and fair play to her - best of luck OP. Don't mind the negative stories, plenty of people who go travelling have an amazing time - probably the majority.

As for having a rant at Ireland, sometimes people just can't help feeling that way (I know I'm feeling that way at the moment - at the end of the day I love the place, it's home, but I'm also sick of it). Most people don't expect other places to be amazing, they just want a change, that's all.
And going abroad for a while tends to make people far more appreciative of home anyway.

Definitely agree with that. A change of environment definitely does people some good i think - you have a great time and it definitely gives you a new sense of what you like and dislike about home. And you're left with some great memories. As much as I do really like certain things about Dublin, ive still got plenty of travelling i wanna get done before i settle down here for the long haul.

What's with all the begrudgery?

Exit wrote:

What's with all the begrudgery?

It may well be an example of the coarseness the german ambassador was refering to.

Dudess wrote:

All this "you might want to leave Ireland but things aren't so great elsewhere either" crap is just begrudgery. Reminds me of The Truman Show - the way every time Jim Carrey's character tries to leave, he's asked why the hell he'd want to do that. Even in the travel agent's there's a poster of a plane being struck by lightning with the message "It could happen to YOU..."

The OP wants to go travelling and is really excited by it. Stop pissing on her parade. She's fulfilling an ambition and fair play to her - best of luck OP. Don't mind the negative stories, plenty of people who go travelling have an amazing time - probably the majority.

As for having a rant at Ireland, sometimes people just can't help feeling that way (I know I'm feeling that way at the moment - at the end of the day I love the place, it's home, but I'm also sick of it). Most people don't expect other places to be amazing, they just want a change, that's all.
And going abroad for a while tends to make people far more appreciative of home anyway.

:eek: :eek: :eek: Repressed mamories memories ?

yup yup Ireland is crapola central


thats why I travel all the time, and ALWAYS feel depressed when I get back, cant see my self livin here after college

Dudess wrote:

The OP wants to go travelling and is really excited by it. Stop pissing on her parade.

I love this Country and constantly want to look at it in a positive light so the OP is, essentially pissing on my parade.

The reason people decided to "piss on his parade" as you put it, is mainly down to the tone of his post. He also asked a question in the OP and a lot of people answered it honestly, which may not have been in agreement with his excessive views, this also may have been construed as people "pissing on his parade"

You all want to wish him good luck, thats your entitlement but i say goodbye and good riddance. The ironic thing, and what he doesn't realise is, it's people like him that are holding this Country back.

With his small minded, small nation type attitude that he has. It's an attitude a lot of people in this Country have and one we can't seem to shake. Ireland, as a nation, is only small in stature and nothing else. To anyone living here, Ireland should be the centre of the known universe.

Dudess wrote:

But isn't it surely a matter of opinion how you view Ireland as an Irish person?

Actually, you're right. In making my point i kinda got carried away and forgot that but the brash nature of the OP annoyed me, if you're gonna go, just f*cking go, don't come on here seeking some sort of approval or disapproval. Although that also kinda undermines the whole point of a public forum too.

I don't believe we are a small nation anymore, our economy alone dictates that, we are up with the big boys of the world now, we have a lot of clout politically but a lot of people in this country can't seem to fathom that and our small mindedness as a nation is holding us back.

I don't get that...

It's hard to put into words exactly what i mean by that but i'll try. People living in Ireland, should be most concerned with Ireland and it's affairs, first and and foremost before anywhere else, to us it is the most important nation in the world.

So Glad wrote:

Why do people automatically think I'm seeking approval or disapproval? I'm just saying is all.

Don't say, just go! Everyother post from you is about how much you dislike Ireland, well now your chance to get out is here so just bleedin' go! Don't make such a big deal of it, you won't be missed that much.




Are you gone yet?