Would you emigrate?

purity · 01-04-2011 12:11PM #1

Okay I know hundreds of people are emigrating it's like the wildebeest in the serengeti things are that bad, but in all fairness would you emigrate if you had a good paying full time job which you don't like but it is a permanent position, no mortgage no loans no kids.
Would your job alone stop you from leaving to see what's out there? Just curious as I happen to have a great job but dislike it and am considering my options.

Duggy747 · 01-04-2011 12:13PM

Nah, never really had any intentions of emigrating myself. Known plenty of people who have, some have landed on their feet while others just end up coming back with debts.

Anywho, a good Guinness and pack of Tayto make it all worthwile :pac:

azezil · 01-04-2011 12:14PM

What, no poll!?

Fail ¬_¬

purity · 01-04-2011 12:15PM

Duggy747 wrote: »

Nah, never really had any intentions of emigrating myself. Known plenty of people who have, some have landed on their feet while others just end up coming back with debts.

Anywho, a good Guinness and pack of Tayto make it all worthwile :pac:

Ya I would miss tayto love them:) I know things aren't terrible but taxation and the likes will get worse. I guess some people jut emigrate for the fun while others are genuinely going to improve their lives

mickydoomsux · 01-04-2011 12:15PM

purity wrote: »

Okay I know hundreds of people are emigrating it's like the wildebeest in the serengeti things are that bad...

Where's the statisical evidence of this? Aren't the DAA reporting falling passenger numbers out of the country?

The gap year-long piss-ups of the Celtic Tiger have now turned into "I'm leaving Ireland because there's no jobs for grads. Time to go work in a pub in Australia!"

Pure Sound · 01-04-2011 12:16PM

I definately would, happiness is far more important then wealth, if you are unhappy in your work you are probably unhappy in life. If you were to have nothing holding you here why would you stay?

jackiebaron · 01-04-2011 12:17PM

purity wrote: »

Okay I know hundreds of people are emigrating it's like the wildebeest in the serengeti things are that bad, but in all fairness would you emigrate if you had a good paying full time job which you don't like but it is a permanent position, no mortgage no loans no kids.
Would your job alone stop you from leaving to see what's out there? Just curious as I happen to have a great job but dislike it and am considering my options.

Why don't you take a leave of absence, ya jellyhead?

purity · 01-04-2011 12:17PM

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Where's the statisical evidence of this? Aren't the DAA reporting falling passenger numbers out of the country?

The gap year-long piss-ups of the Celtic Tiger have now turned into "I'm leaving Ireland because there's no jobs for grads. Time to go work in a pub in Australia!"

While in my old school year 80 out of 120 left for Austrailia don't like Austrailia myself, And yeah you have a point the emigrate to work in pubs and the likes I however have a great job and was just wondering

Hasmunch · 01-04-2011 12:18PM

purity wrote: »

Okay I know hundreds of people are emigrating it's like the wildebeest in the serengeti things are that bad, but in all fairness would you emigrate if you had a good paying full time job which you don't like but it is a permanent position, no mortgage no loans no kids.
Would your job alone stop you from leaving to see what's out there? Just curious as I happen to have a great job but dislike it and am considering my options.

Permanent Job in Ireland: Check
No mortgage: Check
No Loans: Check
No Kids: Check

Current location: Melbourne
Regrets: None

purity · 01-04-2011 12:18PM

jackiebaron wrote: »

Why don't you take a leave of absence, ya jellyhead?

HSE? not a good idea right now lucky to even have my own job

purity · 01-04-2011 12:20PM

We Need Community wrote: »

I definately would, happiness is far more important then wealth, if you are unhappy in your work you are probably unhappy in life. If you were to have nothing holding you here why would you stay?

My family and friends, I would ideally go to Canada as they have one of the best health care systems in the world and that's my current work practice

Cookie_Monster · 01-04-2011 12:21PM

Good job
partner with good job
no mortgage
no kids
no real debts

looking to get out of here

Cupcake_Crisis · 01-04-2011 12:26PM

If I had the money id be out of here in a flash. Theres's nothing for me to stay here for really

Derfil · 01-04-2011 12:27PM

If you've no ties here and aren't happy in your job go for it. Get outta here and do some traveling. Give it a few years . Who knows it could well be the best decision you ever made. Things in the long run look bleak here. Heard a great analogy on the radio "it's like we're stuck in a burning house and have no way to get out".

Riamfada · 01-04-2011 12:27PM

Im Irish and this is my home and it is where I belong. My ancestors didnt murder and kill the natives to settle here so I could just piss off to Australia 300 years later and have kids with silly accents.

God save the King!

TPD · 01-04-2011 12:29PM

I'd save as long as I could stick at the job, then when I've a good amount or am approaching the edge of sanity, flee.

01-04-2011 12:42PM

No way, Don't get the desire people have to leave their home country. Having spend a short time living abroad I couldnt wait to get back to Ireland. I would like to visit lots of places but on holiday not moving there.

jackiebaron · 01-04-2011 12:49PM

Ace Cool Joint wrote: »

No way, Don't get the desire people have to leave their home country. Having spend a short time living abroad I couldnt wait to get back to Ireland. I would like to visit lots of places but on holiday not moving there.

Home is where you make it, not where you were born. You don't see a chicken loitering around an egg-shell his entire life do you?

01-04-2011 12:51PM

jackiebaron wrote: »

Home is where you make it, not where you were born. You don't see a chicken loitering around an egg-shell his entire life do you?

Home is where you come from and where all your family and friends are imo.

anto2 · 01-04-2011 12:56PM

^ Home is where you hang your hat .:)

BizzyC · 01-04-2011 12:56PM

I have a permanent job here, but I do plan on emigrating as I dont have any prospects for further advancement in my company.
I dont understand the whole ethos of people who think that people should settle purely because of the economic climate, if you can do better, go out and do better!

Edit: just to add, any move would be a temporary thing for a few years. Wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life somewhere else...

endabob1 · 01-04-2011 12:58PM

Emigrated in 1995, lived all over the world, London, Melbourne, Cape Town was hoping to go home this year but not going to happen in the current climate; While I've loved living in different cities and have had a pretty exciting life for a once small town boy, people make the place and there's no place like home.

stargazer 68 · 01-04-2011 12:59PM

I have lived abroad for years including the Middle East. I left full time jobs here in Ireland to go away. Have been back here 5 years and have been working since I got back.

Us Paddies have always emigrated - its nothing new and is definitely something I would recommend to my 2 children.

As for the media etc telling us how many are leaving etc - well the census next week should give us a more accurate picture - providing people fill in their forms!!

fkiely · 01-04-2011 12:59PM

jackiebaron wrote: »

Home is where you make it, not where you were born. You don't see a chicken loitering around an egg-shell his entire life do you?

You don't see many people loitering around the hospital they were born in for their entire life either to be fair..

starviewadams · 01-04-2011 01:00PM

No qualifications that would allow me to permantely move to the US/Canada/Oz,worked in London with my uncle before and absolutely hated the place,so thats not much of an option either.

Could feck off for a year or so to Australia/US/Can but then I'd end up back here after a year with no job and no entitlements more depressed then when I left.

Ironman76 · 01-04-2011 01:04PM

Out of work a month. Looking at London at the moment as Ive family there. Absolutely hate this place.

syklops · 01-04-2011 01:07PM

Ace Cool Joint wrote: »

No way, Don't get the desire people have to leave their home country. Having spend a short time living abroad I couldnt wait to get back to Ireland. I would like to visit lots of places but on holiday not moving there.

Do you not think thats a bit hypocritical? "Having spent a short time living abroad".

What you mean is you got it out of your system and went home. A lot of the people who are thinking of leaving will do the same. I am abroad and will return home in 3-5 years. You saying No, to " would you emigrate", when you did already and came home is just wrong.

Lu Tze · 01-04-2011 01:17PM

purity wrote: »

... but in all fairness would you emigrate if you had a good paying full time job which you don't like but it is a permanent position, no mortgage no loans no kids.
Would your job alone stop you from leaving to see what's out there? Just curious as I happen to have a great job but dislike it and am considering my options.

This is what myself and the girlfriend did. In jobs before we left and worried about leaving them. What a weight lifted of my shoulders though! Didnt realise how stress and irritable it made me until i left.

Much happier now - working on much higher capital value projects (in australia mainly and some internationally) but not finding it anywhere near as stressful. Would recommend it for anybody no longer enjoying their work. If you do enjoy it - why leave?

That said ill be coming back at christmas after 1.5 years or so, the girlfriend leaving in september so i dont have much choice. Realistically though - due to the profession i am in - ill be off to the UK not long after returning to get work. Reality bites if you do have to return to ireland

UsernameInUse · 01-04-2011 01:29PM

endabob1 wrote: »

Emigrated in 1995, lived all over the world, London, Melbourne, Cape Town was hoping to go home this year but not going to happen in the current climate; While I've loved living in different cities and have had a pretty exciting life for a once small town boy, people make the place and there's no place like home.

Whats Cape Town like?

Noo · 01-04-2011 01:37PM

Dooooooo it! Theres more to life than Ireland, get outta here and experience living somewhere else, if it doesnt work out it doesnt work out...at least you gave it a shot and will have no regrets.

Most of my friends are emigrating later this year to oz, therell be nothing keeping me here as it'll be very lonely, I cant wait to head off with them and experience it all with my closest buddies

01-04-2011 02:41PM

syklops wrote: »

Do you not think thats a bit hypocritical? "Having spent a short time living abroad".

What you mean is you got it out of your system and went home. A lot of the people who are thinking of leaving will do the same. I am abroad and will return home in 3-5 years. You saying No, to " would you emigrate", when you did already and came home is just wrong.

The way I look a it is that emigrating is basically permanently moving abroad where as I went away for less than a year. Its the whole thought of moving away and making somewhere else your home I don't like, I find it depressing the thought of leaving your home, family and friends behind.

Living abroad didn't change my opinion as I knew I wouldn't like it before I went.

Would you emigrate?

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