it-was-great-while-it-lasted-ireland-but-it-s-time-to-say-goodbye ARTICLE

Ahh, stick on the kettle and give it a year or two. The mood in Irelands like the weather - changeable. Better times will be back along in a bit and we'll stop whinging and moaning. You don't dump the missus cos she's in bad form for a week or two - hang in there and buy flowers.

Lou.m wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/it-was-great-while-it-lasted-ireland-but-it-s-time-to-say-goodbye-1.1636140

What do you think?

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It's vague waffle and not worth a ****, tbh.

I can only speak for myself, and as irrational as it sounds....for me....it was the damn GNIB card price increases...

It might be silly, but that jump from 150 euro to 300 euro was what convinced my wife and I to head home and not go forward with the citizenship/naturalization process.

Love the country, love Dublin (though I wouldn't mind avoiding DublinBus), and the people have been nothing but welcoming (I'm not quite so annoying in person). There is a lot to like....but financially....I feel like a walking ATM these days. Everywhere I look, there is another fee, another tax, another fare increase, a new this, that, and the other thing.

Most of them, I feel like you can kind of justify. But a 100% increase to the GNIB card, four years after a 50% increase....maddening. And if you have never gone to the GNIB - maybe you won't understand, but it's the worst experience I've had in my time here. You show up at 9am and they are done for the day and send you home. You show up at 7am and there is a line wrapped around the building. They are understaffed and the ones that are there would rather be somewhere else. Last time it took me three attempts and a five hour wait before I got the privilege of paying 300 euro and the guy didn't even bother to look at the paperwork I'd spent the better part of a day chasing down and filling out.

And most fees, they go to the ones that can pay. But the GNIB increase hits a lot of people without a lot of money. I know quite a few students tried to protest but, well, it went exactly as you'd expect.

Gran Hermano wrote: »

NO-IT-EMMIGRATED

Good riddance :pac: Feckin space-bars, coming over here filling our pages.

Nodin wrote: »

The times publish J Waters, so little suprises me.

...what's most odd is that she wasted an opportunity to tell her story and highlight what problems she experienced, in a national respected paper.

Completely of topic but on page three of the times today there is a picture of me walking back down the south bull wall yesterday, sorry OP it's not everyday I get into the Irish Times.:)

OP, where in this 'article' is the racism of which you speak?

Note: I use the term 'article' quite loosely, hence the quotes.

Sounds like an economic migrant that chose to come here and has now chosen to move elsewhere. Hardly worthy of an 'article' in the so called paper of record.