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Why I am leaving Ireland in 2019

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭OEP


    McGiver wrote: »
    That figure is comparable to Netherlands and not far from Germany. You get hell loads of free stuff and proper governance in these countries.

    In Ireland you get almost nothing in return:
    1. Failing hospitals
    2. Schools outsourced to the church
    3. University need tuition fees
    4. Infrastructure is a joke or missing and where isn't it's damn expensive
    5. Generally poor governance

    We can definitely, and need to, improve on a lot of things here. A lot of the reason why things are the way they are in Ireland is because of our national psyche - which is what also makes it a more interesting a fun place to live, for me anyway. Have you ever spent a lot of time in Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia? They rigidly follow the rules, and don't dare break them. And that goes down to the smallest little things like crossing a road. That drives me crazy, and I couldn't live in a place like that.

    Given this country's history, we have a tendency to bend/break rules. This is both detrimental to the country and part of why people from other countries like us - and I'm not sure what you do about that. I certainly don't want to go the way of the Nordics, Germany, Netherlands where life is that bit more sterile. If we can improve things without losing our slightly more free attitude then this will be a much better country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭Thomas_IV


    theguzman wrote: »
    I have decided to pack my bags in 2019 and leave Ireland, hopefully permanently.

    The reason I am leaving is I no longer want to live in such regressive society where I am taxed into the ground. There is no incentive to do anything properly in the way I would like to do it.

    Overall combined taxation rates are close to 80% and we don't get any useful public services.

    ....

    This post is good enough to put off everyone who considers to emigrate to Ireland and not leaving it as you say. Thanks for all the informations provided as it gives a very good oversight on taxation in Ireland which, depending on what one is obliged to pay (car, home etc.), is really depressing.

    I wish you good luck in finding a new home and settle in there, wherever that might be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ArrBee


    Stan27 wrote: »
    I moved to Australia in 2017. Great country but I’ll always move home to Ireland

    Ahhhh... still in the honeymoon phase!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭ArrBee


    OEP wrote: »
    Given this country's history, we have a tendency to bend/break rules. This is both detrimental to the country and part of why people from other countries like us - and I'm not sure what you do about that. I certainly don't want to go the way of the Nordics, Germany, Netherlands where life is that bit more sterile. If we can improve things without losing our slightly more free attitude then this will be a much better country.

    Pretty much spot on IMO.

    I find myself conflicted in how I view things in Ireland for that reason.
    On the one hand you are more free to do as you please, but then everyone else is at it too so you need to be comfortable with others "doing the wrong thing".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Statistically you are wrong. when all stealth taxes & related services charges are factored in along with income tax bands Ireland is one of the most taxed countries in Europe..

    This is false.

    Overall taxes are not high in Ireland.

    They are about average, compared to other EU countries.

    High compared to the USA, yes.

    Now, the top marginal tax rate [MTR] starts way too low at 35k approx, that is crazy, yes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    McGiver wrote: »
    Not maybe but for sure they do many things better.

    First you say Ireland is the best country in the world, metrics etc and then you say the top countries in Europe are not a good benchmark to use. That's totally contradictory.
    I did not say that. I suggest actually reading my post before claiming I'm being contradictory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Ireland is a complete and utter expensive kip.

    The price level is too high, yes.

    https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Comparative_price_levels_of_consumer_goods_and_services


    In 2017, the price level for HFCE was 125.4, compared to the EU average.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Blaizes wrote: »
    Very expensive, creche fees,a visit to the doctor, car insurance to name but a few, a very few

    Yes, the price level is too high, relative to incomes.


    index.php?title=File:Price_level_index_for_household_final_consumption_expenditure_(HFCE),_2017,_EU-28%3D100JUNEnew.png


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    OP I don't know about moving abroad just for financial reasons. I think there has to be something else to the country as well. I live in Spain and there's no way in hell I'm going to be mega bucks rich than if I was living in a place like Qatar. Qatar might be grand in the short term but long term would be seriously boring I would imagine.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,823 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    Love living in Ireland having moved here 5 years ago. Had looked into Australia at the time, too, it was our first choice but no chance at a job there and hence no opportunity. Biggest thing Australia had over Ireland was lots of empty space, could live somewhere without too many people around or having to deal with them. Ireland's fine as a second choice and once you get past the weather (which you'll complain about everywhere you live, though here it seems like it's the national pastime), it's great.


  • Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭incentsitive


    Why don't we all just face facts, this whole planet is a kip. Beam me up Scotty.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    theguzman wrote: »
    Why would a person bother working, you are better to draw welfare and have nothing to your name and just enjoy life because work does not pay in Ireland. I don't loathe these people, as a matter of fact I envy them. Why bother trying to do the right thing in Ireland when the Govt will tax it and take it away from you. Why bother respecting any law because you will not be punished.

    I'd agree with everything except this last paragraph. My family has a reasonable standard of living because we are both earning more than we did in the past. Sure, the government wets (soaks!) its beak, but I've run the numbers and there is no way would would be better off on the dole. Not even close.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,437 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    theguzman wrote: »
    Qatar is just one of the low tax regimes I am thinking of, The US is also very appealing depending on which state I'd go to. I don't know how anyone could defend what is happening in Ireland unless you were a Civil Servant on a cushy job with a pension. I know lads who stay in bed all day, drink a few cans or smoke a bit of weed, they have nothing to their name and contribute nothing to society only draw down from the system, before they would anger me but as every day passes I admire them more for being able to give two fingers to the taxman.

    Real barbelling; Qatar vs USA. Are you independently wealthy or what will you do for a crust? Likely to impact your immigration prospects.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭FatherTed


    I think the OP should become a civil servant in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭rn


    We don't have many "stealth" taxes. Most of what press labels "stealth" tax are very transparent consumption taxes, that are levied at the point of transaction in a transparent way by either seller or buyer (in case of stamp duty). Sugar tax, again a consumption based tax that is clearly levied against drinks that contain added sugar. In fact I'm struggling to see any true stealth tax.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭incentsitive


    OEP wrote: »
    We can definitely, and need to, improve on a lot of things here. A lot of the reason why things are the way they are in Ireland is because of our national psyche - which is what also makes it a more interesting a fun place to live, for me anyway. Have you ever spent a lot of time in Germany, the Netherlands or Scandinavia? They rigidly follow the rules, and don't dare break them. And that goes down to the smallest little things like crossing a road. That drives me crazy, and I couldn't live in a place like that.

    Given this country's history, we have a tendency to bend/break rules. This is both detrimental to the country and part of why people from other countries like us - and I'm not sure what you do about that. I certainly don't want to go the way of the Nordics, Germany, Netherlands where life is that bit more sterile. If we can improve things without losing our slightly more free attitude then this will be a much better country.

    Those things are what I hate most about this country. I hate the sly chancer attitude in Ireland. I hate that we think its a laugh to get a TD to pull a stroke for us to get planning permission or a medical card.

    I hate that people have so little pride in their place that they think fly tipping and littering are OK. I hate that we can't have street bins because people will fill them with domestic rubbish. I hate that our streets become a cess pit of urine and beer cans and bottles on a Saturday night. I hate that our beaches are left in a mess.

    I hate that we have a useless inefficient public sector / health service where nobody is ever got rid of and half of them scratch their behind all day.

    I hate that motorists break red lights. I hate the way cyclists think its OK to go through a pedestrian crossing and not bother stopping. I hate that pedestrians can't wait for a green light.

    Give me the Swiss/Dutch/German way any day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    I agree with the OP, for the amount of tax we pay we would expect there to be more socialised infrastructure, for example free Luas and buses would be a good way to give back to the people. The issue I see is we are still paying back European loans and that non-national debt that somehow magically became a national one back in 2008.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,145 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Good of you to get your education and health care and then p*ss off without putting it back into the economy. Sher there's great health care all for free in Narnia.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    rn wrote: »
    We don't have many "stealth" taxes. Most of what press labels "stealth" tax are very transparent consumption taxes, that are levied at the point of transaction in a transparent way by either seller or buyer (in case of stamp duty). Sugar tax, again a consumption based tax that is clearly levied against drinks that contain added sugar. In fact I'm struggling to see any true stealth tax.

    Health insurance 'levy'; car insurance 'levy; home insurance 'levy', My council charges for disposing of supposed recyclables! The TV licence is an out front, stealth tax not even pretending to be stealthy. Stamp duty on financial cards. The water charges was a good attempt at yet another shrapnel tax. The PSO lvy on your electricity bill - it's f'ing endless!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    I agree with the OP, for the amount of tax we pay we would expect there to be more socialised infrastructure, for example free Luas and buses would be a good way to give back to the people. The issue I see is we are still paying back European loans and that non-national debt that somehow magically became a national one back in 2008.

    Considering the population is only 4.5 million and we pay an inordinate amount of tax to keep the €20 billion welfare bill intact.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Good of you to get your education and health care and then p*ss off without putting it back into the economy. Sher there's great health care all for free in Narnia.

    School education was paid for by tax on his parents, most likely. Last I checked there was something called college fees. Health - that's paid for out of his current taxes, not that it's Bulgarian level of service is worth paying for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,381 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    We don't pay enough tax for the services we want and far too much tax for the services we receive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭bullpost


    We don't pay enough tax for the services we want and far too much tax for the services we receive.

    Part of the problem is the modern political system. No political party who tells it like it is will get into power. We vote for the yellow-pack options time and time again.
    I sometimes think it would be better when voting to get options on the parties , so I can vote for FG or whoever, and select from a set of options as to the policies and cost to me of those policies. So I can vote FG and vote for option to pay additional 1% tax which they will use to fix homelessness or whatever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,381 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    bullpost wrote: »
    Part of the problem is the modern political system. No political party who tells it like it is will get into power. We vote for the yellow-pack options time and time again.

    I would personally have no problems with paying additional taxes, but I have absolutely no confidence in getting good value from them.

    I suspect most of the money would be gobbled up by the special interest groups like the public sector unions or various quangos or spunked on vote-buying bolloxology.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    Move abroad and look and marvel how a country like Ireland is such a mess.

    Inept people running it, taxes being put to no real good use, messed up health system, public transport making pathetic excuses as to how it can't run itself properly etc. etc.

    Don't listen to the people saying "Good luck to ya then! cause this is how it is so we don't need moaners! Enjoy the sand and repression"

    Course we need moaners Ireland needs loads of moaners to moan, moan and moan until the goddamn situation changes. Far too complicit in taking mistreatment in our stride past, future, but hopefully not future.

    You know you could accept it. Maybe, if it was a large population. But it isn't, and that's what frustrates people the most.


  • Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭incentsitive


    chrissb8 wrote: »
    Move abroad and look and marvel how a country like Ireland is such a mess.

    Inept people running it, taxes being put to no real good use, messed up health system, public transport making pathetic excuses as to how it can't run itself properly etc. etc.

    Don't listen to the people saying "Good luck to ya then! cause this is how it is so we don't need moaners! Enjoy the sand and repression"

    Course we need moaners Ireland needs loads of moaners to moan, moan and moan until the goddamn situation changes. Far too complicit in taking mistreatment in our stride past, future, but hopefully not future.

    Yes because other countries are ran better, e.g. Britain, USA, etc. Well ran aren't they.........Germany has an 18bn airport called Brandenburg Airport which they are now talking about knocking down.

    Politicians are the same the world over. They are no different.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    There's a difference between countries that are a mess and countries that are slowly killing themselves.

    The former is tolerable, the latter is catastrophic.

    Ireland is currently, like a lot of other Western countries, in the latter camp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    rn wrote: »
    We don't have many "stealth" taxes. Most of what press labels "stealth" tax are very transparent consumption taxes, that are levied at the point of transaction in a transparent way by either seller or buyer (in case of stamp duty). Sugar tax, again a consumption based tax that is clearly levied against drinks that contain added sugar. In fact I'm struggling to see any true stealth tax.

    Pension levy, insurance levies, PSO levies.

    Have a look at all the extras on any if your utility bill.

    Credit Card annual Stamp duty.


    On and on....except for scoungers of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,853 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    bullpost wrote: »
    Part of the problem is the modern political system. No political party who tells it like it is will get into power. We vote for the yellow-pack options time and time again.
    I sometimes think it would be better when voting to get options on the parties , so I can vote for FG or whoever, and select from a set of options as to the policies and cost to me of those policies. So I can vote FG and vote for option to pay additional 1% tax which they will use to fix homelessness or whatever.

    I dont agree with that, if said party sets up, will they get a majority, not a bloody chance, but imagine, they got 15-20%, it would be a total gamechanger here. I actually need a sick bucket beside me now, if I have the misfortune of watching those retards that govern us, endless **** talking, 'wont someone please think of the children" spare me! The first thing a new party should propose is the licence fee abolition from the joke known as RTE! Get rid of the year on car registrations too, billions flowing out of the irish economy, sent up in smoke!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 675 ✭✭✭Dr.Sanchez


    I moved back home to Ireland last year after living Abroad for six years. I too will be leaving Ireland (again) in 2019/20 when I finish the postgraduate I'm going. Not because of all the reasons the OP stated. I already have a decent job here. I just want to live somewhere with decent weather where I can do outdoorsy stuff on the weekends.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    What can I say if taxation is the real reason for OP ... each with their own needs.

    But would strongly suggest looking at other factors before emigrating. An example (& important for me) would be a country's state of freedom.
    Found this report from 2017 https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_FIW_2017_Report_Final.pdf
    Few examples:

    Country Aggregate score
    Austria 95
    Ireland 96
    Germany 95
    Saudi A 10
    New Zealand 98
    Sweden 100
    Norway 100
    Finland 100
    Switzerland 96
    UK 95
    US 89


    Sounds like Scandinavian countries are the perfect place to live in :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭klaaaz


    mvl wrote: »
    What can I say if taxation is the real reason for OP ... each with their own needs.

    But would strongly suggest looking at other factors before emigrating. An example (& important for me) would be a country's state of freedom.
    Found this report from 2017 https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_FIW_2017_Report_Final.pdf
    Few examples:

    Country Aggregate score
    Austria 95
    Ireland 96
    Germany 95
    Saudi A 10
    New Zealand 98
    Sweden 100
    Norway 100
    Finland 100
    Switzerland 96
    UK 95
    US 89


    Sounds like Scandinavian countries are the perfect place to live in :)

    They are thank you! :) But, posters here are not willing to pay their taxes for the greater return of services. They have this vision that overseas lower taxed first world countries are the land of milk and honey when they are not. It's actually the opposite, just look at the EU with the multiple of higher taxed countries doing well where essential services are cheaper, more money in people's pockets and their populations are happier for it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    I don't think people understand the behaviour of the general public has on policy.

    If you deliver something on time and under budget it was badly priced.

    Late and over budget it is somebody should be fired

    Late, over budget and not working correctly fire the minister

    General escalations of above scenarios. The thing is who asked for the change? When you look into it they generally stem from complaints or campaigners.

    Great example was the fence on the motorway. A temporary fence was in place before more works were to be done. The fence adhered to the law. People complained because it was dangerous for motorcyclists. As a result a different fence was put in at a waste of €1.6million as it was going to have to come up again. There is a no win situation because you actually need to ignore the public sometimes which is actually what the should have done when the ERSI said we need to build housing in Dublin in 2012. They listened to the public instead and didn't build, should have ignored them. There in lives the problem of being a politician and getting stuff done.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Yes because other countries are ran better, e.g. Britain, USA, etc. Well ran aren't they.........Germany has an 18bn airport called Brandenburg Airport which they are now talking about knocking down.

    Politicians are the same the world over. They are no different.

    Still not finished? Four years ago when I moaned about that dump Berlin Schonefeld I was told the new airport was almost ready. Ah Schonefeld is a embarrassment for a capital city

    German efficiency is a myth it seems


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    rn wrote: »
    We don't have many "stealth" taxes.

    This is one of the problems. Ireland need's more and deeper stealth taxes. Only most mature and financially responsible countries like the Scandinavians or the Germans can really be overt in their sources of tax raising.

    People like the Irish who dont really understand the difficulties of providing services and balancing the country's finances can all too clearly see what they are paying in tax, while being blind to much of the expenditure. Leading to perceptions of injustice, dissatisfaction, and lack of understanding of the issues the government is handling for them.

    As a government policy, and for the general quiety of the taxpayer, his general perception and satisfaction with his state's governance, stealth taxes are a winner all round. Ireland caught on late to this one, and still has considerable road to go in their implementation. What you dont feel wont hurt you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    mvl wrote: »
    What can I say if taxation is the real reason for OP ... each with their own needs.

    But would strongly suggest looking at other factors before emigrating. An example (& important for me) would be a country's state of freedom.
    Found this report from 2017 https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/FH_FIW_2017_Report_Final.pdf
    Few examples:

    Country Aggregate score
    Austria 95
    Ireland 96
    Germany 95
    Saudi A 10
    New Zealand 98
    Sweden 100
    Norway 100
    Finland 100
    Switzerland 96
    UK 95
    US 89


    Sounds like Scandinavian countries are the perfect place to live in :)

    That's only because you haven't thought to compare their taxation regimes to New Zealand. :P


  • Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Still not finished? Four years ago when I moaned about that dump Berlin Schonefeld I was told the new airport was almost ready. Ah Schonefeld is a embarrassment for a capital city

    German efficiency is a myth it seems

    Passed through that kip a few months ago, a sprawling concrete carbuncle. Gate 64 out of 65, lugging cases up and down several flights of stairs. This sort of monstrosity might make sense in a backwater of Albania, not a large metropolis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,110 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    This is one of the problems. Ireland need's more and deeper stealth taxes. Only most mature and financially responsible countries like the Scandinavians or the Germans can really be overt in their sources of tax raising.

    People like the Irish who dont really understand the difficulties of providing services and balancing the country's finances can all too clearly see what they are paying in tax, while being blind to much of the expenditure. Leading to perceptions of injustice, dissatisfaction, and lack of understanding of the issues the government is handling for them.

    As a government policy, and for the general quiety of the taxpayer, his general perception and satisfaction with his state's governance, stealth taxes are a winner all round. Ireland caught on late to this one, and still has considerable road to go in their implementation. What you dont feel wont hurt you.

    You seem to think like an Irish bureaucracy functionary. I will be well glad to put you and yours behind me and get as far away from such mindsets as I can get. God, that final boarding call can't come soon enough.


  • Registered Users Posts: 890 ✭✭✭Ultimanemo


    Good luck


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    cnocbui wrote: »
    That's only because you haven't thought to compare their taxation regimes to New Zealand. :P

    unlike OP, I would not emigrate cause of taxation ...
    - I love NZ, but as I've no family there, it would be less ideal for me compared to Scandi.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,381 ✭✭✭facehugger99


    Ray Palmer wrote: »

    Great example was the fence on the motorway. A temporary fence was in place before more works were to be done. The fence adhered to the law. People complained because it was dangerous for motorcyclists. As a result a different fence was put in at a waste of €1.6million as it was going to have to come up again. There is a no win situation because you actually need to ignore the public sometimes which is actually what the should have done when the ERSI said we need to build housing in Dublin in 2012. They listened to the public instead and didn't build, should have ignored them. There in lives the problem of being a politician and getting stuff done.

    I've read this paragraph a number of times and still haven't a clue what it's about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭rn


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Pension levy, insurance levies, PSO levies.

    Have a look at all the extras on any if your utility bill.

    Credit Card annual Stamp duty.


    On and on....except for scoungers of course.

    Most of those are not "stealth" taxes because it's clear when, how and why they are raised. Insurance levy is a reserve for when insurance companies fail and a reasonable number have had to be. Not everyone has or has a need for insurance, so it's fair that purchasers of insurance pay a tax.

    PSO levy is to help pay for capital investment in green energy in Ireland, again needed to accelerate this area which is good for society and Ireland in the future. Stamp duty on credit cards is reasonable as credit cards are a luxury item.

    The pension levy is questionable alright but I believe is to be phased out.

    On water charges, we got that completely wrong. Wasters of water can just carry on with no penalty now and Joe tax payer picks up tab to treat every liter used.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Make sure to register your house for asylum seekers. They take priority over citizens for housing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,388 ✭✭✭Cina


    Igotadose wrote: »
    Love living in Ireland having moved here 5 years ago. Had looked into Australia at the time, too, it was our first choice but no chance at a job there and hence no opportunity. Biggest thing Australia had over Ireland was lots of empty space, could live somewhere without too many people around or having to deal with them. Ireland's fine as a second choice and once you get past the weather (which you'll complain about everywhere you live, though here it seems like it's the national pastime), it's great.

    No no no, sorry, this is a thread for bashing Ireland. You can't come in here, from yer foreign lands, and be tellin' us how great it is! How bleedin' dare you. You need to adopt to life here and moan about it like everyone else. Become entitled like the rest o' us and get it in you're head that we're basically some deadbeat third world country! Embrace the moan!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    Is this a blog?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,216 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Igotadose wrote: »
    Biggest thing Australia had over Ireland was lots of empty space, could live somewhere without too many people around or having to deal with them. Ireland's fine as a second choice .


    ? Over here we regard someone who wants to 'live somewhere without too many people around or having to deal with them' as an oddball.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭The Rape of Lucretia


    Try_harder wrote: »
    Is this a blog?

    I dunno, is it ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,542 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Make sure to register your house for asylum seekers. They take priority over citizens for housing.

    Barstool politics rubbish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭SteM


    theguzman wrote: »
    .....I no longer want to live in such regressive society.....

    Where are you going?
    theguzman wrote: »
    Probably Qatar


    :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 436 ✭✭incentsitive


    Eh, OP if Ireland qualify for the world cup in 2022 can I sleep on your couch?


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