Leaving Ireland next week...

So Glad

The only single thing that would make me want to come back to Dublin is famlily.....

When I told my mother & father they both cried. They love me a lot, and that's all I'd regret from leaving...

But every bird's got to fly, huh?

Agent Smith

So Glad wrote:

The only single thing that would make me want to come back to Dublin is famlily.....

When I told my mother & father they both cried. They love me a lot, and that's all I'd regret from leaving...

But every bird's got to fly, huh?

Have you not left yet?

Rb

So Glad wrote:

When I told my mother & father they both cried. They love me a lot, and that's all I'd regret from leaving...

Ah yeah sure noone wants you here anyway so what else would there be to regret?
Poor guy, couldn't even find one friend to form a band with, instead he sits in his room and makes crappy music all by his lonesome, dreaming of the day he leaves this country and flees to a country where he thinks he'll be accepted, and for the first time in his life, people WILL want him around!
Yet, soon enough he'll find out the truth...no matter English, Irish, French, Chinese or any other nationality, noone wants him around.

Spud83

Hey you never know you could end up like that Damien Leith guy and win Australian Idol. The Australians loved him, and it has to be better than winning Your a Star.

coolhandc

i got sick of the country too and went away for a while,after a few weeks youll miss thiss place and your friends and family.good luck tho im sure youll have some great times

Terry

Ponster wrote:

^^ +1

Ireland will never, ever be with the "big boys" though it's not from lack of trying unless the country is sitting on the worlds largets oil/gold/uranium deposit and I don't know about it.

Rockall.

Pat the Baker

I'm leaving Ireland next week too

oleras

Terry wrote:

Rockall.

May the seaguls rise and pluck your eyes.............

Not that i condone any of that behaviour.

Spud83

Pat the Baker wrote:

I'm leaving Ireland next week too

I thought you left this world a while ago?

Terry

Terry wrote:

Rockall.

Is that next to Fúckall

Pat the Baker

alanmurphy83 wrote:

I thought you left this world a while ago?

Sshhhh... nobody knows im still here

Maple

So Glad wrote:

The only single thing that would make me want to come back to Dublin is famlily.....

When I told my mother & father they both cried. They love me a lot, and that's all I'd regret from leaving...

But every bird's got to fly, huh?

yet another cheesy line to add to your repertoire. :rolleyes: perhaps you could include it in one of your songs.

back on topic, best of luck with your travels OP, will open your eyes and mind.

Uuuh Patsy

kelle wrote:

You're so right to do it. I desperately wanted to in my 20s, but didn't have the courage. In the end, we bought a house with the money I saved instead (plus a mortgage). I was so disappointed at the time as I really wanted to be in Australia, but looking back I'm glad I did because of the way house prices went.
Can't do it now as I have 3 small kids. I wish you all the best! You won't regret it, I'm sure.

What do you mean you can't do it. I'm heading to Perth early next year with 3kids under 3. Can't bloody wait. This place is doing my head in. Need to try find somewhere to bring my kids up thats not surrounded by druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders etc. And slashing the mortgage is a huge bonus.

Xavi6

MrJoeSoap wrote:

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.

Ah to be fair it was the middle of winter. It's not 365 days of sun here! And sure didn't it rain for 30-odd days straight in Ireland this SUMMER? Weather's pretty sweet here now, pushing mid-20s and rising every week.

Spud83

Uuuh Patsy wrote:

What do you mean you can't do it. I'm heading to Perth early next year with 3kids under 3. Can't bloody wait. This place is doing my head in. Need to try find somewhere to bring my kids up thats not surrounded by druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders etc. And slashing the mortgage is a huge bonus.

Well I wouldn't stay in Northbridge in Perth as that is filled with druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders, backpackers, pissheads etc.

Pat the Baker

Xavi6 wrote:

Ah to be fair it was the middle of winter. It's not 365 days of sun here! And sure didn't it rain for 30-odd days straight in Ireland this SUMMER? Weather's pretty sweet here now, pushing mid-20s and rising every week.

over 60 days i think

oleras

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Well I wouldn't stay in Northbridge in Perth as that is filled with druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders, backpackers, pissheads etc.

But nice bars and restauraunts.

TerrorFirmer

I'm sick of the people who moan about Ireland like it's South Central. You'd swear we had the worlds highest crime rates and lowest income judging from this. I'm having a fine life here in Ireland, thank you, as are all my friends and pretty much everyone I know, certainly a lot better then what most other countries in the world experience. Huzzah for Ireland.

Uuuh Patsy

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Well I wouldn't stay in Northbridge in Perth as that is filled with druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders, backpackers, pissheads etc.

Dont think the statistics would back that up. 1/3 the number of murders (in Western Australia ).
Nor does the thousands who dont come running back.

mac123

I think you should all give the op a break. Fair play to her, she realises that there are other countries that offer better lifestyles than our beautiful Ireland! Dont get me wrong i love Ireland but iv been to plenty of other countries that i would much prefer to live in. At the end of the day Ireland doesnt have all that much to offer really!!

Xavi6

alanmurphy83 wrote:

Well I wouldn't stay in Northbridge in Perth as that is filled with druggies, muggers, murderers, joyriders, backpackers, pissheads etc.

You could be describing any big city there. Perth's far less dodgy than Dublin.

Spud83

Uuuh Patsy wrote:

Dont think the statistics would back that up. 1/3 the number of murders (in Western Australia ).
Nor does the thousands who dont come running back.

Thats because of most of the murders in Western Australia are aboriginal, and "tribal" murders that wouldn't occur in Perth.

Xavi6 wrote:

You could be describing any big city there. Perth's far less dodgy than Dublin.

Ok firstly I said Northbridge not all of Perth. Secondly I seen worse in Northbridge than in Templebar on an average weekend. Thirdly that was my point Dublin and Perth are the same as any big city there are good and bad places in both. I dont think you need to leave Dublin to find a safe enviroment to raise your kids which is what the post I replied to said.

Poxyshamrock

Haha! it's funny how your name is "So Glad"

Xavi6

From the front page of this fortnight's Irish Echo newspaper here in Oz -

'Screw Cork' says Oz Ad

A new advertising campaign urging Irish people to migrate to South Australia is stirring up controversy with it's cheeky slogans like 'Screw working in Cork, I'm off to Adelaide'.

The provocative advertisements, which are running in newspapers in Ireland and in the UK, have generated a flood of enquiries as well as talkback radio discussion.

Coming on the back of Tourism Australia's widley criticised 'Where the bloody hell are you?' campaign, the South Australian ads have raised many eyebrows.

The campaign was launched by by South Australia's Agent-General in London Bill Muirhead, who is also a founding member of M&C Saatchi advertising agency.

Life in Adelaide had many advantages over life in Britain and Ireland, he claimed. "They have miserable weather, expensive house prices, congestion and lots of other expensive costs of living," he told the Adelaide Advertiser. "It's not rolling vineyards and beautiful beaches".

It goes on a bit more about reasons why people should leave Ireland but this is the main part of the article. The rest can be read here -

http://www.irishecho.com.au/

Has anybody seen these adverts anywhere?