Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
When are you going home?
Options
-
30-11-2009 1:53am#1
Comments
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
Thanks my friend, great to hear optimism when i need it most.
Got a kiwi friend so looking at it currently, got a degree etc but a bit hindered at the minute..explain to you again!
Left in february thia year - stupidity is choice of the beholder
PERSONAL ADVICE TO ANYONE - return to Ireland at your own demise...seriously
0 -
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
brendansmith wrote: »You are lucky. I hope to become a citizen too someday. When I do im getting a ute and putting this sticker on it:
http://sheikyermami.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/****-off-we-are-full.jpg
Do you know how idiotic and ironic that sounds? Whatever floats you boat I guess.
To the OP, OZ is not the be all and end all. Every country is different. If you dont like the heat perhaps NZ would be a better option or Canada?
I think that "Australia is not a Panacea" Thread should be sticky'd on this forum. The Irish do love to talk themselves down and talk any other country up. Australia is almost a myth at this stage but at the end of the day you get up go to work, eat your dinner etc etc. Life cannot be a party every day but you have to make the most out of it, learn to surf, go on a mountain trek, rock climbing etc etc. Doing that and not pissing your wages down an alley 4 nights a week you will see if a country is for you or not. As my Kiwi house mate said to me the problem with OZ is that its full of Australians
The irony of all this is that I'm transferring to OZ with work on a 4 year work visa in the next few months but would love to stay in NZ. Still ill give it a go and by then residency should have come through for NZ by then so Ill have the option of going back.
Always keep your options open and never look a gift horse in the mouth.0 -
-
-
-
I'm never moving back to Ireland. I haven't lived there in what will be eight years, as of July 2010. I was back in August/September this year, and had a lovely time, but I wouldn't go back to live.
Then again I'm on a permanent visa down here, with a view to citizenship, so I don't have the difficulties of WHVers and temp visa people. I bought a house that's twice the size of the one I grew up in, for about 1/3 the money I'd spend in Ireland. Got in before the crest of the wave too, so already have equity in the house. I prefer the weather - solar powered split system air conditioner being installed in seven days will mean I prefer it even more because I have a comfortable home.
There are things that piss me off about Australia, but that's the same as anywhere. It's worth noting that my siblings don't live in Ireland either. I miss my aging parents, but they're wonderful people who travelled the globe themselves before settling in their thirties, so they've never begrudged or guilted me into feeling bad about choosing to settle on the other side of the planet from them. Skype is a marvellous invention - we probably talk more now than we did when I lived on the other side of Dublin.
So I'm not going back, and I'm not sad about it either. Australia is a good spot for my lifestyle. I don't want to have kids either (in my thirties, so that's a serious decision made) and that makes a difference in not tying me here - so I can move interstate, or head back up to mainland Europe - world's my oyster really.
Nice way to be.
0 -
The Sweeper wrote: »I'm never moving back to Ireland. I haven't lived there in what will be eight years, as of July 2010. I was back in August/September this year, and had a lovely time, but I wouldn't go back to live.
Then again I'm on a permanent visa down here, with a view to citizenship, so I don't have the difficulties of WHVers and temp visa people. I bought a house that's twice the size of the one I grew up in, for about 1/3 the money I'd spend in Ireland. Got in before the crest of the wave too, so already have equity in the house. I prefer the weather - solar powered split system air conditioner being installed in seven days will mean I prefer it even more because I have a comfortable home.
There are things that piss me off about Australia, but that's the same as anywhere. It's worth noting that my siblings don't live in Ireland either. I miss my aging parents, but they're wonderful people who travelled the globe themselves before settling in their thirties, so they've never begrudged or guilted me into feeling bad about choosing to settle on the other side of the planet from them. Skype is a marvellous invention - we probably talk more now than we did when I lived on the other side of Dublin.
So I'm not going back, and I'm not sad about it either. Australia is a good spot for my lifestyle. I don't want to have kids either (in my thirties, so that's a serious decision made) and that makes a difference in not tying me here - so I can move interstate, or head back up to mainland Europe - world's my oyster really.
Nice way to be.
Lucky man.
Do you think in the 8 years you have been here that it have become over populated or how long before you reckon it will be?
Where do you think will be the next Australia?0 -
Only been here nearly three years - the five before that I was in SE England. (And female, not a bloke.) I've settled rural in Victoria so I have a different perspective on the overpopulation I hear all about on the news.
Between the town I live and Melbourne, it's an hour's drive - and I see plenty of featureless flatlands as I make that drive. Those flatlands are being sold off to developers hand over fist at the moment, with a view to new housing. There's certainly plenty of space. The infrastructure problems will be in terms of transport - but there's already a highly expandable road and rail network out this way, and some of the expansion is even happening BEFORE the houses are built.
Look, infrastructure pressure happens everywhere there is expansion - you can't expect someone to build a school in the arsehole of nowhere BEFORE a bunch of young families move in. One thing I'll say about Australia is that the infrastructure improvements happen more quickly than in my experience of Ireland and the UK - much of which may be because this place was founded, tabula rasa, a couple of hundred years ago, so the roads and rail networks aren't the descendents of 2000 year old donkey tracks.
I live 60km from central Melbourne and can drive it in one hour. The equivalent drive from a distance outside Dublin to its centre, or a distance outside London to its centre, would take far longer.
The Aussies need to calm down re overpopulation, but keep their strict migrancy laws. On one hand, they seem to stress about letting in too many people, but anybody I talk to has had to jump through flaming hoops for the visa they have, and I hope that continues. If you limit your migrants to educated, employable workforce, well then the migrants bring money, diverse skills, interesting food and broader traditions and they contribute to your taxation system.
For Kevin Rudd to be paying people to have babies on one hand, then saying the country will be overpopulated on the other - well that's really disguising the issue isn't it - Australia wants to make sure it's not overpopulated with non-whites.0 -
Advertisement
-
Advertisement