Do your family all live in Ireland?

Witchie

Just realising that my older brother and his wife are my only direct family in Ireland bar my sons.

My parents and younger brother have pretty much moved to Florida full time and my little sister lives in Scotland.

Are all Irish families destined to live splintered lives on various continents and use the internet to stay in touch?

mauzo

All my immediate family live in Ireland.

Though my brother will be moving to Florida in the new year!

longshanks

No. There were one or two of us away at different times over the last few years. At th moment my sister is 'out foreign' as old people say.

Whatsernamex33

All of mine do, but I'll be moving to Germany for a year in 2 years. Purely for college, so I will be back.

im invisible

my brother lives in cork...

1ZRed

My sister lives in Australia and has been there for a year and a half but will be coming home at Christmas. Although she's 16,000 km away, it's like she's never left and we talk all the time for ages.

Then my other sister lives about 30km away and I hear more from the Australian one than her! Sometimes the weeks would pass and I say to myself I'd better check in on this bitch to see if she's not dead or anything

In fairness OP I think from my experience it's the ones in Ireland you should be worried about keeping in touch with!

token101

im invisible wrote: »

my brother lives in cork...

Lucky boy.

My mam reckons Ireland will be 'OK in 2 or 3 years', so I'm fairly sure she's living on a different planet.

Wee Willy Harris

My brother shacked up in Vancouver there, with some woman..

he's not coming back. Unless that falls through....

Doc

My parents both still live in the family home in Ireland and my older brother lives in a place with his girlfriend in Ireland too. My younger brother lives in China with his girlfriend and has been there about 2 years. I'm living in Australia and have done so for about 3 1/2 years. Its though with two of us so far away.

My Granddad passed away about 2 weeks ago and I didn't find out until the funeral was over. My parents didn't want me or my younger brother to be spending a "fortune" (their words) coming home for it which I think is the reason for us finding out so late. Was annoyed at that as I at least would have liked the choice but you cant really say anything after all it was my Mums idea and it was her dad that died. Cant very well have a go at her over not telling me sooner given how upset she is anyway.

Things like that make living so far away from Ireland difficult and with my little brother living in a country that has very different ideas of when you get holidays to both Ireland and Australia its difficult to get us all together at the same time.

mackg

Sister in England.

Rabies

One of my brothers lives in Switzerland. One of my brothers in on router to Aus right now, next week another brother is coming to NZ to stay with me for a while and try find work. Rest are all in Ireland.

trodsky

No

crusher000

A brother in OZ, one in the US and sister in England. Lat Christmas first time all family were together in 8 years and I'm the oldest aged 38.

naughtysmurf

Afraid so.

starbelgrade

Most of my family live abroad, but they all moved either through choice or from having their balls in a vice grips. Luckily enough, economic reasons had nothing to do with it.

It's still kinda sad though as all the kids don't get to see each other very often.

Reiketsu

My mum lives in Scotland and my dad lives in Canada. My brother is only a mile away from me. I have aunts, uncles and cousins all over the place though- Canada, The US, England, Australia and New Zealand.

Vahevala

My older brother lives in England and I have cousins in America but other than that, all live in Dublin

sebastianlieken

One sister in Auckland, New Zealand.
Other Siter in Sydney, Australia.
Parents in Carlow / Torrevieja, Spain.
I moved to Belfast 2 years ago.
Uncle in Manhatten, NY.
The rest in belgium.

why stay on one little corner of the planet? it's a big world out there, and it's yours to explore. Sure i miss my family from time to time, but it's much better knowing they're happy and they're where they weant to be.

Shenshen

None of them do... that may well be one reason why I love being in Ireland so much

Lollipops23

My parents live in rural France, as of May this year. Everyone else is still in Ireland.

seamus

Yep, they're all at home. Even on the second tier (cousins), the only outliers out of about twenty people are one in the UK and one in Thailand. Immediate family are all within 30 minutes of me, and no-one is likely to leave except for the odd 3-month work assignment.

We're not big travellers, there's not really any history of emigration on either side of my family.

bluecode

All my immediate family live in Ireland, although half of us lived in England, Australia and the US at different times. Several of the kids are English born. But they're all back now and living in Dublin. In fact I'm the furthest away from home now, having emigrated to Galway.

Quite a few cousins live in England including one branch which we simply cannot trace.

I imagine the next batch of emigration will start soon as the first of the kids are about to start college. I imagine the whole cycle of emigration will start again.

Great little counrty isn't it.:mad:

theteal

Nope, I'm in Essex, my younger brother is over in Canada having another bash at a soccer career. The youngest brother and the folks are still in the homestead. I've an uncle in Rhode Island and another in Thailand.

later12

Of my siblings and I, three of us are living in Ireland these days, four more are still abroad; UK, Canada, and two in Hong Kong. Only one was a post-crash emigration. I don't really miss any of them. With skype, it's easy to know everything they're getting up to.

IvySlayer

later12 wrote: »

Of my siblings and I, three of us are living in Ireland these days, four more are still abroad; UK, Canada, and two in Hong Kong. Only one was a post-crash emigration. I don't really miss any of them. With skype, it's easy to know everything they're getting up to.

7 siblings?!?

All my immeadiate family live in Dublin.

admiralofthefleet

close family do, extended family in scotland, australia and the states

cena

No. there all over the world.Only place I would move to is the states

Shivers26

I have one brother who moved to Canada with his wife and kids at the start of the Summer. Purely because he couldn't get a decent job here but they are loving it there so it will very likely be a permanent move.

My 2 sisters and another brother still live in Dublin, as do the parents.

My husband has 8 siblings and none of them have gone abroad. The furthest is one living in Cork.

Sleepy

Yep, I'm the only one of my immediate family not living in Galway.

The extended family are scattered to the wind though: Various parts of Ireland, UK, Oz, New Zealand, Spain, Isle of Man, Jamaica...

Lawrence1895

I'm the only one here, but never mind. Germany is not that far away

Rented Mule

The entire family scattered decades ago. The wife's family moved back over the years, and now we are in the States. She still has family in England, Scotland, Canada, Alaska, Holland.

The notion of 'everyone coming home for the Celtic Tiger' is as dead as the Tiger itself. People continue to move to make better lives for themselves and their families.

JupiterKid

Nope, not since 1988 in fact.

My father and myself live here but my two older sisters live in Canada and Holland respectively.

Eve_Dublin

Parents at home in Dublin, a sister and brother in the US and another brother and sister in Ireland and myself here in Spain.

And I've a shed load of aunties, uncles and cousins in the States as well.


Over the years, my siblings have been back and forth between Ireland and abroad. I don't know one of my brothers at all now as he left when I was a kid and hasn't been back to live since. I find the whole thing quite sad but I'm used to it at this stage. Hopefully one day in the future when I've more money I can visit them more often and who knows, maybe we'll all decide to grow old and grey back home.

kfallon

Sister in England. Very rare anyway that we are all back in the family home together.

asherbassad

Most of my family live in Ireland.

I on the contrary live in cloud-cuckoo land.

Witchie

Just realising the main disadvantage to my family all being out of here (bar my brother who lives an hour away) am not well and may have to go to hospital this week and will have to get one of my friends to mind my youngest son coz no family around to do it. :-(