Country Living

dendenz

I hate it, been down in Meath last 13 years since moving from Dublin when I was 7, no opportunities at all. I suppose I could get a car under me (I rather a blonde /f/21/blue eyes ) .

cournioni

I think its just the fact that you're living in Meath and not in a decent county like Cavan.

Caesar_Bojangle

You've probably lost your accent too, so i bet when you travel to dublin on those special occasions like the 8th of december to see santa claus. The cosmopolitan folk find it hard to distinguish between yourself and and the country boys:( .

Theres nothing like walking down grafton street with that tingling sensation in your pants, that is the pride of being a dubliner. Personally i only get that sensation walking down leeson st at 2am on a friday but thats probably coz i am in fact batman.

The Gopher

Im a Dub expat myself having been exiled at a young age to a medium size town a few dozen odd miles from the big smoke.Go to Dublin quite often though as there is some family.When I was younger I was determined to return but now Im not too sure.Most of my friends are here so what would i do on my own up there?
It could be worse-I could be living somewhere like Mayo or somewhere else out in the remotest parts of the west far away from anything.
But there seems to be so many more better looking girls in Dublin than where I live,percentage wise:( Not to say there are none here but there are more in Dublin.

But if i could change the past I would make my parents stay in Blanchardstown.One thing that pissed me off when i was a kid was that when i would go to my cousins there were like 20 kids of my age in their street alone.On my street there were only two or three other kids.

Caesar_Bojangle

Gopher, get on a plane right now and go to milan, naples or any city in italy. Surely to god the italian women are the most beautiful in the world, dont wear shorts as it could become quite embarrassing. Those students they export here in the summertime have not a patch on the quality of goods back home. AHHH Italian women:rolleyes:

cournioni

Originally posted by Caesar_Bojangle
Gopher, get on a plane right now and go to milan, naples or any city in italy. Surely to god the italian women are the most beautiful in the world, dont wear shorts as it could become quite embarrassing. Those students they export here in the summertime have not a patch on the quality of goods back home. AHHH Italian women:rolleyes:

Agreed. I remember a couple of times at Dublin Airport there was loads of Italian students on some sort of school trip. And yes they were rather hot. Eh Guiseppe?!

Hells_Fury

Your looking at it all wrong ..... you get to lay out in the nude without shocking the neighbors . You get to have sex outside .....without shocking the neighbors . You get to scream the house down during sex and not worry about the neighbors calling the authorities . Guys get to take a piss outside without worrying someone will call the authorities, girls can to .... but it's just not the same Sure you have to drive a bit to get to town , but I've lived around obnoxious neighbors enough to know I'd rather not have them around. No ones poking their nose into my business , being dressed is an option not a requirement . Country living has it's good side too.

TomTom

I live in the country, not in a town in the country, out amongst the fields and it's great. You can have an outragous house party and the neighbours don't complain becasue they don't here it. You may think it's isolated but you can travel to most place quickly enough and traffic ain't a big problem. With the exception of broadband accesss, I have everything I need out here. I think it's better than dublin.

Typedef

Originally posted by dendenz
I hate it, been down in Meath last 13 years since moving from Dublin when I was 7, no opportunities at all. I suppose I could get a car under me (I rather a blonde /f/21/blue eyes ) .

It's sort of funny you should mention that.

See, I'm an Inner City Dub, I was born and raised in a really built up inner City area, in fact if you were to look out the Window of my former house all you would see is yourself encircled by 4 - 6 story buildings (read multi-million eruo apartments, hospitals and office complexs), with traffic everywhere.

I am also a techie and I have been courting and have courted a company in the West, in a small town about the size of Clontarf. To this town Dublin is 100 times more populous and about 1000 times the size in urban sprawl terms.

It is a bit of a culture shock for me as I really love the City for me (understandibly considering where I grew up) the more urbanised and built up lexically, the better.

Still it is the job opportunity in something I really want to do, that is putting me where I am probably going to move to this small town (a place I couldn't place on a map a week ago).

Get the right skills and you can work anywhere, people will head hunt you from all corners of the country (in my case) or Uk/Ireland wide (if necessary) to get the skills they want and need in their company.

Simple.

ToxicPaddy

I grew up in the country side, but not far from a small city (about 6 miles) .. so i had the best of both worlds.. good social life and plenty of things happening, but at the same time can get some peace and quiet aswell...

Ive spent the last 5 years in Dublin and to be honest I wouldnt rate it as on of my favourite locations.. but Im here to work, get the experience I need and then head back to my home town to get some decent work.. and a decent life..

But as Typedef said, once ya have the skills you can work everywhere...

The things I miss about the country side is the peace and quiet and the privacy.. much better quality of life and no rat race to compete with for every little thing, from a carton of milk in the supermarket to a car parking space in the city centre...

DMC

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
I think its just the fact that you're living in Meath and not in a decent county like Cavan.

Take that back, sheep lovin' boy!

I've grown up in Meath, but live and work in Dublin. I feel Meath has become a different place now that so many people living in Kells, Navan and Trim commute to Dublin to work. Its changed.

But, I'm here cos the work is here.... If my line of work was back home, I'd have a house etc etc, just on the money I save on rent. Like ToxicPaddy, if an opportunity came up back home, I'd be gone like a shot.

If I ever needed anything, like a decent music, book or clothes shops, Blanchardstown is only 50 mins away.

TomTom

Another advantage of being down the country is the drink is cheaper.

dendenz

I think for me though, ever since going to college, I have grown to love the place. The ease at which I can hop on a bus and go to a club, cinema, pub ,pool hall etc. and moist of my friends live i Dublin. I suppose an extended bus corridor would make things easier

cournioni

Originally posted by DMC
Take that back!

Never!

Ryo Hazuki

All the people from dublin in my school are quite sound and I know that the majority of people in dublin probably are.

However we cant argue the fact that the scumbag concentration is highest in Dublin. Thats not something to be proud of.

If you look at this chart I have attached, you will see the difference in scum concentration.

Mark

Im very happy living in the country, you get:

1. Peace and quiet
2. Good, clean air
3. Privacy
4. Nice garden space

When I sleep in a city, the noise often keeps me awake and the litter is atrocious.

Just call me Boggy Mac Bogger

pclancy

i was born and lived in London till I was 13. Then moved to Portlaoise. Now that was culture shock! I moved to maynooth two years ago for a job in Dublin and Ive just moved back to Portlaoise. I have to say I love it back here more then any of the other places. Why?

>Dublin is 50 minutes away by road or train if I need to go up for something special.

>A night out doesnt have to cost 100 euro like it does up there.

>The women are just as nice.

>I can drive anywhere I want without getting stuck in traffic.

>I live in the town so Im near all the pubs, nightclubs, shops etc but can easily be in the middle of nowhere by driving 15 minutes.

>A taxi home never costs more then 5 euro.

>I can walk home without fear of getting buggered or hebitchmanslapped.

Dont get me wrong Dublins a great city but Im way happier back in the bog!

Longfordian

I'm moving down the country myself later in the year - but not from Dublin from a real city - New York! I'm looking forward to it except for the internet access problem. We got broadband here and it's cheap and fast. What can I expect around Longford?

pclancy

bout 55euro p/m at 512K. Take a look at www.eircom.ie and www.esatbt.ie

kaimera

Originally posted by pclancy
[B>I can drive anywhere I want without getting stuck in traffic.

>I can walk home without fear of getting buggered or hebitchmanslapped.
[/B]

you sure you live in Portlaoise?!


traffic in Portlaoise is shocking specailly anywhere near Main Street. [not to mention parking being non existent]

turn down the wrong street in town and you WILL be buggered n bitchslapped.

pclancy

ok it gets a bit messy round peak hours but its nothing compared to the lucan road at 8am!!!!

Longfordian

55 Euro a month for internet access? That sounds like an awful lot. Is that unlimited time and are you on all the time? I pay 15 a month in NYC and it is always on.

Occidental

Longfordian,

Go and have a look in the Ireland Offline Forum for details on just how good our telecoms infrastructure is. It'll have you crying with laughter for hours.

Are you moving to Longford Town itself, or into the countryside (this will tell how extreme a culture shock you're in for). Either way you won't have to worry about traffic, or at least not for more than ten minutes a day.

Longfordian

I'll be outside Longford town a few miles so I guess all I can get is dialup service. No more MP3 downloads. The midlands broadband loop is not coming to Longford and the satellite services cost a fortune. My sister in Dublin has broadband, or rather she thinks she has. I found extremely slow and she is not on all the time. What happened to Ireland becoming a cyberhub?

Occidental

No ADSL available anywhere in Longford at the moment and wouldn't expect it anywhere but Longford Town within the next few years. You can get crap & expensive ISDN in some parts or Satellite(bad pings=no gaming), but apart from these you're going to be stuck with dial-up for the foreseeable future.

Anyway, good to have someone from Longford on the board, especially as I may be moving there quite soon.

elexes

so far ive lived in cork carlow galway and dublin for a bit . o and offaly

have to say carlow is the play i would prefear to go abck to without fail . i would say galway but it rains to much over there

as for down hear tho you dont get ripped off with the price of food but the price of tv's high fi's computer equipment etc..

i do think living in the country is better off all round for almost everything ( once adsl gets down hear sorted ) but dublin dose host a lot of things that are just logisticaly impossible down hear such as megalan ( tho im sure we could of gotton a big tent and a large field from tomtom with a few generators and gone mad