Sick of this country

While I agree mostly with staff are trying their best, treatment and safety of patients I would question. My local hospital I've only every had 3 stays over the years and the first 20 odd years ago was grand. The other 2 over the last 10 or less was not. Our city which has a hospital was listed as the longest wait for an ambulance. Management and pencil pushers have a lot to answer for in hospitals and local government.

There is that and then there is another problem landlords are having that you don't hear about much. Antisocial behavior seems to be on the rise and houses are getting damaged and destroyed. House nearby every socket in the house was broken, appliances destroyed, piss everywhere all done by a woman and her ferals. Another one, single parent on HAP and god knows what else has had people sharing on the QT, another delight that has had the police out. Property also damaged.

Problem is trying to get these people out of the houses and who really wants to have to foot the bill to clean up after them.

Why does Leo always seem to act like he is not part of the government?

It's coming up on 14 years in governance.

Tourists can't get enough of our weather.

Everywhere you go in Ireland you will see them wearing the proper gear for the weather having a great time.

There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothing.

FG spent the first 5 years blaming FF for every problem in the country. These have run out of excuses.

He's infuriating when he acts like an observer isn't he!

For example commenting on how the social contract is broken because of the housing crisis. https://www.thejournal.ie/leo-varadkar-interview-housing-budget-5843774-Aug2022/

Having done nothing about it for years and years and years.

I don't follow polls that closely but last one I can remember had SF in low 30s? Have they dramatically dropped recently? I can't see the greens having much of a vote share to prop up FF or FG next time. They have been voting along government lines on issues that won't be popular with a lot of their voter base e.g. voting to exclude 40 percent of survivors from mother and baby homes. As well as alienating other voters with things like the peat bill...while importing thousands of tonnes from other countries like Latvia. My prediction as things stand they will be basically wiped out.

I would say housing and hospitals are their two biggest issues and they are genuinely pretty disastrous.

Another consolation is that if SF do get into power ( and make a balls of it!) They may never get never get near the top table again in our lifetime.

2011-2016 would have looked VERY different if FG didn't have Labour to hold back the worst extremes of their neoliberalism. Their manifesto planned €5 billion in selling off state assets. Labour pulled it back to €2 billion. We'd be paying private businesses for our ESB lines today if FG had their way.

In fairness to the Greens, they've made significant differences on public transport and climate plans.

What are the differences in public transport?

Lots of new/"improved" routes in Dublin...which in my experience have been an absolute unmitigated disaster...buses regularly don't appear..going bizarre routes that get stuck in traffic...they also literally cannot recruit enough drivers to staff them.

Climate plans that include buying carbon credits from other countries to meet targets....still importing thousands of tonnes of peat from other countries which leads to a huge additional carbon footprint while restricting use of our own peat..

Thats not to even mention the issues with ongoing energy security, use of fossil fuel, while continuing to welcome any data centre we can get our hands on.

Oh and let's not forget how the green have backed bills regularly like recently the exclusion of a huge swathe of people from mother and baby homes redress schemes...

They will be decimated at the next elections and rightly so.

Bus connects - yes....it looks to be working incredibly poorly in general despite being a good idea in principal. They don't have the drivers, the actual execution so far is poor.

24 hour services - sure a great idea...the reliability again is incredibly poor. They don't have the drivers.

90 minute fare - great idea, but it means less money coming in to service....it's handy for my now.... 1 hour 20ish minute journey to work...which before the bus spines came in used to take me half that time...

I don't think people are asking for everything to be perfect....but some of the services are a disaster. Take the G1/G2 route for an example. They aren't listening to any of the feedback, they have also made a haims of the now one an hour 60 route.

What about the other comments I had?

Like I said the greens are going to be decimated imo in the next GE and they have 100 percent brought it on themselves.

Well it's certainly hard when the guy moving is middle aged and has a serious dose of the "boo hoo poor me's".

So no response to what I have said? It is all true but then again I think you know that.

Sure thing last general election they got about 7 percent first preferences...I would say half that the next time round.

This story should be another nail in the coffin for the greens and Eamon Ryan imo.

Australia is known to be a bad place to live as an incel as there are tall Chads everywhere. This incel YouTuber is from Australia.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xB3vQbomu3U

discovered this thread today, it just seems like the OP is very much a glass is half empty person. I agree with around 30/40% of what is being said, however many issues seem to be blown out of proportion.

No country is perfect, every country has faults. I don't see the point of this thread, you seem to have made up your mind about going, and this thread is just to complain about Ireland? Both Ireland and Australia are great places to live, but for different reasons, both places have many faults.

Lots of people have said in this thread that we don't get enough for the amount of tax we pay, and you don't see where the tax money goes. Valid points, but I can't really believe that nobody mentioned servicing our national debt, which is around €4bn a year.

Married to an Aussie but I haven't been back to Australia since 2009. The fcukin flight is too long. My back was in bits after the last flight so I skipped going back on hols. She's gone back a few times on holidays and to see family in the last 10 years but eve she wouldn't consider living there again. Yes, the wages are very good and there's plenty of work but I don't think people realise how expensive it is to live out there. $120k sounds like a heap of money here but it doesn't go near as far as people think out there.

If you are happy to go there, live like a monk, have no social life, work like a lunatic and save every bob you can, then by all means, go for it. You'll manage to save a nice little nest egg but you'll miss out on life. It's very hard to have it all. And by all I mean plenty of money and a good lifestyle. My inlaws live there, they are Aussies, they live a nice enough lifestyle, but they all complain that they have to commute over an hour and a half each way to work. And they complain about the cost of living too.

Just to be clear, it's a nice enough country to work in if you can stick the heat, but the streets certainly aren't paved with gold. You'll earn every bob you make. In my mind €50k here is better than $100k over there.