Sick of this country

If only FFG had a coalition partner to moderate their worst instincts.......oh, wait.

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.

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.

Surely you still have to pay rent or a mortgage on a property while you are away in the mines, or do you just short let for the week you are off? And I suspect people here would complain bitterly if their jobs meant three out of four weeks are spent away from family.

Maybe I’m the only one who thinks €1k AFTER TAX (~ 83k gross) is a fairly descent wage for a newly graduated plumber, no doubt he/she can pick up a few nixers if wanted as plumbers are in high demand and travelling 4 hrs to/from work per day may not be typical.

and $200k is only about €127k, so while it sounds good in aussie dollars it is not a huge amount for a job in difficult conditions.

FIFO is financially rewarding but tough, I wouldn't do it for any money.

You'll find most lads working FIFO long term are on their 3rd/4th marriage.

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.