“I feel we’re being pushed to leave Ireland. My friends have all gone and are doing way better than me” – RTE News interviews young Irish people on the streets of Dublin
by thunderingcunt1
“I feel we’re being pushed to leave Ireland. My friends have all gone and are doing way better than me” – RTE News interviews young Irish people on the streets of Dublin
by thunderingcunt1
42 comments
Really sad that the next generation are feeling a sense of hopelessness in Ireland today considering we’re such a wealthy country.
isnt this no different than the past where the younger generation emigrated
As usual the Irish eat the young when they stay about and force the rest to take the boat.
Massive failure of the government to be so well economically successful yet policy health housing education departments are a fucking disaster.
Kind of strange that we think we are unique in this.
I went back to where I am from in Canada, and almost everyone I knew was gone. They all moved on to other places around the world.
Only a few were left and only because they had no option or ambition to leave.
People I went to college with here are now living in the part of Canada I am from.
Is this just modern life now that we are more mobile in our lives? I have certainly moved many times to improve my lot.
Is it 2011 already?
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FFFG are loving this. Get those vocal annoying young people who either don’t vote FFFG or worse might vote for SF to fuck off abroad. A problem on a plane out of Ireland is a problem solved, right.
Sure, it might even solve the housing crisis ~ Simon Harris, probably.
How much of this is “grass is greener” thinking? All the countries we emigrate to have the exact same problems as here.
It’s bleak that successive governments have failed young people and the rest of the country. Current regime continue to do nothing and none of the opposition parties seem to have any actual policies on how they would change things (aside from populist bullshit to try grab votes).
Ironically Ireland is not for the Irish.
Unfortunately this will be the way that the housing crisis / healthcare crisis / crisis with all infrastructure will eventually be solved. Our population will fall until the supply of all that is adequate again.
Same as what has happened all throughout the 20th century.
It’s very sad.
Don’t most young Irish people leave for a couple of years and end up coming back again?
Best did I have done is leave Ireland for the second time. Do I miss friends and family? Yes. However, I wouldn’t be making as much at the top of my career in ireland as I am atm. Plus there is a genuine social scene and better weather.
Exports and imports.
Not much of it makes sense at this rate.
The folk running the show just see percentages and profit.
Australia is having a housing crisis. Canada is having a housing crisis. American is just a toxic kip . So be careful about thinking the grass is greener on the other side . Its not greener it’s in trouble to. We are all trigger happy slagging of Ireland when in reality it’s pretty much the same shit show all over the world.
Nothing will be done about it simple as
They _are_ being pushed. Politics is completely broken and we’re willfully we exporting the brains that could mobilise and challenge it.
Its mental to think that the majority of their parents will still be voting for FG before/after they’re gone.
“_We’re doing OK, best not to rock the boat_.”
A young person like him saying “you have to have hope, you cant live without hope” is just depressing, he should be living life to the fullest… instead he’s stuck at home with mammy & daddy
Leave! Best thing I ever did back in 07, get out of that RIP OFF country and go have a life for yourself! The phukwits running the country have to learn to look after the countries youth correctly, a more valuable resource. Ireland is now a country of GREED, pure and simple, get out of it and enjoy the world!
I feel this so hard, Australia looks really nice right about now.
They are being replaced with people who will share a bedroom/dorm with someone else. But we cant mention that because its part of a far right conspiracy
Ireland is only wealthy because we’re a tax haven for giant corporations and we let landlords run wild. *They* have the wealth that puts us so high on the country’s wealth graphs. The average Joe is FUCKED
This is a cyclical story. It almost seems like it’s a policy at this stage. There was a photographer who took portraits of the people as they were emmigrating in the early 2010s.
https://www.thejournal.ie/cbs-features-irish-photographers-portraits-of-emigrants-72418-Jan2011/
I remember a good chunk of my class left for Oz back then. Most didn’t want to. But like, imagine if we could keep even half the people emmigrating. We put all the effort into educating and training people and zero effort into making sure they’re happy to stay here.
It’s been happening for almost 2 hundred years. It’s nothing new….
I consider myself very fortunate that I have a job where I should be able to buy a house in the next 2 years.
This job is based in England, as indeed am I.
The country is completely messed up where living one island over is the ideal scenario because the alternatives are either the other side of the world, or the modern slavery dystopia in the Middle East.
You have people from all over the world emigrating to Ireland because it’s a well off, safe country with a good standard of living
People are leaving for an adventure, good wearher and to experience other cultures. Nothing wrong with that and i wish was able to, but the narrative that they are being forced out and ireland is as deprived as the 1970s is such bullshit
Big increase lately in media organisations advertising a better life abroad.
It’s almost like they’re trying to reduce the amount of people who will vote against government…
“Ireland Is the Old Sow that Eats Her Farrow” -James Joyce.
It’s become very hard in Ireland for young people to get to those life milestones of owning their own home and becoming financially stable to start families and afford their own retirement.
They’re mainly immigrating to Australia which has far far far worse affordability unless you go out in the sticks. Then they come back after a few years. Its a great thing for people to go abroad for a few years – I did it myself. But the faraway fields are most definitely not greener – they’ve got far worse problems.
Maybe not the place to ask but I’ve been working as a teacher abroad for 11 years now, London and uae. I did my teacher training in London and only did ordinary level Irish. Am I screwed if I come home?
“Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where e’er we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
Still we dance to the music
And we dance”
Well yes, you are being encouraged to leave. That voter demographic are not voting for FFGG.
Probably an I’ll step out, you step in again cartel after the next GE
The last guys short comment about ‘You gotta hope, you can’t really live without hope’ is poignant and true.
Why should we be so hopeless? Why, as a rich, diverse and highly educated first world country must we all feel so much despair. We are people and people figure things out. Our current government is ridiculous. We need to come together and sort our fucking shit out because this has gone on too long and is literally destroying lives.
Net migration has been increasing for every period you look at except a window in the late 00’s.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ieu50/irelandandtheeuat50/society/migration/
Migration is the rule, not the exception. Most generations have felt pushed to leave. The only generation that didn’t was because they couldn’t afford to leave
I emigrated 6 years ago. I’m making more money than I ever thought I would, I own a beautiful home on an acre of property and overall just generally happy. I cannot say the same for my friends who stayed in Ireland, actually only 1 out of my group of friends back home owns their own place, the rest either rents or lives at home still. It’s absolutely sickening how badly Ireland has failed my generation and future generations to come.
This is what the government would prefer, then the only ones really left are their own voters. Sometimes I think people should stay and get rid of them
Hows that top 5 GDP going
Irelands badly run and the youth will always vote with their feet.
Thing that is most heart breaking about all this is we’re not even young anymore people are going into their mid 30s/40s
This is what happens when we keep electing a party whose economic philosophy is let the market decide. Without more government intervention this was always going to happen.