He’s running in the wrong direction, he’s going to end up in China.
And it’s literally in the rules of the subreddit to NOT come on here asking about moving here.
Hi I’m already here, too late 😈 I’m eating lots of Tayto as we speak
I love the ones that start thinking it’s as easy as moving state within the US.
i would consider it but the weather sucks
😂
I’m moving next week 🙂 but I started the process a year ago and it was not exactly easy. Excited to join the team, been learning Irish on Duolingo.
My sister was acting like she was going to move to Ireland. We had to gently tell her that while she thinks of herself as “Irish” the actual Irish in Ireland are not likely to see her as such.
Yeah they do this to Canada too… particularly in the summer months
I mean as long as they have a pub and some nature trails I can make my own fun.
I just want to be able to make father Ted references in casual conversation have people actually get them but I’ve been hearing some things about the tap water.
Weren’t they all meant to be moving if Trump was elected too???
Hey, we have a history of leaving our country when things are shitty. Why would we change now?? I mean, I don’t know how we could POSSIBLY have anticipated that building a country on top of a giant string of burial mounds containing the people we massacred, funded by an economy based in slavery, might be a bad idea! /s
Sorry ladies and gents, we’re full 🙁
As an American who has lived in Ireland and will likely be moving back soon (married a Corkwoman), I’ve actually had people ask me about whether they should move to Ireland. Usually it’s people who are eligible for citizenship through a grandparent. What’s funny is the stuff they don’t think of. They’d usually have to take a big pay cut because salaries are overall lower, getting a mortgage is harder so they’d probably have to rent rather than buy, healthcare is certainly more equitable than in the States but for people who have good coverage through work here the Irish system will feel weird (longer waits, less of “customer-oriented” feel for lack of a better term), people don’t realize just how grey and damp things are, “the customer is always right” is definitely not a common view, it’s much less racially/ethnically diverse than most areas of the US,* etc. All of these are things you can deal with and IMO outweighed by benefits of living in Ireland, but people think it’ll be just like the States but with an accent, and that’s very far from true.
Plus, those school shootings and such don’t feel better once you’re over. I was living in Ireland for Newtown and for the Boston bombing, if anything I felt worse because I knew both those areas (am from a place about equidistant between them) and felt powerless to do anything.
I love Ireland, am excited to move back soon, but I’d advise anyone thinking of a US-Ireland move to think long and hard about it.
*TBF it’s pretty much entirely white people who ask me about it, so that point might be a plus for them.
What’s worse is even “regular” Americans are still lunatics with massive gaps in their education but who still have a massive sense of entitlement and superiority
American here and I would love to move to Ireland. That being said we are using the normal government website for guidance and have a realistic timeline. I’m on here to learn the culture and insults.
I’m an American guilty of asking about emigrating; I wasn’t aware of the subreddit rules. Everyone was very kind in helping me sort out whether I qualified for a passport.
I don’t expect anyone to love the idea of Americans showing up—I’m aware of our reputation—but can you not imagine why some of us daydream about escape? My 2.5-yr old son will soon enter school and I lie awake at night picturing him shot dead. We’re sick, scared, tired, and without hope, so we daydream out loud, I suppose, of escape to a place that, sure, has a lot of similar problems…save the extraordinary gun violence we deal with here. It’s hard feeling like you’re failing your family by not getting them out of a country in decline.
I know this won’t endear us to you all. Just trying to explain.
I kinda wish right of return was extended back to before the potato famine..Seems pretty basic
Too late bitches, I’m already here! Ya gonna have to carry my cold corpse back if you want me out of your country!
American here I took my family to Ireland earlier this year to “visit our heritage”. My Great Grandfather was from Kilkenny. I know you don’t care, so save you breath.
The dark Irish humor quickly became tiresome and overplayed. After a while it just got sad. We’ll go someplace else next year. Someplace that gives at least one fuck about anything other than complaining.
Good luck to you.
Nearly always woefully ignorant
As an American lurker of this sub, sorry. I really am just here because I don’t have anyone to quote father Ted with irl and I like seeing it here.
As for the fantasy, it’s not just Ireland. People are looking to go anywhere else. My son asked me for a bulletproof vest to go back to school with. How do you not just want to take your kids a run?
It feels no matter who we vote for or how we show our displeasure with what’s happening it just gets worse and worse daily. It seems like our political system is so far beyond fucked that there’s no way to dig out from all the institutionalized bureaucracy of capitalism and the growing enshrining of conservative Christian values into law. Our political leaders do not represent the public interest and our two party system is designed to make it impossible for outsiders to be elected so our representation grows more incestuously biased year in and year out. Our politicians are literally owned by corporations.
How do you fix this? I feel we should. We made this mess and we shouldn’t just leave. We shouldn’t just give the country over to the insane religious terrorists. But how to actually do that? I’m very politically active but it’s hard to feel like anything I’ve done in these 36 years on earth is making an impact. And i want my babies to be safe. I vote, i protest, i donate, i show up, i call my representatives. But this country is crumbling before our eyes while our rights are stripped daily and we’re raped by the systems put in place to protect us.
It’s easy to dream of just leaving. But it’s not fair to put it on anyone/anywhere else to “save” us.
I mean, the only reason I’m an American is because my Irish great-great-grandparents (both sides) ran away when things got bad. It’s tradition.
It is me.
Honestly we looked into it when Trump was elected but now? Yeah. I don’t think the US is going to get better.
Its so bad I got citizenship
Don’t see the problem, more snickers bars for everyone.
I’m an American that’s been living here for 4 months and so far every single person I’ve met has been very kind and welcoming. Maybe it’s because I’m from NYC and their eyes light up a little when I tell them, I’m not really sure. I just always find it funny how they’ll always ask me “why the feck would you move here from NYC?” and all I have to say is “have you been following the news in America?” That usually shuts them up real quick lol. Anyway, super grateful to be here lads, I just wish your breakfast cereals had a little bit more sugar and didn’t taste like cardboard.
Had an American couple with two kids whose car punctured and were waiting at my gate for the AA, the knew everything about health care, schools jobs etc… He was an environmental statistician making over 200000 dollars a year and considered themselves very middle class…. She listed off how well Ireland ranked, and was very worried about violence and school shootings etc… Nice couple and kids I think they had their mind made up to move out of the US
Nearly as fast as Brits applying for passports through a Granny Kelly they only just heard of
What is the USAs facination with ireland anyway? i went out to the states and it happened to be St.patricks day one day and this american guy was giving it large saying he was irish, so when i asked him if hes ever been there he said no but his great great great great nan was irish so it must mean hes irish 😅 i told him both my parents are irish and i still say im english he couldnt understand it. The moronic stereotype really did come across strong haha
And we’re going to see an awful lot more… same as the refugees we have from Syria and Iraq, there are always going to be people tearfully leaving their home, as it collapses into a failed state, on the hope of getting a better life somewhere else.
shits been hard enough for them. the least we could do is welcome them
Just as long as they have proper train etiquette.
I can’t begrudge anyone that. Not with Irelands history. Besides, the worst Americans that you don’t want here probably think the country is doing great and want to stay there.
Too many post asking about moving 😂 but I mean if they not scared of a culture shock than go right ahead they can sleep outside since we have NO FUCKING HOUSES 😂
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He’s running in the wrong direction, he’s going to end up in China.
And it’s literally in the rules of the subreddit to NOT come on here asking about moving here.
Hi I’m already here, too late 😈 I’m eating lots of Tayto as we speak
I love the ones that start thinking it’s as easy as moving state within the US.
i would consider it but the weather sucks
😂
I’m moving next week 🙂 but I started the process a year ago and it was not exactly easy. Excited to join the team, been learning Irish on Duolingo.
My sister was acting like she was going to move to Ireland. We had to gently tell her that while she thinks of herself as “Irish” the actual Irish in Ireland are not likely to see her as such.
Yeah they do this to Canada too… particularly in the summer months
I mean as long as they have a pub and some nature trails I can make my own fun.
I just want to be able to make father Ted references in casual conversation have people actually get them but I’ve been hearing some things about the tap water.
Weren’t they all meant to be moving if Trump was elected too???
Hey, we have a history of leaving our country when things are shitty. Why would we change now?? I mean, I don’t know how we could POSSIBLY have anticipated that building a country on top of a giant string of burial mounds containing the people we massacred, funded by an economy based in slavery, might be a bad idea! /s
Sorry ladies and gents, we’re full 🙁
As an American who has lived in Ireland and will likely be moving back soon (married a Corkwoman), I’ve actually had people ask me about whether they should move to Ireland. Usually it’s people who are eligible for citizenship through a grandparent. What’s funny is the stuff they don’t think of. They’d usually have to take a big pay cut because salaries are overall lower, getting a mortgage is harder so they’d probably have to rent rather than buy, healthcare is certainly more equitable than in the States but for people who have good coverage through work here the Irish system will feel weird (longer waits, less of “customer-oriented” feel for lack of a better term), people don’t realize just how grey and damp things are, “the customer is always right” is definitely not a common view, it’s much less racially/ethnically diverse than most areas of the US,* etc. All of these are things you can deal with and IMO outweighed by benefits of living in Ireland, but people think it’ll be just like the States but with an accent, and that’s very far from true.
Plus, those school shootings and such don’t feel better once you’re over. I was living in Ireland for Newtown and for the Boston bombing, if anything I felt worse because I knew both those areas (am from a place about equidistant between them) and felt powerless to do anything.
I love Ireland, am excited to move back soon, but I’d advise anyone thinking of a US-Ireland move to think long and hard about it.
*TBF it’s pretty much entirely white people who ask me about it, so that point might be a plus for them.
What’s worse is even “regular” Americans are still lunatics with massive gaps in their education but who still have a massive sense of entitlement and superiority
American here and I would love to move to Ireland. That being said we are using the normal government website for guidance and have a realistic timeline. I’m on here to learn the culture and insults.
I’m an American guilty of asking about emigrating; I wasn’t aware of the subreddit rules. Everyone was very kind in helping me sort out whether I qualified for a passport.
I don’t expect anyone to love the idea of Americans showing up—I’m aware of our reputation—but can you not imagine why some of us daydream about escape? My 2.5-yr old son will soon enter school and I lie awake at night picturing him shot dead. We’re sick, scared, tired, and without hope, so we daydream out loud, I suppose, of escape to a place that, sure, has a lot of similar problems…save the extraordinary gun violence we deal with here. It’s hard feeling like you’re failing your family by not getting them out of a country in decline.
I know this won’t endear us to you all. Just trying to explain.
I kinda wish right of return was extended back to before the potato famine..Seems pretty basic
Too late bitches, I’m already here! Ya gonna have to carry my cold corpse back if you want me out of your country!
American here I took my family to Ireland earlier this year to “visit our heritage”. My Great Grandfather was from Kilkenny. I know you don’t care, so save you breath.
The dark Irish humor quickly became tiresome and overplayed. After a while it just got sad. We’ll go someplace else next year. Someplace that gives at least one fuck about anything other than complaining.
Good luck to you.
Nearly always woefully ignorant
As an American lurker of this sub, sorry. I really am just here because I don’t have anyone to quote father Ted with irl and I like seeing it here.
As for the fantasy, it’s not just Ireland. People are looking to go anywhere else. My son asked me for a bulletproof vest to go back to school with. How do you not just want to take your kids a run?
It feels no matter who we vote for or how we show our displeasure with what’s happening it just gets worse and worse daily. It seems like our political system is so far beyond fucked that there’s no way to dig out from all the institutionalized bureaucracy of capitalism and the growing enshrining of conservative Christian values into law. Our political leaders do not represent the public interest and our two party system is designed to make it impossible for outsiders to be elected so our representation grows more incestuously biased year in and year out. Our politicians are literally owned by corporations.
How do you fix this? I feel we should. We made this mess and we shouldn’t just leave. We shouldn’t just give the country over to the insane religious terrorists. But how to actually do that? I’m very politically active but it’s hard to feel like anything I’ve done in these 36 years on earth is making an impact. And i want my babies to be safe. I vote, i protest, i donate, i show up, i call my representatives. But this country is crumbling before our eyes while our rights are stripped daily and we’re raped by the systems put in place to protect us.
It’s easy to dream of just leaving. But it’s not fair to put it on anyone/anywhere else to “save” us.
I mean, the only reason I’m an American is because my Irish great-great-grandparents (both sides) ran away when things got bad. It’s tradition.
It is me.
Honestly we looked into it when Trump was elected but now? Yeah. I don’t think the US is going to get better.
Its so bad I got citizenship
Don’t see the problem, more snickers bars for everyone.
I’m an American that’s been living here for 4 months and so far every single person I’ve met has been very kind and welcoming. Maybe it’s because I’m from NYC and their eyes light up a little when I tell them, I’m not really sure. I just always find it funny how they’ll always ask me “why the feck would you move here from NYC?” and all I have to say is “have you been following the news in America?” That usually shuts them up real quick lol. Anyway, super grateful to be here lads, I just wish your breakfast cereals had a little bit more sugar and didn’t taste like cardboard.
Had an American couple with two kids whose car punctured and were waiting at my gate for the AA, the knew everything about health care, schools jobs etc… He was an environmental statistician making over 200000 dollars a year and considered themselves very middle class…. She listed off how well Ireland ranked, and was very worried about violence and school shootings etc… Nice couple and kids I think they had their mind made up to move out of the US
Nearly as fast as Brits applying for passports through a Granny Kelly they only just heard of
What is the USAs facination with ireland anyway? i went out to the states and it happened to be St.patricks day one day and this american guy was giving it large saying he was irish, so when i asked him if hes ever been there he said no but his great great great great nan was irish so it must mean hes irish 😅 i told him both my parents are irish and i still say im english he couldnt understand it. The moronic stereotype really did come across strong haha
And we’re going to see an awful lot more… same as the refugees we have from Syria and Iraq, there are always going to be people tearfully leaving their home, as it collapses into a failed state, on the hope of getting a better life somewhere else.
shits been hard enough for them. the least we could do is welcome them
Just as long as they have proper train etiquette.
I can’t begrudge anyone that. Not with Irelands history. Besides, the worst Americans that you don’t want here probably think the country is doing great and want to stay there.
Too many post asking about moving 😂 but I mean if they not scared of a culture shock than go right ahead they can sleep outside since we have NO FUCKING HOUSES 😂