What is it like to live in ireland?
I don't mean the tourist life, what is it like to be born there and live there? How is it different from America? How are the people different, the food, the landscape, the living, the jobs, the language, etc.
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People are friendlier, more down to earth. Lots of greenery-40 shades of green!! At the minute the economy is terrible but after visiting many other countries i wouldnt want to live anywhere else!!
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well from a dublin perspective! you can nearly go anywhere in dublin without owning a car! you can walk 10 minutes to the pub, shops, chipper, bank, and all from the suburbs, you can get a bus to town. in Ireland they try to build the houses near the amenities unlike America's suburbs where its just houses after houses for 2 miles! admittedly Lucan and Adamstown are a bit like that! you can expect to be very bored! and you go to the chipper to get dinner and go to the shop or garage (gas station) for food! and head to the cinema or pub for Entertainment! personally I head to the pub and get pissed and stay till closing and then head to the chipper (a take away, usually not a conglomerate restaurant eg. McDonald's or Burgerking... they sell French fries [chips, that why they are called chippers] and burgers, ect) then head back home talkin to me mates and go to bed! the entire population from 17-35 years, during the weekends have two options. either at head out and go to the pub and afterwards head out to a nightclub and get ratarsed and have a mad one and end up anywhere and have a hangover all sunday! or go to the cinema with their boyfriend or girlfriend and be boring! thats life in dublin and for the most part... ireland so of course we drink alot! and yes its saturday night and im gettin pissed right now and heading out after a shower in a few minutes! colleen you are irish? arnt ye? thats an irish name! colleen in irish is CailÃn which means girl! colleen is the angecalised version of it
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lovely here
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WELL THE LANGUAGE IS THE SAME AS WE SPEAK ENGLISH, A LOT OF PEOPLE SPEAK IRISH 2, THE FOOD CAN B TRADITIONAL, (IRISH STEWS, CODDLES) BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS, MCDONALDS, BURGER KING ETC, I HAVE VISITED A LOT OF AMERICA, BUT I HAVE TO SAY I CAN NEVER WAIT TO GET HOME TO DUBLIN, IRELAND IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD, THE SCENERY IS BREATHTAKING
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ok...well i have spent my entire life moving back from nj to ireland and back...i would choose ireland any day of the week. Schools are way different...what americans consider the olden day way of school where it is 3 grades in a class is average in most of ireland. They are also way way way less commercial for example they are free of all malls...there closest thins are kinda like are mini malls or shopping centers and they almost always have a tescos in it witch is like a sams club or a coscos. If you are from a slower pace part of the us like the midwest they are kinda like that... they all actually stop to talk. The food industry has definitely broadened...you can get the typical meat and potatoes any where but you can also get average american foods like pizza and asian food...granted that it isnt ass good as anything you will find in the states. Landscape can be 2 polar end...1 midwest kinda but greener rural for miles and then a small grouping of homes or 2nd cities kinda like min chicagos almost but they are all building up like any city. Jobs are scarce every where in this economy...it depends on what you wanna be. language is no problem some people arnt even fluent in irish and they are from ireland...all the strret sighn are in both english and irish hope that helped any more questions e-mail me
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Sher it's grand. You have to watch out for the leprechauns though..... Thieving little b'stards so they are.
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I love it! I've lived here all my life. Sometimes the weather isn't that good but that doesn't get me down! As for the food I'm vegetarian so most Irish food isn't veggie, but there are other things I can cook that's not traditional Irish food. I love the landscape if you're in the capital (Dublin) you can see the sea and all the boats, or if you're in the country you wake up and see all the amazing wild-life. The living is nice although I'm one of the few people that swim in the sea as it is a bit cold! The language: well, we normally speak English but we have our own language called 'gaeilge' which is taught in schools and in some country areas like Kerry & Donegal etc.
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