Ireland - best place to live in the world

[Colonel Cool]

New Zealand is depressing. Rains all the time and huge social problems in the cities.
Ireland is certainly one of the best places to live imo.

[THE MIGHTY QUINN]

A bloke walks into a bar in New Zealand and orders a shandy. All the Kiwis sitting around the bar look up, expecting to see another Australian visitor. The barman says,

"You aren't from around here, are ya?"
The guy says, "No, I'm from Canada."
The bartender says, "What do you do in Canada?"
The guy says, "I'm a taxidermist."
The bartender says, "A taxidermist? What the heck is a taxidermist? Do you drive a taxi?'

"No, a taxidermist doesn't drive a taxi. I mount animals."

The bartender grins and yells, "He's okay boys. He's one of us".

[Mickey OToole]

Mickey ,
That is a bit of a stupid sweeping statement. It all relative, each of them countries are amoung the wealthiest in the world so things are going to be expensive. What are you basing your rip-offs on? I was in oslo last month and the only thing that seemed more expensive than dublin was the beer ( around 8-9 euro per pint) but everything esle seemed like dublin prices.

Jaysus your scraping it a bit if you're using Norway as a comparison. Everyone knows how expensice Scandanavian countries are. In any case didn't Eddie Hobbs run a whole series on rip off Ireland.

[CiKe]

I thought Vancouver had topped the list of cities.

To say it rains the whole time in NZ is crap. If you're on the South Island down around Fjordland i'd imaigne it could be depressing but up around Northland and the Coromandel it's pretty temperate and a fair bit dryer than Ireland.

[armaghniac]

So if Eddie Hobbs says something, it must be true. Prosperous countries are expensive, because wages are high and people with lots of dosh aren't worried about the price.

The GAA is one manifestation of the community spirit that also makes Ireland a good place to live and as an amateur organisation it is an illustration that money isn't everything.

[Hardy]

Which makes it hard to understand why so many are determined to kill it stone dead with proposals for professionalism, transfers and the like. Some people don't understand how lucky they are.

[Mickey OToole]

 

So if Eddie Hobbs says something, it must be true. Prosperous countries are expensive, because wages are high and people with lots of dosh aren't worried about the price.

The GAA is one manifestation of the community spirit that also makes Ireland a good place to live and as an amateur organisation it is an illustration that money isn't everything.

If you go to : http://www.cso.ie/newsevents/pressrelease_measuringirelandsprogress2006.htm   you'll see the picture is not as rosy as you suggest. However with your attitude, which is reminiscent of the greedy attitudes that existed in Thatcher's  80s regime,  you wouldn't really give a toss about poor people.

[ONeill]

Where is this 'Ireland'?

[Gold]

i hear Krakow is a good spot to live-or at least party? can anyone confirm?

[Fishbat]

New Zealand is depressing. Rains all the time and huge social problems in the cities.
Ireland is certainly one of the best places to live imo.

NZ is very far from depressing, theres an endless amount of things to do and see, most of the North Island is Sub-Tropical and usually great weather through spring, summer and autumn, winter is nothing to speak off.  South Island bit colder but spectacular.  plenty of wide open spaces, nature reserves, ski resorts etc...only 4 million live there and its the size of the UK

Of course it still rains, Of course theres problems in the cities, do you know any where there are not?

Great spot..........if ye can stand the flight

[Fishbat]

Next you'll be telling us that it has no snakes.

So i hear, St Patrick definitely got about,   

and the people are'nt all 3 ft tall with hairy feet either

[armaghniac]

However with your attitude, which is reminiscent of the greedy attitudes that existed in Thatcher's  80s regime,  you wouldn't really give a toss about poor people.

How do you know what my attitude is? I said that if a lot of people are prosperous then it is possible for businesses to charge high prices. What does this say about my attitude?

[An Gaeilgoir]

There is no doubt that Ireland is a lot better place to live now. Does anyone on here remember the 80's, there used to be a couple of hundred young people every week leaving Castlebar train station heading for Chicago or London. Our village had no GAA team after the minor age group.Intrest rates were at 17%, we think the health service is bad now what was it like in 1985, Grafton street was practically boarded up as were a lot of country towns. If someone bought a brand new car in our village it was talked about for a week. Christmas was the only time that people seemed to be around the pubs etc. as all our emigrants were home. Of course Ireland has its problems the same as every country in the world, however i think we are no worse off that most places. I know which era i would rather live in. Time to put away the rose tinted glasses i think.

[Pietas]

Yeah, but you can't move for feckin traffic and people have shag all time to do anything.

[Declan]

Intrest rates were at 17%, we think the health service is bad now what was it like in 1985

Yeah but I could afford a 3bed semi in Dublin even at those interest rates and on an average industrial wage. Health service was better in 1985 than it is now in relation to waiting lists, cleanliness,MRSA.

Swings and roundabouts though there is no doubt that materially most people we are much better off now than they were then.