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Happy to get pints in Dublin next week. At least there is the weekend off from work
Continuing as I started and mean to finish. Kicking amd screaming.
With the weather being so miserable, it feels like any activity has to be indoors, and that usually means spending money—something that’s tough in this economy. Plus, with public services lacking and so many people emigrating, it’s no wonder things are the way they are. Honestly, I’m not surprised by that map at all unfortunately.
Er you know yourself, grand
No more miserable that usual.
We should be way more angry about the way this country has gone in the last 25 years or so. I’m not saying this in a get rid of all the foreigners way. I’m saying this in an – it’s insane we accept the life we live in this country at the moment.
A young adult can’t afford to live any kind of a life outside of their parents house. A young college student can’t find any reasonable accommodation unless they start looking a year in advance. Our public services are running at horrendous levels, public transport, especially in rural areas are non-existent. If you’re a young person aged between like 16-30 and you grew up in rural Donegal or Claire, I’m genuinely not sure there’s a worse place to be born in the EU at the minute. No jobs, insane house prices despite that fact, forced to own a car and pay the costs associated with it. Cost of living as high as a nice bit of France or Germany with essentially 0 of the benefits.
The fact that we had such a solid foundation built going into the 2000’s, EU funding etc. and we’ve gone backwards in nearly every area is so depressing. We’re becoming like a little mini U.S – and not in any of the good ways.
I mean, our neighbouring country just disappeared out of existence, of course we feel lonely. Give us a week to mourn the bastards and we’ll be grand again
Doing well.
Hoping to get out and about a good bit this weekend. Have been doing toga/meditation with a group of dad’s who live locally, organised by one of the lads in the town who’s into that and breathing exercises etc. So, 5 or 6 of us meet up on a Sunday morning. Maybe do a bit of a hike or walk, then a bunch of stretches and exercises and yoga and then some meditation.
Lots of chats about life and similarities and differences and generally just having a good connection.
Would recommend. Great for your mental health.
Was feelng lonely until I saw this post but now I feel less so.
Of course we’re lonely, look at that big gap that’s opened up to the east of us.
I live alone.
I go to bed alone, sleep alone, wake up alone, shower and dress alone, I eat every meal alone, when I go out to eat I go alone, I go for a walk alone, there is no voice in my house until I get my kids on Friday evening.
I’ll tell you this, it’s a damn sight less lonely, than living with somebody who sets out to make you as miserable as possible in an effort to control you and do what she wants.
My loneliness is a promise to myself never again to be that miserable.
I wonder what that is attributed to. is it because we tend to make our friends younger in life in the current young generations? Or at least those in those generations who continue to live here have fewer friends as people tend to emigrate.
How can you blame us for being lonely, our neighbours left and robbed our attic
No wonder people are fucking lonely, they created a mini America through shitty urban planning and not building up/ having mixed business and residential spaces. They turned the city centre into a car choked mess, with expensive pubs, not many free cultural things, concerts etc. We don’t have markets in the city centre, public squares and seating is a minimal, and could have way more exhibitions of different styles, skate parks, basketball courts… etc. People are stuck in endless suburban estates, and the city centre is a ghettoised core where people just drink and leave.
Going into final year of my first college course. Man it is a struggle to pull money together. I decided that my current field wasn’t for me and decided to try my hand at getting into graduate medicine. It is mind boggling how little supports there are for people trying to bridge the gap. You’d think with all the Healthcare shortages there are they’d make it easier to fund it. But they’ve taken away the only loan system we had from Boi and don’t have any contract systems in place to pay for the course in exchange for a contracted period of work in the HSE. You’re expected to just pull together €25,000 a year together somehow without supports. Richest country in Europe my ass.
That statistic is in my opinion, self inflicted. We are so cliquey as a nation when it comes to the friends we have. It’s wild to me that you could know someone years, see them every week, go out for drinks, celebrate events with them but still not be considered part of their friend group because you didn’t grow up/goto school together or play on the same football team when you were 10 years old.
I remember in college being told the result of a study that concluded that the most crucial time period to make long lasting friends, is second year of secondary school. The loneliness is evident in all Irish subs too, countless posts about trying to make friends, or the very common person who has people they hang around but aren’t considered friends since that group operates more as a clique
I’m leaving a cult at the moment so that sucks but also great.
I am lonely but so many clubs out there to join. People are super nice and not evil like I was told. On the look out for a lady to share some time with too. So hopefully that cures some of the loneliness.
The geographical positioning here makes this a bit funny to me
It’s hard to socialise as a young person when you live in the country (as a lot of irish people do), live with your parents, and commute for ages to get anywhere. I notice it a lot in how it affects my social life. Meeting up with mates requires you to either organise a lift or sit on a bus that is unreliable for an hour. Not the stuff which makes a society functional to be honest.
Feels like we’ve built our entire country on being able to drive and it shows in the data. Hell, look at the likes of Spain or the Netherlands and you can see that fact.
Was meant to be meeting up with old friends from school Sunday night. Got clamped yesterday, so now I’m broke.
6km from EP, and all I can hear all evening is people driving to and from it, and the music in the air. Lonely and pissed off in equal measure. Fucking sick of it.
I’ve always said and it’s often down voted, Irish people are the most insular and unfriendly in Europe.
Even when it comes to work, I love when I’ve to work abroad as it will mean evenings filled with activities and dinner afterwards as a group.
My colleagues in Ireland actively avoid any socializing.
Similar to my friends, if it doesn’t involve getting drunk they don’t want to know about it.
Happy to see that UK is not there in the map hehe
Me father told me never talk about my feelings
Better since I just noticed Norway looks like a big droopy mickey. Ah heyor, sorry.
33, epileptic, living at his mams in the middle of country. Good job and can’t afford to move out. Great craic this is. Nearly praying I get my visa to Canada approved so I can leave….. and it fucking sucks I’ve to do that. I actually really like this stupid fucking country.
It’s so sad that as Irish people we have a worldwide reputation for being friendly, warm and welcoming and yet so many of us struggle to form solid meaningful friendships.
Mostly shite.
Nah, nah it’s grand *goes home and has a wee cry*
Being alone > Surrounding yourself with people who make you feel alone
It’s easy to loose touch with people over time particularly in cities like Dublin.
My college mates moved all over the world and life has a way of changing.
My Spanish partner commented that we are very closed people, in that we stick to our circle and don’t let others in. I tend to agree when I lived in Spain within a month I was building a wide network of friends from across Europe.
We’re too isolated here and generally a lot of people here have horrible personalities- a lot of my own extended family on my mums side are users, only call when they want something otherwise you wouldn’t hear from them for years!
What do you expect, we live on an island!
That looks like Europe having a great time talking about the Irish behind their backs.
Lonely