Shopping around for refuge countries, and I'm trying to figure out what living in Ireland is actually like. I'm liking the sound of living in a country with a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group, but I don't want to actually just be tricked by an "American Dream" but for leftists.

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To be clear, I'm not trying to join the IRA, but I do want to know if Ireland is a better alternative to staying in the US. World is a fuck.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'll placeholder a serious answer until an actual Irish turns up

    Healthcare isn't like the NHS in the UK, but is way way way way cheaper than in the us

    Only really spent time in a village outside of Cork, and highly doubt it's universal, but:

    life seems a bit more laid back in general

    Booze is cheaper than most of the uk

    A lot of catholics

    Not as much hate for the english as I expected

    Old people talk a lot

    Punctuality seems to be a foreign concept

    Source: Irish chunk of the family, been there twice for funerals