Your Country Pros & Cons
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1) Ireland
2) Mild Winters. Amazing landscapes. Good butter. Cheerful easy going people with subversive sense of humour. I felt proud to live here when Ireland rejected the Lisbon Treaty, even if I couldn't vote.
Good 'ol capitalism which I understand by: weak unions, lots of jobs because it's relatively easy to hire and fire people, low social and corporate taxes, easy to start a business. All of this produces growth and general prosperity. Thanks to that, bitches like Ryanair can exist and provide jobs and amazingly cheap airfares across Europe, while nobody is forced to work for them. Whoever complained at Ryanair, will miss its services when it's gone.3) Mild Summers with cold sea water all around the island. Rain. High alcohol taxation and governed pub closing times. Architecture. Bad housing standards. Bad quality of medical services and I mean privately paid ones, not only tax-supported care. Fly me to the continent if anything happens to me.
Aggressive teenagers. Brats just like those in the UK, who laugh in policemen's faces because of naive lenient law.
Vinegar in chips (fries). You get an instant feeling there must be something terribly wrong with a country of people who spoil their chips with this.4) Great country full of good-spirited people. Hyped as being land of the free while being scarily less and less of it.
5) I'm still amazed by Irish openness and courtesy. I'm an expat living here and never in the last 3 years was I even given a contemptious look that would have racial undertones (I only got regular contemptious looks). But I'm white, from a 'catholic country' that produced a pope whose portrait hung in every home 20 years ago here. It might've been different if I were or looked as if I were from someplace else.