I love living in the UK for about 8 months a year and hate it in the winter months. I blame myself for not organising my life so it would be easier to live in a different place for the winter.
Want to know the reason why I chose the UK? Public Transport.
Outside of Dublin (and I bloody hate Dublin), if you haven't got a car, you're stuck.
I grew up six miles outside Limerick city, the bus service was once an hour, you'd arrive 5 minutes early and see it came early and you'd missed it and now had to wait an hour for the next one, which wouldn't arrive at all so you're now two hours waiting with the rain coming down at you sideways.
Then I moved into the city and somehow the bus service was worse.
Outside of Dublin (and I bloody hate Dublin), if you haven't got a car, you're stuck.
A colleague traveled to Cork with his family (wife and young kids) for holiday and told us that they traveled around by bus. I was amazed he pulled that off.
Guy, I've used public transport all over the UK but yes, I'm based in that London. I've found all UK services to be generally superior to Ireland.
For example. I once had a 9am meeting in Killarney so needed to travel down from Limerick. I looked at getting a train but it involved 2 changes and long waits for the connection at both of them. So, I went to Bus Eireann and they have a regular coach service down there.. except, the first bus for Killarney didn't leave Limerick until just before 9am, so the only option I was left with was to go down the night before, stay in a hotel and attend the meeting, or persuade everyone to move the meeting to 10, which was the option I took and ended up arriving just after 10.
Same thing happened when I needed to get to Thurles and the train wasn't running for some reason so I had to overnight it. I took the train to Ennis which should only take 30 minutes and still managed to arrive half an hour late for a meeting.
The bus into town from my family home is the Airport bus! It goes from Galway to Cork every hour serving Shannon. Often by the time it gets to Shannon, it's already full so just skips the stop so if you've just flown in to Shannon hoping to get into Limerick, a very expensive taxi ride awaits you. I'm lucky, I have an old pal who drives a cab and he collects me for a fraction of the normal rate.
What Guy said basically. Very happy here most of the year, even through to Christmas, but as I get older I crave more warmth and light from January through March.
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Cease and Desist
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He merely poses a question
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Yes. But I know it would be even better somewhere warmer and tax-free ;)
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perfectly fair question, at that
one thing on which I agree with unk is that a lot of ROFers could do with a few years of ‘pattin hard and fast
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Bun n Laz got this sewn.
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I am. As you know I patted for a decade and could easily return. but UK is a gr8 place with a nice pride of lions udig.
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I love living in the UK for about 8 months a year and hate it in the winter months. I blame myself for not organising my life so it would be easier to live in a different place for the winter.
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Actually I think I am. Started by, as you kids call it, 'patting in the UK and decided to stay.
I don't like hot weather.
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I chose to live in the UK so I'd say, yeah.
Want to know the reason why I chose the UK? Public Transport.
Outside of Dublin (and I bloody hate Dublin), if you haven't got a car, you're stuck.
I grew up six miles outside Limerick city, the bus service was once an hour, you'd arrive 5 minutes early and see it came early and you'd missed it and now had to wait an hour for the next one, which wouldn't arrive at all so you're now two hours waiting with the rain coming down at you sideways.
Then I moved into the city and somehow the bus service was worse.
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To lead a better life I need my love to be here.
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I hate this modern phrase. It suggests people make a conscious decision to live their second or third rate life.
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Eddie, do you live in London? Your bus service experience sounds the same as the UK outside London and perhaps a couple of big cities.
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A colleague traveled to Cork with his family (wife and young kids) for holiday and told us that they traveled around by bus. I was amazed he pulled that off.
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especially on a family holiday. probably shut himself in the loo.
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Guy, I've used public transport all over the UK but yes, I'm based in that London. I've found all UK services to be generally superior to Ireland.
For example. I once had a 9am meeting in Killarney so needed to travel down from Limerick. I looked at getting a train but it involved 2 changes and long waits for the connection at both of them. So, I went to Bus Eireann and they have a regular coach service down there.. except, the first bus for Killarney didn't leave Limerick until just before 9am, so the only option I was left with was to go down the night before, stay in a hotel and attend the meeting, or persuade everyone to move the meeting to 10, which was the option I took and ended up arriving just after 10.
Same thing happened when I needed to get to Thurles and the train wasn't running for some reason so I had to overnight it. I took the train to Ennis which should only take 30 minutes and still managed to arrive half an hour late for a meeting.
The bus into town from my family home is the Airport bus! It goes from Galway to Cork every hour serving Shannon. Often by the time it gets to Shannon, it's already full so just skips the stop so if you've just flown in to Shannon hoping to get into Limerick, a very expensive taxi ride awaits you. I'm lucky, I have an old pal who drives a cab and he collects me for a fraction of the normal rate.
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Been there, done that. Now happy being back in the UK...it strikes me as quite a lonely lifestyle the more you age.
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more people to keep you company when you're patting than in UK I would say
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With you on this Sails. Only marginally better than "my truth"
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My truth is that "living your best life" is an awful turn off phrase.
Although tbf I love using it in relation to dogs. So much joy you can share with a hound. If they're living their best life, it's pretty good for us.
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What Guy said basically. Very happy here most of the year, even through to Christmas, but as I get older I crave more warmth and light from January through March.
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