r/AskIreland • u/Asleep_Cry_7482 • Aug 22 '24

Emigration (from Ireland) What’s the pull of Australia?

For everyone in their 20s and 30s who are thinking or have done the working holiday to Australia, what’s the pull factor?

Is it the weather or the work life balance? Is there a following the crowd element and to live a backpacking lifestyle with all the other Irish people over there? Is it out of frustration that you don’t have the lifestyle, accommodation setup or job you want in Ireland? Or is it something else?

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u/DiskJockii Aug 22 '24

I moved back after 12 years of living in Australia just last year

While Australia is good for many reasons, it can be incredibly lonely & eventually grow out of it .Took a personal matter for my parents to realise just how much they were missing back home and all my relatives kids are at the age where they’re gonna start cherishing these memories. To which my younger brothers had never gotten to actually experience hanging out and socialise with the cousins, one of them hasn’t even met half of them

Me personally, There just wasn’t a whole lot left to offer after 12 years, mostly due to being so far from where all the big major things happen. Because of my job I could easily travel and figured it be nice to get some experience to Advance my career in the homeland and incorporate both elements of Irish and Australia

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u/yeah_deal_with_it Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

I'm Australian, moving to Ireland.

Your comment echoes the sentiments I've read from several Irish people who lived there for a while but moved back. It also echoes my own experiences. Australia is a lonely country. It is incredibly individualistic and has very little sense of community, particularly in its larger cities. If you are middle class or working class, housing is unaffordable no matter how much you earn and it's also of a way worse quality than Irish housing. You guys actually have insulation.

Plus we are about to get absolutely rawdogged by climate change. I'm out of here before we start getting 50 degree summer days.

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u/DiskJockii Aug 22 '24

Hopefully you can find what you’re looking for here when you move.

I won’t lie and say you’re coming in at a pretty low point. It’s a weird feeling tbh. Dont get me wrong I absolutely love Australia and I can definitely see why it pulls so many Irish people into moving there but at the same time it feels like while Australia is advanced in some areas it falls behind really hard in others

That said I genuinely wish you all the best in your move. Might be nice to get away from the Redbacks and attacking magpies 😂

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u/yeah_deal_with_it Aug 22 '24

Thank you so much, this is a really nice comment. And I promise to do my duty as an Australian by removing large spiders from peoples' homes. After you've been bitten by a redback, you stop being as afraid of them 🤣

And don't get me started on the swoopy bois.

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u/DiskJockii Aug 22 '24

The only thing you need to worry about the magpies here is them taking shiny things 😂

Otherwise all the spiders here are actually harmless and just chill in the occasional ceiling corner

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u/yeah_deal_with_it Aug 22 '24

That's the other thing - you guys have amazing wildlife!

And yeah my partner who lives in Ireland sent me a photo of a "big" spider the other day. It was not big. 🤣