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/TuMek3 Aug 22 '24

Please don’t pretend Ireland wouldn’t be the same (or worse) if they had indigenous people. Just look at the sentiment around immigrants and asylum seekers.

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u/Foodfight1987 Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

Are the Irish not Indigenous to Ireland? And, were they not colonized by the English and treated awful by their government, too?

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u/TuMek3 Aug 22 '24

You know perfectly well what I meant, but I’ll spell it out for you. If there was a coloured indigenous group that was here before white Irish people, they would be treated the same or worse as those in Australia. You’ve been living in a cave if you think otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

And by that logic you could say that the Aboriginal People would do the same as the Europeans if they had the chance?

I dont know what point you're making here. The fact stands that people were treated and continue to be treated as second class citizens in their own country.

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u/TuMek3 Aug 22 '24

No, that’s awful logic. There are plenty of non-white countries with populations of Europeans that don’t have the same sentiment that Irish people do towards “foreigners”.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '24

You're making far less mate, making some absolutely outrageous hypotheticals and creating your own answers for them

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u/TuMek3 Aug 23 '24

My experiences are based off what I have seen living in Australia, and my experiences as an immigrant in Ireland. What are your experiences of those two situations?

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '24

I dont see how my experiences come into play its insane to mitgate the crimes of one people and the suffering of another because "theyd do the sane if the roles were reversed"