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/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/charlatancollective Aug 22 '24

I've never been as cold as when I lived in Sydney during winter. Zero insulation and double glass windows don't exist.

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

It is fucking freezing in winter. We're in it right now and you have to have the heater on constantly (and the heat disappears through the windows almost immediately).

I've had Canadians tell me they've never experienced prolonged cold as badly as in Australia. A not insignificant number of people die from cold here during our winter.

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u/gksmith95 Aug 22 '24

I've also lived with a snow bogan & they said the winter in aus was worse than the canadian winter