Are you a card carrying Socialist? I am.

[Bohemianwriter]

40. I'm glad you have already read it. Who would have known?

I remember....
That piece got a spike of visitors a period in 2011. I wondered what the hell just happen there?

"And having lived years in the UK well.. Ireland seems downright civilized in so many respect by comparison... Then again I had an awful time in the UK."

The Irishmen were more fun to deal with than the brits. At least in the pubs.
In England, I felt my job was better protected in some ways. When I fell ill the summer of 2010 while working for HTC between Bournemoth and Poole, and went through some hard times (went into hybronation, a PTSD symptom), the doctor gave me weekly notices for work so I wouldn't loose any income while bein ill. My teamleader came to my place and picked it up weekly as well. The office manager was on first name basis with everyone. In comparison as in Dundalk, the American owners came for a few hour visit in their private jet, sat at the office above the production area, and went playing golf the rest of the time. Didn't spend a single moment saying hello to their wage slaves (I was working for NPL in Dundalk, producing promotional pens and material the fall of 2009... on the Norwegian help desk).

In Ireland, I would have lost a months salary and would have to pay €50 just to see a doctor. In England, it didn't cause me any economic inconvenience. In that perspective, England is much better regarding healthcare and national insurance.

I did however, miss Ireland when getting bored out of my skull in Hobbiton. And started loosing teeth like hell when arriving the end of 2010 and it was a bloody blizard on "my green island". That's when I started yearning for Norwegian food and started to lose weight.