It’s so nice to be back home and filming beautiful Galway again.🥰 If you’re new here, Hi !👋 😊 This week’s episode was an interesting one and I’m looking forward to hearing other people’s thoughts so don’t forget to like, subscribe and drop us a comment. 👇 See you all in the next one! 🍂🍁
@Indoor-Cycling-Revolution2 ай бұрын
life preserrver
@mikesweeney6512 ай бұрын
I left Ireland in 2001 and it has changed SO MUCH since then.
@whitiemarsh36712 ай бұрын
In a good or bad way?
@robbdevournai87692 ай бұрын
Well done - appreciate your perspectives and comments. I have been following Ireland the world and the United States during this time. I think you nailed it. Well done!
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thank you! :)
@eon49013 ай бұрын
You're back!! Love the Irish content
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
We are indeed! :)
@stanislavnikolov2 ай бұрын
Hey guys,I’m happy to see you back. Greetings from Bulgaria 🇧🇬
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thanks! And hi to Bulgaria! :)
@stanislavnikolov2 ай бұрын
@@Corrky I consider moving to live in Ireland next year .You and “Ginger lady “ are the funniest way to see the island.This Sunday I will visit Dublin ,this will be my first visit to the Ireland and I will consider my next steps . Your videos are in great help to me.Maybe some day we will have a pint together.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
If you are ever in Galway feel free to reach out. I’m always for a pint :)
@brianboru81552 ай бұрын
Great video. As a Dub, social media and everyone staring at their phones, e-scooters, agree footpaths are crowded and giving pedestrians more space will mean giving less to cars.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@aion58372 ай бұрын
It isn't the buildings, it's what the buildings are placed on - the land - that has sky-rocketed in price. Why? Supply and demand. The more people requiring accommodation the more expensive it becomes. If it's so easy to upgrade, why are highly educated and skilled native Irish leaving in droves? You know what the core issue is.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Plenty of both videos and articles on the subject or Irish housing crisis but half of it is herd to understand unless you're some kind of economist.
@ciarantuomey54082 ай бұрын
@@Corrky supply and demand very basic economics
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
It’s not even close to being that simple from what I hear here.
@chickeninyeezes37592 ай бұрын
It's also planning and inflation and a lack of construction workers
@markilleen40272 ай бұрын
There is no lack of construction workers in this country, it's prity simple what's going on companies like BlackRock buy up housing and artificially inflate the price of rent and the price to buy housing, and you compile that with the ridiculous amount of people coming into the country, most of whom are uneducated and contribute nothing to the economy, driving out are own educated population, keeping the wage down, making the problem even worse
@patcoughlan56382 ай бұрын
Great to see you back
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@Scully3312 ай бұрын
Oh Lorraine and Corrky! We spent 18 beautiful days this September in Ireland, and a few of those days were in Galway. Beautiful city and lovely, friendly people. We walked near a canal that we have seen you two walk by, with ducks, and hoped we might run in to you (guess you were in Croatia). We visited the Latin Quarter, University of Galway, a museum, lost of little shops, ate at The Bake Box - I think you recommend it once in a video. We stayed at Glenlo Abbey Hotel & Estate - which was fantastic. We highly recommend the boxcar restaurant there - ask Hugo to make a "White Lady" cocktail - delicious. Thanks for all your info about Galway and Ireland. We hope to retire there someday (hubby has an EU passport). We travel a lot, but Ireland is our favorite place. Number one point - Everyone is friendly and relaxed. If you could just put shoulders on all the roads! Sending love and gratitude from Savannah GA.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
So glad you had a great time here! Maybe you’ll ran into us next time :)
@FfFf-lu5lc3 ай бұрын
Guys I love you. I know so much about Ireland through you. Looks crowded on the street. Corrky welcome back dude.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Thanks, always nice to read comments like this :)
@FfFf-lu5lc3 ай бұрын
@@Corrky just to let you know. Here in US Florida rent for one bedroom is 1800-2400$ mainly south Florida. There plenty of apartments but rent is crazy and there is no control over that. For you to apply for one bedroom you need to make 2.5 which is ridiculous nowadays.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Okay that is ridiculous! That i could not afford.
@FfFf-lu5lc3 ай бұрын
@@Corrky just giving you a prospective of the situation on the other side. It's not only Ireland
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Oh I understand. That is what I am trying to tell people here but they seam to think they have it the worst for some reason.
@neosandy2 ай бұрын
Welcome back!
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thank you! :)
@Cornmoontarot3 ай бұрын
Made sure to turn on my notifications! Thank you guys for this video😊
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Thank YOU for watching, it means a lot!
@genghisthegreat20343 ай бұрын
And up the back garden the sound comes to me Of the lapsing unsoilable whispering sea
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Oliver St. John?
@genghisthegreat20343 ай бұрын
Yup, stately plump Buck himself
@fionaquinn87773 ай бұрын
Oh my i love ginger lady and i like her opinion too 😊
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@KewKew-do3kq2 ай бұрын
Need housing badly
@ljg77773 ай бұрын
I think it's great that as people who are passing you on the street are actually speaking English. You can hear it everywhere. Here in Dublin it is no longer possible to hear it being spoken on the streets of Dublin.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
1 more thing that differentiates Dublin I guess. Didn’t think of that.
@lorabryan44192 ай бұрын
I would think from what I have heard that to get out somewhere other than Dublin to see the more normal Ireland. Big business can really change a city. I am sure it is full of history but I bet you feel the folks saying hello and actually embracing the people a bit further away from Dublin you get. Everyone needs to take a breath and just enjoy the people, friends, and family as they are far more important than material objects.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Seams like that to me too. But then I personally never liked big cities so Im probably not objective.
@genghisthegreat20343 ай бұрын
I have mixed feelings on the " chat on the bus " thing. The preliminaries, aka weather, cost of living, traffic , housing are a kind of endurance with a stranger. Cutting to the real essentials, past those, would be interesting on a longer journey.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
To be honest I don't talk to anyone like that. But then again I am not Irish.
@whitiemarsh36712 ай бұрын
Irish people are not changing.....Irish people are the same as they always were. The "New Irish" are not Irish
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
I'm curious, why do you think those new people want to be Irish? I for example never said I'm Irish, and I never will. Living in Ireland doesn't imply being Irish.
@whitiemarsh36712 ай бұрын
@@Corrky no idea why they want to claim to be Irish. The native Irish people will never see them as Irish
@finolaomurchu82172 ай бұрын
I agree with that whiteymarsh too many people arriving is not good. You're here with an Irish girl, and are not just in Ireland for financial benefit. There's many nationalities here to get social welfare benefit. This means less for native Irish i.e. hospital waiting lists, children with health issues not getting treatment.@Corrky
@MolloyPolloy2 ай бұрын
There is 100s of people arriving with no ambition to integrate at all. Zero ambitions to work and pay tax. Zero ambition to learn irish customs and culture. Zero interest in equality. They want their religious laws to trump irish laws. When there is no intention to integrate what's the point in allowing them in? We should be allowing and prioritising people who want to become a part of our communities. It makes no sense in taking in people who do not want to.
@yaroslavx64472 ай бұрын
@@MolloyPolloyabsolutely agree with you, I myself learned that Ireland has such high gdp just after arriving in here, obviously my choice with Ireland was not over money, but rather that I’m interested in this part of the world, interested in culture history and language (I mean both English and Irish). And it kind of frustrates me to see people coming here, but not making effort to learn the local customs and integrate. And I’ll stay in Ireland as long as Irish will say that I’m welcome here, not longer than that
@plasticscouser37912 ай бұрын
How much is a pint of guinness on quay st galway ? C I spent 24 years in Limerick and have good memories. I moved away in '21 as i was fed up with the weather . I live in Portugal now were the cost of living is the same as Ireland but the minimum wage is less than €1200 monthly . I hope u listen 2 " David Mcwilliams " podcast as he loves Croatia. Loved ur chin- wag Christy 🇮🇪/🇵🇹 👍
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Pint is usually 5.50 EUR I will check out the podcast, thanks!
@diarmuid41912 ай бұрын
I can’t buy a house with 110k in the bank, I’m just going to move to the nordics. Pricing here is fucking ridiculous for the slop you get (I’m an architect)
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
I guess if owning a house is important to you I understand how Ireland is not a good place for you. It’s all a matter of priorities.
@michele-n3y2 ай бұрын
If you both want a visit here to athens with your camera I can give you free room and a visit to my mountain cottage near Loutraki-corinth,west by a short journey from athens,Im very fond of you both,see this place,everywhere is mad anyway.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
Hi Michele! Thank you very much for the offer. We will keep it in mind when we decide to visit Greece :)
@michele-n3y2 ай бұрын
Of course life is not the same,teenagers can be horrendous,especially to parents,totally without respect and rude,and they have got worse with social media.Rents here in athens are easier than dublin,a basic one bed flat 450 to 550 with balcony in a 10 minute metro trip,it is insane to have such high rents and it is ruining the world economy and the lives of people,making all sorts of social and mental health problems,a world of havs and hav nots.
@fionaquinn87773 ай бұрын
Hi, i'm from Australia and yes things are more expensive but no you're NOT an idiot, some people can't save money they want everything now, my sister in law has a saying "i'd rather having debts than regrets" vs my husband and i we decided to not have children so we can be ok in our old age, PS: we are 41 and 42years old with a 3 bedroom house half of it is paid off and we got it in 2013 we got married in 2015 we actually went to spain in 2016 and 2019 so some people does NOT know how to put money on a side for these heard times, i guess there priorities are just different
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
I have to agree with you with most of this. I am some kind of an extreme though because I would never consider a huge loan just to buy a house. I am happy renting. There will not be a day where I owe thousands to anyone.
@fionaquinn87772 ай бұрын
@@Corrky ok! That's understandable, for me i would never make someone else rich by renting his house and can through me out when ever he has a chance! But I don't mean any disrespect it's just my point of view 😊
@finolaomurchu82172 ай бұрын
I find if I'm out and about and talk to random people in queues or bus stop my children will tell me not to be weird (i.e. talking just).
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
I'm not much of a talker to be honest. Lorraine on the other side loves it!
@fareedaobrien31122 ай бұрын
Of course Ireland has changed, for one, there's more people in it
@noelfleming35672 ай бұрын
And our government is destroying country with illegal immigrants
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
The question is, for good or bad?
@josephkelleher88202 ай бұрын
I have no idea about Ireland because have never been their. America is all I know.
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
If everything goes to plan we should visit US next year! :)
@Wes-Evans3 ай бұрын
I had so much expectations when I arrived in Dublin after hearing so much about the legendary friendliness of the Irish. Well all the people I met were rude or dry at best. Dubliners are not that friendly at all. It's a breath of fresh air whenever I travel around the country to find the kind of people who live up to your reputation.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
Do you think that's just Dublin or is it maybe just the fact it is the capital od the country? Maybe they are all like that...just thinking out loud here.
@genghisthegreat20343 ай бұрын
I lived four years in Dublin, and the Dubs are a warm crew. It takes time, and patience past the first contact.
@Wes-Evans3 ай бұрын
@@genghisthegreat2034 I still live in Dublin. I haven't said that they are unfriendly, but that they aren't that friendly, I traveled quite a bit and lived in other countries and let me tell you that dubliners are not among the friendliest I have met. Not even close.
@Wes-Evans3 ай бұрын
@@Corrky in my opinion, I met people from bigger busier more stressful capital cities who were immensely friendlier.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
I understand. Thanks for your point of view!
@dad_jokes_4ever2262 ай бұрын
Gaillimh
@Corrky2 ай бұрын
It is indeed! :)
@motive12363 ай бұрын
It’s a terrible country. Best thing to do is leave for your own mental health.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
I disagree. We love it here.
@motive12363 ай бұрын
@@Corrky I just moved back to Galway and honestly it’s just terrible. The people have become so miserable and just rude for no reason. The weather has gotten much worse and it’s a complete rip off a country. Go to Asia and it’s like a breath of fresh air.
@malahammer3 ай бұрын
And you live where?
@malahammer3 ай бұрын
@@motive1236 Every single person....really? Are we to believe an unknown troll on KZbin? FFS!
@motive12363 ай бұрын
@@malahammer I just moved back to Galway and it’s terrible. Even look at the service you receive. It’s terrible and you pay so much money.
@Corrky3 ай бұрын
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