to want to emirgrate to non-f***ed up place?

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im officially fed up with the ignorant waste of space wankers that live in NI. The rioters the racists, the general " i hate anyone who isn't my religion,and i have brain the size of pea so the only thing i can think of doing is fighting and hurting people i don't know"

a few weeks ago 3 children youngest was two escaped by some miracle when a bomb went off beside their school. and today an 8 year old boy found a bomb in his playground at school. what can of fucked up place am i living in when stupid ignorant wankers leave bombs beside schools to make some point that they probably don't fully understand????

AIBU in wanting to get the fuck out of this shitehole "country" i live in??

YANBU

No, of course you aren't being unreasonable.

Donegal?

YANBU.

I'm from NI and moved here to England 9 years ago and it's shit here too, just in a different way. I hate the thought of DD growing up here.

DP and I are considering NZ.

is it a reaction to tony's lovely 'aren't i great, i fixed it' book?

it does annoy me that incidents are not often reported now.

bombs at schools?! Haven't heard about this.

YANBU - but go where?

YANBU but unfortunately there are stupid ignorant wankers all over the world.

Bloody hell, I was thinking of coming to NI aswell These people need to be hung drawn and quartered, why can't they see violence isn't the answer and it just makes them scum of the earth?

Good luck finding that place ...

ilovemydog Donegal is one of my favourite places in the world.

My auntie and uncle have a gorgeous stone cottage right on the coast at Muckross (beside SJP and Matthew Broderick ) and every time I go I don't want to leave.

there are a lot of places that have serious downsides but thankfully not so many places where you find bombs placed in schools

this is todays thing about the 8 yo boy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11198931

its just so messed up that kids aren't safe in school.

plus the rioting in july involved kids "under 14" under 14 and rioting what parents do they have? All this over religion

I left NI many moons ago and am very glad I did. But as others say there are weirdos everywhere (although no bombs in the local schools, thank god).

YADNBU

Problem is I think the whole world is F*ed up in one way or another. There are too many idiots out there that measure their self worth on their ability to hurt/kill/make peoples lives a misery. Usually they choose someone who is different in some way from themselves.

People who plant any explosive devices in or around a school are scum of the earth imo.

I never understood how Donegal could technically be in Ulster, but not in NI? .

Love Donegal.

Ulster is an old boundary from way back in time (pre English invasion). It is one of the 4 provinces of Ireland. Northern Ireland is a more recent division created post WW1 as a solution to the Irish civil war. It was only ever meant to be a temporary solution but has turned into something very problematic indeed.

I am from Norn Irn and now live in Manchester. I love Northern Ireland and especially its crazy, friendly and loud folk but I am glad my children are not being raised there.

Yeah, I understand about the boundary commission etc and Michael Collins negotiating the temporary solution, but don't understand why Donegal didn't go with the 6 counties?

Anyway, is a beautiful part of the world.

Just seen that 8yr old on the news - bless him!

brought this thread back to life again after the events of the past two nights.

In the past two nights two buses have been hijacked and burnt out as well as several cars stolen (two from my street) and also burnt out, plus many petrol bombs and bricks thrown at police, and this has all happened about say 10m from the top of my street. We have been kept up for two nights in a row from helicopters. Im just so upset and most of all angry that i live in a place like this.

the trouble started after police raided several houses for historical enquiries but they found drugs. according to these Neanderthals, the police were "unfair" so they decided to have a riot, beat up and terrify the bus drivers doing there jobs, steal other peoples cars and burn them and generally smash up the place. the entire top of my street is covered in broken glass.

how can the people of northern ireland look forward to a better future and leave the silliness of the troubles to the past when there are still people like this? Translink have said that they could end up suspending bus services to the area and fair point why should their staff be put in danger, but who is going to suffer? The decent people who don't get involved with this shite who need the bus to go to work.

a ranty thread but i feel a justified one. for the next few nights i won't people able to go out in the car after 7 for fear of it being hijacked. i can't walk my pram at the top of the street because of the glass. im just so upset that i'm stuck in a place like this. scared to leave my own house at nighttime.

I was thinking of moving up the north of Ireland for cheaper houses adn the NHS.

It can't all be bad can it? I know I've seen on the news that there are terrorist activities going on (and knee cappings again). Are you afraid in your own home? That is terrible. I'd no idea it was that bad.

My dh is from Belfast, all his family live there, they cannot understand that we don't want to live there.

No it's not me, scarey Scottish woman, who is "stopping" you living round the corner from your son and grandchildren, its the fact that dh left at 18 to study and has never been back for more than a holiday - because he prefers living in Scotland.

We have our own problems here (and in Glasgow religion is part of it) and there are plenty parts of NI with no bombs in schools etc. But dh can't take the parochialism, and I've never even considered living there as an option.

weegie - your DH is not alone. So many people from NI refuse to go back. And who can blame them? Such a beautiful country, yet constantly in turmoil.