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Thread #133881   Message #3067058
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
04-Jan-11 - 11:48 AM
Thread Name: BS: Ireland-What happened?
Subject: RE: BS: Ireland-What happened?
Depends what the job situation does. Right now, nobody I speak to is expecting anything. People just numbly trudge from one day to the next and wait to "see what happens". General election before long, heigh-ho... Trust is gone, though.

In the meantime, no matter how easy travel becomes, once emigrants have begun to establish themselves and find friends in a new community it gets harder and harder to leave what you've built up. Commitments start forging their own links, and often - unless you're very committed to a particular goal or destination (which a lot of kids aren't, except survival) - a life-path just follows the line of least resistance. So they stay wherever it is they've gone.