New York, New York

Soary: the advice is overwhelmingly to go to New York, isn't it? As most people haven't lived and worked there, it'd be a bit presumptuous to try and give 'advice' on what one doesn't know. As has been said, correctly, New York is not like living in any other US city - in fact, one could say that living in San Francisco is not like living in Los Angeles, which is not at all like living in Seattle, which is nothing like living in Houston, etc. Given the enormous distances between the state capitals, for example, there are big cultural/religious/ethnic differences which one can only appreciate more fully by living in a cosmopolitan US city. I've been on business to Chicago, New York and Houston, spent plenty of fun time staying with American friends in Tulsa and San Francisco, had a house built outside Tampa, Fla., which I never got to live in, and I'd always encourage, as in advise, a young person to experience somewhere new to them. I enjoyed all the bits of the US I got to see, and there's still plenty I hope to see in future when finances permit, so I would just plain recommend the experience - once in NY, there are just hundreds of other places to go and see on weekends. It's a huge country, with endless cheap internal flights, plus the doughty Greyhound buses, so it wouldn't be a question of forever being pinned to a city desk.
 
I think the positivity for the move is as much of a reflection on what a shithole this country is as anything else.
 
Welk done for being in the position to take the opportunthy. Is this a big step up the ladder or top handicapper into listed company?
 
Gearoid said:
I agree. If I was offered a job in London that I wanted I'd be gone.
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Given the state of the country, If I was offered a job in Tripoli as a Gadaffi double id go. Unfortunately I neither have the facial hair or the accent to meet the advertised requirements.
 
:lol: Del.

Took the job in the end, granger. Moving out there in the New Year but heading out at the beginning of September to sort out accommodation. Back in Dublin sorting things out in the meantime.

Really looking forward to it.
 
Terrific, Trax - hope you really enjoy it (although going straight into Noo York winter weather might be a bit more bracing than you're used to in Dublin!) and make lots of fun new friends.

You don't need a well-behaved old lady to housekeep for you, do you? These days, I'm terribly cheap!
 
Bugger off Auntie - he needs a nice womanly definately not well behaved old lady to keep house for him !! ;)

Best of luck Tracks - you only regret things you dont do in life - you will be great !!! :)
 
I dreamt I was in the Big Apple last night. It was vivid and fun.Obviously a portent of the good fortune that will follow Tracks move....... that or I ate too many of the kids Halloween jellies. :blink:
 
I think you'd have to have fun in the Big Apple - to paraphrase Dr Johnson, "the man who is tired of New York, is tired of life" - it probably can tire you out, as can any big city if you let it, but there is so much to see and do, and one often forgets that it's set in New York State, which is surprisingly beautiful with miles of lush greenery. So you don't even need to head out to another state to enjoy some tranquillity after the hubbub of city life.
 
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