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Ireland. Except if Gerry Adams becomes Taosieach. Then everyone should get out.
On a more serious note, Ireland. If you speak English, it is great. A lot of people are friendly, and there are tons of things to do on a cultural side of things, especially in Temple Bar.
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On April 26 2015 19:02 Carnac wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2015 16:02 Grobyc wrote:On April 26 2015 10:07 parkufarku wrote:On April 26 2015 07:29 SixStrings wrote:
Definitely Switzerland. The Irish are awesome, but you won't experience much of that when you're only living there for a year.
Think of them as the opposite of Australians, who are open and friendly from the word go, whereas the Irish need some time to warm up to you.
The Swiss are like Germans 2.0. Friendlier, funnier, smarter, they perfected all our good traits and got rid of the bad ones. My four months in Switzerland felt like I was living amongst a different species.
I know these all sound like stereotypes, but there's truth to them.
Also, while Ireland is beautiful, being in Switzerland lets you explored most of Europe pretty cheaply. Southern Germany, Vienna, France, Spain and the wonderful Netherlands just a stone-throw away. Southern Germany is beautiful, Romania is out of this world (don't go to Bukarest, though, it's like the toilet of Europe), Holland is just a compilation of serenity, Poland will blow your mind, Vienna is what Berlin should be, and I haven't even been to Portugal yet. Yes, Ireland is nice, but there's a lot more to mainland Europe to explore. lol I'll keep that stuff in mind. So I realized that it still takes a good several hours to go to another country, 3~4 hours to Munich, Germany, 7~8 hours to Wien, Austria, 5+ hours to Milan, Italy by train. I don't think it's really that "close" as I thought it was previously. And St. Gallen has very little nightlife, which worries me! ... Where are you from? That's like how long it takes me to get to a neighbouring city (by car, there's no trains here) within my province in Canada.  Wellllll, that's hardly a fair comparison. Canada is more than twice the size of all of the EU lol. Hell, the whole of European continent (which includes a decent chunk of western Russia) is only like 10% bigger than Canada, while having more than 20 times the population density. I know it varies a lot within Canada (as it does in Europe), but it still gives you an idea of what you're comparing
I think it's an understandable comparison. I'm just saying that what may seem like a long time for him isn't objectively a long time for everyone else. I didn't look forward to 10 hour overnight trains when I was in Europe last summer, but I couldn't be bothered to complain with the fact that they exist for our benefit.
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On April 26 2015 16:02 Grobyc wrote:Show nested quote +On April 26 2015 10:07 parkufarku wrote:On April 26 2015 07:29 SixStrings wrote:
Definitely Switzerland. The Irish are awesome, but you won't experience much of that when you're only living there for a year.
Think of them as the opposite of Australians, who are open and friendly from the word go, whereas the Irish need some time to warm up to you.
The Swiss are like Germans 2.0. Friendlier, funnier, smarter, they perfected all our good traits and got rid of the bad ones. My four months in Switzerland felt like I was living amongst a different species.
I know these all sound like stereotypes, but there's truth to them.
Also, while Ireland is beautiful, being in Switzerland lets you explored most of Europe pretty cheaply. Southern Germany, Vienna, France, Spain and the wonderful Netherlands just a stone-throw away. Southern Germany is beautiful, Romania is out of this world (don't go to Bukarest, though, it's like the toilet of Europe), Holland is just a compilation of serenity, Poland will blow your mind, Vienna is what Berlin should be, and I haven't even been to Portugal yet. Yes, Ireland is nice, but there's a lot more to mainland Europe to explore. lol I'll keep that stuff in mind. So I realized that it still takes a good several hours to go to another country, 3~4 hours to Munich, Germany, 7~8 hours to Wien, Austria, 5+ hours to Milan, Italy by train. I don't think it's really that "close" as I thought it was previously. And St. Gallen has very little nightlife, which worries me! ... Where are you from? That's like how long it takes me to get to a neighbouring city (by car, there's no trains here) within my province in Canada.
Atlanta, U.S. Not the most rural area but also not the biggest city here either. We use cars for everything here too
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On April 26 2015 13:45 kingcastles wrote:
find a pretty irish girl near the bonnie bonnie banks of loch lomond
I appreciated this
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I wouldn’t worry much about getting to know other people, there will be loads of other students anyway.
St. Gallen is a bit sleepy, but there is a university and it is kinda a „hub“ of eastern Switzerland - so its bound to have „some“ night live (but its also in one of the more „rural“ parts of Switzerland)… If you want to go „big“, you can allways go to Zurich which is much more lively and probably twice as expensive  (takes 1 hour by Train and you have 4-5 Trains/Hour).
+Public Transport in Switzerland is in general really, really good. You can get around easily whiteout any planning.
As for Ireland:
I was a week in Dublin. I drank too much.
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