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sciathan_file

UK School System?

May 13, 2010 16:33

I know I have a lot of UK residents that watch this journal, so I was wondering if I might ask for your 2 cents worth. First of all, there are basically no jobs here in the broke state of California. And I have too many degrees to be as cheap as entry level candidates and too little experience to be competitive with all of the teachers that have ( Read more... )

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rosalui May 13 2010, 23:50:53 UTC

I can answer on Northern Ireland - yes, it is. When my mom was in Ireland 20 years ago, it was not. However, I stayed with a friend from Dublin over the summer, and her family told me there was no problem with my flying out of Belfast.

I guess that doesn't mean there's NO danger, but it's not incredibly present? XD

sciathan_file May 13 2010, 23:55:10 UTC

I was there in 2007 and Belfast seemed fairly safe from my uneducated tourist perspective, but lots of people here are still like "OMG YOU'RE GOING TO GET BLOWN UP!"

It's probably on par with the terrible parts of L.A...at any rate.

reposted for html fail keestone May 14 2010, 20:54:10 UTC

I haven't been to Belfast since a weekend in 2002, but there are seriously like no news stories about possible threat. There are occasional single deaths in the news that sound like the finishing off of a decades old grudge, but that wouldn't affect anyone but the participants in those old grudges. and while I had a weird experience on my weekend there (went into what I guess was the wrong pub for after theatre drinks, me and the girls I was with got hit on by some scumbags that were pretty obviously members of a paramilitary gang), it was seriously nothing that couldn't have happened in SoCal (except then, it would just be a slightly different type of gang member trying to get in my pants and sell me drugs). It was very different when one of my friends was growing up right on the border 25 years ago.

Re: reposted for html fail sciathan_file May 14 2010, 21:31:20 UTC

I occasionally skim through the Irish Independent and read the BBC news daily and haven't heard much about it. But I didn't even have any of that skeevyness when I was there...I think it's just a matter of being aware of where you are (which is a good rule of thumb whenever...).