Talking to Locals in Dublin, Ireland

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Introduction: Welcome to Badass Digital Nomads, where we're pushing the boundaries of remote work and travel, all while staying grounded with a little bit of old-school philosophy, self-development, and business advice from our guests.  

Kristin:    00:02:05    Hey there, Kristin from Traveling With Kristin here, and welcome to episode 195 of Badass Digital Nomads! I'm a little bit sick today, a little under the weather. Um, just got back from Dublin, Ireland, and Northern Ireland as well. And with all of the traveling that you've probably noticed that I've been doing over the past few months since, uh, September, October, I guess it caught up with me and I finally got sick. So it's actually my first time getting sick in a couple years and not very fun. But here we are. We're not gonna miss a week of the podcast. And today, for you, I have a series of interviews with people. I just walked around the city of Dublin and talked to locals; and just wanted to learn a little bit more about the city since I've never been there before. I wanted to share that with you.  

Kristin:    00:03:03    I asked people what they liked, what they didn't like, and what they would change about Dublin, and I found it really interesting to hear their answers. There is some ambient noise in this one because it was recorded outside, and so it's not the best sound quality that we would have when I'm inside and in a studio and using my regular microphone. But hopefully we've made it so that you can understand what everyone is saying and it makes it a bit harder as well with the accent, right, if you're from outside of the UK or Ireland. But that's all part of travel is meeting different people who look different, who talk differently than you and hearing their perspective and what they have to say. So I had a lot of fun walking around talking to strangers. I might do this more often. Maybe I'll bring my actual microphone out with me next time, and we'll make a series out of this.  

Kristin:    00:04:10    I'm back in the US for a couple weeks visiting family before jetting back over to Europe. And we'll also be back with more extended interviews next week. in case you missed it. Over on my YouTube channel Traveling With Kristin. We have lots of new videos. There's a new cost of living in Lisbon video. There is a video where I ask 10 people from nine different countries how they make money online that allows them to travel or live on Madeira Island. There's also a day in my life living on Madeira Island, little glimpse into the local lifestyle there, and also a travel guide, a city guide on Porto. One day in Porto, Portugal, l with things to do and things to see. That one was really fun to make as well. And I hope you enjoy the new travel videos over there, and we'll see you again here on the podcast next week.

It is my first time ever in Dublin, Ireland, and I'm really excited and curious to learn more about it, especially because I'm 30% Irish, and I've heard that the locals are super friendly and polite here. So I'm gonna go around and ask some of them what they think about their city. 

Peter (Ireland)

Kristin: What's your name? 

Peter: Peter. 

Kristin: And so you're born and bred in Dublin?  

Peter:    00:05:37   Yeah, I live just off the road. I love Dublin. I can be in the city in 10 minutes.

Kristin:    00:05:42    What would you say makes Dublin such a great place to live?  

Peter:    00:05:47    I think probably the people and the friendliness and just the easygoing way of life, you know?  

Kristin:    00:05:52    Yeah.  

Peter:    00:05:54    It's not as stressful as living in New Yorker, Hong Kong.  

Kristin:    00:05:58    That's true. Have you traveled much through Europe?  

Peter:    00:06:02    Traveled all over the place,  

Kristin:    00:06:03    Yeah. What are some of your other favorite cities? Well,  

Peter:   00:06:05    I have a son living in Hong Kong and a daughter in Vancouver, so we tend to go around a place, but when I have a little break, uh, this is where I come. Just sit down and relax. And I have a walk around. Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:06:19    And are, are there any downsides to living in Dublin? What are some of the things that locals don't like as much?  

Peter:    00:06:26    Well, lately in the inner, in the city, the city center's become a little bit unruly. Uh, it's not been policed, uh, well enough so that that's kind of escalating at the moment.  

Kristin:    00:06:42    I've heard that like that. Yeah, I heard that from other people.  

Peter:    00:06:45    It's not great. But other than that, yeah, it's fine. Like we don't have any, any problems.  

Peter:    00:06:50    Is there anything that when your family members come to visit you or like their wives, husbands, is there anything that they remark about when they come? Like anything that surprises them?  

Peter:   00:07:02    Well, when they come back to say, "Oh my God, the prices have gone up," But, uh, other than that, they're just delight, delighted to get back.  

Kristin:    00:07:08    I've heard it's cheaper outside of Dublin, is that true?

Peter:    00:07:13    Yeah. West of Ireland. Well, any major city, it's gonna be a little bit more expensive. Some of the rural parts of Ireland all over, like the pint of Guinness over there is probably 5 euros, 50, and you could maybe get it in—in the pub, in the countryside for four euros. So it's a bit cheaper.

Kristin: 00:07:32. Yeah. The prices seem the same as the US to me in Dublin. And then, for getting outside of town, if people have a weekend to explore, would you say west, south, or west?  

Peter: West 

Kristin: West

Peter:    00:07:46 West.  South's a little bit further down, a little bit further, further away. The road system in Ireland is fantastic cause as good as anywhere in the world.  

Kristin:    00:07:53    Okay.  

Peter:    00:07:54    Uh, you can be in the west of Ireland in two and a half hours. Irish seats in the Atlantic Ocean in two and a half hours. 

Kristin: Amazing. 

Peter: Up into the car and straight across. It's fantastic. You know. 

Kristin: Thanks. 

Peter: Access into Orleans is good. Uh, the only thing we don't have is a train to the airport, but other than that 

Kristin: Right. 

Peter: It's terrific. Yeah. Yeah. The transportation system in this country, in this city, and the country that matter is second to none. It really is. It's terrific. 

Kristin:    00:08:19   Amazing. Well, thanks so much for your local insights, and I'm glad that I ended up on this path cuz it's quite lovely. I was here last night, and I thought I need to come back in the daytime.  

Peter:     00:08:29    Did you see the moon?  

Kristin:    00:08:30    Yeah. Huh? I took pictures. Beautiful.  

Peter:    00:08:32    Fantastic. Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:08:33    Yeah. Really peaceful and very safe, it seems. 

Wendy & Matthew (Ireland & UK) 

Kristin: Uh, where did you move from?  

Wendy    00:08:38    We were, uh, in London for the last 10  

Kristin:    00:08:41    Years. Oh, but you're from Dublin?

Wendy:    00:08:43     I'm From, You?

Matthew:  I'm <laugh>. I'm not

Kristin:    00:08:47    Oh, okay. 

Matthew:    00:08:48   I’m from London.  

Kristin:    00:08:49    And um, what brought you to London?  

Wendy:   00:08:52    Um, we used to live in France

Kristin:    00:08:55    <laugh>. Oh. and a lot of world travelers.  

Wendy:     00:08:56    Yeah. And a lot of our pals were moving kind of in that direction, so we thought it'd be nice to be surrounded by our old pals and from here, some from there. So yeah, we ended up moving to London for one year.  

Kristin:    00:09:07    One turned into 10 to 10. And uh, what, what were some of the differences in living in London versus Dublin?  

Matthew:     00:09:14    I love this.  

Wendy:    00:09:15    Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:09:16    Yeah, good point. Less nature. Yeah. 

Matthew:    00:09:18    You feel a lot more like you're in a, a big city.  

Kristin:    00:09:22    It is quite crowded. Like  

Wendy:    00:09:24   Yeah.  I didn't feel that because we were on the, you know, we were in Wimbledon, which was quite green.  

Kristin:    00:09:28    Oh right.  

Wendy:    00:09:29    And beautiful. Um, what's the difference? The pace here is slower. and not in a kind of backward way. just in a more leisurely way.  

Kristin:    00:09:40    Yeah. I noticed people are enjoying life around here.  

Wendy:    00:09:43    Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:09:45    And um, what are some of the things that you appreciate more after leaving and coming back?  

Wendy:    00:09:50    Um, I think the city has changed very much. Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:09:54    Yeah. From 10 years ago.  

Wendy:    00:09:56    Yeah. Even I lived here 20 years ago, just around. Um, for me, yeah. It's definitely more cosmopolitan. It's a little more diverse, um, which we like.  

Kristin:    00:10:07    Yeah.  

Wendy:    00:10:08    Um,  

Matthew:    00:10:09    It feels like a European city, that’s what I like.

Wendy:   00:10:12    Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:10:13    It's grown a lot.

Wendy:    00:10:15   It’s Grown  Up

Kristin:    00:10:15    Yeah. 

Wendy:     00:10:16    Yeah. It's not as provincial as before

Kristin:   00:10:19    Okay. 

Wendy: Yeah. I think anyway.  

Kristin:    00:10:21    Um, have you found that there's any downsides?  

Wendy:    00:10:24    Yes the cost

Kristin:    00:10:27    <laugh>. Yeah. I noticed it's like the US, the prices. Whoa. Yeah.  

Wendy:    00:10:32    It's shocking.  

Kristin:    00:10:33    Uh, do you rent or own? Uh,  

Wendy:   00:10:35    We Own.  

Kristin:    00:10:35    Okay.  

Wendy:   00:10:36    So the property prices are, they're very expensive, but compared to London, they're manageable.

Kristin:    00:10:41    Right, right. Everything's relative

Wendy:   00:10:43 But everyday things like– Yeah. Supermarket shopping. Insane. 

Kristin:    00:10:48    Yeah. The prices of just like breakfast, lunch, and dinner are quite insane.  

Wendy:    00:10:52    Insane. Going out for meal, insane. Price of wine–nuts. I'm like, what?  

Kristin:    00:10:59   but yeah, I don't know how people— 

Wendy:    00:11:01    It's really expensive here compared to the UK. I think

Kristin:    00:11:05   Yeah. And what would you say to people who've never been to Dublin? Like, why should they visit?  

Wendy:    00:11:10    Um, for me, I, I suppose the theaters are beautiful or rich tapestry of culture going back a very long time—great writers from here. Poets and just lovers of the word, So I think for me, that's very special part.  

Kristin:    00:11:26    Lots of art and culture.  

Wendy:    00:11:28    Yeah. Art and culture I think

Matthew:   00:11:29    And a lot of people in the UK in my experience assume that it's just the same here as it is in the UK, and it’s not. So I think people should come and, uh. realize that there is, 

Wendy: There's more to it. 

Matthew There, There is a difference. Yeah. Quite a significant difference

Kristin:    00:11:43    Right. Do you feel like there's any animosity, like between, uh, the British and the Irish here, or everyone's so in good terms?

Matthew:     00:11:51   For me, it's all, you know, lighthearted  

Kristin:    00:11:54    Yeah. Right. Right.

Matthew:    00:11:55    I get a lot of–

Wendy: especially at the Rugby

Kristin:    00:11:57    some Slagging, is that what it's called? <laugh>? 

Matthew: Yeah. Yeah. I get a lot of slagging, but it's not at all bad. 

Kristin: In a friendly way. 

Kristin:    00:12:04    Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, thanks so much for letting us know you're local insight. 

Wendy:    00:12:09    You're welcome. Where are you from?  

Kristin:    00:12:10    Interesting. I'm from Florida. 

Wendy: Oh, wow. Yeah. And what are you doing here?  

Kristin:    00:12:14    Uh, I just came for a meeting. But I have a YouTube channel. Oh. So I'll put myself in it. So I decided to, um, it's my first time in Dublin, my first time. 

Wendy: Ah, welcome.

Kristin: Yeah, I've been here like a few days, so. 

Wendy: Oh great. 

Kristin: And uh, 

Wendy: and how did you find Kendall normally people are out in the city

Kristin:    00:12:29    I know I got an Airbnb and, uh, it was much more reasonably priced Uh-huh, cause I was over here, but I also like to be kind of like outside of the hustle and bustle. Nice. So it's very quiet, and I found this path to walk on and I loving it.  

Wendy:    00:12:45    And then what are you doing? Like how long are you staying here  

Kristin:    00:12:47    For? Um, I leave on Friday. Okay.  

Wendy:    00:12:50    Well, if you wanna go for a beer, you gotta call us. We'll give you our number.  

Kristin:    00:12:54    Okay. Alright, we'll turn this off then. <laugh>.

Immigrant from Brazil

Kristin: You're the third Brazil—uh, Brazilian person I met in like five minutes. Everyone on the street,  

Brazilian:     00:13:06    I have a big community here. Big, big group. 

Kristin:    00:13:09    Yeah. And, and you've lived here for six years?

Brazilian:    00:13:12    Six year, yeah, I come in with student–a students and after get on my visa, my stamp four because my, my husband, he is Brazilian – he got at passport in Germany. So it's easy for us now, living here.  

Kristin:    00:13:25    Oh yeah.  

Brazilian:    00:13:25    Now, just because we can work full-time and make money, can rent your house just for you.

Kristin:    00:13:31    What do you love the most about Ireland or Dublin in general?  

Brazilian:    00:13:35    I like Ireland because some, I like, not the weather, but I, it's so beautiful country and the people we are friendly with. You just, I make lots friend here and I feel my house, my, my second house.  

Kristin:    00:13:52    Yeah. Really nice. Everyone is so nice.  

Brazilian:    00:13:55    <laugh>. Yeah, exactly. In summertime, is amazing. <laugh>

Kristin:    00:13:59 Yeah/  And what are some of the downsides of living here besides the weather?  

Brazilian:   00:14:04    It's a little bit hard [laughs] because I'm from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil is really hot all the time. So I think you learning, you know, just everyday challenge.  

Kristin:    00:14:17    So, like, like adapting to the climate. 

Brazilian:  Yes.

Kristin:  And being away from home.  

Brazilian:    00:14:23    Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:14:23    Yeah.  

Brazilian:     00:14:24    It's a big challenge. Big.

Kristin:    00:14:26    Well, thank you, guys. Cheers.

Jimmy (From the Midlands)

Kristin: Are you from this area?  

Jimmy:   00:14:32    No, not usually. From, from the about 50, 80 kilometers in the midland.  

Kristin:    00:14:37    in the center.  

Jimmy:   00:14:38    Yeah. Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:14:39    And um, why did you move to Dublin?  

Jimmy:    00:14:42    I moved for work. Yeah, work here. Went, went to college here, then went to work, stayed here, could gone back. But I just like variety,  

Kristin:    00:14:53    More things to do here.

Jimmy:    00:14:54    Yeah. Theaters and cinemas. Lots of activities on.  

Kristin:    00:14:58    Do you feel like—what year did you move to Dublin?  

Jimmy:     00:15:01    I here about 50 years ago.  

Kristin:    00:15:03    Could you say it's changed a lot over the years with all the different—

Jimmy:    00:15:07   but it's doubled. It was like about half a million. Now it's but one and a half million. Like, the population has increased enormously and it's more international. You know, quite a lot of, have quite a lot of people from foreign countries to be here, working here, learning English.  

Kristin:    00:15:25    Do, uh, the locals embrace the international?  

Jimmy:     00:15:27    Generally, they do. Yeah, they do. They embrace change because people are more travel now than have been previous years. So people are used to different cultures, different habit

Kristin:    00:15:39 Has it gotten more expensive in the past years?

Jimmy:     00:15:42    Very expensive. Yeah. Property has gone up has escalated price of property and rent in particular. Its rent has —probably not yourself–rent is Yeah. Very, very. It, it's one of the big drawbacks that people come to work in Dublin now is the, the price of rent property. Uh, for people who have to stay here five days a week, seven days a week. It's very, very expensive. Friends make ends meet and pay for rent.

Kristin:    00:16:05    Okay. Well, thank you so much. What was your name? 

Jimmy: Jimmy. 

Kristin: Jimmy. Oh, that's my dad's name, and my brother's, and my great-grandfather's, and  everybody.

Jimmy:     00:16:13   Oh same with my father, my grandfather  

Kristin:    00:16:16    <laugh>. Nice to meet you.

Jimmy:     00:16:16    and  you too. Enjoy. And your name is? 

Kristin: Kristin

Jimmy: Kristin. 

Gloria & George (From Belfast, Northern Ireland)

Kristin:    00:16:19    Are you from Ireland?  

Gloria:    00:16:21    Yes, I'm from Northern. 

George: Northern Ireland. 

Kristin” Oh, from Northern Ireland. Do you come often to Dublin? 

Gloria: Yeah, but I–

Kristin: What do you like about Dublin?  

George:    00:16:30    Walking around the shops. Go on walks along the Canal to Phoenix park, coming under here for a burger. A lot around too. There's a lot of, yeah, there's a lot of this museums and business to go and a lot of business. It doesn't cost the anything, either.  

Kristin:    00:16:47    Oh really?  

George:   00:16:49    Tomorrow we are going to do a walk, which was seen one day in the television and a program called Tracks and Trails and it's a along the royal canal and it takes you out to the 12th block, which it's up over an quite over the—  

Kristin:    00:17:04    Okay. I haven't heard of this.

George:    00:17:06    It's quite a long walk. It is there and back, it's 22 kilometers.  

Kristin:    00:17:12    Oh wow.  

George:     00:17:13    So that we've done that a few times, so,  

Kristin:    00:17:18    Okay. What would you say the differences are between the lifestyle here and in Belfast?  

George:   00:17:26    I, I would personally say that's there’s a different world here than Belfast. Well, obviously, when you walk around here, you hear as many foreign languages as you do English.  

Kristin:    00:17:37    Yeah.  

George:    00:17:41    Whereas in Belfast, Belfast has many foreigners too, But it wouldn't be, it wouldn't be the same as Dublin - wouldn't  

Kristin:    00:17:48    not as international.  

George:    00:17:49    Not as international –that’s a good word

Kristin:    00:17:51    Yeah. Okay. So would you say it's more, uh, like industrial? Like more work? 

George: Yep. 

Kristin: Okay.  

George:    00:17:58    For years and years, Belfast was a real industrial city. I mean the shipyard was employed thousands of people and there was lot and lots of places that are not there anymore   

Kristin:    00:18:08 Uh huh <affirmative> 

George:    00:18:09   But that's what made Belfast

Kristin:    00:18:11    Yeah. And have you been coming for many years down here?

Gloria:    00:18:14    Yeah. Uh huh <affirmative>, um, about 25 years off and on, you know, we come down maybe four or five times a year.  

Kristin:    00:18:22    Do you feel like in the past 20, 25 years that Dublin has changed? Very much?  

Gloria:    00:18:27    Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh, affirmative> there's a lot of working on at the minute. I think, you know,  

George:   00:18:31    She has gone on all the time, so otherwise I, I would say there's, there's more homeless people in Dublin, than there was not even that long ago. Ah, it definitely seen more.  

Kristin:    00:18:43    I have, I have seen some maybe the housing prices and the cost of living.  

George:    00:18:50    Yeah. But it definitely has a problem  

Kristin:    00:18:52    From what I've read, Belfast is much more affordable. Would you agree?  

George:    00:18:57    Yep.  

Kristin:    00:18:57    Yeah. Like looking at the rent prices online and the hotels. Yeah. Like a hotel that would be 300 euro here is like a hundred pounds there. 

George:    00:19:06    Yeah, you can get it is cheaper.  

Kristin:    00:19:08    Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Is there anything you'd recommend me to see in Belfast? <laugh>?  

George:    00:19:15    The Titanic sample is very popular. Uh, obviously cause of things that happened in the past. There's tourists around areas that where there was lots of trouble and terrible things happened.  

Kristin:    00:19:30    Yeah.  

George:     00:19:30    But it's all history. Mostly history now all around us-- but it again, it's under us.

Kristin:    00:19:37    Yeah. Okay, good. I'll go check that out. Well, thank you guys. What were your names?  

Gloria: 00:19:43 Gloria & George White  

Kristin:    00:19:44    Gloria and George. Nice to meet you. I'm Kristin. I'll let you enjoy your beautiful sunset here. <laugh>. Thank you so much. 

Kristin: They didn't think there was so much to do in their hometown of Belfast, but I'm going in a few days, so I'll check it out. 

Charlie. Rory & Jack (England, Belfast, Wales)

Kristin: Hey guys, are you from Dublin? Where are you guys from?  

Rory:   00:20:05    I'm from Belfast.  

Kristin:    00:20:06    Oh really? I just talked to some people from Belfast. 

Rory: Oh, nice. Yeah. 

Kristin: You live in Dublin now?  

Rory:   00:20:11    Uh, yeah. Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:20:12    What did, what brought –-brought you here?  

Rory:    00:20:14    Uh, university.  

Kristin:    00:20:15    Oh, okay. Are the schools good here?  

Rory:   00:20:17    Yeah. Yeah. Really good. Um, I sort of, I live quite close to the university in Belfast, so I thought sort of it was a good idea to branch out somewhere else.

Kristin:    00:20:25   Is it a bit more international here with the students? 

Rory: Yeah.  

Rory:    00:20:28    Um, Belfast is quite sort of inward looking stuff and there's a lot of Americans here. Um, a lot of English and Welsh. Scottish. So yeah, it's nice. Sort of helps you branch out.  

Kristin:    00:20:39    How do you guys afford housing here as students? Do they give you and we don't help? Yeah. <laugh>

Charlie:  Parents tip in. 

Kristin: Oh, okay. Yeah. Because it seems quite expensive here. 

Rory:    00:20:49    It's hugely expensive and then compared, it's probably something like four times what Belfast is. 

Kristin: Wow.

Rory: Um, it's difficult, especially as a student if you're not working it's difficult to sort of, uh, you know, contribute by yourself.

Kristin:    00:21:00   so yeah. What is the student lifestyle like here in the city?

Charlie:   00:21:05   Oh all of it’s pub, pub orientated.  

Kristin:    00:21:07    You can start drinking early, huh? 

All three: Yeah.  

Jack:    00:21:09    Yeah. Everyone when they arrive university have one drink  

Kristin:    00:21:12    At 18. And you guys came from UK?  

Charlie & Jack 00:21:16    Yeah. Yeah,  

Jack: 10    00:21:17    I came from Wales/ Charlie’s, England.  

Charlie:    00:21:20   Jack is from the UK as well.  

Kristin:    00:21:21    I don't wanna–I don’t know the politics – let's keep a –And, uh, what do you like about living in Ireland now?  

Charlie:    00:21:31    Uh, I lov– I think the people, I think the people definitely, it's a much friendlier place than, uh, they're much nicer than the Welsh and uh, definitely. Nice. 

Jack: That's cheap shot

Kristin:    00:21:41    <laugh>.  

Charlie:    00:21:42    So yeah. I think the people, the people,  

Kristin:    00:21:44    That's true. Like everyone seems very nice. But are there, were there any things that surprised you?  

Charlie:    00:21:51    I thought people would care more about the, uh, again, obviously I know we're keeping this apolitical, but I think people would care more about that

Kristin:    00:21:59    Uh huh <affirmative>  

Charlie:   00:22:00    Uh, particularly here in Dublin. But, uh, they ob I, that was just my ignorant assumption and it obviously was wrong. I think it's different in different parts of the country, particularly further north, but here I thought people would care a little bit more. 

Kristin:    00:22:13   Yeah

Charlie:     00:22:13 But I haven't had any real issue.  

Kristin:    00:22:15    Yeah, I thought, I kind of thought that too. I thought it was like more of a sensitive topic, but people seem pretty laid-back about it. Yeah.  

Charlie:   00:22:21    It seems,  

Jack:    00:22:22    I think Dublin's a bit better than other parts of Ireland as well, just cause it's very international city. Yeah.  

Rory:    00:22:27    Dub one's quite detached. It's not, it's nothing like, like it's sort of Dublin and  

Jack:   00:22:31    If you went to university in like Gowe, I'd say it might be bit different.

Kristin:    00:22:34    Yeah. Maybe because here it's so mixed now. But we would be too young to know what it was like before.  

Charlie   00:22:42    Yeah. You can't really—

Kristin:    00:22:43    It's like the past 20 years or so. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You guys seem not stressed out for being students.  

Rory:   00:22:50    Yeah.  

Kristin:    00:22:51    Is he school hard here–

Rory:   00:22:52    We’re stress before

Jack:   00:22:54    Now we're relaxing. 

Charlie:    00:22:55 It's been, it's quite a, quite a relaxing sort of setting

Kristin:    00:22:56    I guess it's not finals or anything right now. It's just like the beginning of the semester. Yeah. Yeah. So it's not a stressful.

Rory:    00:23:03   We're— We're just alright. I think we're just getting both. It's all right. 

Kristin:    00:23:05   Okay. Well, what are some of your top things I should see in Belfast?

Rory:   00:23:10    Um, um, the Queens like quarter's really nice. So there's like Botanic Gardens are there and Queens University, some really nice pubs around there. The Holylands, if you're looking at any parties, um, then yeah, the Titanic's the obvious one, but yeah, it's, it's good I suppose. It might be nice coming from America to see that. Um,  

Kristin:    00:23:29    And, and you can just take the train over like there's no border or anything. 

Rory:   00:23:34     No, no. You wouldn't even notice 

Kristin:    00:23:36    Through. Cool. Nice. Well, nice to meet you. What were your names?  

Charlie:    00:23:39    Charlie 

Rory:    00:23:40    Rory 

Kristin: Uh huh. <affirmative>. 

Jack: Jack

Kristin:    00:23:42    I'm Kristin. Kristin,  

All three:    00:23:43    Nice to meet you, Kristin.

Kristin:    00:23:44    The funny thing about this video is that I've been trying to find Irish people to talk to and all the locals here are from different countries, so I guess that's kind of an appropriate thing to happen since the Dublin is such an international city that you can meet just as many people from Brazil or the UK as you might from Ireland. So I think it's good to get this perspective of local–locals, but then also local ex-pats and students and people from around the world whose lives have brought them to this city. Like just walking around the park here in St. Stephens Green, I hear a lot of people speaking English, but I also hear Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Russian. So there's definitely people here from all over the world. I hope you enjoyed today's episodes. Stay tuned for next week when we're back with another extended interview, plus an upcoming episode interviewing locals in Belfast. And remember, as a listener of the podcast, you can get four months free with private internet access by signing up with our link in the show notes or going over to piavpn.com/badass.