A Pot of Gold or Not? Immigrant Property Ownership and Problems With Irish...
We’ve always been cautious about real estate. But, as newly minted immigrants, we, or at least I, heard the siren song of Irish landownership. We’ve fought the urge, but for many immigrants, the idea...
View ArticleWe Come Bearing Gifts: Immigrant Contributions to Society
When I wrote about an incident of racial profiling that my wife and I suffered in Dublin, much of the feedback from Irish locals was along the lines of “Well of course we dislike ‘them’ (immigrants)....
View ArticleRuminations On Land: Thoughts On the Value Of The World
Walking the dog today, in the first real sunshine we’ve had in weeks, I once again found myself thinking about the country I’d moved to. It wasn’t the people or the government that troubled me; my...
View ArticleStone Fences: Struggle, Sacrifice, and the Expat Life & Legacy
For the past week I’ve spent an hour or so every day digging in the garden, preparing a 4-foot by two-foot patch of ground for planting. Ever day, as I pull dozens and dozens of stones from the ground,...
View ArticleThe Expat’s Guide to Housing: Irish Landlords, Renting & Foreign Property...
One of the first things that expats have to adjust to in their new home is the local outlook towards renting and property ownership. In the U.S. if you don’t own, or aspire to own at some point, you...
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