Medical Residency in Finland
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Oh, and to the op - in Ireland, while it might not be on paper as cool as Finland, we don't have anything like the crime you describe in Brazil. Our police force are unarmed!! You don't have to live in a fortressed home or anything like that. There are "bad" areas of say Dublin, and there is a heroin problem, but actually one of the major problems is that our social welfare is so good, that a lot of people just live off it forever.......................not worth working!
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Mate, the numbers are from the official statistics bureau of Ireland http://www.cso.ie/multiquicktables/quic ... hq03_ehq08biscayne wrote:Adnan, I would need to research it properly, but to me, those figures are way off.
and here The Irish Times article on the same topic https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/supe ... -1.2104861
Every case is unique. You can't measure the result of your application based on arbitrary anecdotes online.
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Unarmed police sounds pretty great to me. In Brazil there is something that most countries don't seem to have, which is the Military Police; you are actually more likely to see them in the streets than their Civilian counterparts. A few people dislike the fact that policemen trained for urban war even exist; I agree, but to be honest we probably can't do without them for the time being, like it or not.
The neighborhood I live in is actually not a very busy place, and it's one of the rare places in the city where most people feel at ease walking around and socializing on the streets. Also differently from most neighboorhods the apartment buildings are a minority, it's mostly houses. Places like this are always far from, well, most things. Many people who lived their whole lives in this city have no idea how to get to my house, for example. Anyway what you describe sounds pretty good if most neighborhoods are like this.
And regarding welfare it has grown a lot in the country under the Workers Party governments, and extreme poverty has diminished a lot. There is still a lot of resistance among the middle and upper class towards welfare programs, many see it as "communism", or "buying votes". Not surprising, since it used to be that not long ago if you had no money then you depended on others' charity for health, for example. And of course back then some still died of starvation, diarrhea, well, the kind of stuff that we usually associate with Africa.
The country's had some considerable human development in the last couple of decades, but it's still far from what I would consider ideal and will still be for a while. Not awful though. You get used to the realities.
The neighborhood I live in is actually not a very busy place, and it's one of the rare places in the city where most people feel at ease walking around and socializing on the streets. Also differently from most neighboorhods the apartment buildings are a minority, it's mostly houses. Places like this are always far from, well, most things. Many people who lived their whole lives in this city have no idea how to get to my house, for example. Anyway what you describe sounds pretty good if most neighborhoods are like this.
And regarding welfare it has grown a lot in the country under the Workers Party governments, and extreme poverty has diminished a lot. There is still a lot of resistance among the middle and upper class towards welfare programs, many see it as "communism", or "buying votes". Not surprising, since it used to be that not long ago if you had no money then you depended on others' charity for health, for example. And of course back then some still died of starvation, diarrhea, well, the kind of stuff that we usually associate with Africa.
The country's had some considerable human development in the last couple of decades, but it's still far from what I would consider ideal and will still be for a while. Not awful though. You get used to the realities.