Moving to Northern Ireland
Watch this postHi anyone from England moved to Northern Ireland?
I'm 64 retired, divorced, with friends, but I miss my son and grandchildren so much.
They moved 3 years ago.
His wife is from NI (yes, you lose a son when he gets a wife!) I've visited lots of times. I've racked my brains, on either renting a place over there for a while etc I'm really sitting on the fence with making a move.
The thing that bothers me most is how easy would it be to make new friends - has anyone had experience of doing this?
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Some people get bothered or tired of being constantly checked out, my advice is to take this with humour and in good spirit, it is something ingrained in a lot of people there, and sometimes they don’t even realise they are doing it.
You will make friends, people in Northern Ireland are friendly in general, I developed many life long friendships there, and still visit regularly, however, depending where you live developing a friendship network may take more or less time. Feel free to ask any questions, best, Charlie.
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Thank you for your message-reply, you are very perceptive, yes, I have been a photojournalist for the last 35 years, it has been a rewarding career, although not one that I would suggest following nowadays.
Things have changed too much in photojournalism over the course of the last 15-20 years, I was lucky to have lived and survived the last of the golden era of photojournalism.
These days the media is entirely focused on video and moving images, and quality is not rewarded anymore, additionally, stills have been relegated to some dark forgotten corner, there are still some fans, followers and die hard practitioners such as myself, but it is not really a career to make a living in the present era, you need to diversify in order to survive.
Of course that is the condensed version, there is a lot more to say but we can do that over the chat facility, there I can explain more regarding following photography as a career.