Last year I stayed in an hotel in Boston for about six months. It was an hotel commonly used by my company to house Irish staff on project work in Boston.
About two months before I left, a crowd of Irish WT moved in. They were over on contract work for the Big Dig. These guys made sh1t of the hotel, washed their kids and clothes in the pool (really!), dumped soiled diapers in the hallway, parked junkers in the car park,got arrested frequently and generally made life hell for everyone in the place, especially the other Irish who were guilty by association. In the end we had to move to a new hotel, and you can bet your ass Irish folk weren’t welcome in the original place after that.
And if you’re my neighbor’s wife, you do all that while lying on your back in the little plastic kiddie pool, beer or glass of jug/box wine at hand.
And Abu, ain’t nothin’ female Californians love more than an Irish or English accent. You can say almost anything and they’ll want to take you home.
I just moved from the East Bay–there’s a great pub in Berkeley where you can take your dog, play darts or billiards, or get a board game from the counterman to play Trivial Pursuit/Scrabble etc. while you hang out. They have a fairly raucous Sunday evening pub quiz. A great place, greatly missed by us and our dogs.
Also, Parkway Pub and Pizza movie house in Oakland–$5 to get in for the movie, then you can order a pitcher and pizza to enjoy during the movie. Perhaps not so exotic where you’re from, but pretty dern nifty to us.
Thanks Tortuga, I’m really looking forward to getting to CA and as I’ll be driving rentals perhaps I’ll avoid the problems I started this post on.
I checked expedia and Oakland is pretty close to Livermore so that sounds good. I am actually looking for a good place to live, and I have heard that Livermore is toooooo quiet. My current locale is Galway which is one of the more happening places in Ireland. Can you recommend?
Hey, Abú, I sent you an e-mail. Only posting here in case, like me, you have different accts you only check every once in a while. Hope you find it helpful.
On the OP, my neighbors have been awfully quiet today. Perhaps I should go make sure they haven’t accidentally killed each other.
I can give a specific example: the “gentleman” that lives a few doors down in my apartment complex.
He does not work, except on his lifted, large-tired, faded brown pick-up truck. He spends the greater part of each late-morning/early-afternoon with the top part of his ass showing over the rim of his well worn blue jeans, and his upper body contorted into various uncomfortable looking positions under his truck’s hood.
Every five minutes or so he’ll cause the engine to rev, firing a horrible plume of toxic smelling chemicals from his exhaust.
His beer of choice is Budweiser, and God help the neighborhood from his loudly expressed invectives if he should run out.
While he lacks the 6 screaming, shoeless, dirty-faced kids and the nagging, alcoholic wife, he qualifies as WT 'round these parts.