Farewell, Emerald Isle

I'm jetting off  to Germany tomorrow after spending three weeks in Ireland. The Irish people are great - very warm, friendly, and funny as hell. They're the kind of people who would give you the shirt off their back. It would be great to reside here, except for two major problems: they drive on the left hand side of the road, and it rains ALL THE TIME. The rain makes for a beautiful, lush countryside, but it gets depressing after a while. I would say living in Dublin would be a lot like living in Seattle, except there are more pubs than Starbucks.