Sooz

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 16:17 UTC

surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

I'm sorry you're having a crap day! Sadly I have no fur babies these days, but here is a very handsome neighbourhood cat I ran into today.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

I love finding pretty flowers growing in the unlikeliest of places. 🌱

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

Awesome! There is no more feminine experience than the excited "it has pockets" exchange

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:23 UTC

A code-like phrase... Of course 🤣 Such is Irish bureaucracy. I ended up getting a letter from my tax preparer saying I would need a PPS to pay my taxes. That did the trick, thankfully.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:22 UTC

...to pay taxes, and wanted to know how to get one under those circumstances & what documentation to submit. The guy on the phone was so confused. He tried. But could NOT understand that I live here but do not have an employment letter, so he had no idea what I should do 😂

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:17 UTC

PPS number was funny. You can only get one if you need one for certain purposes (such as employment), but for some reason *paying taxes* isn't listed as one of them. I had the most bizarre phone call with intreo where I tried to explain that I was self employed but would still need a PPS...

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:11 UTC

I haven't bothered trying to get an Irish licence either! But my husband is working on getting his, and it's been a massive pain. And, we eventually figured out his employer could get us a letter to help us get the bank acct. I don't know what people do who don't work for a fancy tech company.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:56 UTC

Having been an immigrant in both the US and Ireland, I've found it interesting that in the former, the immigration system is the difficult part, whereas in Ireland, it's (almost) everything else! They just seem to have designed every single system without immigrants in mind.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:54 UTC

- Opening a bank account: you need a bank account to get utilities, but you can't start utilities without a bank account. It absolutely boggles the mind. - US driver's licences aren't valid here, so you need to take the driving test & lessons. And the waiting list for the test is many months long.

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:50 UTC

Even though the Irish immigration system is 1 million times easier to deal with than the US one - especially if you are lucky like me and have an Irish relative - there are still some things about moving here that are far more complicated than one would expect. For example:

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Sooz @soozbz.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:47 UTC

Thanks for this! My husband is an Irish citizen so I pretty much got a free pass straight to stamp 4 status. I still don't know much about other routes to residency, so this is all very interesting to hear (and handy, since USians do ask me about this sometimes).

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