Nadine Scully moved to Dublin from Seattle in 2017
‘American men are a lot more self-centred. In Ireland they’re a lot easier to talk to. They’re very flirtatious’Nadine Scully: 'Unfortunately I wasn’t able to vote this time around for the general election.' Photograph: Bryan O’Brienin 2017, Nadine Scully was feeling “a little homesick” by the time Thanksgiving rolled around.
“I always felt like if I lived in another country, I would love to have a name that was from that country. I always loved the name Aidan so I was like, what’s the Irish version of that?” “I feel like it’s the perfect place to raise a family because it’s safer, at least from my experience, and I feel like it’s more family-oriented. In United States people are more focused on themselves, especially when it comes to careers and everything.”
Already a dual-citizen of both the US and Germany, owing to her mother’s German origins, “Everyone always asks: why do you need Irish citizenship as well? One of the reasons why is because I feel like voting is very important for a person to have, especially for women – we didn’t have those rights decades ago.”
Speaking about Donald Trump’s recent election, Scully expresses her concern over the dominance of right-wing politics in the US. She disagrees with the foreign policies of both big parties, and says she cast her vote for a third-party candidate in November. “The United States has shifted so much to the right that even Democrats are to the right now.”
She studied journalism, getting a job as a production assistant for ABC News in San Francisco, but found it hard to continue on that career path during the recession. After pursuing a master’s in Brighton – “like the San Francisco of England” – Scully went on to teach English in Indonesia for a year. She describes her younger self as “a bit of a nomad” due to her upbringing but feels like Ireland is where she wants to spend the rest of her life.
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