From picturesque views of Kodak Corner, Rostrevor, to more intimate feelings of homesickness, Miranda doesn’t shy away from showing both the highs and lows of moving abroad. After marrying her Northern Irish husband David two years ago, Miranda is familiarly acquainted with a north coast accent, Guinness, and fifteens. Yet there are a couple of things that aren’t so mundane to the 27-year-old.
“New York was very much like, by the age of 12, you learn how to take the train. “You learn how to get around by yourself, and learn how to meet people from all different cultures, all different kinds of lifestyles,” explains Miranda. “When I came [to Northern Ireland] it definitely is a slower-paced lifestyle.
Little things like, I got around easy in New York because you take the train. I don’t actually drive. Now I’m here where you need to be able to know how to drive to get to most places.
” Miranda says that this changed her day-to-day life significantly. “The best way to explain it is that because [New York City] is so fast-paced, you really have no other choice but to kind of match that energy, or match that intensity,” she continues. “I think that the change of pace from being outside of the states, and being here, and just having more accessibility to nature and being able to fully enjoy it for what it is, has also been a really, really refreshing change.
” Moving to Northern Ireland has been somewhat of a circuit-breaker she says: but this has not been w.