Irish Conversation in the American Midwest #9

-Are you from southern Ireland or northern Ireland?
-Eastern
-You know what I mean
-You probably mean that I am from southern Ireland
-Is it not to the south of northern Ireland then?
-Not the parts that are to the west, east, and north of it, no
-But it's the nice part
-Sorry?
-It's the pretty part, the picturesque part, with all the countryside?
-Yes, all the mountains, rivers, and beaches stop at the border and then the rest is paved over with concrete except for the odd office block
-You know what I mean
-I really don't
-Isn't the countryside in your part?
-You think the countryside stops at the border?
-But the scenery, isn't that on one side of the border
-The scenery?
-The famous scenery
-Like the Antrim Coast and Glens, Lough Erne, the Mourne Mountains, the Giant's Causeway, Rathlin Island, the Sperrin Mountains?
-Yes
-They're all in what you mean by northern Ireland
-Oh, so that's the nice bit?

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