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Why I love living in Greystones

  • 21-08-2007 9:39am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭


    There have been some negative aspects to some of the threads started on this site, so for the benefit of all those "glass is half full" people out there, here's your chance to let the world know what you like about living in this part of the world.
    For me, it's the sight of the Irish Sea as I come over the hill on the new road on a clear day.

    Please try to keep this thread POSITIVE.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Joliegood


    It's the wonderful selection of pubs that do it for me :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,330 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    oh I do like to be beside the seaside

    (even if the beach is more grey gravel than golden sand)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭future_plans


    Well done yipper...no doubt you'll get some sarcastic responses from people trying to bring the tone down.

    However, I have to say I love the way Greystones is managing to retain its small town charm and character in the face of massive change.

    I think the selection of facilities and sports clubs for children and young people is outstanding and ever-improving. Thus making it a great place to raise your kids.

    I also love walking from the south beach around to the harbour, no matter what the weather.

    So many other things to add :D But I will give a few others a chance!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭birdwatcher


    The excellent selection of restaurants do it for me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Joliegood


    Joliegood wrote:
    It's the wonderful selection of pubs that do it for me :D
    I was being flippant. I love the walk up Delgany Woods, Temple carraig and the Cliff Walk. People knock the North Beach but it has real wild feel to it, especially near the end of it. It's one of the best towns in Ireland for restaurants. I've heard recently that Cavistons are opening one here,that will be excellent.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭LMC


    Thank you Yipper :) ....things were getting abit depressing on the site!!!!

    I have to agree the view of the sea from the new road is great, there are not many places left where you can walk and have your pick of great restaurants wheather it be for breakfast, lunch or dinner. In a nut shell im delighted I made the move, now hopefully we can all enjoy the old and the new parts of the area.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    I love that some of the most beautiful countryside is on our doorstep and some amazing scenery is only a few minutes drive away.

    I also like that I'm guaranteed a seat on the Dart into town every morning!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    I love that some of the most beautiful countryside is on our doorstep and some amazing scenery is only a few minutes drive away.

    I also like that I'm guaranteed a seat on the Dart into town every morning!
    i like the seat on the dart thing too!

    and the variety of restaurants, wish there were more pubs tho!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Hammiepeters


    A combination of seascape, mountains at our doorstep,pubs and restaurants that rival city establishments for excellence. The mix of new arrivals allows everyone to ignore bs about blowins, etc. The generally friendly easy going nature about the place. And of course indian spice take away washed down with a huge choice of imported beer from O'Briens next door. Love the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54 ✭✭maidofthemist


    Summer - even the wet ones. The festival. Being able to walk to the shops, to the beach, home from the pub ... The restaurants. The lights out on the sea at night and once in a while those great storms when you can watch the lightening over the water. The commute on the Dart in the morning especially seeing the goats on the rocks at Bray Head. This afternoon there was a seal swimming parallel to the beach and enjoying the sunshine.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭MrsA


    I love the fact that it is such a pretty town and the Dart journey to Dalkey has to be the most stunning commute to work anywhere in the world.

    The Irish sea - grey and angry mostly - but, always alive.

    The food.

    Cannot wait to be back..........

    MrsA


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 Grovey


    MrsA wrote:
    I love the fact that it is such a pretty town and the Dart journey to Dalkey has to be the most stunning commute to work anywhere in the world.

    The Irish sea - grey and angry mostly - but, always alive.

    The food.

    Cannot wait to be back..........

    MrsA

    I love the harbour. I love the hills I think that is what everyone in Greystones love. you might be get a shock when you get back MrsA with 400 flats in the harbour :eek:

    I love the food to and the old style shops. the people are friendly but it is a pity who they vote for!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    The 9A in the Cherry Blossom take away.. droool...

    Having moved out of Greystones 3 years ago, this is one of the things I miss the most*

    *(apologies friends and family still residing in 'Stones, but.. mmmmm 9A with fried rice..)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Hammiepeters


    Yup, the view of sugarloaf as you come up the N11 past Kilmac, I like to see what mood it is in as I drive home from anywhere, then the view of the sea as you come down the hill on the new road.
    I like a lot of the people in the shops in the village and the excellent coffee in our own Cafe charlesland.
    Cavistons is coming? that is fab-a-lous! Just the place for a few bits to have for brunch with the girls!

    And I love the Happy Pear, just for being there with its mix of Ladies in plaid and tweed buying home grown greens and the hippies and resting actors in the cafe next door.

    I love riding my bike on the cycleways, not so fond of the mainstreet but learning the short cuts around it, and I love the fact I can walk along the footpaths with a child on each hand, 3 in a row, all the way down to the beach.

    I even love the Ivan bus! and all the crazy eastern europeans who live and work around here and get around in fleece jackets while we "locals" are pretending it is summer in our sandies and shorts.

    Yup! I love Greystones!
    xx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭slickmcvic


    its got everything...the sports facilities are unreal for a town its size..great restraunts & decent infastructure...i just keep thinking its all been build for a pretty rapid expansion of the area,which should be fine if planned thoughtfully


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Joliegood


    i just keep thinking its all been build for a pretty rapid expansion of the area,which should be fine if planned thoughtfully[/QUOTE] If a recent decision is anything to go by, then that's unlikely.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,939 ✭✭✭mikedragon32


    Folks, let's not turn this into another planning thread. Keep to the topic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 CathD


    The most stunning view of Greystones? Has to be that from Windgates.
    Just over the peak of Windgates hill on the way to Greystones, there is a turn into the left (the old cliff manor nursing home). Drive a few hundred meters along this road, and on the right hand side, there is a break in the field hedges and the view is absolutely amazing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Joliegood


    It is indeed Cath. There was an hotel there many years ago which also ran a night-club. It was a fairly run down spot and eventually went out of business. It would be amazing to have a house up there. The views are just spectacular.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,330 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    aye - the Cliff House Hotel, don't remember there being a nightclub there though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 448 ✭✭Marcais


    CathD wrote:
    The most stunning view of Greystones? Has to be that from Windgates.
    Just over the peak of Windgates hill on the way to Greystones, there is a turn into the left (the old cliff manor nursing home). Drive a few hundred meters along this road, and on the right hand side, there is a break in the field hedges and the view is absolutely amazing.

    I assume you mean this:

    harbour.jpg

    quite stunning


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 199 ✭✭Joliegood


    loyatemu wrote:
    aye - the Cliff House Hotel, don't remember there being a nightclub there though.It might have been more a disco sort of thing, remember an old neighbour telling me about fights afterwards on the back road to Delgany. I would have been far too young to go to it, even with fake i.d. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,836 ✭✭✭Vokes


    Darn, this thread makes me miss Greystones :(

    ...im home next week, really must take the time to take more photos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭cotton


    I live at Windgates & the views are indeed spectacular. Bray head to the left, sea behind us & the harbour to the right. It's something I will never take for granted.
    I love the great restaurants we have here, the atmosphere walking through the town at the weekends. Looking at the waves against the rocks opposite the school when it's cold & windy.
    Most of all, I love driving home from work & no matter how tired & cranky I am, seeing the sugarloaf on the N11 always gives me a great feeling.
    I love the place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Lumbarda


    I love the fact that there's still a "village" atmosphere even with all the recent expansion. I love watching the faces of first-time visitors as we drive them on the road from Bray so that the first view they have of Greystones is of the Harbour coming down the hill from Windgates and how impressed they (foreign and Irish) always are by it. I love getting the smell of the sea some days when I leave the house and being able to walk to the beach. I love the sense of peace I get no matter how stressful a time I've had in Dublin when I see the mountains ahead on the journey home.

    WONDERFUL place to live!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 258 ✭✭Mullie


    Driving home through the Glen of the Downs any time of the year appreciating a natural forest (not many left) and then cresting the hill and seeing the Irish Sea open ahead of you.
    Its the perfect location, beside the city but hidden from it by Bray head and on the doorstep of some of the most amazing scenery in Ireland.
    So happy I moved here rather than into the urban sprall.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 261 ✭✭LMC


    Our "friendly neighbourhood dog" started this thread back in Aug - amazingly it only got 26 happy posts - how come when its time to give out there a rakes of posts.

    So maybe its time to remind ourselves why we picked a beautifual place like greystones to live in :D

    Happy posts welcome! Sorry no negativity allowed :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭Emma A


    I agree! love living in charlesland nice neighbours and a lovely house which isnt full of cracks and shoddy building work....despite what some bloggers think..dont mind that I might only get back what I paid for my house a year ago cause im not moving! looking forward to another nice summer in greystones:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭The Yipper


    Keep the positive vibes coming....

    ...and thanks to everyone for being so positive to date
    :):):)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭joeybloggs


    CathD wrote: »
    The most stunning view of Greystones? Has to be that from Windgates.
    Just over the peak of Windgates hill on the way to Greystones, there is a turn into the left (the old cliff manor nursing home). Drive a few hundred meters along this road, and on the right hand side, there is a break in the field hedges and the view is absolutely amazing.

    I'd disagree.The Best view of everything can be seen here.
    If anyone is feeling adventurous, I challenge them to experience it.

    1)From DELGANY INN head NORTH, going upwards towards Kindelstown forest.Known by many as "Millionaires" road (No Explanation needed ;)).

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.132873&lon=-6.09426&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    2) Keep heading up that road until BEFORE it veers WEST around Kindelstown Forest.
    (This could be tricky) Look for a Small Farmers gate between two houses on the RIGHT SIDE of the road.
    Approx here.

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.144557&lon=-6.098458&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    3) Jump over the Gate (If Ye dare!) and follow the grass path to the fourth field.

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.147955&lon=-6.09623&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    4)Your here.Now Let your eyes do the work!;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 452 ✭✭Welsh Wizard


    Because the sun has shown the last 3 weeks and I'm as brown as a cookie..:cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 horselover


    joeybloggs wrote: »
    I'd disagree.The Best view of everything can be seen here.
    If anyone is feeling adventurous, I challenge them to experience it.

    1)From DELGANY INN head NORTH, going upwards towards Kindelstown forest.Known by many as "Millionaires" road (No Explanation needed ;)).

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.132873&lon=-6.09426&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    2) Keep heading up that road until BEFORE it veers WEST around Kindelstown Forest.
    (This could be tricky) Look for a Small Farmers gate between two houses on the RIGHT SIDE of the road.
    Approx here.

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.144557&lon=-6.098458&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    3) Jump over the Gate (If Ye dare!) and follow the grass path to the fourth field.

    http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=53.147955&lon=-6.09623&z=17.9&r=0&src=yh

    4)Your here.Now Let your eyes do the work!;)

    These fields are private property! We regularly find beer cans and rubbish where members of the public have trespassed and littered. Many wild animals also live here - please do not trespass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    loyatemu wrote: »
    oh I do like to be beside the seaside

    (even if the beach is more grey gravel than golden sand)

    The beach is sandy!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 168 ✭✭girliegirl


    I love that no matter when i walk down the main street I will always see someone i recognise... not so easy to say since ive moved to bray :(

    Oh and i love that greystones is prettier than bray, I miss that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    girliegirl wrote: »
    Oh and i love that greystones is prettier than bray, I miss that!

    Have to agree with you on that, we'd have loved to have stayed in Greystones.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Lil' Smiler


    I'm from Bray and am regularly in Greystones as my other half lives there. I have to say I do love the view form Windgates when I'm driving down to see him, especially if it's has been a sunny day and there's that pinky.orange sky over the harbour!

    If I was at the stage of being able to by my own home, I'd definitely look to Greystones... and also people in greystones have been nicer to me than here in bray when asking can i leave some business cards in or put up a little notice for my business!! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Rocketman1


    Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to this thread, I know it is old but I live in Bondi, Sydney and plan to move back home this summer, after 6 years here. We are from Dublin and Galway and have 2 small ozzie kids. We are picking randomly where to live, for some reason Greystones came to mind and after reading this thread we have decided Greystones it is. So excited, it sounds like everything we are looking for. If anyone has any more recent thoughts (post recession) I'd love to hear more about family life in Greystones. Especially if you have any thoughts on the national schools. Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Yep, having lived in Oz a long time, I settled here in Greystones. There's a large community of people from everywhere which has overridden any ''blow in'' parochialism. Have to say i love it. It has a real village feel which is of course non existent in Australia. Close to sea and mountains. There's never any excuse for not getting out and doing healthy things. Good restaurants, coffee shops. "0 mins from Dundrum SC. DART to city or 40m drive on a sunday. The town has been hit by recession but far less than other ghost like towns. if anything, it's woefully undersold and so has huge potential to get even better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Rocketman1


    Thanks so much, great to hear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    Born and bred here- 26years. I love cycling along the cliff walk (you gotta be brave and fit to do so :D). I enjoy the scenery where we are blessed by forests, hills, the sea and the access to the abundance of mountains in the Garden of Ireland. It's great to head out hiking with friends, playing on the astro turf pitches near Charlesland or just meeting up for lunch/coffee and a chat.

    There are plenty of sports facilities around the town for young and old. So much to do that it is unfortunate I don't take advantage of them. A lovely library for studying and allowing your kids to sit down and read some stories to them. There are some events on during the summer for adults and kids alike. ;)

    It is also great to have access to Wexford and Dublin by rail or road. You don't need to drive back and forth between the airport as you have the Aircoach. So you can easily hop on to a flight to go abroad for a short break if Ireland is a bit too much sometimes.

    There are more schools, organisations etc being created every year. The harbour is not what it useta be but they are improving it now and again (Sisk need to whip the wallet out). But overall I don't have much to complain about the place as the place just improves every single year with more and more families joining our community from all different countries. It's great to see people from many different cultures and hear them in their rapid mother tongue while they shop in Lidls. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 253 ✭✭birdwatcher


    Don't think there was a swimming pool when this thread started...so we've got one of them now too.

    After the summer we just had, with the beach attracting great numbers of people, I think we all have a lot to be thankful for:
    - friendly community spirit
    - numerous sporting activities
    - great views and walks
    - astrofluff - where would we be without his advice???
    - low crime rate
    - lowest commercial vacancy in the country
    - one of the best places to live in (2008 poll as far as I can remember)

    Move anywhere else?? - I don't think so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    great selection of coffee shops/restaurants and a nice selection of milfs aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 asterix74


    Hello to all, I am looking a place where to live with my family and at the moment Greystones is in the head of the list.
    I am from Italy and moved in Ireland in June. I live and work in Dun Laoghaire, it is a nice area but a quite expensive.
    My family (2 kids, a daughter 5 years old and a son 11 months old) is going to move in January so I am looking for an accommodation and a school for my daughter. The first month I lived in Bray, but I don't like it. Greystones is nicer, everything is green, there are a lot of sport activities to do, but I am afraid it is too small for us (we live in Pescara, a city in the middle of Italy with about 200k people).
    Please, tell me we (mainly my family) will enjoy Greystones.

    PS: I am sorry for my english!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 Wayne_M


    asterix74 wrote: »
    Hello to all, I am looking a place where to live with my family and at the moment Greystones is in the head of the list.
    I am from Italy and moved in Ireland in June. I live and work in Dun Laoghaire, it is a nice area but a quite expensive.
    My family (2 kids, a daughter 5 years old and a son 11 months old) is going to move in January so I am looking for an accommodation and a school for my daughter. The first month I lived in Bray, but I don't like it. Greystones is nicer, everything is green, there are a lot of sport activities to do, but I am afraid it is too small for us (we live in Pescara, a city in the middle of Italy with about 200k people).
    Please, tell me we (mainly my family) will enjoy Greystones.

    PS: I am sorry for my english!!!

    You will love it -there's a nice, relaxed vibe around the place, plenty of activities for the kids, great restaurants - and a great café culture. Best of luck with the move!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    asterix74 wrote: »
    Hello to all, I am looking a place where to live with my family and at the moment Greystones is in the head of the list.
    I am from Italy and moved in Ireland in June. I live and work in Dun Laoghaire, it is a nice area but a quite expensive.
    My family (2 kids, a daughter 5 years old and a son 11 months old) is going to move in January so I am looking for an accommodation and a school for my daughter. The first month I lived in Bray, but I don't like it. Greystones is nicer, everything is green, there are a lot of sport activities to do, but I am afraid it is too small for us (we live in Pescara, a city in the middle of Italy with about 200k people).
    Please, tell me we (mainly my family) will enjoy Greystones.

    PS: I am sorry for my english!!!


    Well it really depends what you family love. Greystones has plenty of activities for adults and children. The place is small in comparison to your previous home city in Italy, but it doesn't mean you need to spend all your time in Greystones. If you want to travel to other places over the weekend, you've got the train and buses to go on trips to Dublin City or drive to other major cities. I lived abroad in a city of 120,000 people but the place still felt small because it was an inland country city in South Korea. I'm not too fond of metropolitan cities (but funnily enough I'll be moving to Seoul early next year), nonetheless, I try my best to go hiking or do other interesting (outdoor) activities away from large cities.

    So what do you family want from a city/town?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 asterix74


    red_bairn wrote: »
    Well it really depends what you family love. Greystones has plenty of activities for adults and children. The place is small in comparison to your previous home city in Italy, but it doesn't mean you need to spend all your time in Greystones. If you want to travel to other places over the weekend, you've got the train and buses to go on trips to Dublin City or drive to other major cities. I lived abroad in a city of 120,000 people but the place still felt small because it was an inland country city in South Korea. I'm not too fond of metropolitan cities (but funnily enough I'll be moving to Seoul early next year), nonetheless, I try my best to go hiking or do other interesting (outdoor) activities away from large cities.

    So what do you family want from a city/town?

    Thanks for your reply.
    That's a good question. I am looking for a city/town can offers many activities for my kids.
    When a family moves the wife is the one could suffer more. I work, my daughter goes to the school; my wife couldn't find what to do mainly because we don't have friends here. I think shouldn't be difficult for her make friends with other mothers, but at the beginning the language could be an obstacle.
    as you say in the weekend we can go in the town, travel to other places (I would like to visit many places).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,344 ✭✭✭red_bairn


    asterix74 wrote: »
    Thanks for your reply.
    That's a good question. I am looking for a city/town can offers many activities for my kids.
    When a family moves the wife is the one could suffer more. I work, my daughter goes to the school; my wife couldn't find what to do mainly because we don't have friends here. I think shouldn't be difficult for her make friends with other mothers, but at the beginning the language could be an obstacle.
    as you say in the weekend we can go in the town, travel to other places (I would like to visit many places).

    Trust me. There are plenty of things for the kids to do here. Your wife doesn't need to worry as well because there are many things that they can't involved with here. She can friends through groups or activities that can take up here. Does she have any special hobbies or sports she enjoys? How about the kids? What do they like?

    When I was kid/teenager I never stuck to one activity and have tried out for football, rugby, rowing, the scouts, Karate, Tae Kwon-Do and I went to the Summer Project during the summer (which is like a kids camp where you can play lots of sports, do art & crafts classes and much, much more). I went swimming regularly with friends at the South Beach and harbour. We also played football on the green (area) in our housing estate.

    If your kids are interested in some "radical" sports, there is a skateboarding park nearby in Charlesland. You can use rollerblades/bike there. The mountains in Wicklow are also great for mountain biking. Trust me. There are plenty of things to do here. I just can't get into somethings as I lose interest or fear of injuring myself. :D

    I would love to get back in to Tae Kwon-Do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    asterix74 wrote: »
    Thanks for your reply.
    That's a good question. I am looking for a city/town can offers many activities for my kids.
    When a family moves the wife is the one could suffer more. I work, my daughter goes to the school; my wife couldn't find what to do mainly because we don't have friends here. I think shouldn't be difficult for her make friends with other mothers, but at the beginning the language could be an obstacle.
    as you say in the weekend we can go in the town, travel to other places (I would like to visit many places).

    There is no shortage of activities for kids (and moms!) in Greystones. My wife is very involved in child and adult athletics and would be happy to help. Plenty of ball game sports available as are swim related activities. The town is very cosmopolitan and has good transport links to Dublin (train and bus fares are a bit more expensive than from Bray though!).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 asterix74


    @fat-tony: thanks for your kindness

    My daughter (5 years old) plays tennis and my wife at the moment doesn't play anything as we have a little son ... but she was going to the gym before my son born.
    I am playing tennis in the Glenegeary Tennis club and I know there is one tennis club in Greystones too.
    Thanks to all to giving me all these nice information.
    On Wednesday I am going there to view an house ... fingers cross!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,830 ✭✭✭✭Taltos


    Best of luck tomorrow - hope you find what you are looking for.
    Maybe see if you can spend a few days out here?
    Just potter about the town, don't be afraid to say hello to folk as you walk (OK I still get a few odd looks - but for the most part received well).

    Red_bairn summarised it well - for kids there is a mass of things to do especially if you think outside of the box. Added to all of that there are some amazing walks or running routes. Mountain biking, road biking, some great forests all within easy reach. Something to not discount is golf - I have lost track of the amount of clubs around me here, but one of my out-laws only took it a few years ago when the kids were all in school - she is loving it and doing really well with the competitions. Also a great social scene for those that enjoy it with regular meet ups. A number of gyms in close proximity (all a bit overpriced for the moment), a few swimming pools too (far cry from there just being Pres years ago). Reasonably public transport - but in most cases this is a small town and on a good day you can walk to most places easily enough - with a huge range now of great coffee shops to take a load off...

    Just down the road you have the Wicklow mountains in easy reach with Glendalough, Djouce, Enniskerry, the Breaches (?) in Kilcoole, Sugarload (Big and Little) - list just goes on. Mix into that the local photography club (not sure how active they are) and the combinations are endless - there is a thread here with examples of photos you might find interesting.

    Am sure there are downsides too, as there are everywhere but they are pretty consistent - cold and wet (although it does feel like we have our own microclimate somedays); Wicklow has high radon levels (easy to check though); you still have to work to pay the bills - so all the usual really ;)


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