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Escaping to the countryside?

I Was VB

Ever get tired of city life? I know I have, Currently living in south dublin city centre and working in north Dublin, I’m tired of a hour sitting in traffic each way to get to work, tired of paying €3.50 per hour for parking, tired of little scruffs thinking they are gangsters, tired of junkies, cyclists, not having change out of two pints from a tenner (I know it’s been that way for ages) tired of walking Instagram accounts, tired of people looking down thier nose at people who have a €20 less than them in thier pockets, tired of trials by social media, tired of knocked together houses being sold for €500k just because of the postcode*

so that’s why I want to move to Leitrim, nice and quiet, just a few acres of land and a little cottage, potter around the garden, wake up in the morning to the sound of a cock a doodle doo, instead of a cock in a BMW driving in the bus lane. Get away from city life, just me and the country air, and a few retired freedom fighters and Semtex weapons dumps, get a job in a bar for €250 per week, that’s the dream. Anyone ever do it?**

* I realize most of these problems aren’t exclusively city related.

** probably not going to move to Leitrim or the arsehole of Ireland in the immediate future but thinking about it the last while and I need some inspiration.

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BeerWolf

Give me the countryside over the city anytime.

Realt Dearg Sec

sk8erboii wrote: »

As someone who has been in formal panels of debate, I find the posters here very laughable...

Its pretty meta, but its true

sk8erboii wrote: »

Ive actually submitted my masters thesis on fluid dynamics a week ago...

Stop, stop, you're making it worse!

[Deleted User]

sk8erboii wrote: »

Thats because your points are nothing but low IQ mental gymnastics

sk8erboii wrote: »

Thats a pretty low IQ comparison.

sk8erboii wrote: »

I already did. Its a pretty low IQ method of deflecting questions.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Mate thats such a low IQ argument i cant tell if its a joke or not.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Wow this is pretty low IQ im not sure if its parody

sk8erboii wrote: »

You're either low IQ or mentally ill.

sk8erboii wrote: »

You'd have to be pretty low IQ to not see what he's doing.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Ii can already tell its gonna be a long winded rhetoric full of low IQ sentiments.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Honestly listening to right wingers on this website talk makes me think most of them are low IQ: Around sub-90

sk8erboii wrote: »

This is the most low IQ thread ive seen on boards

sk8erboii wrote: »

Low IQ

sk8erboii wrote: »

Thats a low IQ argument and everyone knows it

sk8erboii wrote: »

Incredibly low IQ op

sk8erboii wrote: »

Low IQ comparison.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Low IQ argument.

sk8erboii wrote: »

Its a pathetic thread full of low IQ reactionaries

sk8erboii wrote: »

These ‘zingers’ are pretty low IQ

mrcheez

I Was VB wrote: »

tired of cyclists...

so that’s why I want to move to Leitrim

erm... people cycle in Leitrim believe it or not

[Deleted User]

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I understand you.
I live about an 1 hour away from Limerick and under an hour from Cork. They're close enough for me.
However it's a excuse I've heard about why city life is so good. They can either walk to these shops or it's a short journey. Some people want to go to these places several times a month if not week and a hour is to far.

Most people living in the county still work in the cities though so it’s pretty easy to get to any of these places a few times a week.

I live 30km from the pool I swim in but it’s only 3km from work so a very quick and easy stop off on the way home.

Snow Garden

sk8erboii wrote: »

Ive actually submitted my masters thesis on fluid dynamics a week ago. How about you? How many gourds you pick today?

Still waters

sk8erboii wrote: »

Ive actually submitted my masters thesis on fluid dynamics a week ago. How about you? How many gourds you pick today?

The ordinary Joe soap might be impressed with a masters, but in academic life unless you've done a PhD your masters is the same as a diploma in humanities, you might as well do a course in hairdressing while you're at it as well, might as well have something out of all them wasted months (note I said months instead of years, because that's all it takes to do a masters)

freshpopcorn

Anakin Nutritious Trend wrote: »

Most people living in the county still work in the cities though so it’s pretty easy to get to any of these places a few times a week.

I live 30km from the pool I swim in but it’s only 3km from work so a very quick and easy stop off on the way home.

Yes, I understand you but people want these things beside there house in my experience or within walking distance.

road_high

Try somewhere like Kilkenny where you’ve got the best of both worlds in many ways plus not too far away from Dublin if you need to nip back

topper75

sk8erboii wrote: »

I get it y'all. You cant stand conflict, never could. That's why when you're brought to a place thats all about competition (for money, for pussy, for fame) you just cant hack it...

Ah yes! The 'competition' for pussy...

I'd say you rule the roost there in old Dublin town sk8ter with your aerodynamic jeans and no socks to weigh down your feet.

whisky_galore

sk8erboii wrote: »

Ive actually submitted my masters thesis on fluid dynamics a week ago. How about you? How many gourds you pick today?

Why don't you shove a gourd up your hole you mouthy little bollocks?

Ush1

Isn't guord how the news readers say gard, as in the guordai?

Sleepy

We bough in a small village in North County Dublin which pretty much gives us the best of both worlds: the beach is on our doorstep yet we're half an hour to the city centre via public transport. The only part of living a rural life outside the catchment area of a major city that appeals to me is the ability to buy / build a large house and to have the space for a large workshop / shed / garage for less than the price of a 1 bed flat in the city.

Sooner or later planning laws and the property tax regime will be corrected and those rural dwellers will find themselves having to pay their way. The rural broadband project could prove to be the political straw that breaks the back of the suburbanites who'll be footing the bill for the majority of it and with an ever-increasingly urban population, we'll eventually see some re-balancing of the political representation ratios in the Dail.

topper75

Chips Lovell wrote: »

This. Dublin is what you make of it. You've got brilliant parks, you're near the sea, the Wicklow mountains are on your doorstep and you've got all the amenities of a city.

Yeah the Wicklow mountains are on your doorstep.
In the same way Cork city is just on your doorstep when you actually live in Castletown****ingroche. The Wicklow mountains are in fact an epic traffic slog and a precarious solid hour of twisty backroads away.

You hear this nonsense over in Galway a lot too, "..and Connemara is just on the doorstep". No. No it's not. It is not even NEAR your doorstep. All that is going on there is that the chap who was tasked with shiring the western counties of Ireland was a lazy dog and stuck 'GALWAY' on the lot from Ballinasloe to the sea.

Infernal Racket

whisky_galore wrote: »

Why don't you shove a gourd up your hole you mouthy little bollocks?

Ah here, you're ganging up on the poor lad now.

Blaizes

Just as an aside op I wonder is there a quality of life tool or chart online to compare different towns and/or counties in Ireland. Think UK have one.Might be something to look into.

topper75

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's for some people and not for others.
If you want to go to Brown Thomas, Starbucks, Zara, etc every few days then it's probably not for you.

Brown Thomas might be a selling point if they have a fridge from which they sell maggots and those fluoro caster things.

Out in the country the shops only carry limited stock. The casters are usually just brown.
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I've heard some of the petrol stations in the city only sell red-coloured diesel though

So, in a commercial context, it could be just swings and roundabouts here.

Chips Lovell

topper75 wrote: »

The Wicklow mountains are in fact an epic traffic slog and a precarious solid hour of twisty backroads away.

Have you ever actually gone up there? A.) the roads aren't that bad, and B.) it takes much less than an hour from most parts of the city. Hell, it only takes me an hour to get from my house to the top of the Sally Gap, by bicycle.

Hedgelayer

sk8erboii wrote: »

? Its almost as if afterhours is a joke forum and i did that specifically to show how cringy people in here are for taking this forum like its serious discourse.

As someone who has been in formal panels of debate, I find the posters here very laughable. Its also not a coincidence that the same simple minded folk are the ones promoting the slow (dull) country life, because its dim enough to appease their low IQ brains

Its pretty meta, but its true. You gotta read what people are actually saying.

I hope you're being ironic with 'bleedin scarla' though

You're saying country people are dim.

You've the attributes of a textbook sociopath or narcissist.

Are you in 5b or some other institution, but with your ego I'd say St Pats would be more your rehabilitation of choice...

gozunda

Sleepy wrote: »

We bough in a small village in North County Dublin which pretty much gives us the best of both worlds: the beach is on our doorstep yet we're half an hour to the city centre via public transport. The only part of living a rural life outside the catchment area of a major city that appeals to me is the ability to buy / build a large house and to have the space for a large workshop / shed / garage for less than the price of a 1 bed flat in the city.

Sooner or later planning laws and the property tax regime will be corrected and those rural dwellers will find themselves having to pay their way. The rural broadband project could prove to be the political straw that breaks the back of the suburbanites who'll be footing the bill for the majority of it and with an ever-increasingly urban population, we'll eventually see some re-balancing of the political representation ratios in the Dail.

Why on first reading - does that come across as "We bough a small village in North County Dublin"

Wouldn't put it past some of Dort / D4 crowd tbh :pac:

Yeah yeah we've heard it all before - how the 3.5 million who don't live in the big smoke are scroungers and freeloaders. And sooner or later they will just have to move to Dubland and learn to be real citizens :rolleyes:

Jeez gives us a break will ya ...

Hedgelayer

whisky_galore wrote: »

Why don't you shove a gourd up your hole you mouthy little bollocks?

A gourd would be quite sore, especially the spiky variety.

They come in all shapes and styles...

They're in the pumpkin family I think...

Although a turnip may suffice

ChikiChiki

topper75 wrote: »

Chips Lovell wrote: »

This. Dublin is what you make of it. You've got brilliant parks, you're near the sea, the Wicklow mountains are on your doorstep and you've got all the amenities of a city.

Yeah the Wicklow mountains are on your doorstep.
In the same way Cork city is just on your doorstep when you actually live in Castletown****ingroche. The Wicklow mountains are in fact an epic traffic slog and a precarious solid hour of twisty backroads away.

You hear this nonsense over in Galway a lot too, "..and Connemara is just on the doorstep". No. No it's not. It is not even NEAR your doorstep. All that is going on there is that the chap who was tasked with shiring the western counties of Ireland was a lazy dog and stuck 'GALWAY' on the lot from Ballinasloe to the sea.

You don't know Dublin too well. M50 practically brings you right to the Dublin/Wicklow mountains making it very accessible quickly.

Galway_guy_33

Sleepy wrote: »

We bough in a small village in North County Dublin which pretty much gives us the best of both worlds: the beach is on our doorstep yet we're half an hour to the city centre via public transport. The only part of living a rural life outside the catchment area of a major city that appeals to me is the ability to buy / build a large house and to have the space for a large workshop / shed / garage for less than the price of a 1 bed flat in the city.

Sooner or later planning laws and the property tax regime will be corrected and those rural dwellers will find themselves having to pay their way. The rural broadband project could prove to be the political straw that breaks the back of the suburbanites who'll be footing the bill for the majority of it and with an ever-increasingly urban population, we'll eventually see some re-balancing of the political representation ratios in the Dail.

Care to expand on this "pay their way." comment...

I live in a remote location through my own choice of course and happily pay for the following and dont expect it laid on for me either...

* Initial installation and Maintenance of a deep bore water well and associated water treatment unit for all my water needs.

* Initial installation and Maintenance of my waste water treatment unit.

* Paid to bring ESB & Telephone lines to my location.

* Initial installation & Maintenance of a underground GEO thermal ground collector for all my heating needs, as you would expect natural gas pipe line is not passing by my door.

I happily pay for the above and knew it from day one when designing my house, I most certainly would consider "I pay my way"....

Does anyone in the city consider the costs involved in your clean water supply & your waste water leaving your home... i think not..... i have no problem that some of my taxes go on your services which are of no benefit to me directly but remember it works both ways.

Back to the OP I say try it out, I recall the night I left dublin to view my current site.... I drove down in the dark switched of the car all I could hear were the birds on the lake and not a house/person for miles.

Complete silence, lights on the far side of the lake twinkling in the darkness and the stars above...

These were the main reasons I left dublin:
* Had two cars stolen in a 3 year period, one rear window smashed.
* Was living in a nice estate but semi detached house, might as well have been living with them sound insulation was dreadful.
* Bought a new car which I couldnt drive to work
* Taking public transport coming home soaked from rain... walking past the (50k) car i only drove at weekends.
* Overlooked from both side in your back garden no privacy at all.

Countryside living is not for everyone, but for me it was the best move ever.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Galway_guy_33 wrote: »

Care to expand on this "pay their way." comment...

I live in a remote location through my own choice of course and happily pay for the following and dont expect it laid on for me either...

* Initial installation and Maintenance of a deep bore water well for all my water needs.

* Initial installation and Maintenance of my waste water treatment unit.

* Paid to bring ESB & Telephone lines to my location.

* Initial installation & Maintenance of a underground GEO thermal ground collector for all my heating needs, as you would expect natural gas pipe line is not passing by my door.

I happily pay for the above and knew it from day one when designing my house, I most certainly would consider "I pay my way"....

Does anyone in the city consider the costs involved in your clean water supply & your waste water leaving your home... i think not..... i have no problem that some of my taxes go your services which are of no benefit but remember it works both ways.

We were paying for bins long before certain areas in Dublin.

I remember the uproar it caused when they finally introduced it, you had 'socialists' going to jail for the right to not have to pay for waste disposal. :rolleyes:

Galway_guy_33

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

We were paying for bins long before certain areas in Dublin.

I remember the uproar it caused when they finally introduced it, you had 'socialists' going to jail for the right to not have to pay for waste disposal. :rolleyes:

Correct indeed .... I forgot that one.

topper75

Chips Lovell wrote: »

Have you ever actually gone up there? A.) the roads aren't that bad, and B.) it takes much less than an hour from most parts of the city. Hell, it only takes me an hour to get from my house to the top of the Sally Gap, by bicycle.

ChikiChiki wrote: »

You don't know Dublin too well. M50 practically brings you right to the Dublin/Wicklow mountains making it very accessible quickly.

Lad I know what I'm talking about - I spend a few spells living in Dublin.
The M50 is clogged half the time - forget about about the internal arteries. I mean I know you can SEE the mountains from Dublin, but that doesn't necessarily make them accessible. It is a good spin in a car and if you want to make light of it to 'sell' Dublin off you go, but this customer is a bit too wise.

Chips Lovell

topper75 wrote: »

Lad I know what I'm talking about - I spend a few spells living in Dublin.
The M50 is clogged half the time - forget about about the internal arteries. I mean I know you can SEE the mountains from Dublin, but that doesn't necessarily make them accessible. It is a good spin in a car and if you want to make light of it to 'sell' Dublin off you go, but this customer is a bit too wise.

As I said in my original post, Dublin is what you make of it, and you seem determined to make the worst of it. I'd say if I drove you up to the mountains myself to prove you wrong, you'd still find something else to complain about

the_syco

I Was VB wrote: »

cyclists

They'll annoy you more in the country!

I Was VB wrote: »

not having change out of two pints from a tenner (I know it’s been that way for ages)

Unless you drink & drive, you can't goto the pub.

J Mysterio

the_syco wrote: »

They'll annoy you more in the country!

For me it's a whole different kettle of fish.

Cyclists in Dublin seem to have a deathwish. They regularly risk life and limb, happy in the knowledge that if they get creamed, they are 'in the right'.
There's a lot more of them in Dublin and they are much more militant.

Other cities and towns in Ireland don't seem to have cyclists behaving in the same way and in the same numbers, and where they are found, you normally have good visibility on them and can avoid them safely. They often don't seem to take the same risks either.

My perspective of course.

Tabnabs

Galway_guy_33 wrote: »

Care to expand on this "pay their way." comment...

I live in a remote location through my own choice of course and happily pay for the following and dont expect it laid on for me either...

* Initial installation and Maintenance of a deep bore water well and associated water treatment unit for all my water needs.

* Initial installation and Maintenance of my waste water treatment unit.

* Paid to bring ESB & Telephone lines to my location.

* Initial installation & Maintenance of a underground GEO thermal ground collector for all my heating needs, as you would expect natural gas pipe line is not passing by my door.

I happily pay for the above and knew it from day one when designing my house, I most certainly would consider "I pay my way"....

You're familiar with Development Contribution Schemes, yeah? Everyone pays for the services their house receives during construction, it's not some magic connection that appears out of thin air.

We all pay and LPT in addition. Then the urban areas pay a contribution to the rural areas to "redistribute the wealth". If that's the urban v rural divide you want to complain about, we're happy to hang on to our hard earned Euros...