I like profound isolation... what's the bandwidth like? (The other thing that ties a lot of us to cities).

It's excellent. Gigabit fibre. I mapped out the rural fibre routes (along with other infra) and current real estate listings. Threw it up at gaffologist.com if you're curious. Note that I am not a front-end dev and it shows.

All I can say is that I'm so impressed by this.

Good luck - I have a friend in Utrecht and he's happy there but IIRC he's renting and will do so for the remainder of his life.

I was priced out of the city where I grew up, so going somewhere more expensive is out of the question.

I'd rather rent somewhere I can walk to the pub then live in my current paid-off house where I'm just lonely all the time. It's beautiful but that only goes so far.

The Netherlands at least has functional health service, among other things. Ireland does not.

Ireland is horrible at everything. The health service is in collapse, the immigration bureau is incompetent, crime is legal (the garda told me not to vote Green... now remember they're the ones enforcing environmental laws), transport is a joke, the bike infrastructure is 30 years behind the continent, and for all that the taxes are quite high if you make anything resembling a decent salary. But if you DO have the gall to earn gasp over 50,000 a year, you're a fat cat with "notions". And imagine you build a house and at some point need to rent it out? You're a monster landlord scumbag - might as well be from the plantations and evicting those poor poor people who trash your house and don't pay rent for months on end!

I posted this after being told it would take me six months to get my 3 year old to a pediatrician. https://np.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/11luo2b/how_can_i_s... - when she stopped growing.

This country is unacceptably bad. I look forward to leaving.

"Crime is legal" "The Garda told me not to vote Green"

These 2 things are not the same.

Right but the'point is we have a very unprofessional police force.