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diggernotdreamer
Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:42 pm
Hiya Bubble. I live in Southern Ireland, up near the border with Enniskillen. This is one of the poorest counties in the country and the least populated. I know lots of people living in caravans, off grid cottages, etc, it seems to attact people that want to live a slightly different lifestyle. Mostly, people keep themselves to themselves, I know lots of people living on land that they have no permission on as far as I know. If you go up some of the little roads all about the place, you can hide away quite nicely, the locals think most of the blow ins are a bit bonkers with their compost toilets and benders. The big downside here would be employment, because there is not much really, unless you have some kind of business you could run online, and of course you have to have a car because everything is so far away, our local shop is about 3 miles away or we drive up to Enniskillen for things we can't get here that we like. The whole place where I live is full of artists, film makers, bohemian types, hippies, new age travellers that came 25 years ago and stayed, we're all here. I like my home comforts, so I have a restored cottage, with electricity, oil heating, double glazing etc, no broadband here, just mobile stuff which is a bit variable and can send you demented when it doesn't work properly. We do grow a lot of food here and I have a micro business supplying salads, jams, cordials, crumbles, and anything else I can make and sell from my garden, but it doesn't make a fortune, but hey we don't have a mortgage. Car insurance and tax this side of the border a joke, think of a number and triple or quadruple it, no rubbish or recyling collection up this road and it is outsourced to a private collector so my friend lets us put stuff in her bin, we try not to generate much rubbish, oh and a two tier health system, if you earn money, you have to have health insurance or if you are poorer or on welfare you can get a medical card.