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where to live norfolk or wales

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The whole of Ireland is not 'overrun with tourists'.
  • ninnin Posts: 216
    edited August 2018
    Fire said:
    Nin, I would say, try not be using a deficit / rejectionist model for choosing what you want. You'll leave in sadness, if not disgust, with 'the way the world is going' and can find yourself painted into a corner or designing yourself a bubble into which the modern world must not intrude.  Don't be pushed, but be pulled towards what you love, what gives you joy, delight and fulfilment. Otherwise you risk the whole project (and potentially your home and lives) being founded on depression and bitterness. Off-grid preppers can end up this way, and it isn't fun.
    ? Not sure what you are getting at fire . But I can tell your from london without reading it on your heading. If you mean I am bitter and twisted then you have got me , I am . My ambition is to be a hermit and I am happy talking only to the dog. I am making a last Ditch attempt to move somewhere where the people are less focused on things and career status and more on the beauty of nature if i fail then hermit I will be and happily so. Better to be happy alone than miserable surrounded by those you do not like.
  • ninnin Posts: 216
    Fire said:
    The whole of Ireland is not 'overrun with tourists'.
    My sons work is very multicultural . He does say only thing wrong with Ireland no fresh lemon grass in asda
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    My sons work is very multicultural . He does say only thing wrong with Ireland no fresh lemon grass in asda
    Shop in Tesco.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Fire said:
    The whole of Ireland is not 'overrun with tourists'.
    I spent almost three weeks in Leitrim over Christmas and New Year and spoke to only one Irish person in that time.
  • ninnin Posts: 216

    My sons work is very multicultural . He does say only thing wrong with Ireland no fresh lemon grass in asda
    Shop in Tesco.
    They are planning on buying a house as only currently renting am going to get them a nice pot and a lemongrass plant for indoors so they can. Grow there own
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Frankly, I would worry about going mad as a box of frogs being out alone in the middle of nowhere. Surely therapy is cheaper and you would spare your new neighbours all the howling?
  • TesniTesni Posts: 163
    Whereabouts in Wales are you looking at?
  • ZeroZero1ZeroZero1 Posts: 577
    My view would be Norfolk. Why/
    Norfolk is good faming land and it is near to London, so short break visitors would be plenty. Also, in Norfolk there are lots of lakes (broads) and lots of nooks and crannies wher you could buy a suitable property - problably near a village/pub too. 
    From my experience of Norfolk the only way to explore it is on the ground or in a boat, there is simply too much to see. 
    A friend of mine had a small flat in central London - at the time worth about 360000 (now about 700,000). She sold it and bought a grade 2 listed Georgian property, at auction in a Norfolk Village, for 23,000. It had six bedrooms, a very large kitchen, study, pantry, basement and parking. It needed some work, but this was mostly decorating. 
  • ninnin Posts: 216
    edited August 2018
    Fire said:
    Frankly, I would worry about going mad as a box of frogs being out alone in the middle of nowhere. Surely therapy is cheaper and you would spare your new neighbours all the howling?
    You do belong in London . To be honest that comment is an example of what I wish to escape.
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