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Sadly this rings somewhat true, I'm trying to make the maths work on moving from my house in the horrible Irish countryside (horrible if you don't like profound

Sadly this rings somewhat true, I'm trying to make the maths work on moving from my house in the horrible Irish countryside (horrible if you don't like profound isolation and car-dependency, that is) and move to Utrecht or Houten, or Freiburg, and it is challenging, to say the least.

Tade0 4y ago
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.
- CalRobert 4y ago
  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.
flir 4y ago
I like profound isolation... what's the bandwidth like? (The other thing that ties a lot of us to cities).
- CalRobert 4y ago
  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.
  - flir 4y ago
    All I can say is that I'm so impressed by this.
nibbleshifter 4y ago
The Netherlands at least has functional health service, among other things. Ireland does not.
- CalRobert 4y ago
  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_see_a_paediatrician_in_under_6_months/ 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.
  - alvah 4y ago
    "Crime is legal" "The Garda told me not to vote Green" These 2 things are not the same.
    - CalRobert 4y ago
      Right but the'point is we have a very unprofessional police force.

Tade0 4y ago

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.

CalRobert 4y ago
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.

flir 4y ago

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

CalRobert 4y ago
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.
- flir 4y ago
  All I can say is that I'm so impressed by this.

nibbleshifter 4y ago

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

CalRobert 4y ago
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_see_a_paediatrician_in_under_6_months/ 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.
- alvah 4y ago
  "Crime is legal" "The Garda told me not to vote Green" These 2 things are not the same.
  - CalRobert 4y ago
    Right but the'point is we have a very unprofessional police force.