Moving to Ireland...

Have you been over here before? If you have do you have any favourite parts of Ireland? What sort of money are you looking at spending? What age are your kids?

Places in Connaught will get you what you need for that money

all roads lead to south kerry ..

Have you considered NI?

Since it's still uk, you might find yourself with less issues?

Plus, the place seems to be coming down with English accents these days. And not just tourists. Seems to be quite a few British living there.

You wont get a house and 10 acres for 750k.

I know someone selling a 4 bedroom house on half an acre in the west and the asking price is 550k.

@OHCAC

What do you plan to do with the few acres?

In rural parts, a half acre or acre site is mostly just the person's garden.

Are you planning to keep animals? Plant food?

I think getting land with a house is the tricky bit as newer houses will be parceled off into 0.5 to 1 acre sites.

15.5 acres with a derelict house 130k

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-cuilmore-gurteen-co-sligo/5403768

8acres with a site for 95k

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/site-brickeen-castlebaldwin-co-sligo/4697963

Im sure the the older children are going to be delighted to move from London to rural Ireland.

Clare, its lovely and it's near a big city, lots of alternative life style people there already, you wouldn't get costal Clare for that money but you would possible get somewhere more inland.

What is it that makes u sick of England? There fairly similar countries in terms of climate, taxes, immigrants, social housing etc. Crime rates are fairly high in alot of places.

Ireland is a great country but it is being ruined by our government.

A few years ago a young English guy, who was a regular visitor to a rural area when his ancestors were from, was beaten to death and it was believed his English accent has something to do with it.

As long as you don't express any nivea or romantic notions about Ireland to the locals you'll be grand.

Ireland is a modern European and has the same issues as everywhere else.

What does sick of England mean?

Why would it be different here,?

You'll never have a problem as long as you don't upset the neighbours.

I'm in clare and there's a huge diversity of people around me, English, German, Dutch, American, Australian and many more and they seem to be happy with their lot. Crime is pretty much non existent where I am, not saying it doesn't happen but we're lucky to live where we are and we never have too much trouble even with the large influx of refugees and asylum seekers into the local hotels

Integration is key, introduce yourself to the neighbours, Ireland is a very welcoming place if you put in the leg work, join the local Facebook/WhatsApp/social media groups and get to know the locals. Use local services and get local tradesmen to do your work and you'll be known everywhere you go in a short space of time

Ignore the people saying it's not suitable, it'll be what you make of it, people who aren't happy in one place are very often not happy anywhere and never make an effort to get to know the area or the local people.

The downside which I've seen over the years is city people may find the transition from city to rural life hard enough if you're used to having cinemas, shopping, theatres, sports etc close by, we have these but you'll have to travel for them

Good luck with your search, I hope it goes well for you

Theres an English lad with a YouTube channel with zero connection to Ireland who moved somewhere in West Cork to do what you described.

He was very idealistic so he had good descriptions of stuff that surprised him but we wouldn't even think about mentioning.

One thing I think he repeated was how long winter will feel if you've never lived rural before.

I moved over to Connaught from London back in 2003 with 3 young daughters and was the best thing I ever did. We had the benefit of wifes family being originally from the area and we had visited regularly over previous summers. Happy to chat via PM if tyou wish to ask anything

I was just going to say Loughrea in Galway is actually quite nice. Lots of schools to choose from the town has all. Mind nothing really in the evenings to do with kids as most places everything bar the pub closes which is very annoying.. The weather is awful also, very windy and wet :)… To be honest Id go abroad rather than Ireland.

Of course not, Ireland is a very safe country in general it's just an observation that those who come here with romantic notions tend not to get on as well.

Rural Ireland is not some sort of pastoral idil untouched by modernity

All ill say is if you want a few acres you'll most likely be beside land being farmed.

So for your own sake don't be one of these that think it's acceptable to ring the Gardai cause you don't like the smell of slurry in the field beside you, making noise complaints because there's cows and calfs roaring at each other or walking out into a field to try and stop lads baling and wrapping in the summer after 8/9pm

We had a couple of houses bought where this nonsense started one a UK couple, another US.

Let's just say the local Gardai on getting calls had to sit down and have a chat with the homeowner's that this wasn't central London/New York. The same people sold up after constantly moaning that the community was "cold and unwelcoming"