With the rise of remote working, I think it would be a good initiative to revive rural towns
€30k? Gonna take more than that for me to move to Granard
Like there’s already a huge price incentive to move to rural Ireland when you look at house prices.
A modernised 3 bed in Leitrim at least €100-150k cheaper than any comparable house in the greater Dublin area.
Not much point in being paid to move to a rural town if there are still no amenities. That’s part of the reason people move away in the first place.
Nooooo, there is an unwritten rule… The dubs stay in dub, the culchies stay everywhere else!
How would filling Italian towns help Ireland
Cheap housing would be a better option.
With WFH rural Ireland should be getting a revival but housing prices are killing it.
No point in making people move back if there’s no employment there for them and no resources/infrastructure to support them WFH
rural ireland isn’t that badly inhabited
Fuck off, theres more cunts than ever here.
Who the fuck would pay them to move? The government’s policy is clearly to devastate rural Ireland to the point that every poor cunt living there has no choice but to move to a city where the government still can’t cater for them properly, but they can cater for them slightly better than when they’re living in the arsehole of nowhere.
Let it return to temperate rainforest. That’s the best possible use for most of rural Ireland.
Most rural living is unsustainable, and there’s no reason why the rest of us should pay for that bullshit.
Give me a free house in rural Ireland and I am there no questions asked by the day after.
This would work much better if Ireland didn’t have the winters it does have. We’re talking a 30K incentive to move into areas where the houses could be colder inside than out during the winter. If you were given the money to modernize and insulate the houses then it’d be a much better idea.
The Italian idea is to get people to move into declining towns and villages. The Irish don’t want to move into towns and villages they rather build a massive house in the middle of nowhere and then complain about a lack of infrastructure.
Drive through rural parts of most European countries and it’s kilometres of empty farmland with regular towns and villages, with people living and working there, drive through rural Ireland and it’s kilometres of houses along the road to come to ghost towns and ghost villages.
Under FFG this would be creating tax breaks for second holiday homes.
They used to give grants to people to move to rural Ireland. My parents moved from Dublin to Mayo in 1992 and they got a grant from the Rural Resettlement Scheme.
I grant wasn’t close to whatever the equivalent of 30k nowadays would have been in 1992 but I think it was around £1000.
These Italian schemes sound great until you hear the horror stories about the bureaucracy. Just as one example it is necessary to get planning permission to remodel a bathroom, and said permission can take months or longer. Have heard waits up to a few years on bigger projects. Nightmare.
I don’t think Irish rural towns are suffering. These towns that they talk about are medieval towns up the side of a mountain, or are generally remote places with nothing to do. There’s a reason people don’t want to live there.
Irish small towns are in high demand, there are housing shortages because people want to live there. Living in a small town in Ireland only ads tiny amount of inconvenience.
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What county, how long, tax free? I’d consider it
With the rise of remote working, I think it would be a good initiative to revive rural towns
€30k? Gonna take more than that for me to move to Granard
Like there’s already a huge price incentive to move to rural Ireland when you look at house prices.
A modernised 3 bed in Leitrim at least €100-150k cheaper than any comparable house in the greater Dublin area.
Not much point in being paid to move to a rural town if there are still no amenities. That’s part of the reason people move away in the first place.
Nooooo, there is an unwritten rule… The dubs stay in dub, the culchies stay everywhere else!
How would filling Italian towns help Ireland
Cheap housing would be a better option.
With WFH rural Ireland should be getting a revival but housing prices are killing it.
No point in making people move back if there’s no employment there for them and no resources/infrastructure to support them WFH
rural ireland isn’t that badly inhabited
Fuck off, theres more cunts than ever here.
Who the fuck would pay them to move? The government’s policy is clearly to devastate rural Ireland to the point that every poor cunt living there has no choice but to move to a city where the government still can’t cater for them properly, but they can cater for them slightly better than when they’re living in the arsehole of nowhere.
Let it return to temperate rainforest. That’s the best possible use for most of rural Ireland.
Most rural living is unsustainable, and there’s no reason why the rest of us should pay for that bullshit.
Give me a free house in rural Ireland and I am there no questions asked by the day after.
This would work much better if Ireland didn’t have the winters it does have. We’re talking a 30K incentive to move into areas where the houses could be colder inside than out during the winter. If you were given the money to modernize and insulate the houses then it’d be a much better idea.
The Italian idea is to get people to move into declining towns and villages. The Irish don’t want to move into towns and villages they rather build a massive house in the middle of nowhere and then complain about a lack of infrastructure.
Drive through rural parts of most European countries and it’s kilometres of empty farmland with regular towns and villages, with people living and working there, drive through rural Ireland and it’s kilometres of houses along the road to come to ghost towns and ghost villages.
Under FFG this would be creating tax breaks for second holiday homes.
They used to give grants to people to move to rural Ireland. My parents moved from Dublin to Mayo in 1992 and they got a grant from the Rural Resettlement Scheme.
I grant wasn’t close to whatever the equivalent of 30k nowadays would have been in 1992 but I think it was around £1000.
These Italian schemes sound great until you hear the horror stories about the bureaucracy. Just as one example it is necessary to get planning permission to remodel a bathroom, and said permission can take months or longer. Have heard waits up to a few years on bigger projects. Nightmare.
I don’t think Irish rural towns are suffering. These towns that they talk about are medieval towns up the side of a mountain, or are generally remote places with nothing to do. There’s a reason people don’t want to live there.
Irish small towns are in high demand, there are housing shortages because people want to live there. Living in a small town in Ireland only ads tiny amount of inconvenience.