Isle of Bute
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Isle of Bute
Calling out to Scott.
Hope you’re hale and hearty.
You may already know that Bute got a very favourable mention in the Sunday Times Best Places to Live in 2020.
I know you’ve extolled its virtues over the years but would you care to recap? For the benefit of anyone looking for an area to settle in?
it does sound rather lovely.
Hope you’re hale and hearty.
You may already know that Bute got a very favourable mention in the Sunday Times Best Places to Live in 2020.
I know you’ve extolled its virtues over the years but would you care to recap? For the benefit of anyone looking for an area to settle in?
it does sound rather lovely.
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As a Sabbatarian I do not read Sunday papers. Bute is nice. I have been here for 10 years. Ask and i shall try to answer
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OK.
What are the best things about living there?
And what aspects - if any - do you not like?
What are the best things about living there?
And what aspects - if any - do you not like?
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Surviving here with no kinship ties can be difficult. Jobs are hard to find.
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Any upsides?
What’s the climate like? It can’t be worse than Ireland surely and in recent years I’ve always found at least the east coast of NI to be quite nice weatherwise. Certainly not relentless rain.
What’s the climate like? It can’t be worse than Ireland surely and in recent years I’ve always found at least the east coast of NI to be quite nice weatherwise. Certainly not relentless rain.
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How will you earn your daily bread ? Slim pickings on the job front. Shelf-stacking in the supermarket ?
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I came here to retire. Not sure what would motivate you to come here.
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The friendliness of the people.
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
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Oxford, Australia, Bute ? Where do you want to be and why do you want to be there ? Not many of us have the luxury of choice.We go where the economics take us..
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Both locations are not the Med though.
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In my ten years here on Bute I continue to be astonished by the high rainfall.
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Thanks Moses.
One of the great things about Ireland is that if the weather gets too much - and even if you live in the North - a couple of hours’ drive on uncongested roads gets you to a port and the overnight ferry to Cherbourg.
I have family in the North and I really value the easy access to the NHS so to be honest the weather in the RoI would need to be significantly better than in NI to induce me to move south.
House prices are a big factor too. I recently bought a little (admittedly nothing fancy) detached house in Helens Bay which is a lush wooded area by the sea with a pristine sandy beach yet a stone’s throw from the capital with its hospitals, arts venues, international airport, etc. It cost well under £240,000.
Unless somewhere else in the UK beckons (and funnily enough I’ve now ruled out Bute), we’ll probably base ourselves there.
Am looking forward to spending lots of time in the Republic, though. As a child I used to go to Dingle. Utterly spectacular.
One of the great things about Ireland is that if the weather gets too much - and even if you live in the North - a couple of hours’ drive on uncongested roads gets you to a port and the overnight ferry to Cherbourg.
I have family in the North and I really value the easy access to the NHS so to be honest the weather in the RoI would need to be significantly better than in NI to induce me to move south.
House prices are a big factor too. I recently bought a little (admittedly nothing fancy) detached house in Helens Bay which is a lush wooded area by the sea with a pristine sandy beach yet a stone’s throw from the capital with its hospitals, arts venues, international airport, etc. It cost well under £240,000.
Unless somewhere else in the UK beckons (and funnily enough I’ve now ruled out Bute), we’ll probably base ourselves there.
Am looking forward to spending lots of time in the Republic, though. As a child I used to go to Dingle. Utterly spectacular.
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Thanks Moses.
One of the great things about Ireland is that if the weather gets too much - and even if you live in the North - a couple of hours’ drive on uncongested roads gets you to a port and the overnight ferry to Cherbourg.
I have family in the North and I really value the easy access to the NHS so to be honest the weather in the RoI would need to be significantly better than in NI to induce me to move south.
House prices are a big factor too. I recently bought a little (admittedly nothing fancy) detached house in Helens Bay which is a lush wooded area by the sea with a pristine sandy beach yet a stone’s throw from the capital with its hospitals, arts venues, international airport, etc. It cost well under £240,000.
Unless somewhere else in the UK beckons (and funnily enough I’ve now ruled out Bute), we’ll probably base ourselves there.
Am looking forward to spending lots of time in the Republic, though. As a child I used to go to Dingle. Utterly spectacular.
One of the great things about Ireland is that if the weather gets too much - and even if you live in the North - a couple of hours’ drive on uncongested roads gets you to a port and the overnight ferry to Cherbourg.
I have family in the North and I really value the easy access to the NHS so to be honest the weather in the RoI would need to be significantly better than in NI to induce me to move south.
House prices are a big factor too. I recently bought a little (admittedly nothing fancy) detached house in Helens Bay which is a lush wooded area by the sea with a pristine sandy beach yet a stone’s throw from the capital with its hospitals, arts venues, international airport, etc. It cost well under £240,000.
Unless somewhere else in the UK beckons (and funnily enough I’ve now ruled out Bute), we’ll probably base ourselves there.
Am looking forward to spending lots of time in the Republic, though. As a child I used to go to Dingle. Utterly spectacular.
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Bute is not part of Ireland.