No mortgage, but no job?

Really2

B&B, or I know this will be hated some kind of landlord (room rent etc)

Something that will bring in regular money if you have no mortgage this could be ideal.

You could have a smallholding at a later date without that affecting a B&B etc.

But if you are going to have a mortgage I would not use this idea as the income is unreliable.

But look at areas and see what they have and don't have.

I live in a semi rural area but I am still only a few miles from a major town.
So you could always secure work before uping sticks.

Fridge2

Work offshore, that's what i do.

Basically, I have a rota that involves two weeks on the oil rig and three weeks at home.

This means my "commute" consists of being at the heliport every five weeks, which effectively means I can live wherever I like.

The pay is also very good, and means that I can buck the trend of low rural wages, which means i get all the advantages of rural life with none of the perceived disadvantages.

Just as well really, as I hate cities with a passion.....

GracieP

fc123 wrote: »

This is something in my wannabe, reason to get up in the morning lifeplan (no 67 subsection (ii)) .
Was swooning over this today http://details.vebra.com/property/8654/18324542
maybe in a decades time?

I'd be looking at something like this http://www.daft.ie/searchsale.daft?id=344919 It looks more remote than it is as you can walk to a bar/restaurant on the edge of the property and it's a mile from a small village. The best bit, is if you click on the map you can see how many properties are for sale around it.

The wedding video making could be a possibility. My thoughts on the move are that it's good to have a selection of possibilities. I'd hate to feel stuck somewhere. Which is why if we did decide to move to the country I think we'd rent for a while first. With the OH working freelance it means that he could take time off but return easily if he wanted back in.

Really2 wrote:

B&B, or I know this will be hated some kind of landlord (room rent etc)

Something that will bring in regular money if you have no mortgage this could be ideal.

You could have a smallholding at a later date without that affecting a B&B etc.

But if you are going to have a mortgage I would not use this idea as the income is unreliable.

But look at areas and see what they have and don't have.

The problem is Ireland is littered with hotels, they just built and built them too. I've heard they are destroying the B&B business.

If we were going to do this it would only be if we could do it mortgage free. If buy with a mortgage it will be in or around Dublin. Not that that would guarantee work.

Guitar

skcollobcat10 wrote: »

Hello,

And which part of the North East will this be?

the 'toon is Newcastle. I know upper management get around 50k in our place but middle management get around 25k. I'd like to know what this place is.

Davesnave

I like that one FC; much better than the shack overlooking Chesil Beach!;)

Gracie, that's an interesting place too. In fact that agency has loads of them that would appeal to me, though the land looks a bit stony for my purposes. Interesting too how different areas have local expressions: what on earth does 'some of the land has been plated' mean? I'm guessing drained.

I have a close friend who ran a wedding photo/video business from a remote village, which certainly worked, though he was forever driving long distances to meet clients and do the weddings, so eventually he moved to within a few miles of the M4.

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

I like that one FC; much better than the shack overlooking Chesil Beach!;)

Yes, I like it too, FC. Its nice landscape round Chard, and not at all twee. Very wet though.

Really2

GracieP wrote: »

The problem is Ireland is littered with hotels, they just built and built them too. I've heard they are destroying the B&B business.

If we were going to do this it would only be if we could do it mortgage free. If buy with a mortgage it will be in or around Dublin. Not that that would guarantee work.

Dublin is not the most rural of places surely:)

Like I said if you go very rural you would be after holiday market etc. Your job would be then to find out places without hotels.
Any opportunity for business will require research so that the location supports what you want to do.

It sounds like your best bet is to find work first, I dint think some of the idea's of on line business is that great as shipping goods from Ireland costs a bomb so in reality your only market would be Ireland.

tara747

amcluesent wrote: »

Just start a boys-school in Eire, motto "We're not on the fiddle." Should do good business.

My goodness, you really are a disturbing individual. Do you have something in particular against Irish people?

Shame on you.

kennyboy66_2

tara747 wrote: »

My goodness, you really are a disturbing individual. Do you have something in particular against Irish people?

Shame on you.

I wouldn't take it personally (if you are Irish).

He (and I presume he is a he) has similar "colourful" views about;

"Mohammedans"
"Travellers"
"Eastern Europeans"
"Romanians"
"Multi-culturalists"

GracieP

Really2 wrote: »

Dublin is not the most rural of places surely:)

No it isn't, but our first choice would be to move back to Dublin and for my husband to find some sort of tv/film work. If we move back to Dublin, or even to a nearby town, we will be doing so with a mortgage. A decent house in a nice part of Dublin will not fall into the range of our savings.

But if there is no way my husband can do his job in Ireland, we are looking at other options. And as we could buy a country house for cash at some point that's something I'm investigating. But it is dependent on finding a job we wouldn't loath getting up for every morning as that would be just as unsatisfying in a different way. As jobs in the Irish countryside are rare now that the building trade is dead I suspect that if we make the move we will be relying on ourselves for income.

I think I'll investigate how commercial documentary makers are doing. I remembered last night that a pair of my lecturers were a husband and wife team who owned a company making short films and local interest packages for national tv shows. I trained as a journalist and worked freelance for a couple of years before my hippydrive kicked in and I started working for charities. And my husband did a lot of documentary work when we were in Ireland, so maybe that's something we could do together?