buying advice needed...

Davesnave

samchops said:

 I get the feeling that people on here think I am either naive or stupid.  I am neither.  I spent 20 years as a systems engineer for IBM, I've had enough of that but we have plenty of other strings to our bows.  I am also a qualified riding instructor and I KNOW I can get work doing that there as I have looked.  I make and restore carved wooden rocking horses and can teach adult English lessons.  My other half is a guitar instructor amongst other things, he also has a forklift and a sprayers license.  We could work anywhere, but we don't want to, we want to do as little as possible for other people and prefer now to work for ourselves.  We can afford to buy somewhere in Eire with lots of acreage, then do nothing for years if we wished to, but we don't.

Perhaps when you join the other forum you'll put at least some of this into your introduction. People here can only know as much as you tell us, and to be fair, for every person that dreams of being largely self-sustaining in the countryside, there's another who tries and fails, sometimes spectacularly. I've seen that and it's not pleasant.

I'm like you: enough skills, connections, money etc so that I'll never starve, and my needs are simple, but not everyone is like us. It's only right to err on the side of caution when discussing 'getting away from it all,' when so many boomerang back again. Not me though; I love the country life.

Davesnave

hazyjo said:

Davesnave said:

hazyjo said:

babyblade41 said:

There are so many things that you need to do and would be worth looking through the stickies on these pages.

All stickies/info pages have now been removed.

The two permanent threads on renting and buying are still at the top on my version of the forum.

Ah, but apparently one may press the cog thing and 'dismiss' them, giving more space to the questions. I know, because I've just done that and the renting thread has disappeared!

Headings are still there.. along with links, but if you open any of them, all text has been replaced with:

"This post is no longer maintained. Since leglislation, regulations, links and processes frequently change, the content has been removed as it may otherwise be out-of-date, misleading, or erroneous."

That "dismiss" thing is a bit crap, I've not pressed it, but how the hell are you supposed to get it back?! Poxy forum *rolls eyes*

Ah.....didn't actually read it, and as you say, I can't get the renting one back easily, though there must be a way.

I wonder if this had anything to do with a certain person being PPR for a while, even though he was no trouble?

The mystery deepens.....