#rural-relocation

#rural-relocation

I'd been on the island for less than a week when I opened my glove box looking for sunglasses, only to find the wrapper of my emergency granola bar torn open and the corner nibbled, right next to a neat little pile of mouse droppings. As I inspected the rest of the car, I was mortified to realize it was likely more than a single mouse. I texted the friend I was housesitting for in disbelief. "Ugh, I'm sorry! That's so island," she wrote back.

Love made me leave behind a place right near my parents in Houston to join my partner in a town without a single restaurant. I'd first met my partner a decade earlier, but we'd reconnected more recently - while long-distance - over a shared love of stories, coffee, and baseball. From the beginning, it was clear that if we were to close the distance gap, it would be me who moved.

She's married to the late queen's godson and lives on the grounds of the 'Downton Abbey' house, but the Cork chef prides herself on staying grounded. Here, she talks about turning 50, building her own pub and how sorting out her hormones changed her life. When Clodagh McKenna moved out of London and to the English countryside eight years ago, she knew that she would miss her social life in the capital, not to mention the buzz of London's Irish pubs. So she decided to build one herself on the grounds of her new home.

The practice of selling homes for 1 euro to attract residents to remote areas is common in Italy, and is also emerging in France, though less frequently.