JOHNNY BOY
Well-Known Member
You did.
If you are from a farm family, then it's often vital that you live near your farm. As is currently the case, many people have to hold an off farm job like in the government, shops or where ever. It doesn't mean that they don't work on farms too. There are plenty of people in this situation including myself. You can't tar everyone with the one brush. Planning laws are supposed to sort this out, but they far from do that.
There isn't a one size fits all. Population in our townland has halved in the last 20 years. You simply can't force people to live in towns.
Totally agree with your points there muckymanor. If i got out of farming i still would not want to live in a town. I like the peace of quite of the countryside, plus it is my choice and rightly so.