Achill Island mentioned in the article is actually accessible by road with a short bridge, so it's a bit like a peninsula.<p>It's a beautiful place but like most of rural Ireland it's extremely remote. You'd really have to be ok with seeing the same 100 people day in day out, having only one or two tiny shops to deal with, being hours from anything or anyone new that you've never seen. To me that's a nightmare. I hate tiny, close-knit communities, sorry :) Which by the way are much less close-knit than they seem because they're usually pockmarked by decades-old feuds. I knew some Islanders that would fill me in on all the intrigues and it was not a happy world.<p>I lived in Galway, officially a city but even that was way way too small for me. It drove me crazy to know every street, every shop. You could never walk there for 5 minutes without seeing someone you know. Some people love that but to me it was very claustrophobic. The islands however, well that's another class of 'remote' altogether.<p>Now I live in Barcelona. Always new things to discover, feeling connected to the world. Big things happening. Ireland just isn't for me.