Ireland will pay you $92,000 to move to remote islands

I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work.

However, the €80k the government grant for doing up a derelict house is not going to very far. Ireland has always been one of the most expensive places in Europe, and the cost of living has steadily increased in the last 12 months.

In particular, building, renovating or extending homes has become prohibitively expensive because of a combination of labor shortage, rising materials costs and price gouging.

See: The Banshees of Inisherin

And even a supermacs :) Ireland's local McDonald's clone with gunky burgers and soggy fries. I don't know what people see in it. It's way worse consistency and quality than the real McDonald's. It was a big happening when it arrived though because previously the fish & chips shop would charge 10 bucks for a portion of chips :)

The airports on the arann islands (each one of the three has one, even Inish Oirr the smallest one, Inish Mór is the biggest) are under constant funding pressure though. Inishboffin had one built but it was never opened, nor the nearby one on the mainland near Cleggan. Both are still X'ed out 10 years later: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30895268.html . After spending all that money on infrastructure nobody cared enough to actually open it up for business.

This is really the problem with these islands. Once in a few years the government starts a half-assed stimulation program. A year or two later it's all abandoned again. They just don't know what they want. For remote working it's far from ideal too because services are sparse and connections very poor especially outside the tourist season. Most people operate tourist B&Bs or are on welfare.