The population in my county is less than 20,000. So, there's definitely an everyone knows everyone else thing going on which really escalates gossip. You know how in some cheesy movies you'll see a few women kind of gather in one of their lawns to talk about how they heard some juicy gossip about the other neighbor lady? Or have you ever watched Edward Scissorhands where the town starts whispering about him? Yeah, it's kind of like that. I absolutely despise facebook because of just how much people use it as ammunition to talk about one another. "Oh my gosh, did you see what so and so posted?!"

Ireland just seems so incredibly beautiful. I love seeing some of the architecture as well. I think certain books kind of solidified the mesmerising idea of Ireland for me, and of course whimsical movies. I do fairly well with rough winters. There's no cell service where I live and high speed internet has only been here for 5 years or less (except for the crappy satellite internet). Several winters ago, we were without power for 2 weeks due to the snow. We have a lot of weather related power outages. I know abosolutely nothing about Irish politics, or even their government system.

As far as advice, I'm honestly not even sure where I would begin. I