~new scene ahappenin in noreniron~

[earthgirl]

It was a historical inevitability I spose that being the last unsettled
frontier of the UK, Northern Ireland was bound to become the last frontier to be claimed by the New Stoneage Pioneers.
Now that peace has settled in and there is almost less violence in the city housing estates than in England (where guns are now increasingly evident), the big secret that the countryside of Northern Ireland is cool and peaceful is coming out!
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where a hippie or toker can
still rent a house for forty/fifty quid a week on housing benefit...grow their own weed and join an entirely new scene thats just beginning to happen.
Ok, it's not like Hippie England in the 60s or New Age Wales in the 70s or New Age Travellers in the Rep of Ireland in the 80s where you got to live in an old stone house with a thatched roof and washed in a bucket.
No this is the New Millennium and you get to rent a modernised place with central heating and a fitted kitchen but hey!..........if there aint a secret place around the surrounding land to grow your spliff then you can set a room aside in the house!
One way or another you go the space and the peace of the Ulster countryside, where the people are unsophisticated, friendly and helpful, and where you dont have noisy neighbours, racial strife and car alarms drillin your head all night.
If you're fed up with the crap then drive over and just ask around in the countryside for a place to rent!
Protected by an out of date reputation, this is a land of opportunity for a poor spliffer lookin to get a bit of space do yer own thing.........