I always thought Ireland would be a good place, but I read a couple of books on the potato famine recently and apparently a lot of the more fertile land has been built over, and even back in the days it was heavily over populated (I do realise the population is currently just over half what it was back then). It did say the most fertile land was in the south and east.
Ireland's history seems to have been marred by continual poverty - and whilst some of it will have been due to the english, a large part was to do with the wet climate which made it difficult to store food, acidic peaty soils across most of the country which could only support a certain selection of crops, and lack of natural resources.
I'm still planning to head over there, mainly cos I have lots of family there and my other half is from there.
