we are trying to move - to the rural area I grew up in - and one of the houses we're interested in is pretty isolated. It's next door to a farm. next nearest house is a mile away. nearest village - which is a good size (school, couple of restaurants, green grocers, chemist, butcher, pub etc) a mile and a half away. unusually for a rural area there is a big city 25 mins drive away. so the isolation is not persistent - everything we could want is accessible - but by car. couldn't buy a pint of milk, or visit anyone, (except the farmer, and no, he;s not a dairy farmer) without getting in the car. There's a bit of me that's always wanted to do this. and I get a lovely gut feeling about places like this (possibly from reading too much of the Brontes when a teenager...) but what's the reality like?