Clodagh McCoole Irish Times

How an Expat Here Uses Darien Examples to Describe America’s Exotic Real Estate Culture to Irish Back Home

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On the first floor (ground floor) there aren’t doors between the rooms. There often aren’t any fences between properties. Or lights on the ceiling. And why aren’t there any curtains up? For an Irishwoman and her husband coming to America, there were a lot of new things to get used to, Darien Realtor and Irish native Clodagh McCoole wrote in a July 4 article in the Irish Times. When she and her husband went house-hunting in Darien for the first time, they had even more to learn in a country that has a sometimes exotic real estate culture for Irish buyers, even though it shares a language with Ireland.