Yes, I would just as soon live in Scotland as Ireland. Either way, the brogue would be a bit thick. And anyway, I might be wary of running into some weird hornet's nest of stuff that I cannot anticipate or deal with. When our ancestors came to America they often broke with the past, and thus the records are a bit scarce for tracking us back that far in time. For example, although my grandmother was a Strickland, you have to trace back to Tudor times to find a sort of connection, maybe.
