Last updated on March 4th, 2024 at 04:38 pm

Earlier on in the week I attended the launch of a new website that has been created to promote e-businesses and businesses with websites in the Conwy area.  The econwyrural website was set up to promote the diversity of businesses in the area and the advantages of living and working in the Conwy area.

It was interesting to see the mix of businesses that have initially been chosen to appear on the site – these include photographers, a craft shop in Llanrwst , adventure holidays, jewellery makers and even a supplier of glass eyes.  The common factors in all of these businesses is their use of the internet to promote themselves and the love that they have for the area.  Living in the area I know just what the econwy rural site means when it talks about inspirational views and quality of life in the area – for example I got up this morning and drove down the road a few hundred yards and came across this scene overlooking the Conwy Valley into Snowdonia.  This kind of view makes you realise that there is a lot more to life than living in a city.

View of the Conwy Valley with Snowdonia in the background

There are, of course problems with living and working in a rural area, the cost of fuel, the distances you can sometimes have to drive to get anywhere (our local big supermarket is a 30 mile round trip for example) and broadband speed.  Having said that distances and costs can be minimised with careful planning and BT are working on speeding up broadband connections – in Llanrwst, where I am based they recently upgraded the local exchange and I am now getting a very respectable 20Mb down and 0.74Mb up (as measured by speedtest.net – a typical result can be seen here http://www.speedtest.net/result/1736098070.png ).  It is much better than I was getting in Peterborough where I used to live.

So, if you have a business idea, want to leave the rat race and start up a business or even if you have an existing business and are looking to relocate somewhere cleaner where the air is purer and the views are great why not come and take a look at the Conwy area?