Complaining about Village life?

We’re right on the edge of a town rather than rural so don’t get much of this nonsense. What I do ‘enjoy’ on local Facebook is every time a business appears or changes hands … “Oh not another barbers, can’t we have an artisan baker?” Like we live in some weird total democracy rather than plain old capitalism.

I live on the edge of a very large (rural) town, buses are two hourly throughout the week with none at all on weekends.

I used to live in a hamlet that had one bus per week. It only went in one direction (towards the market town) on market day (livestock). The assumption was whoever took the bus into town would get a lift home from one of the farmers at market.

I agree. It makes me laugh when people who live in a little village in the countryside complain about how poor the public transport is. Buses only every 2 hours etc. Yet people would complain if there were buses going past their window every 5 minutes and blocking the roads, or they wanted to build a train line right by their house. If you want good public transport then live in a town or city! You can't have it all.

It's the same here, every year when the farmers put the young cattle out, there are people saying that cows should not be put in fields that have footpaths through them.

We also regularly hear complaints about the lack of a decent coffee shop and that you have to drive to get to the nearest softplay.

"As for bell-ringing, where is is written that rural people have to put up with it?"

Well, if the church was there first you have to accept it basically. It's something you knew about before you moved in.

I get quite resentful about incomers who want to change our working village with a diverse population into a dormitory village, as so many are becoming.

Still, at least some of them play a part in keeping the village pub going…

@SmileyClare yeah I don’t think you’re going to do well there while you think you’re better than these people

To be fair this can be a warning for drivers of enormous vehicles who are following their satnav blindly. It causes absolute carnage when they get wedged into a tiny lane with stone walls surrounding them. Local drivers will be aware of where they can drive safely.

Im worried about Ted though. Does anyone have an update?

They're justified in complaining about neighbours' parties if they're late at night on weekdays.
The other things can't be helped.

I work with someone who recently moved to the country and every week she complains about something, including, cockerels crowing, muck spreading, farm machinery noise at night, fox noises, the fact its so dark at night, the lane being churned up by tractors, grass pollen in the air, fruit trees dropping fruit on her lawn. Honestly. What do people expect when they move to the country? She's 46 so not green and young.

My cousin bought a house about a mile from a local aerodrome and then wrote to them constantly asking them to only allow the aircraft to take off and land in the other direction. 🙄

@Suckingalemon exactly that! I have no idea why peoppe think rural life is quiet. I am sitting here in my flat in zone 3 London with my back door open and the only thing I can hear is the parakeets and the distant noise of the odd train.

If I was at my dads (on a farm in a small village) I would hear - cows and sheep, dogs barking, several tractors, chickens, traffic from the bypass near by, helicopter overhead (he is near the seaso the coastguard heliocopter can go over head). Farms are factories.

😂Oh my days!

@Eastofe, hard to choose, but I think yours wins!

😂 That's such a great image!

The constant moaning about nothing for children, young teens or older people to do always gets me going. Our village has a population of over 3000, when I point out that these facilities existed but were stopped due to either lack of interest or lack of volunteers to run them you get the village idiots saying they weren’t asked and would have been only too happy to help. So you tell them that as they are so keen they can hire the hall and run the youth club, coffee morning or mother and tot’s group and you will help, they come back with they are too busy!
The other ridiculous posts are people complaining about various shops shutting, the fact that no one used the butchers and hairdressers tells you all you need to know.

I keep hearing what sounds like a gunshot! Yeah, that'll be the crop scarer.

Are horses even allowed on roads? Erm yes.

Working farms can be really noisy, I'm amazed some people don't know this, and also seem to think the farmers are living a twee hobby lifestyle growing a few vegetables and keeping a few cute animals.

oh god - the ones who get up in arms about shooting crows.

Dear Pam have you seen what crows to to songbirds? Lambs? What they would possibly have done to Fido as a pup if you left him in a field unattended?

I live in a hamlet. We are bordered on all sides by farmland.

One the village WhatsApp group, EVRRY FUCKING SHOOTING SEASON: ‘Who’s shooting?! It’s scaring my dog!’
Your dog has been in the village since it was a puppy Pam. I would argue that you have had ample time to get it used to NORMAL FUCKING FARMLAND NOISE.

Don’t. The people who moved into the house opposite us tried to start a petition to get the local farmer not to harvest outside regular working hours… apparently the two weeks of late night lights from the combine harvesters is interfering with their right to quiet enjoyment of their property…

the mind boggles.

My favourite was the people who reported us to the RSPCA as the few outdoor pigs we kept were covered in mud - it was summer and we made them a wallow (basically a hole filled with water) so they could keep cool and protected from sun burn (they were white pigs)

Yep

Most people who ‘want to move to the country’ want to live on the edge of a market town. Of which we have plenty.

TBF I grew up in a farming village and IF I ever moved back to the country it would be to that, and it’s also what my sister did. Proper rural living has an awful lot of downsides.. especially with teens.

My local FB group is just the conspiracy theory nutters convinced the council is trying to poison them by chlorinating the drinking water. The new 5G tower was a good time too.

Oh god, this has been going on for years. I grew up on a farm in a small village and people complained about tractors, mud on the roads, late night harvesting, smells, cows mooing early in the morning, farm vehicles moving slowly on the roads.

The absolute worst were people who thought farms were some sort of free community resource crossed with a playground. The amount of times my dad would find people with dogs and small children picnicing in his fields or dangling very young children over pens containing ewes with recently born lambs.

Or the ones who would turn up at our door addreassing my dad as "farmer" and demand zome sort of favour like delivery of a ridiculously small amout of straw bales, free use of a field or use of his tractor to move some earth.