Complaining about Village life?

My sister lives near to a farm, and got an note put through her door asking if she could move her cows (they are not hers) to a different field as they kept staring at the note writers children and it was giving them nightmares.

Reminds me of the time (Now ex)H was stationed in Cornwall. Whenever anyone new moved into the town from outside the county there were always grumblings about how there were so many helicopters going overhead....well yes there would be seeing as how it was right next to a huge Naval airbase.

The most recent gem on the village FB page went along the lines of " we didn't realise it would be so chaotic and noisy when we bought our house in March"....written during a weekend in June in a village within a 10 mile radius of Glastonbury.

We moved from central London to a small rural village, and although we love it (in the main) there are negatives!

The main negative for me is how unwelcoming some “true villagers” are of new comers.
How defensive and territorial they are of “their” village and how much small minded local gossip and piss taking there is about anyone new in the village.

We have lots of friends now but I’ve been told several times by locals that they thought we were gangsters when we moved in because of dh’s cockney accent And in fact when the village pub was robbed just after we moved in, lots of them assumed it was us. 😮😂

I don’t moan about it on local Facebook groups but I do roll my eyes at the small mindedness!

Are they a mnetter who made a thread complaining about the movement of the cows from fields to 'the barns' and how noisy it was and why didn't they just keep them in one place?....
This was a dairy farm and they'd bought a cottage basically right next to the farm 🤐

Oh god mine is too funny!

we have posts like 'lock your doors peeps there's a white van driving slowly down *** lane looks dodge'

someone replies 'it's the newspaper delivery van'

people moaning so much about the dust from the combine (they live on the edge of fields) that the farmer now has to announce when he's doing it

And on and on. I might see if I can find some gems now

I used to live in a village but it was right next to an army base. And u would regularly get them practicing over head. Boy did they swoop down really low. The local airplane acrobatics used to practice as well. I loved to watch it.

omg people used to moan. Like seriously. U move right next to an airbase and then moan about them practicing and they used to train in the local woods as well in big troops. Always made me feel safer.

one women was moaning on Facebook about it. Until I pointed out that they are literally training to keep u and the rest of the U.K. safe. How about a Thankyou and if u don’t like it bog off.

It is annoying, isn't it? It's always the same people as well... (The same 10- to 12 people.)

What really pisses me off, is when somebody shows (for example,) a picture of a car that cut them up, at a certain traffic island, or that overtook on a bend in town, or parked on a double yellow line, and they put a photo of the car and sometimes the driver. (They do this on the Facebook group for the market town that I live near, (which has got about 10,000 people on it.)

Totally identifying them and naming and shaming them on fucking facebook. With a pathetic stern 'telling off' - like they're a fucking teacher, or a police officer. Who do they think they are?! 😆

Someone said the other day - whilst posting a PHOTOGRAPH of a particular elderly gentleman - 'this old boy was only doing 20 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone.' I mean, actually naming and shaming - and showing him and his car - with the registration number. It really is a nasty and pathetic kind of attention seeking! Naming and shaming people on facebook. Some people must think they are terribly important! 😂

I've always lived in lovely rural villages, moved back from the 'big city' a few years ago, and me and husband love having a giggle at the dramas on our FB group. It's either the village newcomers (and not always young people as suggested up thread) moaning about normal village/countryside things or the born and bread villagers moaning about the newbies or cars going over 20MPH. I actually find the life long villagers to be much ruder at times. And dare I say it, snobs. All rather dramatic and no one ever comes out smelling of roses.

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A couple of those posts have a sort of Chaucerian charm:

’Ladys bring your men the more the meryer’

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I live on Salisbury Plain and there is always someone complaining about the big guns going off anywhere between 5am and 11pm. To be fair they do rattle the windows, but don't buy a house on an Army training ground.

It does make me laugh when I hear people complaining about the seagulls

My neighbour knocked on my door to tell me there were seagulls in my garden and they were scaring her cat. Wtf was I supposed to do, go out and wrestle them?

I really love the sound of church bells. Like, really love it, it sparks so much joy.

But yeah obviously yanbu. I hate the smell of manure, I hate "local community" events, I hate horses and dogs, I am ambivalent about country walks and well-dressings and guy fawkes scarecrow competitions. I know I am a miserable Ebenezer Scrooge. So I live in London and put up with living near vape shops and "we buy your gold" instead. It'd be extremely unreasonable of me to move to a rural village and complain about village stuff.

If I want

I grew up in a village. The tractor and smells complaint would be ridiculous, don’t see them on our local page. I have a lot of sympathy for the broadband. See a lot on local fb about needing an upgrade from everyone.

Lots of local people as well as newer ones have always worked in the town or city and their jobs now hybrid and getting another fully from office job isn’t as easy. There aren’t jobs in the village. The council and other facilities expect things to be done online and it’s a long journey to be able to see someone face to face.

Makes you wonder how people like this, think the stuff they buy from shops etc, gets there in the first place.

Ours is pretty boring. But 5here has been a standoff lately. Speed limit through some of the village is 50 kph (pop <1,000) but other parts are 30 kph. The people who live at the start of the village have lost 2 cats to cars. So put up 2 small signs with a picture of a cat (like a traffic sign with a red line through it).

Someone took them down in the dead of night (lots of us think the limit should be 30,btw,the village is 900 years old, has only 2 intersecting roads anyway, and they are narrow, twisty and full of parked cars. You can barely get up to 30 anyway)

Post in the fb group saying put them back etc, and a livrly "discussion" ensued.

A week later 2 more signs went up - 4 times the size. So far they are still there (and most people slow down)

Slightly different situation but years ago I was on holiday in Swanage and read the letters page of the local newspaper.
i don’t know if it still happens but people in motorhomes would stop overnight along the side of the road between Studland and the car ferry to Poole. One camper wrote to the paper complaining about all the locals driving past their motorhome early in the morning to catch the ferry to go to work in Bournemouth.

I grew up in a village on the south coast and never experienced any of this. We all moaned to each other when the farmer spread muck on the fields, of course, but maybe it’s because of the lack of SM back then?

It does make me laugh when I hear people complaining about the seagulls.

Ours is full of people moaning about tractors on the roads and making them late for work 😂

Quite sweet actually

Bring your bubbys 🤣

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Omg they're brilliant!!

I have faster broadband in our hamlet than we did in town 😎

Someone who recently moved to our village was whingeing online about the milk tanker disturbing their peace & quiet by noisily driving over cattle grids when visiting farms early in the morning. I imagined them eating a bowl of weetabix & sipping a latte while doing it…