Complaining about Village life?

Maybe he’s one of “there fallen comrads” now, those motorcyclists of the Eastern Front…

Not rural but beside the sea. Lots of newbies complaining of the fog horn.

This happens all the time where I live too. People seem to think that if you live in the country it’s all growing your own veg and riding horses. It is quite funny when reality hits them

You're allowed to not like the behaviour of the hunt even in the most rural of rural places. It's when people start taking against pest control with guns that country people start rolling their eyes.

Wait till road pricing comes in, then you'll see some lively debates!

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Now I want to know how Ted is. Poor Ted.

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We lived in a village it was the chicken shit that drove me mad I didn’t complain on FB though we lived there as it was housing for DH work.
we live in a “village” that’s not a village now but the old timers hate the new comers we have 4 primary schools, a high school a supermarket many pubs etc The old timers don’t like the newcomers doesn’t affect me I just find it funny

I love village Facebook. My village is not populated by Nobel prize winners. I keep my favourites in an album, some highlights attached.

Our top two are people moving here and complaining about tractors driving through the village. I mean, did they not drive past all of the farms on their way into the village when they came to look?

And complaining that they can't get a taxi/ubereats. No taxi firms here and ubereats is for other people, you have to fetch your takeaway or make your own food

Lol 😆

@Galadali I come from this rural town and so feel totally entitled to be disgusted by the fox hunt, you’ll find there’s a lot of people who will be in agreement with you.

Ours is on the way out now, public opinion has changed so much. Good. They’re psycho arseholes and if they come on my land I’ll blow a gasket.

There is no automatic right for the hunt to be on your land @Galadali , I’d get that sorted personally.

I live in zone 2 London, and you wouldn’t believe the amount of people moaning about hearing sirens, their neighbours parties, planes on the overhead flight path etc

The absolute worst are people who move to Soho or near a long established music venue and then complain relentlessly about the noise until the council closes the venues down.
God knows how many have been lost because of this

We live under a flight path and people are constantly complaining about the planes. Drives me nuts! The airport (and runway) has been here for years!
I personally LOVE seeing the planes fly over. One of the reasons we bought where we did.

The worst I heard in a village Facebook group was complaints about the noise of the birds 😂

Moving to a rural area where a car is essential then moaning about the price of petrol. Well that’s something you should have thought about.

When this city girl moved to a very rural village I was shocked by the amount of noise and smell. Wouldn't have dreamt of complaining about it though! The only thing now that really rattles me is the hunt trashing our land and frightening my kids/animals every so often. I've learnt to keep my mouth shut on that though 😭
Honestly, the only things that seem to get our village WhatsApp group fizzing are the state of the verges and solar farm planning applications.

I grew up in a small village in the 60s, and I complained about church bells ringing throughout the night, but was told it was for people who couldn't afford a clock.
I don't think the same arguement would hold water nowadays.

I live in a village and grew up in another village, both rural, I am on both village fb groups and also the fb group of neighbour village and there is really none of what you describe - mostly dog poo and fireworks as far.as complaint type posts go and some parking ones. Other than that it is largely non complaint type posts.

Basically, these people want an exurb - a distant suburb on the outskirts of a city, the kind of place you get in the United States and similar countries, where cities are allowed to sprawl to vast sizes.

In the States, those who want to and have the money buy houses in the exurbs that are bigger than what you'd get in town with a large garden and a lot more space between them and their neighbors than urban residences have.

In the UK , we don't allow this kind of development because of greenbelt policies. So British people instead move to villages to try and enjoy this kind of lifestyle (particularly as villages in the UK are very often close enough to towns to allow you to commute daily).

This inevitably causes tensions, because somewhere that is an Actual Village will have Actually Rural Stuff going on, like crop spraying, manure, tractors trundling about, no streetlighting, fields full of livestock etc.

The next round of tantrums will be about electricity pylons, solar panels and windfarms etc. Because a lot of people want all the conveniences of modern life, combined with chocolate-box views out of the kitchen window.

Oh dear! 😂

The best one we've had was someone new moving in to a place down a narrow lane and putting up homemade signs for 'No HGVs!'.

On the public highway.
That also serves farms, who need deliveries and milk tankers etc.

That's very strange - I live rurally and have never heard anyone grumble about these things. Have you got a lot of "incomers"?

We had someone complaining about cows mooing. And frequently get people moaning about church bells.

I have some sympathy with the poor internet - there are areas of our small rural town that have been upgraded (the streets where all the posh houses are basically) but not others

My local one always has people moaning about the internet speed, and the same people moaning about the planning application for a 4G mast to serve the village.