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Complaining about Village life?

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BumpkinChic · 08/10/2023 08:47

I just don’t really get this.

I live in a rural village and almost every week we have someone complaining on the village online group about one thing or another… mostly over things that pretty much come along with rural village life. The top culprits are usually along the lines of:

”they haven’t told us they are going to spread manure and now I can’t open my windows because of the smell”

“church bells ringing at all hours”

“the internet speed is always so poor”

Why are you living rurally if you didn’t factor these things in? What is complaining on a Facebook groups supposed to do about manure? IMO a lot of these things are minor annoyances. I know not everyone has the choice of where to live but I know this is not the case for some of the regular moaners. And I know village life can sometimes be dreary but I love it and have always lived in small villages so I know I’m biased.

please enlighten me, I’m genuinely baffled.

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Morechocmorechoc · 08/10/2023 09:03

Our village fb seems so boring compared to yours!!! How funny. The only one that we get is smoke. But that's reasonable because some idiot has a fire whenever the weather is hottest and they can cover the most houses.

Spudinafuckit · 08/10/2023 09:01

Tractors in a field going up and down noisily with lights on at 3am early Monday morning. It woke her, her husband and her child and she was incandescent with rage. She’d had to put up with them all day Saturday and all day Sunday ruining her beautiful view, but this was her absolute limit. Barely any sleep and she had to be at work for 9.

This was the best day ever on my village Facebook.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/10/2023 09:00

Worst case I heard of was in Devon (friends in the area) where some couple who’d recently moved to the fairly rural location (not far from the coast) wrote to the local paper complaining about the noise of air/sea rescue helicopter training flights at night.

There was such a hostile reaction from the locals that apparently they sold up and left.

Badbadbunny · 08/10/2023 08:55

And those complaining there's not much entertainment going on? Well yes, it's a village, what do you expect, a nightclub, theatre, ice rink?

YukoandHiro · 08/10/2023 08:53

DustyLee123 · 08/10/2023 08:49

We’ve had people calling the police for a man in a field with a gun. Yes, that would be a farmer 🙄

😂😂😂

pickledandpuzzled · 08/10/2023 08:52

To be fair it’s how people learn. When you patiently reply, ‘yes, every year round about now. I love the way rural life marks the seasons.’, they learn what to expect.

Horse dung? Yes, pre composted grass. Great for the garden, no damage to your tyres or the tarmac, and of course the rider can’t dismount to clear up…’.

They start to catch on.

Shinyandnew1 · 08/10/2023 08:51

Zonder · 08/10/2023 08:49

That's so funny. It's like people who buy a house next to a school and then complain about playtime noises. We deliberately didn't buy next to a pub because I didn't want to here late night noise.

Or buy a house near a school and moan that it’s really busy in their road at 8.45 and 3.15!

Elvis1956 · 08/10/2023 08:51

Agree, we live in a town in Somerset and someone wanted to report the smell of cow slurry spreading to the environment agency. Until someone else pointed out the alternative are chemicals!
thankfully here someone always shuts them down with a "well what do you expect, you've moved to Somerset"

DustyLee123 · 08/10/2023 08:49

We’ve had people calling the police for a man in a field with a gun. Yes, that would be a farmer 🙄

CherryCokeFanatic · 08/10/2023 08:49

The best ones are younger residents who’ve moved into new builds wishing that a supermarket or petrol station could be built nearby. Gets the older residents angry! Love it 😂

PuttingDownRoots · 08/10/2023 08:49

Muck spreading amuses me. Its essential. Where do they think crops come from?

Zonder · 08/10/2023 08:49

That's so funny. It's like people who buy a house next to a school and then complain about playtime noises. We deliberately didn't buy next to a pub because I didn't want to here late night noise.