Complaining about Village life?

I have a friend who lives in a village. They seemingly spend most of their time drinking - your post confirms that 🤣

Well complaints about village life in our fb include:
Yet another new housing estate that the locals have no chance of affording
Yet another field being surveyed, with the only access road being a poorly maintained single lane road.
Yet another van hitting the railway bridge

Oh and people who complain about electric fences. They’re to keep animals in and humans out.

“But what if one of my children or the dog goes too close?”, they bleat. And take it badly when they’re told “Keep the buggers away, then”.

My favourite was the woman who complained that we’d locked the field gates. We had a footpath running though the fields with stiles at either end but we kept finding the gate which was next to one of the stiles left open. Horses were getting out, so we locked them.

Turned out this woman didn’t want to use the stile because it was a bit muddy due to the amount of people using it, and it was making her shoes dirty. So she was opening the gates instead.

She was quite upset to get very short shrift.

There's a man who posts on my local FB village page and I swear he's in some sort of batshit moaners competition.

• someone sprayed some donkeys with water during a heatwave
• combine harvesters being impossible to pass
• cows moving from one place to another and holding cars up for a whole minute
• a stone wall being uneven causing his child to fall off
• the village shop not stocking whatever obscure item he desperately needed
• a farm shop being closed because of a death

OH the hatred of children in our retirement area is overwhelming. They're not Welsh just happened to fancy retiring here. And then the buggers go on the local council and block the locals wishes because they retired here for the peace and quiet so they hate kids, dogs, paddling pools 😡

Unfortunately these are the people that ruin any society or locale. The amount of establishments that closed after gentrification e.g moving to a run down area next to a well known nightclub then get it closed down due to noise complaints.

This was me - moved to a cathedral city and complained about the bells ringing 😂! A shock to the system at first for a city girl but you learn to live with it and become an intolerant local complaining about blow ins. I now love bell practice days and enjoy explaining what the racket is when I’m on a Zoom call!

Our wifi is the local satellite broadband (not Sky) as we don’t have a landline and it is pretty slow (downloads 15Mbps, uploads 2Mbps if you’re lucky) but I can get 5g on my phone. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I had to beg my friend not to call the police for that reason when we were walking on a public footpath through farmland. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, yes, the people who will sit there on a single-track road, quite entitled, waiting impatiently for a farmer with a tractor towing a huge trailer full of hay bales to reverse - because they would find it far too difficult to reverse their Nissan Micra to the nearest passing place.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people completely fail to make the connection between farmers needing to farm - with the associated noises, smells and other small disturbances - and there actually being food available for them to buy from shops.

In Hayes Kent they complain about 'Eastern Europeans', helicopters, escaped horses, children, anyone who isn't in favour of destroying ULEZ cameras, but woe betide anyone who moves a royal post box topping, legally parked cars that haven't moved for a few days, Labour supporters etc etc

Ironically in suburbia as we are now our WiFi since they upgraded it is awful.

Oh and we have great Wi-Fi in our rural village.

I live in a rural village and we never have these complaints. In fact people are really proud of bells however I take your point - what’s the point of moving there and then complaining what it’s like to live there 🤷🏼‍♀️

WiFi poor yep, no mains gas yep. No bus service yep . Slurry on the fields yep. No mains sewage yep. Power cuts whenever there's a storm yep

BUT we can hear birdsong, we have a huge chest freezer, we eat our own hens, ducks and geese eggs. We eat pheasant, partridge, rabbit in the winter. We can ride horses. We can chase sheep and herd them back into their own fields then call the farmer. Our dogs roaming free on our land ditto cats

This was our life until ill health curtailed it. It's a great life I miss it still

Same here. There are a lot of incomers in our village (ourselves included), but we knew what we were signing up for.

Yes, we get the occasional smell when they are muck spreading, but we don't get traffic pollution and traffic smells.

In the late spring I can occasionally hear a lamb bleating or a cow mooing at night when the windows are open, but I don't get traffic noise.

Most posts are either lost and found property and pets, free to a good home stuff, stuff for sale or warnings about road closures. We are a couple of miles from the M1 and a lot of people use it for commuting so warnings of RTAs are very useful.

It sounds as if you have a very different kind of hunt to the ones around here.

For me, being anti-hunt is nothing to do with a hierarchy of animals, or animals at all. My opinion of the hunt is based solely on my encounters with them while I've been out and about. Their obnoxious behaviour is what has put me off them. That includes hunt staff, mounted followers and car followers.

Farmer here with a hamlet in the middle of our fields. Very rarely does someone move in without asking to buy a field because that's what they suggest on Escape to the Country, we've had 2 become very aggressive when we say no.
Our current favourite neighbours ripped out the hedges between their garden and the fields to improve their view and now moan if a cow ends up in their garden, if only there was something that could prevent it from happening. We are now planning on replacing the missing hedge with rusting, redundant farm equipment and bedframes all tied together with baler twine. They moan about the tractors on the roads and now one of them has taken to screaming abuse at my teenage son as he drives pass. When working in the fields until 2am DS decided to leave the field next to theirs until last, something that I never thought my mild tempered child would do but everyone has a limit. I don't expect to be on their Christmas card list but couldn't they ignore us like we ignore them.
They started to post on the local Whatsapp/Facebook page but didn't get the support they expected, before this I was very guarded when discussing them with other neighbours but it turns out that not many in the area like them.
And don't get me started on people who move in and can't reverse along the lanes, I have massive respect for one lady who has put lots of effort into improving her reversing skills and she always looks so proud when she does. Also, if someone reverses for you always acknowledge the effort.

I just checked- my village does not have a Facebook group! To me it sounds like a modern and convenient way to piss each other off. We are still in the dark ages.

Don’t get me started on people feeding horses and ponies over fences. Or lifting their toddler on to the back of a retired thoroughbred “for fun”.

<Thunderous looks>

I was woken this morning by the loud tuneless clanging of the church bells calling the usual 3 attenders to the service. You'd think they'd know the time and place now without the loud summons.

I wouldn't dream of complaining about it though. It's part of village life.

Yep. It’s hardly a constant noise is it? - probably been woken a couple of times which has shattered their countryside dream.

We constantly have posts about an ill neglected pony. Turns out, it’s lying down, having a sleep and not wearing a rug in 18 degree heat! (talking native type ponies here not) sane people try and feed the neglected ponies sandwiches and crisps.