People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

You are joking right?

And town people who think they are country people eg lived in country for generations but work in London earning £££ own land but don't farm on it, have horses & a range rover but don't have to deal with the shit that goes with trying to make a living out of it.

There was a new person in the village that complained about the cockerel 😂 they didn't last a year before house was up for sale!

We have had someone on our village group complain that their car tyres had horse poo on. They seemed to think the local riders should stop and pick it off the road. The residence of 'church view' new build estate complained about the church bells. It seems they only like looking at the church. One resident demanded the farmer removed the slurry pit and put it further away from their enormous country house I could go on....

People seem to just have no awareness of their surroundings imo. I live in between the sea and fields. People complain the town smells like seaweed, then during muck spreading they complain it smells like muck. If they looked out of their window to actually appreciate where they are they might be willing to realise you have to make compromises.

People also constantly complain the verges aren’t cut enough so the grass isn’t short “like it should be” 🤔. But I guess if you don’t ever leave a concrete path you don’t know grass grows higher than 6 inches

These people sound awful - aren’t they embarrassed of themselves? I’m a city girl through and through so wouldn’t move to the country but even I know the above is part of country living.

As a hitherto emphatic non Jeremy Clarkson fan, I think everyone thinking of moving to the country should be required to watch his Farm programme first. I’d like to think I’ve never been rude about farming and wouldn’t act like these people anyway, but after watching that, I have a new respect for farmers and what they go through to produce the food on our tables.

Those posting on those village sites sound like total idiots. Hope they are totally ignored and given the contempt they deserve!

I've always loved sheep - one major bonus to where I live now is being able to see them pretty much every day. There are a few more unusual varieties a short drive away too - heaven!

I grew up very rural, and some of this sounds very familiar. However, I'm interested in:

I live in a village. New housing estates have gone in recently.

I would be interested to hear the perspective of the people in the new houses. Villagers can be really snobby and rude to those who live in the new houses. They make it clear you're not really part of the village and quite openly look down on you. Long time villagers make it clear they never wanted the houses to be built in the first place.

Absolutely 🤣

Today we had a neighbour ask when we were going to 'cut the grass' as it was aggravating her hay fever!

We graze sheep, have fields to take hay off & also in stewardship scheme which restricts what we can do & when.

She wouldn't accept this explanation & thinks we are being unreasonable by not 'mowing' it all.

All this goes to prove that there are 2 species of people. Townies and Country (real) people. Actually I'll make it 3 types of people....Town country and Londoners.

Our main street is a road and pavement 'all in one' for part of it, so yes, especially at certain times of year.

I grew up in a big commuter village but have adapted well to island/rural life - I came here because mostly I love this way of life but also accept there are downsides. Some folk come here on holiday in the summer and then decide to move here, not realising that 2 weeks in the spring/summer is not the same as actually living here all year round!

As for horse poo, why ARE they allowed to leave it on pavements and the like?

Is horse poo often left on pavements?

It's still messy and smelly.
When horses come into the village/town they make a horrible mess. I have no issue with the poo on roads/farm track/bridleway etc.

As much as townies try to fit in, there’s always something that gives them away. Around the villages here it’s trying to start businesses in the villages, trying to sell it as ‘good for tourism’ in the area, like we were all poor and jobless until our urban friends arrived to save us from our slums with tourism.
They also all seem to acquire either a labrador or spaniel, 4x4, and a schoffel fleece within the first month or so.

Horse poo isn't dangerous to humans like dog poo is

It's actually fine to have a wee moan every now and then, get it off one's chest and then remind yourself how unreasonable you are.

As for horse poo, why ARE they allowed to leave it on pavements and the like?

The neighbours sold their cottage to a couple who were retiring to the country. He was an ex headmaster of a private school, so presumably reasonably intelligent. They complained bitterly about our the noise of our tractors in the morning, muck spreading, and the look of sileage bags on our land that spoiled their view. We laughed at them.

Yes agree!!

Not quite the same but in a similar vein. I live on an army base and we often have complaints on the Facebook pages asking "can they please stop firing the machine guns after 7pm, please? My baby goes to sleep then" or "What was that big explosion? My windows are rattling." It's like they don't know where they live. The comments are always amusing though.

There was a post in a local Facebook group a few years ago telling dog owners how rape crops could cause some kind of irritation to dogs, so make sure to check
dogs when they come out from running out from the crops.

You can imagine the abuse that person received.

They've probably gone on some cottagecore pages on Pinterest and developed a pretty fantasy that has nothing to do with reality.

I lived in Croydon until I was in my late 30s, when I moved to the very edge of a small town in a rural county.

Because I'm not an ignorant twat, I've never moaned about any of the above and I like to see tractors and horses on the roads, it reminds me that I live in a much nicer environment than Croydon and I just allow a bit longer when driving. I love the fact that I can hear sheep from my back garden (it's a huge improvement on sirens), that I can walk round the corner, cross the road and then go for 5 miles or so on footpaths before I come to another road.

I was briefly alarmed the first time I saw 2 men emerge from the woods with shotguns, but then I saw the spaniels and realised that men with guns are not something to be feared here. And I love the lack of streetlights that mean you can see so many more stars.

Townies who move rurally and then moan about rural life should fuck off back to towns imo.

Favourites from FB groups

Farmers should keep cows under control so we can walk through fields with our dogs off lead

Market (charter over 600 years) too noisy for residents on high street and stops people parking their cars

Smell of slurry etc on fields

And my personal favourite was noise complaints from cows going into labour at night. Honestly do they know how difficult it is to get entonox and a decent epidural into a labouring cow?