People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

Surely you just need some kind of adaptation of a polo stick - would need to be retractable / telescopic ?

And of course, no horse or pony In.The.World would ever be spooked by the sound of a shovel right behind its hindquarters.

Oh I know, I'd have found it super easy mounting an 18hh horse on a road with a shovel and a massive, swinging binbag. I'm sure the cars waiting would love that.

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I regularly see the "ride in the fields, keep off the roads, you don't pay road tax" comments. People genuinely think you can just pop into random fields -anyone's fields -for a ride. Bridleways are bisected by roads. You can't get to the majority of bridleways without going on a road sadly. Plus a lot of bridleways are badly maintained and overgrown.

Where do you live, which means getting snowed in a possibility?

I love rural living but can't afford it sadly.

Live in a semi-rural village and love the horses, manure smells, church bells... wouldn't go back to London for anything now.

I live semi-rural in New York, but close enough to NYC that we get a lot of people from there moving up here.

One stopped me in the supermarket to ask where the local vegan bakery was. She was properly shocked when I told her we didn't have one.

We had someone complaining that people riding horses on the bridleways meant she had to keep putting her dog on the lead. Not only is that bad enough but the area is very well endowed with footpaths. There are 4 or 5 for every bridleway.

I remember a thread in AIBU from years ago (when it was still all fields round here 😉) - a very irate woman complaining about horses on her road & their manure. All the suggestions including the rider carrying a horse poo spade (the poster clearly knew nothing about horses) were made.

When several of us quire reasonably suggested that horse manure is fantastic for the garden, she really kicked off and started insulting posters.

Some people are just - well - thick.

Skid on horse shit on a motorbike, pray there is nothing coming to run you over.

Where I grew up, there was farming, I still live there, but a lot has been sold off by farmers to developers, so no more farms, we haven’t got narrow roads really, so it’s not a problem like that.

But now, I find myself as bad as a townie, as a dog owner, I pick up my dogs dumps in a small plastic bag, why can’t horse rider carry a roll of bin bags and do the same :-)

I actually like the fact that shops are open longer hours, perhaps not the pubs, I love how many restaurants there are too, so I do love how my area has transitioned over time, but I do love my allotment, and I live the peace that it brings, only birdsong, a passing train, and a few cows mooing, but there is downsides, dead rodents etc that cats have killed, flies too.

I can totally understand why people want the country, but until you live it you don’t know the downsides of it

We have had people suggesting nappies for horses.

There was a very amusing thread on here a few months ago about horses’ droppings on the road. All manner of suggestion came up: nappies as mentioned above: a cyclist following the horse with a shovel and muck sack: the rider should dismount and collect the droppings - even horses shouldn’t be allowed on the roads.

People in the new builds complaining there are more new builds planned, which will spoil their countryside views.

Most of them leave after one winter when everything turns to mud or we get snowed in.

It's the hooleys where I'm from (farming island community). One winter of those rain-soaked gales soon separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

i do wish that the farmers who drop shot all over the roads would clean up after themselves however..

Some nutter in my mums village knocked on her neighbours door and complained about him having a bonfire in his field as it was not eco friendly. …. She was driving a Range Rover, he told her where to go 😂

The smell of muck is probably one of my favourite smells. It smells of home.

I used to live in a terraced cottage on a mill pond, opposite a church with a bell tower. The people who bought the cottage next door, as a second home, complained about the noise from the church bell tower, the noise of the ducks on the pond, the noise of my chickens (no cockerels) and, to my disbelief, the fact that I was using my vacuum cleaner to hoover the inside of my car, which I obviously had to park outside of my house to do so. The reason for this was that they were having visitors and wanted to show off the location of their holiday home and felt that my hoovering and car spoilt the idyllic setting 🙄

We have that here.. people move to the coast from the city.. then complain of farmers working at night keeping them up, manure and that it smells like fish 🤣

I am living in a coastal town, with quite a big harbour. The property market took off during the last couple of years, bringing a lot of new folks around, including myself. In the warmer months, seaweed builds up, and during the low tide, it gets a bit smelly, but that's normal. However, I've seen so many complaints about the council not doing their job. Of doing what - clearing seaweed from the exposed sea bed? Then the water company was accused of dumping sewage as surely, seaweed can't smell that bad (it absolutely can, and algae can smell even worse).

I've known people move to a cottage by the cricket pitch and complain about occasional windows being broken (you know that nice view over an open green space with no animals...why do you think it's there?)
The other was a dodgy developer converting offices next to an ancient pub into flats and then getting someone in there to complain about the noise. It was rejected - and it was pointed out he should have enhanced the sound proofing

My fave was the “suggestion” on the village FB page that the farmer should jet wash the road because his tractor had got mud everywhere and this guy was having to wash his car every day 🤣

We used to repurpose crow scarers by cutting them open until we had a toilet roll full of powder. We'd wrap it up tight with tape the set it, just like a giant crow scarers on steroids.

I'm not that keen 😎

I moved to a rural location from a city and I've been here 20yrs now. You learn the rhythm of the year by what the farmers are doing. Parts of the year there are lots of tractors on the road slowing things down, but they are either sowing or harvesting. Loud combine noise late into the night in July/August along with dust that means you can't put out washing or open windows. Yet you expect it, it is never more than a few days of accommodating their work and you know it is for a good reason. I may well end up eating what they have harvested. I've never found it something to complain about. Over the years you get to know the farmers too and it gives a community feeling.