People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

We get complaints about noisy appeals from the village cricket club and bird scarers upsetting someone's dog. Oh and when there was a fireworks night display that upset the same dog

oooo is this the thread where I can confess I quite like the smell of slurry spreading?

Dh hates that I love the smell of silage😅😅😅 When I walk the dog I take a deep appreciative sniff and he makes such a face!! Yanbu op!!

We have it where I am too. They are a nightmare and have no clue how to drive on the roads.

I absolutely love all of the things you listed as I was raised in the countryside but lived in London through a lot of my 20s/30s. I would pine for the dust, smells, tractors. Live on the outskirts of a small town now, five mins from fields and I love it. Now if I wake up in the morning and smell muck spreading through the window I just think I'm lucky that I don't live in London any more 😂

I'm a city girl but these comments made me laugh. Everybody wants a nice sanitised space, not realising by creating that you are destroying the very things that are the lifeblood of the area, and made the area appealing in the first place.

Add in complaints about lack of street lights, lack of pavements, slow broadband and the noise nuisance of cockerel and deer. How in God's name is the parish council supposed to tell deer to be quiet? 😂

Downright nastiness when one of our farmers was baling into the night to get hay in before a storm.

The milk lorry collecting too early. Tractors making a noise at 6am. Pot holes. Mud, generally. Oh, and hedge cutting being 'in the way'.

They arrived during Covid but are moving away again, thank goodness. I think we were bad for their blood pressure.

When we were farming we had complaints from people living in the weekend cottages about cow’s dung on the road, driving tractors before 11am on a Sunday, combines harvesting late at night and god knows what else.
🤷🏼‍♀️ Tough tittie.

They're ridiculous townies. Just ignore them.

I live in an old market town, this week I have seen someone complain you can't get Uber and another saying they think the cattle market should be banned.

They were properly handed their respective arses.

TeenLifeMum · Today 16:27
People recently moved into the old vicarage next to the church. Apparently the church bells wake their baby and they’ve asked that bells are only rung Sunday mornings. That went down well as you can imagine.

I hope theirnwoshnformthe church bells to be silenced wasn’t agreed to.

People recently moved into the old vicarage next to the church. Apparently the church bells wake their baby and they’ve asked that bells are only rung Sunday mornings. That went down well as you can imagine.

@KnitnNatterAuntie especially for you.

We got complaints about our Scouts doing Scout stuff on the Scout field... what did they think the Scout campsite was used for? (Hint... camping and fire...)

No-one has mentioned the church bells yet . . . . .😂

I grew up in the country. Every week the local paper would print a round up of all the stupid complaints. They wouldn’t call it ‘look at the townies’ but everyone knew.
Things like:
the farm next door smells.
the farm next door is noisy at 6 am.
why can’t I walk where I like?
why is there shit on the roads?
every morning when I’m commuting to my important job I’m held up behind cows.
muck spreading smells.

Ditto where I live!

My favourite complaint that I've heard recently is that the roads are too narrow and they should be upgraded so you can drive two cars side by side instead of having to use passing bays. What did they expect?! Our nearest 'A-road' is about 20 minutes away...

Another classics are that the birds are too loud in the mornings...errrrr okay.

People have absolutely no idea what is required to put food in their tables sadly.

Maybe mandatory voluntary service on a farm for all who wish to relocate rurally should be required.

Sounds like you live in our village too...

We've moved from a suburb between two cities to a village in the countryside. I'd much rather farming smells and a bit of dust over ship pollution and constant echoing estate noise

People expect the chocolate box bucolic idyll. Doesn’t occur to them that people actually live there 🤣😂🤣