People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

I used to keep bees, dry cow shit was the best smoker fuel. Of course anytime someone saw a bee, or was stung by one, it must have been one of mine.

I was all prepared to think you were going to be unreasonable, but as someone who lives in a small town and works in the countryside, I agree!!!!

We get snowed in two or three times a year. We are in north east Scotland and very high up and three miles from a main road. Our driveway is .5 mile long. Need a tractor to clear it. The farmer snow ploughs clear the road at the top once a day but it comes down hard and fast sometimes with the drifts we can be in for a week at a time

We are very rural. Unfortunately we have a neighbour about .25 mile away. They are from the city. They complain about our chickens. They complain about the tractors, the sun. The cold. The wind. But especially the mud on the roads from the tractor. Their address literally has “farm” in it. What did they expect?

Building new houses without thought to infastructure is not restricted to the country. We've had over a thousand units build in our London Borough, no extras GPs, hospital beds, schools etc, although we do have excellent public transport links.

Right! So you have to be pretty fit and very focused to do 2 miles in 20 minutes.

And the amount of London folk with 4x4 who can not or refuse to reverse to a passing place, or who refuse to move over near bushes when passing - presumably so their car does not get scratched.
And I refuse to drive my small car into a ditch that it would never get out of. I did have a stand off with one man in a fancy 4x4 who refused to reverse. I ended up just turning the engine off and waiting. The passing place was a very short reverse for him, and about quarter of a mile for me.
It looks ridiculous of you have a 4x4 in the countryside but act as if you are driving a sports car.

I'm from the countryside (grew up on a farm) and having moved around a bit, I find people from the countryside are often as weird as fuck. Barely leave the village, suspicious of anyone who hasn't lived there all their life, are racist and xenophobic, shoot anything that moves and think everyone who lives in the countryside has to love fox hunting.

Not that I'm a huge fan of city folk, but I don't think either extreme is great.

I blame Escape to the Country - wonderful scenery, fabulous community, peace and quiet, etc etc. No mention of the natural downsides of living in a village - farm smells, difficult-to-navigate lanes, poor travel options, etc etc. But, of course, if you move to any location you can't expect everything to change to suit your tastes. They should do their homework first.

I don't like country living but when I did live in a village I recall better off families moving to sought after and expensive houses in the heart of the village and then complaining about the live music from the nearby pub - which many of the longstanding locals enjoyed. The pub eventually closed.

I love the smell of pig farms, Denmark was heaven for me

Chemicals??? No thank you. What a way to keep on ruining the soil, and hastening global warming. Slurry is an ecologically sane way of utilising as much waste as possible.

Loving this. I run a small holiday complex and complaints from guests include:
birds shouting from 5:30
loud sheep
narrow muddy roads you get dirty wheels
tractors/ combine not reversing to allow you to pass
farm noise in all its guises
footpaths through mud tracks and fields (they should be tarmac)
footpaths do not have signs like roads
footpaths are not lit at night
no Ubers or taxis
takeaways do not deliver
it’s to dark
to many insects
slow wifi
cows are scarey and need to be under strict control
no mobile signal
and my favourite the rain is wetter and therefore to wet!

Yes it's completely gross, and chemicals can be used instead

I’m pretty sure when my brother did his army training the benchmark was a nine-minute mile as part of passing the fitness test!!

All you can do is just laugh at such stupidity.

This thread is making me very homesick for the farm where I grew up. I live in a small city now, and only occasionally smell the slurry spreading.

Don’t get me started on this! We live in a village in the lakes and we go so many newbies or tourist complaining about all of the above! Honestly go to a city 😆

Wait until it’s harvest time and the thrips arrive, same bloody posts on Facebook every year 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

We had a suggestion to the Parish Council that riders carry horse poo bags….😵‍💫

You should do the digital version and set up a Facebook page!

My husband just pointed out that if they drove slower they wouldn’t get cow shit all over their posh Range Rover or whatever.
Where we live now there are - -far too many weekend cottages- - visitors who complain about everything from getting mud on their white shoes to the fact that they’re expected to reverse when they meet a tractor and trailer (but can’t!) and being towed when they park in passing places on single track lanes.
Quite frankly the majority contribute nothing to the local economy yet whinge incessantly about nothing and make ridiculous complaints to the Parish Council.

I know exactly what you mean op. We moved into a new build estate right by a cricket pitch. The pitch has been there for years and years, we all knew it was there when we purchased our house but that hasn’t stopped some people complaining about the noise 😂 it’s actually not that noisy and mostly the the sound is quite gentle and pleasant.

It was not her hedge, no!

And she didn’t believe the farm owner when he told her it could get him fined / his subsidies reduced.

It looked awful. Really ridiculous. To improve her view 🙄

It’s grown back now after she was emphatically told what’s what.

We had someone come to the door & ask if we can keep the cattle a bit quieter in the morning 👀👀

Here's an urban equivalent:
New people moving into a house next to a venue that has hosted live music for over a decade - on the weekend - and complaining about the noise.
Strict planning rules already in place about cessation of music etc but still, the baby can't sleep.
I despair. Would you buy a house there??!!

Oh my goodness yes…. I live rurally too and I think there is an imagine of what it is like to live in the countryside and then there is the reality. Sometimes it is lovely, and other times it stinks of sewage that’s just been spread on the fields probably on the hottest sunniest day of the year! You can’t moan about it though it’s part and parcel of living here.