To be nervous to buy a house with no immediate neighbours

We're moving to North Yorkshire from Hampshire - Hopefully next month (looking to exchange in 1-2 weeks). We needed a house with no neighbours as my life ls goal is to own peacocks and they are LOUD.

There are absolutely no neighbours anywhere near us - and yes, that's slightly worrying if my Husband travels for work and I'm on my own.

So...

1. We've been talking shotgun lessons and will be applying for a shotgun license / buy shotguns to shoot clays - so if we phone the police and say someone is breaking in, it won't be "Oh that's a shame, we'll be there next week as we're under resourced", it should hopefully be "There are firearms on the property? We'll be there straight away" (we have no intention of ever shooting anyone or anything living)

1. State of the art security system - laser beams, that if broken, alert you and can actually switch whatever you're watching on TV to the nearest camera.... CCTV all the way around the house and perimeter.... Panic buttons etc....

1. The usual signs of CCTV being up, dogs etc...

But honestly? The chances of anyone breaking in are pretty remote, we're not farmers, don't have any expensive farm equipment and we're so excited to live in the countryside with far more nature and screechy peacocks.

I say go for it... We actually love our current neighbours - they're friendly, non intrusive, we take packages in for each other, put each others bins back.... But we can't stay as they'd hate to be woken up at 5am by screeching :-)

Yes, even though said neighbours were quiet and not doing anything to disturb her. Someone else recently worried because she never saw the woman and baby who lived next door, and the blinds stayed closed. And someone else, whose next door neighbour had died, was still worried about the empty house attracting rats. Once you add in the common or garden neighbour feuds about noise, fences, overhanging trees, hanging your knickers on the line, unkempt gardens, lawnmower noise before 8 am or after 8 pm, hot tubs, parties, bonfires, barbecues, screaming children, footballs, trampolines, garden rooms, curtain-twitching, parcels, parking, chatting over the fence, not chatting over the fence, it’s clear that having neighbours is dangerous.

Sign me up!!

Yes I like having life around me. I’m a city person and anything remote would freak me out.

Sounds perfect. After years of different selfish, noisy,nosy neighbours, when we moved last time, I insisted on detached,we live fairly near the edge of a village, but little parade of shops, Tesco extra. Unfortunately, only detached by the width of 2 paths. We lived right on the edge of a Surrey village,big garden,stream running through the bottom,with a little bridge over into fields with cows and horses.it was green belt and conservation area, lovely (horrible neighbours though) big Sussex building company got permission to build. Worked a night shift to find the stream had gone,and a 2 mtr fence erected. We tried to fight,were told the boundaries were inconclusive.we couldn't afford to take them on..

Oh God for it, your not miles away from civilisation! If I could pick my house up and move it to the farmers fields by my parents I'd do so in a heartbeat!

I don't blame you..... I always have to "stack" my shopping list so I have a valid reason for going rather than waste fuel. Mind you, I do rely heavily on amazon as often by time I've factored fuel etc it's cheaper to wait for delivery.

If it's any consolation, any attempted burglaries I've had have been when I lived in built up areas.

That sounds absolutely bliss to me.

How funny! A lot of mumsnetters are allergic to neighbours! There was one on who objected to the neighbours using their own gardens! Maybe you can swap with her?!

Omg it sounds absolutely perfect!

Labour have stated the Greenbelt no longer has the protection it used to and in fact Angela Raynor will pull an application ( she’s done this near us for 2500 new homes ) and aprove it if it looks like the planners are going for refusal.
Developers have to jump through more hoops but Labour has taken away the protections of before.

Sounds perfect to me, plenty of outside lighting, crunchy gravel and an alarm if you are concerned.
We’ve always had dogs so I’ve never been worried wherever we’ve lived.
My mother lives in a detached house with the next neighbour a distance down the road and has never been broken into, she has visable cameras etc and yet my sister who lives in a small semi detached on an estate has been broken into twice.

I've seen so many posts on here complaining about their neighbours. I'd love it but it depends what suits you.

Nothing better!!!

Where is this house!!!! I'm rural and on the outskirts of a village. Whilst I love the peace, I wish I was closer to amenities (15 miles either way)

We live somewhere exactly like you describe it is perfect in many ways - HOWEVER since the kids have hit 13 and 10 years old, they miss their pals and I am always in the car. Always. So now we are selling up and moving back to town...

I grew up somewhere much more remote than this. Loved it, had lots of freedom (and animals), knew all the neighbours for miles around. In fact, the closer I live to other people the less I interact with them. Most people seem to drive their children everywhere nowadays, regardless of where they live.

No, not at all.

I have no neighbours and it’s wonderful. 200 meters is really not that far. Just read all the parking threads on here and you’ll soon realise how lucky you are.

There is a thread currently on here from an OP who is annoyed that their next door neighbours are always in the garden when it’s sunny. She’s genuinely annoyed they use their garden. You are living the dream.

This isn't true, I work in this field, burglary rates are highest in densely populated areas

When I was growing up we lived in the middle of nowhere (which was rubbish as a kid as it was too far to visit other kids) and I lost count of the number of times we were burgled. It's just much easier to burgle isolated houses. We had to cut down all the trees at the front so the house was visible from the road and install the world's loudest alarm system (which we kept setting off by mistake and nearly deafening ourselves in the process).

So, I wouldn't be keen on it. It's a nice idea, but I do like not having to drive miles to get to places. I also quite like being able to walk to my neighbours houses for a drink etc.

What bothers you about it?

My nearest neighbour is a village school about 500m as the crow flies and the cottage which is about 200m away in the opposite direction. The people who own the cottage only visit at weekends.

It’s lovely and quiet here and we have a long driveway bordering 2 fields so no road noise at all.