to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I LOVE YOU IVOR

Most people look at me as if I am evil when I say I hate places like Bourton, burford and Stow on the BASTARD wold. So thanks for understanding my visceral loathing.

I started a thread last year saying I want to move to Harlesden. People thought I was nuts.

We sahll be nomads

We shall buy a small camper van and hit the road.

We will have a small base in england by the sea to shut the kids up.

I really hate going to the cinema. I get bum ache and someone with an enormous head always sits directly in front of me. I wouldn't mind living somewhere cinema-less

you clearly do think you are superior - the bitchy remarks about the boden wearing white cupcake whatevers betray that. Therein lies your problem, I suspect. If you're weary of privileged types, why not take up some kind of occupation that would bring you into contact with people from other backgrounds? Take up fostering? honestly, I'd kill to have your problem. So would lots of people. you do sound a bit "my cushion is to squishy and my diamond collar is too tight" tbh.

Oooh now I used to live in Pimlico for about 10 years. It was great.

Fredworms .I understand.

Gravenwithdiamonds I love cows they smell so nice. I love that breathy thing they do to check you out before you get a big lick! Much nicerer than snobby old horses that only want you for a sugar cube.

In fact I miss the smell of countryside in suburbia. You can inhale the season change. A bit of cut grass and the neighbours fags are in no way compensation.

I do not like the countryside.

I think Wanstead is too out of town.

Can you relieve your boredom by working on your exit strategy.

I'll try to think about what you've said, Karlos.

Hully - posh part of London, though quite central and diverse

State schools

Helloooo, last time I looked, southbank had the same restaurants with the same menus and same types of people. Every day of the year. The only thing that varied were the concerts, and I agree they are great.

But the fields are not samey. In summer there are berries and plums to pluck from the hedges and trees. In fall, chestnuts and pine cones and apples.

Even within a day, there is so much difference. Early morning, the sunrise, the fresh air and dewy smell. In the evening, the warm nutty earth smell, the warmth from the ground and the vivid orange sunset.

And the stars. There is nothing as magical as a starry night with no city lights or smogs to dilute the beauty.

Had no idea what/where Pimlico is.

Wiki tells me this:
Notable residents have included politician Winston Churchill, designer Laura Ashley, philosopher Swami Vivekananda, actor Laurence Olivier, illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley, Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta, Hullygully and inventor of lawn tennis Major Walter Wingfield.

It has cinemas - both multiplex and arthouse. And restaurants and theatres.

It will not have red buses, the Thames, the tube or the Natural History Museum though

Can I just say tho, Karlos, that while I think you're a bit up your own arse, I do agree, my problem is indeed a first world one and I know that very well. It doesn't mean I'm not allowed to throw myself about and whinge now and then.

hahahaha jollytoddler

YoullLaughAboutItOneDay - we live on the edge of a small city after being in London. You'll be fine as long as you are still close enough to get back to London easily for friends, galleries, and shopping - which sadly we aren't.

it sounds manageable, you'll laugh, you'll be ok.

I knew I was famous somewhere, Jolly

GetOrf - I nearly had a breakdown in the model village. I couldn't cope with there being 2 of them. We drove to Stow on the Wold and to Evesham too because my mum reads Agatha Raisin books and told me they sounded 'lovely'. They were not lovely. I became quite unreasonable in my hatred and got up at 4am on the last day because I just wanted to get in the car and drive away very, very fast.

Up my own arse I may be, but not quite so far as someone who thinks that living in the Cotswolds and being a bit bored is something to bleat about.
Get some real problems, mate. There's plenty to go round, believe me.

I don't live in the cotswolds tho innit

Oh and Getorf I told you before I think you are much more suited to Kilburn or where I live!

Also why would you want to pick berries? They sell that shit in a shop. A shop which I don't have to drive to.

Hully. You should read 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' . That'll set you straight.

I need to get me some REAL problems.

Thanks More, not super close to London, but easy for Birmingham, so only need London for the really London things, which I am hoping will be ok. Brum shopping is pretty good.

Thanks Hully. Can you afford to move back to London in a few years?

Very true, Tufty, very true! :)

I'm amused by the fact that people seem to think you only get blue skies and a sunrise in the countryside. And every year I pick enough blackberries to fill the freezer till Spring. And any residual fondness I ever had for farming was killed by mad cow disease.