to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

i want to live in the country again. :(

i miss having a large garden and a "secret garden" with pine trees that i can gather.
i miss being able to walk around the estate in my gardening shoes and cagoule while picking up loads of stones and stuff that just appear
i miss being able to walk across fields that don't have footpaths just because it's "my" land
(not my land - just rented a piece of it)

I miss a real fire and being able to take as much wood as i wanted from felled trees.
I miss the 2 feet of snow that doesn't melt for weeks.
i miss baa-lambs gambolling.
i miss muddy footpaths and woody shortcuts
i miss being in the middle of nowhere
i miss being able to cycle to WI
i miss my massive chicken run
i miss the general feeling of being a country dweller.

Hah! All our local farmers have bought into the stewardship thing for the vast amounts of free money so they have had to provide footpaths and access and interpretative boarding and stuff. They hate it, you can tell!

One field is pretty much like another field so I haven't bothered trying out the new footpaths.

They don't do much shooting. Too drunk I suspect although I did catch them plotting to go and torch the nearest traveller encampment.

Tolerance and love towards our fellow man is in short supply

itsjustmeanon - couldn't sunbathe topless - didn't have complete privacy in my garden (the only drawback, just in case Lord was walking the dog or the gardener wanted to spray the driveway for weeds, or if there was a truck on the forecourt...)

SarahStratton, you must be in a posher area than us, we're in an old mining area (near Wrexham, North Wales).

Oh I loved that youtube clip susi! Am huge fan of Suggs too. My parents probably used to go to that cinema, its so sad that they are all bingo halls now. And I bloody love Tooting too - my favourite Indian veg restaurant The Kastoori is there.

itsjustmeanon - I'd have put money on you being Wrexham/Denbighshire border :)

No one is unreasonable for hating the countryside, or loving it. I don't like cities. I LOVE living in the country, don't own wellies though. We have quite a 'modern' existence and don't feel deprived of anything the city has to offer.

YANBU to hate the country, YABU to have moved their for just the childrens' education though, in the mildest sense, you're part of the family too... surely there must be a happy balance??

nickeldaisical - fortunately we don't live on a country estate. My DH is an inverted snob, so it wouldn't suit him.

NO!!!

Hully are there buses in your particular part of the countryside? Are your children going to be able to venture into the nearest town with their mates and get home again after 5pm?

LadyClarice, this whole thread is a 'massive overgenerisation'.

We are getting a big Primark here soon which is exciting

Hully why don't you move somewhere half way between that wonderful school and a bigger town of some description? you know, with a cinema?

Catchment area...

Yy they can do the bus thing

You know what, for the first time I am beginning to understand Box Sets

Pull yourself together. It's only 3.5 years. It will pass in what feels like 20.

By this time next year you will be ostracised by the other mothers, and gaped at by all the small children who have been told to keep away because you eat children for breakfast. That makes it easier

"Ha, my husband's a farmer. Walking in fields is fine, as long as stick to the footpaths, and shut gates etc.

I don't make jam, but we do have a veggie garden, and make damson gin.

I enjoy walking in the countryside, having a beautiful view, space, quiet, subathing topless without being spotted, privacy etc. I've never got the hunting and shooting hobbies (not for me), or even young farmers. I tried young farmers, when I was younger, but couldn't get into it. My cousins loved it.

I met my DH through mutual friends, and I never ever wanted to marry a farmer.

We do have to drive to see our friends, but never known any different. Our closest friends all live within half an hour of us.

I've never felt isolated, but it's an areas I've grown up in, and always had friends and family nearby. We do often go to the theatre, whether it's Manchester, Liverpool, Shrewsbury, or Llandudno. We don't mind driving.

We both have friends and family in London, and probably visit them about once a year. It's having the money to do these things, rather than isolation, that's the issue."

Dorset is luvverleee.

Croydon??!!!!! Civilisation??? Unless it's changed beyond belief, that is surely an oxymoron.

I dunno

oh dear at the working like a blek comment

London born and bred, now live in a London suburb populated by

East Europeans, who hate the "blacks", are blatant about it
about 2 MC people that always stand out in the playground and moan about how their child is a in a minority at their school
fat pasty people that wear dressing gowns all day

its depressing, BUT I am 15 mins away from central london

I wish I could live morwe centrally, but then ironically I'd miss the greenery

I'm in Dorset.

In a tiny village, I couldn't be happier.

I've lived in South west London, and America for 7 years.

here is much nicer ~ we have truly excellent schools and lovely people.

Purity, you have all that in places like Egham, and it's 30 min on the train to Waterloo