to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I tried young farmers, when I was younger, but couldn't get into it.

Oooh Ilovemyteddies sounds like your close geographically to me dons friend deer stalker hat

We're close enough to major cities to get our fix, we've far too many supermarkets relatively close by, and are surrounded by green (and country smells - yak)... its a nice balance.

Right now, I sooo want a takeaway. Indian, the full deal with samosas as starters and channa and fried bread and chutneys and curries. The rain is making me hungry!

But nada out here. So will stick with plan of beetroot salad and perhaps a homemade zucchini pasta for lunch.

Did I mention that I have lost weight and feel healthier in the country?
And have nicer skin as there is no pollution (only wash face with water, nothing else needed)?
And feel richer 'cas there are no daily coffeeshop trips and impulse buys?

I miss Essex.

I wouldn't even mind wearing fake tan.

(v curious as to where porcamiseria lives)

Our cleaner is Bulgarian and has said some shockingly racist things.

we used to order pizza to collect.

it was great - pop in the car as soon as you hung up the phone, pizza was ready when you got there (almost immediately) and would be the perfect temp for eating when you got back.

So a question? Will the people exiled from London now, be able to afford to move back in whatever number of years time? (I think one or two on here are being wistful for London aren't they?)

London-smundon. Full of meh restaurants and dirty streets and a dysfunctional underground.

Berlin, on the other hand, is tempting. Especially the east side. Loads of lovely little informal cafes with Vietnamese, Indian, Thai, Italian food. Cheap as chips, friendly, vibrant, international and young.

I was very taken with Munich for city living, Flatbread

The village I used to live near (I was son of a farmer) now has its own website. My school friends are now on there as Parish Councilers and postman, garage owner, etc.

I am the only one that left and the rest died in 'accidents'.

Ivor, please please for the love of god don't do it!!!

XH made me do something very similar and after walking away from my career and friends I spent 4 soul destroying years in Lincs in the arse end of nowhere near a town known for horse racing. Had the move been made with a proper plan and jobs lined up, rather than just 'lets go and live in Lincs' it might have been ok.

That played a large part in why he is my XH.

Am very happy now living in civilisation with proper cable broadband, and mains gas and drainage :-)

I think its one of those things that is great in theory, but don't do it just for the kids.

Nothing against Lincolnshire, parts of it are beautiful, but there is way more to life than a nice view! Am still a bit bitter and twisted about the whole thing, can you tell?!

Well, at least there are jobs in Munich. Berlin seems full of 'artists'. Some nice graffiti on the buildings.

Morebeta, if your friends are councillors etc., who has died in these mysterious accidents? The rest of your class, besides you and the three you mentioned?

'Accidents' eh? Sounds like Midsomer Murders

More like 'League of Gentlemen'

All those thinking of moving to the countryside should watch League of Gentlemen actually.

Oh there were some quite grizzly murders and farm machinery related accidents in our village.

Almost half the class of boys I was at Primary school with died before age 21.

I told you the countryside was grim.

I think its one of those things that is great in theory, but don't do it just for the kids

perdita dont do it for the kids at all! I grew up rurally, in villages; great until secondary school age-then we took drugs to amuse ourselves. Seriously most of my old school friends have drug/alcohol problems....too many are dead

and the people are only lovely if you are normal and conform

yeuck yeuck...never again

Hot Fuzz

Feminine, are you in Powerstock or Piddletrenthide or Toller Porcorum?

haha teddies exactly!!

it's not quite like MoreBeta's countryside round here! (thank god!)

I love my countryside.
the town i live in belongs to my countryside: it's a "rural" town - a town surrounded by countryside. you only have to walk half a mile in any direction and you're in the countryside.
but the town itself is shit.
which is a shame, because it could be great if only it hadn't been abandoned or left behind. :(

the countryside feels like home.
which is weird because I grew up in a city and always said I would hate to live in the countryside because I liked to be in the thick of it.
the town is close enough to where I used to live to still be in the thick of it, but there's a proper sense of community - we aren't all "you've not been here 40 generations you don't belong" - we're definitely "come one come all" - but you lose that in the town.

MINTYY

you know when you drive out of London on an A road and its 1930s semis on each sde of the road.....and it seems likes miles away...there !

The trouble with the countryside is that you are in the thick of it :(

Everyone interferes, everyone's intrusive and nosy. There's no respite from it. Country dwellers just don't seem to understand boundaries like urban dwellers. You can walk along a street in any town you care to name and nobody will meet your eye. Here it's all 'Good morning' and 'Dreadful weather' and forced conversation.

Morebeta, that is grim

The people around here seem to live forever

My sprightly 75 year old neighbour was just running across his roof the other day, to make sure all the tiles were stable. Nary a fall or a broken limb.

But the schools where I am are terrible. I mean terrible. They have awful reputations, the classes are huge, my nephews and neices have attended pretty much all of them (large family) and all have had problems with bullying or learning difficulties not being picked up on/addressed etc. Loads of our friends with kids have moved away from the area precisely because of this.

My mum is in Lincoln, that's why we're looking that way, plus there's lots and lots of councils within commutable distance (DH works in local government). I am a pleb and can do whatever wherever.

Not sure what to do, pretty much everyone on here says that if they grew up in the countryside they hated it. But around here there are no jobs and no aspirations. The high streets are ghost towns of boarded up shops and in the winter there are no tourists so no local economy. We have to get out...