to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I have been chased by the dairy cows too often and I am now shit scared of them tbh.

Ah, ladyclarice. When everything is on your fingertips, you take it for granted, no?

I have carefully sprouted the one lemongrass I got from civilization, in the hope that I can make it multiply. And my Thai red chillies are a treasure to be savoured till the next rare trip to an ethnic market.

In the past, these would often lie around and go to waste, but now, I treasure it all.

Supermarket tomatoes and eggs are soooo not the real deal...although the deli opposite our home in Edinburgh used to sell fresh eggs from a farmer in Fife everyday. And amazing olive oil from their uncle in Greece

Digert, lol at the ram

I think living in the country is a bit different if you live by a large town that is more diverse. I live near Bedford, I can't walk there, but I can drive and buy allsorts of food so that really isn't a problem.

Chickens are a pain in the arse.

You have to be back home before dusk to shut them in or the fox will eat them.
They try to come in the house and shit everywhere.
They shit all over the garden and the dc bring it in, so you have shit everywhere.
They attract rats.
Did I mention they shit everywhere?

Just get your eggs from the supermarket.

Oh and if you do ignore my advice and get chickens, never ever ever get a cockerel.
They shag the poor chickens every morning, whether the chickens like it or not.
not a nice start to the day for anyone.

My car's not driveable today so I've walked to the village shop for essentials. Bread on the verge of going stale (white bread only - no ethnic bread here!), milk that may last the evening before going sour. Had a quick scan of the shelves for fresh local produce - none. Bought some baked beans and a small pack of Cathedral City. That with a packet of polos left not a lot of change from a tenner!

Yes, upsylazy, but is the food any good?

I realise now that pretty much every Thai restaurant I went to in London and Edinburgh used pre made paste for their curries.

In the country, with no restaurants on call, I have started making my own Thai red and green curry paste. And if I may be a tad immodest, it is sublime! Could not eat that restaurant stuff again.

We live in the country

In our village we have one pub and that is it.

If we need the bus we have to book it 3 days in advance, really convenient!

Don't have sheep, just lots of fields full of....well...erm ....mud at the moment.

It's good for dog walking, and there are lots of doctors living here

Never lived in a big town

nearest town is 3 miles but it's a bit shit TBH!

Jins, our village shop is all organic and bio.

A small pint tub of ice-cream costs six euros! And a can of beans are over 2.50, because everything down to the water in which they are soaked is organic, apparently. The lady running it is nice, though.

I used to get loverly fresh free range eggs from someone with allotments in the middle of a big city...£2 a dozen they were.

MajorBumsore-that Stewart Lee bit is funny even if you are under 40!
"there's a horse Stu. There's a horse"

arf

Yeah I love Stewart Lee. Went to see him a few months ago in central London, didn't see a bella pasta on the way there or back!

Well, what more could you want of an evening!?

at the thought of desperately trying to sprout lemongrass.

Jins, yes, that's a classic feature of village life ? the shite local shop. In the midst of fields and farms, all you get is a withered old potato and sliced slimy ham. Produce is much more available, not to mention fresher and nicer, in the city. And, as someone else mentions, often grown in allotments/community gardens on ex-wasteland being put to good use I'll not mention the allotments razed to the ground, sorry 'relocated', for the sake of the Olympic Park

ty to Dungeness. I went there last weekend to look for fish with 2 heads. I didn't find any but found a lovely bit of wood.

A live on the edge of a nice town, cinema, restrants, good shopping can walk a lot of places. and yet the country side is just on our door step to. Has good schools as well not sure why we'd ever want to move. Feels like the best of both worlds

The only down side is our small house. I know if we moved to a small village we'd have a nice big house but then I would have to get in the car to go anywhere and would probably feel lonely and isolated.

MigGrll your post was number 666. Just as an aside.

hahahahahahahahahahahahah @ stewart lee

how come ive never heard of him before??

thank you major bumsore

There's every chance that your children will hate it too. I did; when I went away to University as a country bumpkin I was so envious of the culture that my city-dwelling friends had had easy access to all their lives. During my adult life I have lived in London, Hong Kong and now on the outskirts of Manchester, and loved them all. I never would have considered bringing up my children in the country.

MrD, I used to run a comedy club in London. Stewart was regular, before he got on tv. Nice guy.

I must say, for all that people who genuinely love the country are probably frothing with rage at the comments on this thread (if their rural broadband can actually deliver MN! - ), these comments are surely able to do them a small service: keep naive urbanites away!

I just read his book "How I escaped my certain fate" which is very good, except for the endless notes at the bottom of each page, which are very funny, but in such small print that reading them gives me a headache. Even with my glasses on.
Perhaps you could mention that to him next time you see him Jux.

Ta

I'm surprised so many of you hate it.

Having lived in London 34 years, and spent time in most major cites I love the country.

Dorset is beautiful. With fantastic schools and Waitrose 10 mins away

I think I love the calm perhaps? :)

My Mum (at 68) took herself off to Cornwall , she hates it now though, and is trying to get back to the smoke.

Thank You All for this thread. DH has been trying to convince me to move to some country spot within an hour's train ride into London because schools are good there, apparently.

We live in one of the most densely populated, most multi-cultural communities in the world, right next to the beach and with about 320 days of glorious sunshine per year. And loving it. Next time he utters word "country", he reads this thread

Can I come and live with you, Cote? Would swap incessant rain like a shot.