to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

Ah, but it's all worth it for the ultimate magic ingredient.

No neighbours.

Wild horses couldn't drag me back.

no its really not worth it

Give me neighbours over horses, wild or otherwise, any day. Yes, already at school, but we have to relocate anyway for dp's job. There is a rather less perfect school in a near-ish city that might do, and better options for dd, but I feel somehow that if I sacrifice what I'd really like then somehow the fates will make him OK, which he's really not at the moment. Sorry, hijack of a perfectly entertaining thread... I keep looking at little thatched cottages and feeling slightly sick, would far rather have some nice brutalist concrete near a deli. And a bookshop and a Vietnamese restaurant or two.

Ivor Lincolnshire is fab, Boffin is right some bits are where folk go to die bit like Eastbourne, but the Wolds is loverly. SarahStratton lives up that way I think.

The fens are flat as a witches tit & boring east of Sleaford .

There are large areas where there are no drugs & good schools, close to good road access to sarf & norf.

PM me of you want more of the hard sell...Hully YABU!!!

You can always go and rent a country cottage for a few weeks if you want to get away from city life. You'll enjoy the change - both in the going to the country and the leaving it behind.

nothing worse for kids than a fucked off mum

I live in a small town, but near a city by quick commuter train. Sheep/big skies/fields/ petty predjudice, but with civilisation near enough to stop me going bonkers.
I couldn't live in the proper country. No way. Move Hully.

I would also suggest your children are more at risk from drink driving - since that's what lots of teens do when the have to drive 30 miles to any form of nightlife and there are no taxis

That bit does worry me. Seems like every Monday another headline announces how many young lives were snuffed out over the weekend on our tiny bendy full of ditches roads.

Nought wrong with the countryside. Only boring people get bored, eh...didn't your mum tell you that?

Had a lovely Sunday. Went to the local farmer market where the old ladies sell veggies from their gardens. Then wino at the small village bar, which serves really good tipple. Everyone was familiar and dogs had a lovely time saying hello to all and sundry.

Then cooked a yum lunch with the fresh veggies followed by a nap. Then some wood-cutting in anticipation of lovely evenings in front of the fire.

In the evening, a magical walk with the dogs across fields, gorgeous fresh air and early chestnuts on the ground. Didn't see a soul except some cows in the fields. Now watching a Woody Allen movie and mumsnetting.

Ahh...prefer this to any Sunday in London.

I lived in a rural area for 6 months and LOATHED IT WITH A VENGEANCE

I know how you feel though hully living somewhere because of your child's school - I now live in a city but it is such a loathsome one I am counting the days (2 years!) until I can move.

I want to live in London. In a bedsit if need be.

I may be being convinced - the drugs and drink driving would provide a usefully unselfish rationale. If so, Hully, at least you saved someone else from the same fate.

"There will be no local drugs dealers"

are you serious? far far more drugs and worse drugs and heavier use in the countryside in my experience!

Hully - if I were I would definitley do as NowThenNowThen advises.

Move to the edge of your nearest nice town where you can still drive to school with DCs. Enjoy town and country.

Flatbread, yes, have often been told that only the boring get bored in relation to SAHM/WOHM too. I am very boring indeed and require much external stimulus. And I loathe dogs.

I want to live in London. In a bedsit if need be
me too mrsusain

I like living in the country.

Is Internet based Virtual school not an option for some of you ?

I really, really do understand what it's like to love where you live, but hate your local schools with a vengence.

It's not for everybody, but it's been a godsend for us. We didn't have to leave our house and go and live somewhere we don't like. DS is doing really well and is happier than I've seen him educationwise for about six years.

Worth looking into if anybody is seriously desperate, but being held back just by awful schools where they want to live.

flatbread anything that involves 'yum' and 'veggies' makes me feel faintly nauseous

NellyJob

YANBUYANBUYANBU

We moved to a village in Oxfordshire for what turned out to be the longest six months of my life.

Nothing to do, seeing the same faces day in day out, everyone knowing your business and too many insular folks for me. The highlight of the week was the fish and chip van.

We moved to the edge of a market town which suits us just fine. I have shops, pubs, restaurants and a train station within a 15 minute walk of my house; and fields 10 minutes the other way.

And there are BLACK PEOPLE here, so me and my DCs don't stick out like sore thumbs.

I will never live in a village again.

Getorf

Interested to see your London dream lives on. Come and join us. It's fab. Feeling very post-Olympic smug at the moment and vy grateful for all the great stuff on offer for the DCs. Where else would my Ds, who suddenly developed an interest in wheelchair basketball, find a team 5 minutes away?

Hully

You poor thing. But no one craps on your doorstep or drops frid chicken in your hedge. So thank heaven for small mercies.

Yes, yes, yes- the countryside is for holidays, not living.

I am so with the urbanites. I can't understand why everybody moves to the countryside - I want to get MORE urban as I get older. (Another one dreaming of a bedsit in London.)

As for the schools - I like somewhere where the schools are famously shit. And they are really not THAT bad. Certainly not enough for me to even consider rural ennui and a hideous commute through the exurbs.

Most people who go pale at the thought of the local schools have never been inside one.

ya and you don't have to be Black for the casual language of racism to bother you