to hate living in the country?

[Hullygully]

IT'S SO BORING I HATE IT I HATE IT

I've never understood why retirement homes are all in the middle of nowhere. Surely at that age, you want to be in a flat over a chippy on the high street? A bit of life.

You were rather sneering and rude to Flatbread there, Nellyjob.

Joan, yes. It's apartheid. I'd want to be somewhere with good public transport

Stephanie, ah, without dogs, life in the country can be a bit lonely. Walk are just that much more fun, having them sniff around madly, chasing deer and running scared of the bulls.

Nelly, truly yum veggies. Got some fresh beetroot too, just pulled out of the warm ground this morning. Deelicious!

not that rude, mintyy, I am sure flatbread didn't take me seriously....

Thanks, Mintyy. But I didn't think Nelly was rude. But she would have been terribly rude if she had been nauseous after having the Thai veggies with basil stir-fry I made this afternoon.

Roasted beetroot salad for lunch tomorrow.

If you live in the country, what do you do for work?

Things I lothe about the countryside -
-cows
-driving everywhere
-nowt to do,
-none of my friends lives there
-noone visits
-no public transport
-nowt to do (have I mentioned that?)

But the countryside does have:

-A house we can afford
-A school we can get into (don't care whether it's decent or not, though it is)

Hence we are moving to small market town...It has two coffee shops and a library, which I'm hoping will make up for London sights, culture, friends...

hahaha flatbread

I work online Morriszapp

loathe

I will continue to work in London PT (an hour's journey). I could go freelance but am hoping my civilised London job will help offset countryside solitude

Everywhere here is pretty far from what mners consider basic amenities. From Aberdeen, A CITY:
Waitrose - 120miles
Ikea - 120 miles
London - 600ish miles

I think there's a Nandos now though, but I've never been in it.

I don't live in Aberdeen, we're about a 45min drive from it, in a village.

It is brilliant for me and small DS. We have a nice garden and a big house for the money. The school is okay, but there are better ones in Aberdeen.

Over the summer we have been to:
A beach
An adventure park
An agricultural show
A cattle mart
A car boot sale
A train station
A tractor pulling event
A harvest festival
A food festival
A swimming pool
The library
Soft play (3 different ones)
Botanic gardens
Various national trust properties
Hillwalking
Some craft fairs
An NCT nearly new sale
Various play parks
Some building sites
A wildlife centre

All within a 1.5 hour drive, but most closer than that. We also go for walks most days round the village. We often see diggers. And there's a yard filled with tractors whose drivers generally wave at us. Ds is obsessed.

There are many more things we could have done but not enough time!

If I lived in the country I woud support myself by writing best-selling bonk busters.

I think rural/villagey places are worse down South.
Think about it. If you live in, say, Wiltshire, your nearest urban centre is London, and that is quite far.
Whereas here in Yorkshire you can be in a little place in the Dales, or the Pennines, but still be a quick hop on a regular train to Manchester or Leeds, where there is culture and good shops.
Also, there are probably more Indian and Pakistani people here, because of our history with the mills, and increasingly more African and Chinese people too, since not that far from cities, and people move out from the cities gradually when settled.
Whenever I have been to small towns in places like Dorset or whatever, I always think they are very pretty, but vairy Stepford.

I live in suburbia and I miss the countryside I grew up in. I mean really miss it, like a stone-in-my-chest feeling.

I spend a lot of time leaning out of my window staring at the stupid featureless football field just for its green-ness. I stick my head in the pitiful bit of old hedgerow that backs onto my horrible cuboid semi-house and sniff the damp mossiness.

I fucking hate the trimmed-to-fuckery gardens with everything straight and orderly and clean and naice.

I yearn to tread in cow shit.

'I know quite a few people who've moved to the country and they are drug fiends! An have met like minded people to get off their heads with'

Wouldn't have to go far here. Just pop in to see the guy downstairs, he just needs to get his brother across the road.

DONT DO IT STEPHANIE

DONT DO IT

More Beta, would move if I could. Can't. We are in the largest of the villages possible. One street.

I think to make a go of country living you either have to get into country pursuits (which usually means riding, so far as I can tell) and/or learn to enjoy your own company and be a bit creative. If you insist on being dependent on shops, cinemas and other external stimuli then yes of course you will be bored, but I can't help but think your time might be better spent addressing that dependency, trather than slagging off your neighbours and their lifestyle.

Hully, where the actual do you live? One street?

You're not selling it to me, JollyToddler

I want to go to Freize, Soho, films, plays, walk along the SouthBank...

FUCK THE FUCKING TRACTORS unless they're Chelsea ones

Become a drug dealer Hully. Sounds like there is a demand. That'll liven you up.

An example of peaceful living in the countryside is what we did yesterday.

Parked up at a beach, walked across and into the woods behind where myself, DP and 18 month old DS found a lovely clearing, completely secluded and away from the onshore wind. We had a picnic, found a small stream for DS to run around in, he loved exploring the place. Stopped for a coffee in the cafe where DS fell asleep. We come home, pack DS off to my mums for the night whilst me and DP went to a friends BBQ in the middle of nowhere in their cute cabin with chickens running around outside their door.

Blissful!

I do do country pursuits, and the real deep country folk are lovely tbh, I think it just depends what's in your blood, know what I mean?

Oh.

So I've got to go riding and enjoy my own company?

Well thanks.

I'll get right on to it.

Hully I totally agree - you don't live in my village do you? we have one street, too.