To think people shouldn't walk to my village?

[Bohwens]

Hello,

With the knowledge that this will make me sound quite snooty, I firstly apologise and explain it is because I worry for my own and family's safety as we are all asthmatic and at heightened risk from COVID-19.

We live in a very pretty little village, in a small conservation area in a semi rural location. We are about 2 miles from the nearest modern housing estate. Usually, the lane through the village has a couple of regular dog walkers.

Now that we are lockdown and people are getting out to exercise in the sun (great), the lane is like a motorway. There is a constant stream of people from the housing estate coming for their walk to the village. I understand it must be dull to walk around a modern housing estate. Over 500m there were 30 people. Usually you might see 1. We can't even go for a short walk without risk of coming into contact with people.

Entire large families are coming with 5-6 children out of control on bikes etc, treating the lane past our houses like a park. I've spotted people touching our walls, gates etc, even caught one nosing in the garden!

Many of these people are not staying into the side to observe social distancing, and have dogs off the lead that need to be fetched away.

AIBU to think people should stick to their own areas for their exercise? In a way, I something feel that if they wanted beautiful walks outside their front-door they should have coughed up the extra £100k to live here...

What if they didn't have the extra £100k to "cough up"? We chose not to move to a cute little village to avoid having to live alongside small-minded village NIMBYs like you!

Oh, dear. I've been walking across the fields and through the woods from where I live to a lovely village and if it wasn't for the fact that that lovely village was at least three miles away and the houses are more like £300k more expensive than mine, the OP could be talking about me. I don't have any kids or dogs with me though but I do sometimes admire people's flower beds and the lovely stone cottages.

Watch out OP. All those people could realise that country walks are a lot more fulfilling than their usual gym routines, traipsing round shopping centres or whatever it was they did before Going For a Walk was pretty much the only thing you were allowed to do outside your home except queuing at the supermarket and they might keep on doing this sort of thing all the time.

Even worse, they might save up that £100k they need to move in next door to you. The horror!

Oh dear, are you my dad?! He lives in a pretty cottage in quite a picturesque village and he rings me up almost every day moaning about people walking through the village and looking over his wall etc. He has started aggressively watering his plants down whenever he sees anyone, so if any mnetters have been hosed down by a middle aged man, I apologise 🤦🏻‍♀️

I get what you mean OP

I used to live in a beautiful clifftop area with hardly any houses, woods, walks down the cliffs and along the sea etc.

People would drive to walk their dogs, obviously, because it was amazing place to take a lovely walk, and at any one time you hardly saw a soul. Not an issue.

Then we had the yearly airshow from the town 3 miles away, and EVERYONE wanted a better view. So instead of watching from the town, they all trekked up the hill to MY cliff and sat covering every inch of beach, verge, and my favourite little clearing where I would normally sit alone with my dog and read a book.

I rang my dad up tongue in cheek saying 'THESE PEOPLE ARE IN MY SPOT TELL THEM TO FUCK OFF'

That was just one day though. Having swarms of people inundate your quiet little space must be hard.

Not hard enough to post a snooty thread about it though. Sorry but your 'extra 100k' didn't quite buy you the whole village.

Here. Have a grip.

Yeah, YABU

We normally have 1 or 2 people walking by our house a week, sometimes none, so much so, the first few days that i could hear voices was really weird...
We now have alot more.

They are still about 100 feet away from our back garden....

You really cant do anything about it

Maybe you should have "coughed up" another 100K to live somewhere you with enough land you can't see people walking past your house.

Surely this is a joke?

That's ok, but you are not allowed to come into town to shop. You have to get all you need in your village, ok.

What a bellend 😂

In a way, I something feel that if they wanted beautiful walks outside their front-door they should have coughed up the extra £100k to live here...

LOL! Really OP?

Are you the same family as the one in my village who want to close the village hall car park to make sure no outsiders walk in "our" woods or paths?

OP... Are you related to Hyacinth Bouquet???? 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄

2 miles IS local.

I could see your point untill that last line. As another poster said it is their local area too. If you want somewhere lovely and more remote with less people in the area you should cough up an extra 100k

Yes you sound snooty You own a house in the village, it's not 'your village'.

Put spikes or thorns on your wall. Job done.
Take a walk around the empty housing estate to get away from them .

You own an entire village? Impressive.

Ultimately, they're possibly making you safer. If they all walk round and round their own more densely populated area, as you would like them to, it'll be more difficult to maintain social distancing and it'll turn into an epicentre of Covid, which will inevitable be passed via delivery drivers and other to all region including your village.

So in the interests of keeping transmission rates low and protecting everyone, it's better that they use what you perceive to be your space.

I was with you until your last sentence which makes you sound awful.
We live in a pretty similar area and yes it’s suddenly busy. I don’t mind it but the whole purpose of living here was that we like the quiet and peacefulness. We like that we don’t see people. Times have changed and we have to change with it. It won’t be forever. No one wants this life, if they had a choice they wouldn’t be walking around your village each day. They would be at work or school, in the park or pub.
Be nice to people.

Now, now. Everyone suggesting the OP should have coughed up another £100k to live further away is not thinking rationally.

Clearly she should be coughing up more to buy all the houses on the other estate and evict the residents. A deserted ghost town two miles away means no plebs to tread her green and pleasant land. Perfect.

I agree. I saw a family with massive rucksacks tramping past our house. I nearly went out and yelled but didn't. They were obviously on s day out.

Those peasant key workers bringing their germs everywhere

Funnily enough my children caught the covid in the pretty village . You should all be locked away and quarantined . Please do not come into our towns with your germs and infect the rest of us particularly Waitrose

Omg this could totally be some of the ladies in my village 😂😂😂

Not people from an estate! A modern estate. Oh the horror.