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...

OP I live in a pretty rural village. It is also busier than usual but I can' really blame people for wanting to walk here....it's beautiful.
Life is pretty shit for a lot of people at the moment and if walking to a nice place for a walk brightens their day then great.

You sound like the horrible woman that owns the land behind my house who has gone to great pains to block the public footpath that goes through her field. She claims it's for safety but it's nothing of the sort. She's just miserable.

Stop being such a snob OP and try and get some perspective.

Oh OP, I can understand your anxiety and think people may have been more understanding if you'd left it at that... But the £100k comment reveals your true values which is that only the affluent deserve pretty things. Afraid you lost me at that point. As others have said, if it's within walking distance then it is their local area too. Also, the police in England have now said that you can travel to exercise as long as the time spent traveling does not outweigh the time spent exercising... So you might want to prepare yourself for more outsiders (aka dirty poor people) coming to visit.

YABU.

This might have already been said but you could go and walk around the nearest modern housing estate couldn't you?

I've been on one actual walk for exercise in weeks so I went with dd to the new build estate near me. Had a fab time walking through and having a good old nose at all the new bloody lovely houses and now I want to move there.

Bohwens spelt backwards is like a posh drawn out ‘snob.’

That aside, whether this is true or not, I can see something in some of what the OP has said. Family groups hanging about, strung out across the road really annoy me. You go out alone or in a very small family group and you keep walking, going single file if people are passing. You don’t go somewhere and treat it as a day out.

No, of course this thread isn't for real.

The OP has carefully crafted a post designed to unite everyone on MN in support of families walking with their kids for 4 miles.
Well done, OP! The thread has been almost entirely without dissent and derailing etc.

If the farmers have to accept people walking on their land, I’m sure you can cope with people walking on the road . 😂

Oh bore off you raging snob

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 a knobber.

Seriously! If this a genuine thread, then if your village is within walking distance, then it is in their local area.

What happened to ‘be kind’ and we’re all in it together.

There's even exceptional (perhaps excessive) toleration for unleashed dogs!

It's a miracle.

It's not your village. This is the UK. People are free to go whether they like on a normal day and right now they are allowed to take a long walk near their homes. You don't own that village, you only own your own plot of land.

It's the same with people saying don't come to my mountain in The Lake District or Snowdon. You don't own it, it's not yours. Also these people saying stay away from my town in Cornwall.

I get that we shouldn't travel but I do hope we remember all these snobs when it comes to not being in lockdown anymore and spend our money elsewhere.

Maybe the riffraff couldn't cough up the extra £100K to live in your village because they earn pathetic salaries working for the NHS. Silly them, eh?

I totally get where you are coming from.

I refuse to allow anyone to walk past my front garden until I have seen 3 months of payslips and done a credit check on them.

There are families (plural) with 5-6 kids coming down regularly?

Sure

surprised you’re not investing in a couple of attack dogs to flush them out
Your attack word could be “poor”

@ErrolTheDragon
It's nice to see everyone getting along.

This thread is hilarious!

I caught the neighbour peering over my fence from their upstairs window the other day - no doubt enjoying the view of my rather splendid blossom trees.

I wouldn't mind but their house is a 2 bed and mine has 4 so is clearly more expensive. It's not fair that people in cheaper houses look at trees growing in my garden. It's not as if I can look back into their garden and get an equally lovely view because their garden is cheaper than mine.

It's all take, take, take with some people.

Same on our quiet private road and we have to pay everything for the road, cleanup the litter, remove the dog poo, £30k every time a road is resurfaced. It is like piccadilly circus at present up here. May be we should introduce a toll charge at the end of the road.

For some reason this 1700s nursery rhyme came to mind - may be we need to set dogs on the outsiders then... particularly as loads of them are sitting at home on almost full pay with furlough money which those of us working still will be paying for through increased taxes next year.....

Hark, hark! the dogs do bark,
Beggars are coming to town.
Some in rags, some in jags,
And some in velvet gowns.

I assume you don't own the village? and therefore it is not actually 'your' village, in which case you cannot do anything about other people walking on pavements that their council tax pays for. If you are genuinely concerned about your health and catching covid-19 Isuggest you stay inside your precious house that you coughed up the extra £100K for.

surprised you’re not investing in a couple of attack dogs to flush them out

Posh people don't have attack dogs. They have black labs. www.tatler.com/article/dogs-for-sloanes

As long as they haven't touched your bush you'll be fine Op.

🤣😂

The OP's lack of self awareness is really quite startling.