People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

[SuePreemly]

I live in a village. New housing estates have gone in recently. Since then we've had complaints on the local FB page about:

Horse poo on roads
Crow scarers in the field being loud
Slurry smells
Dust during combine season

What on earth do people who move into a rural village surrounded by fields expect?

They're always on about having "consideration for others" on their posts, whilst showing none to the place and people whose work involves it 🥴

People expect the chocolate box bucolic idyll. Doesn’t occur to them that people actually live there 🤣😂🤣

Sounds like you live in our village too...

We've moved from a suburb between two cities to a village in the countryside. I'd much rather farming smells and a bit of dust over ship pollution and constant echoing estate noise

People have absolutely no idea what is required to put food in their tables sadly.

Maybe mandatory voluntary service on a farm for all who wish to relocate rurally should be required.

Ditto where I live!

My favourite complaint that I've heard recently is that the roads are too narrow and they should be upgraded so you can drive two cars side by side instead of having to use passing bays. What did they expect?! Our nearest 'A-road' is about 20 minutes away...

Another classics are that the birds are too loud in the mornings...errrrr okay.

I grew up in the country. Every week the local paper would print a round up of all the stupid complaints. They wouldn’t call it ‘look at the townies’ but everyone knew.
Things like:
the farm next door smells.
the farm next door is noisy at 6 am.
why can’t I walk where I like?
why is there shit on the roads?
every morning when I’m commuting to my important job I’m held up behind cows.
muck spreading smells.

No-one has mentioned the church bells yet . . . . .😂

We got complaints about our Scouts doing Scout stuff on the Scout field... what did they think the Scout campsite was used for? (Hint... camping and fire...)

People recently moved into the old vicarage next to the church. Apparently the church bells wake their baby and they’ve asked that bells are only rung Sunday mornings. That went down well as you can imagine.

@KnitnNatterAuntie especially for you.

TeenLifeMum · Today 16:27
People recently moved into the old vicarage next to the church. Apparently the church bells wake their baby and they’ve asked that bells are only rung Sunday mornings. That went down well as you can imagine.

I hope theirnwoshnformthe church bells to be silenced wasn’t agreed to.

I live in an old market town, this week I have seen someone complain you can't get Uber and another saying they think the cattle market should be banned.

They were properly handed their respective arses.

They're ridiculous townies. Just ignore them.

When we were farming we had complaints from people living in the weekend cottages about cow’s dung on the road, driving tractors before 11am on a Sunday, combines harvesting late at night and god knows what else.
🤷🏼‍♀️ Tough tittie.

Add in complaints about lack of street lights, lack of pavements, slow broadband and the noise nuisance of cockerel and deer. How in God's name is the parish council supposed to tell deer to be quiet? 😂

Downright nastiness when one of our farmers was baling into the night to get hay in before a storm.

The milk lorry collecting too early. Tractors making a noise at 6am. Pot holes. Mud, generally. Oh, and hedge cutting being 'in the way'.

They arrived during Covid but are moving away again, thank goodness. I think we were bad for their blood pressure.

I'm a city girl but these comments made me laugh. Everybody wants a nice sanitised space, not realising by creating that you are destroying the very things that are the lifeblood of the area, and made the area appealing in the first place.

I absolutely love all of the things you listed as I was raised in the countryside but lived in London through a lot of my 20s/30s. I would pine for the dust, smells, tractors. Live on the outskirts of a small town now, five mins from fields and I love it. Now if I wake up in the morning and smell muck spreading through the window I just think I'm lucky that I don't live in London any more 😂

We have it where I am too. They are a nightmare and have no clue how to drive on the roads.

Dh hates that I love the smell of silage😅😅😅 When I walk the dog I take a deep appreciative sniff and he makes such a face!! Yanbu op!!

oooo is this the thread where I can confess I quite like the smell of slurry spreading?

We get complaints about noisy appeals from the village cricket club and bird scarers upsetting someone's dog. Oh and when there was a fireworks night display that upset the same dog

@granhands1 I agree about the fireworks and indeed it’s also extremely distressing for the horses. Strangely the dogs don’t mind the bird scarers. But yes, townies go home!

I never understand people who move to a place and complain it's nothing like the place they just moved away from

My mum lives in a Cotswolds village (very rural) which had a small number of new builds built near to her home. These homes are surrounded by woodland. One new owner immediately began to complain about leaves on his lawn and wanted a good number of trees in the woodland cut down to stop it happening. It's protected woodland with a huge amount of wildlife. He's made a huge fuss about it online.

People will always complain about something and it's usually the minority. At least this then gives a certain type of country folk an excuse to feel superior to 'townies'
(disclaimer: have lived very rurally for 25 years, don't complain, get on well with all my neighbours but wouldn't want to associate with the types that wang on about 'blow ins' etc)

Same here. Church bells to loud, hens making noise, horse poo, tractors holding them up.

Worst was someone complaining about an orphaned lamb being kept in a garden while it was hand fed. A big garden, it was just so they could keep it close while they nursed it rather than out in the field.

Most of them leave after one winter when everything turns to mud or we get snowed in.

My absolute favourite one is the local Nextdoor page where the newer locals complain about the shooting noises coming from the MOD firing range that backs onto their gardens. 😂