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 🥴

We have that here.. people move to the coast from the city.. then complain of farmers working at night keeping them up, manure and that it smells like fish 🤣

I used to live in a terraced cottage on a mill pond, opposite a church with a bell tower. The people who bought the cottage next door, as a second home, complained about the noise from the church bell tower, the noise of the ducks on the pond, the noise of my chickens (no cockerels) and, to my disbelief, the fact that I was using my vacuum cleaner to hoover the inside of my car, which I obviously had to park outside of my house to do so. The reason for this was that they were having visitors and wanted to show off the location of their holiday home and felt that my hoovering and car spoilt the idyllic setting 🙄

The smell of muck is probably one of my favourite smells. It smells of home.

Some nutter in my mums village knocked on her neighbours door and complained about him having a bonfire in his field as it was not eco friendly. …. She was driving a Range Rover, he told her where to go 😂

i do wish that the farmers who drop shot all over the roads would clean up after themselves however..

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

It's the hooleys where I'm from (farming island community). One winter of those rain-soaked gales soon separates the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

People in the new builds complaining there are more new builds planned, which will spoil their countryside views.

We have had people suggesting nappies for horses.

There was a very amusing thread on here a few months ago about horses’ droppings on the road. All manner of suggestion came up: nappies as mentioned above: a cyclist following the horse with a shovel and muck sack: the rider should dismount and collect the droppings - even horses shouldn’t be allowed on the roads.

I'm sure if they drop shot they would do, it costs a fortune to keep the old 44 guage going

Skid on horse shit on a motorbike, pray there is nothing coming to run you over.

Where I grew up, there was farming, I still live there, but a lot has been sold off by farmers to developers, so no more farms, we haven’t got narrow roads really, so it’s not a problem like that.

But now, I find myself as bad as a townie, as a dog owner, I pick up my dogs dumps in a small plastic bag, why can’t horse rider carry a roll of bin bags and do the same :-)

I actually like the fact that shops are open longer hours, perhaps not the pubs, I love how many restaurants there are too, so I do love how my area has transitioned over time, but I do love my allotment, and I live the peace that it brings, only birdsong, a passing train, and a few cows mooing, but there is downsides, dead rodents etc that cats have killed, flies too.

I can totally understand why people want the country, but until you live it you don’t know the downsides of it

I remember a thread in AIBU from years ago (when it was still all fields round here 😉) - a very irate woman complaining about horses on her road & their manure. All the suggestions including the rider carrying a horse poo spade (the poster clearly knew nothing about horses) were made.

When several of us quire reasonably suggested that horse manure is fantastic for the garden, she really kicked off and started insulting posters.

Some people are just - well - thick.

We had someone complaining that people riding horses on the bridleways meant she had to keep putting her dog on the lead. Not only is that bad enough but the area is very well endowed with footpaths. There are 4 or 5 for every bridleway.

I live semi-rural in New York, but close enough to NYC that we get a lot of people from there moving up here.

One stopped me in the supermarket to ask where the local vegan bakery was. She was properly shocked when I told her we didn't have one.

Where do you live, which means getting snowed in a possibility?

I love rural living but can't afford it sadly.

Live in a semi-rural village and love the horses, manure smells, church bells... wouldn't go back to London for anything now.

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I regularly see the "ride in the fields, keep off the roads, you don't pay road tax" comments. People genuinely think you can just pop into random fields -anyone's fields -for a ride. Bridleways are bisected by roads. You can't get to the majority of bridleways without going on a road sadly. Plus a lot of bridleways are badly maintained and overgrown.

Oh the old ride the horse round the same field you turn it out in chestnut.

Yes because that's super stimulating and works a treat in winters like we've just had 🙄

I did suggest to one poster they try holding half a tonne of horse in one hand, scooping up poop with the other, and then trying to remount a horse whilst carrying a rustling plastic bag with only one hand, in the road.

Oh I know, I'd have found it super easy mounting an 18hh horse on a road with a shovel and a massive, swinging binbag. I'm sure the cars waiting would love that.

And of course, no horse or pony In.The.World would ever be spooked by the sound of a shovel right behind its hindquarters.

Surely you just need some kind of adaptation of a polo stick - would need to be retractable / telescopic ?

Favourites from FB groups

Farmers should keep cows under control so we can walk through fields with our dogs off lead

Market (charter over 600 years) too noisy for residents on high street and stops people parking their cars

Smell of slurry etc on fields

And my personal favourite was noise complaints from cows going into labour at night. Honestly do they know how difficult it is to get entonox and a decent epidural into a labouring cow?

I lived in Croydon until I was in my late 30s, when I moved to the very edge of a small town in a rural county.

Because I'm not an ignorant twat, I've never moaned about any of the above and I like to see tractors and horses on the roads, it reminds me that I live in a much nicer environment than Croydon and I just allow a bit longer when driving. I love the fact that I can hear sheep from my back garden (it's a huge improvement on sirens), that I can walk round the corner, cross the road and then go for 5 miles or so on footpaths before I come to another road.

I was briefly alarmed the first time I saw 2 men emerge from the woods with shotguns, but then I saw the spaniels and realised that men with guns are not something to be feared here. And I love the lack of streetlights that mean you can see so many more stars.

Townies who move rurally and then moan about rural life should fuck off back to towns imo.

They've probably gone on some cottagecore pages on Pinterest and developed a pretty fantasy that has nothing to do with reality.

There was a post in a local Facebook group a few years ago telling dog owners how rape crops could cause some kind of irritation to dogs, so make sure to check
dogs when they come out from running out from the crops.

You can imagine the abuse that person received.

Not quite the same but in a similar vein. I live on an army base and we often have complaints on the Facebook pages asking "can they please stop firing the machine guns after 7pm, please? My baby goes to sleep then" or "What was that big explosion? My windows are rattling." It's like they don't know where they live. The comments are always amusing though.

Yes agree!!