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 🥴

Oh yeah, decent quality for your everyday yard/dog walking/shooting/farmer type clothes. Good sales!

Read my posts properly before telling me to 'toughen up', many thanks.

I'm not a farmer but always after good warm and long lasting clothes, especially ones that keep the winds out in winter!

Rydale dog drying coats and fleeces are great too. My somewhat vain attempts to limit the mud on the dog

I'm eyeing up the practical looking yet not unattractive Ryedale Pull On boots....

We had a woman in the new builds complaining that when the affordable housing gets built, it will devalue her property and she "didn't move to a village to live next to a council estate". The affordable housing is for people with links to the village who can't now afford to live here because incomers are pushing prices up. 🙄

I live fairly rurally; in the area is a livery. New owners moved into a detached house close to the stables and complained about 'too many horses'.

The stupidity of people never fails to surprise me.

They didn't last long!

@SuePreemly it is like that where we live too! why move to the countryside and not expect to have countryside smells and countryside noises?? moaning about cows mooing in the fields, cockerels, cock a doodling at 5am and just wait till the corn lice come out!! lol they have no idea how noisy it is in the countryside. how do the think the vegetable reach the shops, the breadmakes get their flour? are they really that stupid? the bird scarers are scaring my we doggie? believe it or not, our dogs are the only dogs in the village who can be taken for a walk on guy fawkes night/ they hear a bang and look up expecting a pigeon to fall/ everyone else's dogs are cowering under the bed! go back to the town and let us have our villages without all those new houses springing up and ruining the village life!

Quite a lot of Londoners have a house rurally where weekends and holidays are spent- and things like grain dryers , crow scarers are just accepted as part of life.

Ditto quite a few of those who live in the rural areas also have pied a terre in London - so it cuts both ways.

And the developers say that their costs have shot up, they'll have to reduce the affordable houses from a dozen to three... Or you discover some rich townie is buying four of the new houses to let out as Airbnbs...

Plenty of rurally born people also detest horrid new builds springing up like mushrooms -
Where my friend lives there is masses of opposition to new builds.

Who wants to be surrounded by people rather than fields?
Not many.

Villagers can be really snobby and rude to those who live in the new houses. They make it clear you're not really part of the village and quite openly look down on you. Long time villagers make it clear they never wanted the houses to be built in the first place.

Couple of things to unpick here.
Firstly, the chances are that the houses were built on farmland bought by deep-pocketed property developers, whose planning permission was approved despite much local opposition.
Secondly, one reason the locals opposed the development may well have been because all the new homes are highly desirable 3-4 bed semis and detached houses, ideal for commuters. The developers don't provide small homes or social housing affordable for the young people whose roots are in the area. Most of them work on the land or in other local industry, but can't find anywhere to live locally because they have been priced out.

That’s very true.
A development behind a 17th C cottage ruined the view but they were all very expensive executive type detached houses built to a high spec.
The long term farm /racing stable staff could never have afforded them.
Tied cottages were the norm- very tricky for lower paid rural
staff.

We had one here who bought their cottage without realising that the lovely country pub near it hosted regular clay pigeon shoots. They complained it was like living in a war zone & wanted the shoot closed down.😂

That's like people who move next to a school and complain about kids noise and extra cars at 8.40-9am

And the bells!!!!!
When my late OH gave up a lot of time, along with other retired people, to try and improve the village speeding problems by running the Speedwatch one woman who had just moved in decided that she wanted to determine speed limits outside her house and was too thick in understand, despite him telling her for an hour, that he didn't personally set the limits. She quickly moved to run the next village and I gather she's as popular there.

The difference between horse shit and dog shit (aside from the garden benefits) is that horse shit is massive as easily avoided.

There was a thread on here a while back where a woman had spotted a farmer with a shotgun in the field behind her garden and was downright hysterical about it, she just couldn't understand why despite loads of posters telling her it was normal.

It's an entitled thing rather than a townie thing, on the whole. Well-off people with good jobs who are used to being in charge.

Horse riding - that posh hobby provides jobs in rural areas. I live in an area where there are more horses than people and owners provide a valuable income to farriers, vets, equine dentists and physios, feed shops, saddlers and livery yards that are often based on farms that are needing to diversify as farming just doesn't pay. Tourism isn't the only source of income in rural areas, nor would we want it to be. They are also a way of life for a lot of people in the countryside and have been for generations.

Lincolnshire?

I am embarrassed to admit that when DEFRA ( or which ever body was in charge at the time) demanded that farmers let hedges grow a friend of mine was so outraged at the loss of a view that she chopped a view-shaped rectangular hole in the hedge across the road from her kitchen window.

The 4am harvesting nearly caused her to combust.

My folks live in a village that used to be quiet, but there was an abattoir built about a mile away ten years ago. The village is the shortest route between the abattoir and the town where most of the workers live. They all come tearing through the village when the shifts change. Quiet most of the time and then really busy at 6am and 6pm. (Or something.)
The residents have tried all kind of traffic calming but nothing has worked.
A couple from London bought the house opposite and were shocked at the traffic. They complained and said that they were London lawyers and would get it stopped. They did not get it stopped. They moved back to London after Covid.

Walking through Manchester and my 5 year old asks me "why does everything look broken" 😬

I love your toddler, this is brilliant!

The "slurry" complaint is valid, absolutely disgusting it is used