People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

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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 🥴

I agree with this.

On our village FB
"Dear farmers, can you stop planting rape seed, it really aggravates my asthma"

Sure love.

@GOTBrienne this is why I would never move to a village. I don't mind for a holiday but no paths, miles to drive to get to facilities and things for the kids etc just doesn't appeal to me at all. I don't get why people who don't want that sort of life move to a rural location.

It's free fertiliser. What else do you suggest is done with it?

So do you actually think they shouldn't be using it?

@oakleaffy I think you've missed the point there. 🙄 I'll explain it more clearly for you. The incomer moaning about the affordable housing being built for villagers, people who have grown up, gone to school in the village and are now priced out by the people who haved moved to the village and are complaining about their house being devalued.

Most of the people in our village accept that there has to be development, but are concerned about infrastructure and community cohesion. A lot of incomers make no attempt to join in village life or support the community.

Everyone in my old village (the 1970s estate part of the village) said the new estate would devalue their houses but it actually put the prices up. Once people become more aware of a place, they see exactly what’s on offer. The older houses all have garages, massive gardens and driveways for multiple cars.

People like complaining. Look at us here, enjoying a good old complain about the people doing the complaining

Mo one is happy about another plot of land in our village potentially being developed... simply because the schools are full, the GP is over run and the roads need repair. Its an old mining and farming village, its not attractive. New housing will probably be nicer than the old RAF and mining hoses. But its the practicalities.

Its a particularly horrible piece of land as well... old quarry land.

What village life, and how do you “support the community”. Is it buying other people’s junk at a jumble sale ?

A relative bought a new house at the bottom of an old quarry , despite us warning them, and to no one’s surprise it flooded and there were landslides. It’s basically a big stone basin to collect water in.

In our area they are building on water meadows and flood plains despite local protests . The locals have warned and warned and , again ,to no one’s surprise the building sites are flooding and they are trying to sink pilings to no avail because there is no solid base to sink them onto. The houses that have been built have had to have remedial work for damp and flooding in gardens.

The worst of it is these are “affordable” houses part owned by housing association and the youngsters who buy are stuck with unsellable houses .

Oh @brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr do you really think that's all that goes on in villages?

Ours is full of life, groups, social events in the pub, we have a community centre that's booked up. A scarecrow trail every autumn with social.

Lots of the incomers are never seen at anything. Granted, some do get stuck in and they're absolutely welcomed with open arms. Equally there's plenty of London commuters here who drive to the nearby station too fast through the village go to work, drive back in the evening like someone put a rocket up their arse and complain about the mud/poo on roads, smells etc whilst never joining in with anything in the village.

round our way you can support the communist in many ways such as

Community litter picks or Joining/ volunteering in the local festivals

The house price one is interesting as many rich folk moving to the villages would be descended from poor families who needed to move away to the cities over the last 100 years to be able to feed themselves

Yep, I've some villages where this predominates referred to as dormitory villages.

I LOVE your deliberate error . . .

round our way you can support the communist in many ways such as

or is this something to do with the forthcoming election?😂

i heard someone moan about the horse poo, how they should clear it up

some person complained about the dark, on facebook, but he was soon put right.
i complained on facebook about the bird scarers shooting which makes my dog too scared to walk in the nearby woods, but i had a load of unnecessary flak

I'm not surprised they're never seen at anything when you have such a snobby attitude to the new housing development! Once conversation is all it takes to know you're not welcome. People have no qualms about letting you know you're not really part of the village.

Sorry @Willmafrockfit but bird scarers are standard in arable areas so I'm not surprised you got totally reasonable flak.

No surprises incomers don’t show up, they’re treated with suspicion. I look forward to there being new houses in my village so there are a more diverse set of people around.

There was a meeting about it here, I was the only one who supported the new houses. So many locals compained that it wouldn’t be “in keeping” with the village. Somehow they are blind to the fact this village has housing developments from every decade since the 1930s in all the different styles and shapes as you would expect.

I live rurally. The only complaints here are overloaded tractors which shed their muck on narrow roads.

This thread is infuriating and hilarious. We have had practically all the comments in our village.
As for the slurry complaint, isn't it better to recycle and use all that, not to mention it saves buying in expensive artificial fertiliser?
Whoever said that people need to realise the countryside is a food factory was absolutely right.
It isn't a picturesque leisure amenity.

it was mean,
comments like Welcome to the countryside - it was ruining my previously lovely walk in the woods as my dog refused to walk, it must have been new or at least my dog got more scared as she got older?

there was no noise last time i went so perhaps they have stopped, is there a specific time that it happens do you know? @countrygirl99
i have lived here all my life give or take, but i guess that is facebook mentality

It’s natural fertiliser!

Though on many farms it is now injected in rather than sprayed.

Everyone has been welcomed into the village. Happy to stop and chat to all. Gave a poo bag to a new resident yesterday whose dog had surprised them with 3 poops on a walk.

I took was an incomer to the village. I got stuck into going to village events, talking to people, drinking in the pub, then helped run brownies etc.... and am probably part of the village furniture now. Have met some fantastic new people into the village but we also have some who treat it like a dormitory village and as a result drive like idiots way too fast past the school and round the roads, park all over the pavement etc. it's just a shame.

It is to be expected in the countryside though. Crow scarers are part of agricultural life from September through the winter months.

It's the "it ruined my lovely walk"....well yes but those fields are working places where people are doing hard graft and crow scarers are part of that working environment.

Desensitizing your dog is possible, try YouTube videos on uiet and gradually increase the volume. Treat each time dog doesn't react.