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 🥴

One of the farms in the village has sold the farmyard, not fields, where 48 houses will be erected.

Over the years, there have been complaints about the noises/smells from the farm. The size of the tractor on the road, the noise the bouncing empty trailer makes, you get the idea.

Now they are complaining farm has been sold and houses will be going up.

Damned whatever you do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Right, so you're "welcoming" but you also make judgemental comments about what people wear and the cars they drive?

Ah the newbies with a clean range rover, schoffel and an out of control gundog

You think you're welcoming, but your attitude will be showing through. Why would anyone want to socialise with a community that look down on them for what they drive and how they dress? Doesn't sound very welcoming to me.

On a thread about miserable and depressing places someone mentioned Snowdonia and how miserable the locals were despite the beautiful scenery. Well, Snowdonia is not a theme park, the people who live there are not staff whose job it is to make sure you have a good time, they live and work there and hill farming is a very hard living.

My DM was country born and bred so I do know something of country life, but I also knew as a child I never wanted to live there and this thread has done nothing to convince me otherwise. I love visiting the country, living there no.

@SuePreemly how long for, you say through the winter months? when does that end, just for future reference

Out of control dogs and dangerous driving would piss most people off and yes you can judge and laugh at such people

Imagine trying to make out such people deserve respect !

@Willmafrockfit yes, it will mostly have stopped thos time of year but once the farmers start drilling in the autumn it will start again.

My grandma would be out with her bucket and spade if a horse had left a present. She thought it was a present for her roses

Not to mention people who move close to a village church, and then complain about the bells.

’Best’ I heard of, though, was near friends in rural N Devon not far from the coast. A couple who’d recently moved there wrote to the local paper complaining bitterly about the noise of air-sea rescue practice flights at night.

Apparently they received so much hate mail, they very soon put the house on the market and moved away again.

I work for a church and we are always getting complaints about the bells. There has been a church on this site since the 11th century.
(See also too much school traffic when school has been there 50 years).

The size of modern tractors and trailers is actually a very real issue, most of our lanes are narrow single with passing spaces. Tractor and trailer combos are pulling away the lower parts of the hedge banks, particularly at corners. This is then compounded by the winter rain and we have large sections of hedge bank collapsing into the lane.

Don't forget the rear view mirrors you'd need to attach to each side of the horse so you can see when they've done their business so you can get off with spade and rustling plastic bag (where would those go anyway...) before getting back on again. 🌹

Bloody love Show of Hands, they were down our way last November. Brilliant show.

I am adult enough to see past things and talk to people. The try harders are often the ones who become part of the community but like all of us, are open to a bit of a piss taking, which was the point of my post.

The idiots who recently let their off lead dog kill 3 lambs in the field etc however I have no time for. Some of the people we have had moved in are ignorant about how to behave in the countryside, how life works (crow scarers are a classic) and others are just downright antisocial.

We have had a drug dealer moved into the social housing bit, from a nearby town. Already had 3 raids on their house. Funnily enough, residents aren't massively happy about it.....

To be fair though, living in relatively isolated communities and with specialist hard working jobs (e.g farming and fishing ) can make communities hard to join.

My family still live in the area I grew up in: rural and coastal. The two groups have subtle culture between them and don’t necessarily come together, even in the same village.

There is suspicion and resistance to newcomers, and even once they are assimilated and functioning as part of the community it is still noted that ‘they weren’t born here’. I was present for an exchange in which a man who had lived, worked and volunteered in the village for 40 years was told he wasn’t local. He responded to the 26 yo that he had lived there for longer than him…

Also, bloody minded complaining about all sorts of stuff is rife from everyone.

My friend above, who cut a hole in the hedge in outrage against farmers was v local.

Oh and as for the idiot drivers we've obtained, so far we've had road signs on one corner taken off 3 times and cars in that hedge (it's tight, there's arrows etc), and 3 other cars in hedges/ditches where they were simply driving too fast and in one case, pissed.

This has happened once in the rest of the time I've lived there.

Yes I was thinking about this, horses don’t usually say “hang on, I need to take a dump” do they.

She wouldn't accept this explanation & thinks we are being unreasonable by not 'mowing' it all.

Sadly I don't think you can cure stupid.. 🌹

We have two pubs in our parish on the edge of Dartmoor. Everyone visits Pub 1, but the grockles and DFLs don't even know Pub 2 exists.
Pub 1 is the picture postcard one where the B&B guests all eat, with lovely hanging baskets, dog treats and blankets for use in the beer garden. It's clean, quaint and pleasant and everyone is welcome. Pub 2 is like a secret society. You have to be introduced to the landlord by a regular; everyone is connected. It's where you go if you want to borrow machinery or buy wood, or you have lurcher pups to sell, or want to put word out about a sheep-worrier, and there are always pheasants hanging by the back door irrespective of season. It's like the farmers' version of Radio HP.

I find a lot of nimbyism here. No new houses etc, and I’ve been watching clarksons farm and am quite dismayed by the amount of vitriol he has had and think it’s a prime example of it. I’m sure a lot of rhe stuff he’s done has been disruptive, but some of the attacks he’s had us so over the top, and the councils treatment of them I think is appalling.

on saying that though, I find horses and cyclists on the road a right pain in the backside. 😂

I love that

I had not thought about winter: there's a few of us who shoot/work dogs and have pheasants hanging on gates/fences. The new estate bods will lose their minds, bearing in mind the reason to horse poop on the road 🙈

When we had cows we had complaints that they were mooing too loudly... I did ask them to keep it down but to no avail!

New houses are needed. Absolutely accepted.

If you move to one in a rural village though, expect rural life to be happening and don't go on the local FB group to moan about muck spreading smells, horse poop/ or horse riders "slowing you down" 🤷‍♀️

I completely feel your pain OP. Hello from another Rydale wearing owner of a half trained spaniel and lab that work their little socks off through the season.
I always get looks stopping in the local town on the way back from beating. It's a look...! But a lass needs her cider after all those miles!

Calling stuff NIMBYism is a cop out. Hpusing is needed... butvthen services are needed for the increased population. Its building houses without thought for schools, doctors, Traffic volume, leisure facilities etc that causes the frustration.

We're cattle farmers. We have quite a lot of 'city people' around here now. I would say the majority of them love being in the countryside and embrace it, most of them live in the village.

A (new at the time) neighbour in the countryside 1 off house near the farm told my FIL that he should give written notice of when he intends to spread slurry......