Rural idyll or just hard work??

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thoughts?

@RosaWaiting it was quite nice before DS! I had a long commute to work and did long hours. Work was intense and I was knackered at the weekends. The weekends were spent pottering, jobs on the smalll holding, lovely walks and farmers markets.

I went on maternity leave when I had DS .... I was v different from the people in the community - different culture, language etc. It was really difficult to break into baby groups and it felt very cliquey and I was lonely. partner was at work for long hours. We sold up and moved to the small city near work and love it. It is much more diverse, we don’t have to drive everywhere and there are parks, swimming pools, libraries etc which make life with small children much easier!

It’s a high maintenance garden, but that’ll be fine for me. Interesting what people on here are saying about cess pits and oil tanks. I haven’t had any experience of them.

Hard work for me. I have always lived rurally in houses like that one with land and gardens like that one .... I moved into a townhouse with a courtyard garden last year and I absolutely love it!

If you're young with plenty of energy, it would be a dream to live in a place like that. I'm getting older and it just looks like work, work, work to me. If you like spending the days and weekends poodling around doing chores, maybe it would be fine, but at my age I want to relax at the weekends or go out and visit friends and family or have holidays and go to the cinema, concerts etc.

Note the small sentence confirming a small amount of Japanese Knotweed by the parking area...…

We had friends that actually lived in that village! It’s really too far from the madding crowd! Just too isolated.