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Would you live in a village with no shop?

117 replies

ButIGetUpAgain · 27/11/2019 19:46

Hi,

Just that really. Seen a house which we really like, in a really pretty village, 10 minute drive from DD's high school, with school bus, gorgeous gastro pub, but yes, no shop.

The closest would be only a couple of minutes drive away and the next well equipped village is only 5 or 6 minutes drive away, so hardly a trek. That said, I would have liked my DD to have the freedom to walk to the shops on her own. She can't where we currently live and this was something on our list. Not top of it though.

What are your thoughts? Would you? Do you?

OP posts:
HepzibahGreen · 27/11/2019 20:24

Fuck no. I'm a walker. I like to walk to get bog roll or a pint of milk. Also, one of the best things about teens is being able to send them out for stuff!

holly40 · 27/11/2019 20:28

No.

PandasandRabbit · 27/11/2019 20:29

No I wouldn't. We moved to a rural large village but essentials for us where shop and school in village. We go to shop daily and both the children go there, to them it's more important than the school Grin Though shops can close.

PandasandRabbit · 27/11/2019 20:31

Check who will deliver as well if you do go for it.

ladymalfoy45 · 27/11/2019 20:35

I live in a village that doesn’t have a chippy......

EpcotForever · 27/11/2019 20:37

I live in a village with no shop, I drive so it's no issue really.

AutumnCrow · 27/11/2019 20:38

So it is a village next to a motorway with no walking access to the actual nearest shop?

Btw I was seeing it from your DC's perspective not yours, re school etc.

CremeEggThief · 27/11/2019 20:39

Absolutely not.

Nonnymum · 27/11/2019 20:39

No I would never live anywhere where i couldn't walk to a shop also I would want public transport nearby for easy access to a Town or City

BelfastNonBlonde · 27/11/2019 20:40

Yes - this is like our village
5 min drive to a shop is nothing - you get used to it in no time.
I mean, I live in the suburbs and nearest shop is still a decent walk / short drive away!

Theonewiththecat · 27/11/2019 20:40

@ladymalfoy45 I wish ours didnt, I get more disappointed each time I go.
OP I live a 10 min walk away from a shop and it's fine, I dont know whether I would like to live even a short motorway journey from a shop. Imagine nipping out for milk and being stuck in a 4hr traffic jam 🤔

BelfastNonBlonde · 27/11/2019 20:41

Sorry - meant my mums village where I lived also.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 27/11/2019 20:42

No, it drove us a bit bonkers in the end but we had nothing in our village, no shop or pub etc. It got really annoying and felt irrationally isolating when it snowed.

Dementedmagpie · 27/11/2019 20:52

My DH would love to live on the outskirts of our town or semi rurally but one of the places hd liked had no pavement and no street lights. It's probably selfish but I have no desire to spend the next 5-10 years ferrying my DC to places they can currently easily walk to.
I'm probably a bit spoilt that I've lived in surburbia/towns all my life and have access to most things on foot, but maybe it wouldn't be as big a deal if you're used to driving to school etc.

AndAnon · 27/11/2019 20:54

I live in a village and we have a post office / shop and a couple of pubs. I’ve not brought anything in the shop in the last 10 years as the stock is awful. Just sweets (it’s opposite the school), UAT milk and sliced white bread along with other random things I don’t buy.

I can get to small shops in 10 mins and a supermarket in 15 mins but only driving. To walk to the small shops would be 30 mins plus.

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 27/11/2019 20:59

There's a school bus but is there a regular bus?

We don't even live in a village, we're a 20 minute walk from a village but it's not on our radar as there's no shop or pub anyway. It doesn't impact on our life. We keep a breadmaker and a mix in stock and UHT milk just for emergencies and the freezer is well stocked.

I don't think DCs being able to walk to a shop is that big a deal, being 10 minutes from school with a bus laid on sounds good to me. Even better if you all really like the house. As time goes on though being able to get elsewhere under their own steam as well as to school and back, will figure higher.

Coquohvan · 27/11/2019 21:02

Nope.
Our village has 2 pubs restaurant cafe chemist hairdressers 2 shops doctors dentist bakers butchers paper shop primary school bus for high school nursery. Church and bowling club.
Fab place to have a family and later in life everything you may need is on your door step.

AutumnCrow · 27/11/2019 21:05

See it through your DC's eyes, especially when they're a young teenager. How does it look to them? In their eyes, will they feel marooned?

Will you pay the cost of driving lessons, a car, high insurance when they're 17 and will they have to drive in that motorway to get to school / college / a shop / see friends?

We walked and cycled, and then drove as teens, but it was very rural. Craggy Island rural, you might say.

EskewedBeef · 27/11/2019 21:08

I would. There's bound to be a milkman who delivers a variety of items.

CorporeSarnie · 27/11/2019 21:16

We moved from the edge of a small town to a village, we have a po/shop, pub and primary school, without the last we'd not have moved here but the shop is a nice to have thing for the village. But there are hourly buses to the nearest towns where there are plenty of shops, library, restaurants, swimming baths etc so no real hardship. Does make us more reliant on the car than I really like but the kids love walking on the footpaths, being a part of village life is very different tho and I've yet to make friends here vs. people to say hello to at the school gate.

EpcotForever · 27/11/2019 21:16

As per pp we also don't have streetlights/pavements/takeaways ect. Our gp surgery is in the next village. We have a pub, primary/nursery school, village hall, working man's club, playground, church, car sales garage. But it's a lovely community.

CherryPavlova · 27/11/2019 21:17

We’ve no milkman- were much too small.
The children love the village. They didn’t get cars until 21 years of age.
We have no bus.
They walked, cycled, arranged lifts, planned ahead. What they couldn’t do was disappear and not return until 4am or be dishonest about where they were. Definitely an advantage for parents.

ShadowSpiral · 27/11/2019 21:18

It would put me off personally.

PILs live in a village with no shop, and it’s all manageable with planning ahead of course, but when we visit I find it a PITA having to get the car out if we run out of milk etc. At home our nearest shop is 5 minutes walk so very convenient.

Is there any public transport that your DD would be able to use?

Karcheer · 27/11/2019 21:18

who is to say that you move to a village with a shop it'll still be open this time next year?

DobbyTheHouseElk · 27/11/2019 21:19

We have a shop, but it’s useless. Only useful for gossip and real emergency shopping. But nothing you can make a meal from. Run by lovely people, but doesn’t stock anything much.

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