Would you live in a village with no shop?

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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?

I live in a large village. We have several shops, a primary school, a few pubs, a fuel station and a garage for getting your car serviced. Buses are hourly, but don't go on late. You still need a car for things like the supermarket trawl.

I wouldn't want to live in a place that didn't even have a shop. I like being able to walk to some things rather than always having to go in the car. I do like to have some facilities rather than being totally isolated, and I consider that we are fairly well served where we are to be honest. I've visited people on more isolated communities and whilst the areas are often beautiful, they are just too isolated for me.

I think we will want more facilities as we get older, like better public transport and easier access to larger towns.

@CherryPavlova, you could have saved yourself a lot of typing if you'd just posted "I am considerably richer than yow" .

BitofFun Where does wealth come into it?

A village bordering a motorway that doesn't even have a job doesn't sound appealing at all.

A shop not a job!

I am too disorganized and hopeless to live more than a 3 minute walk from a shop that sells milk, butter, eggs and bread. if we lived even a short drive away from such a place I know we would run out of food the same day that the car MOT ran out or something.

I live in a village with no shop. It’s fine as there is one near school (2 miles away) where one of us is twice daily, and I work in a town centre.

It’s amazing how many people comment on it (negatively) though.

I live in a village with no shop and a crap pub. The no shop doesn’t bother me. The crap pub drives me crazy.

But it’s a balance isn’t it. I’d like to live in a village with no busy road anywhere near, a lovely house, big garden, walking distance to a great school and fantastic pub. We can’t afford to. We’re walking distance to a decent school and I love my garden, so I compromised on the rest.
Can you get the type of house you want in a village with everything you want? Yes? Then hold out for it. No? Then compromise. I don’t think no shop is too bad a compromise.

No shop but there is a pub (which doubles as an Indian takeaway)
Sold!
But now I want to hear more about the wholesome japes of the healthy well adjusted teenagers round cherry's way. In my day it was all cheap cider in a field. (I'm fascinated by the world of cherrypavlova and consider it not all that different to that of our own dear queen.)

We did for ten years, it was lovely, wonderful community feel etc but very difficult if you didn’t drive (only two buses a day). Going out just to get milk or bread gets very tedious. We moved just before our DS went to secondary school as I think it is very hard for teenagers to live in isolated communities.

To the poster who said they never went into either of their local village shops, why not? I think that’s very sad, no wonder so many small village shops are closing. I quite like going into village shops, you always find something totally random. .

Dh can't drive. Our nearest shop is a couple of minutes drive away. It takes around 10-15 mins to walk or there is another one further away that is about a 20-30 min walk.

I'd class anything up to that as being a local shop.

Haven't read all 5 pages, but when I was younger , I lived in a village with no shop. Nearest shop was 2 miles away. Whilst it was annoying it kept me fit and healthy because firstly, if I fancied chocolate or sweets, I would have to really want it. And secondly, I had to ride my bike 2 miles to even get it! I also rode my bike there by myself from age 10.

I love being able to walk to the shop, doctors, school, dentist, park, cinema, pool etc. This was one of the reasons we moved to the place we live in. Having previously had teens and got totally fed up with my husband being a taxi we made sure we avoided this with my youngest.

I have never lived somewhere close to a shop. As a child, the closest one was a mile away which we could walk to if we really needed to. Now, I live in the middle of nowhere with only a couple neighbours and the closest shop is 3 miles away. It doesn't bother me at all. We do one big shop a week and anything else is grabbed on the way back from work.

We lived in a village with a shop but it was never open when we where at home. Except maybe Saturday mornings. So yes I’d happily live without a shop in walking distance.

But must have a pub walkable. Just moving to another village and have a couple of pubs a mile or two away.

We get milk delivered and have a fantastic small town about 3 miles away and supermarkets 20 miles away.

if you live in a place where you can get groceries delivered, it's not such a problem. I get my milk delivered by a local dairy farm.

sadly, though, you only need illness or an accident to prevent you being able to walk or drive.

No, I wouldn't. A shop within walking distance was on our list of must haves when we were house hunting.