Your experience of living next to a farm..

[meagain3]

We’ve viewed a gorgeous house we love but it’s next to a farm..

pros/cons of living next to one?

I grew up rurally. A neighbouring farm used some of its fields for camping, motocross and quad-biking over the years. Not terribly peaceful.

A couple of other things to think about, OP

Water run-off; where does your water come from? They're not supposed to do it, there are regulations, but some farmers fertilise their fields just before it's due to rain to save money, those run off onto local land/possibly contaminate water sources.

In terms of water, is it on mains? Our water came from the farm's treatment plant and it was absolutely minging. We frequently had upset stomaches.

Accidents: tractors upending phone lines/power lines. I can tell you they care far less about fixing these things in a hurry when it only affects a few houses than they do when you live in a town with many people stomping their feet (they being the providers).

Lastly, pets. Don't have a cat on a farm, just don't. Probably alright to have cats born and raised on a farm but there are too many hazards otherwise; pretty sure ours got sick from eating vermin/pesticides, then she got run over by a tractor.

The farmer didn't want children anywhere near the farm - considered it too much of a risk.

I agree and silent ones if they worked would be a great alternative as to be fair the bangers are costly and a nuisance to maintain. We are a smaller farm compared to lots of others so we tend to be able to twat about with binbags, eagles and scarecrows with 70 acres veg and then maize whereas lots of others are in the several hundred plus and across the pond it’s thousands of acres so not practical, there needs to be something else.