Country life

[Sunnycoffeedrinker]

Do any other members wish they can afford a cottage in the country where there can life quite a remote life away from most humans ?

I wholeheartedly recommend it. It’s lovely ☺️

I wish this every single day.

Key word being afford

@AlltheFs I like being in the country, the animals little streams and the country air would be really nice ,Ur lucky if U live in the country

My mornings are the dream on tv, birds singing, amazing scenery and I get up extra early to sit outside as dog bounds around the garden. Saying that car broke down last week and was hell trying to organise to get dh to the train, me to town and kids to school as not safe to walk around here (loads of speeding and no paths and very non existent verges). Also commuting!!

Also the people across the road are away and it’s creepily quiet around here- only noise is dogs barking in the distance and cows. I miss car and people noise!!

toughsnoring
Key word being afford
Surely rural is cheaper than in towns? The further we lived from towns the more affordable in my experience anyway, could be different elsewhere (in Ireland)

Yes, I live in a little thatched cottage in a small, beautiful village. It’s about as traditionally English as you can get. I absolutely love it.Behind our back garden is a vast private country estate that we can roam.

It’s a renovation project, so it’s not perfect. But we are getting there. We are also broke. But every day I am grateful to be here.

It’s a great place for our daughter to grow up.
It was bloody expensive though.

It took a lot of luck and a lot of risks to get here but anything is possible @Sunnycoffeedrinker

Rural is vastly more expensive in my part of England so it varies a lot. If we moved in to our nearest market town it would be at least 20% cheaper for same amount of house. The nearest cities 30% cheaper.

Rural here is more desirable than town/city but it’s not the same everywhere in UK.

I love it and would never live in a town again but:

• no public transport in a 5 mile radius
• constant power cuts sometimes for a few days November-March
• no mains gas so oil heating

Many people find it hard to adjust especially if from a city as rural areas are still working areas so narrow roads get congested at peak farming times especially hay/harvest.
Rural communities also tend to be close knit and monoculture so if you are used to a multi cultural community it can be an adjustment.
On the other hand the advantages far outweigh any disadvantages for me.

@twistyizzy yes absolutely agree. Some
people don’t get on with it. My husband is a native, he grew up in the next village whereas I’m an incomer, and I’ll never be completely accepted.

I couldn’t go back to town though.

I live very rurally in a tiny village surrounded by beautiful countryside nearest town about 20 mins away friends come here and say “I couldn’t live here it’s to remote” but I’ve just returned from a holiday in the UK literally in the back of the beyond. Nearest shop actually nearest anything over an hour away and trust me we’re not talking Tesco Extra here just a small coop/pharmacy/gift shops. The scenery was jaw dropping; wild, rugged and unspoilt, the wildlife amazing, the air was clean, the weather wasn’t great to say the least some would say it was bloody awful and I was told that this was good for the time of year.
I love rural living and the scenery well I just loved it but personally I would want to live like that 52 weeks a year.

I'm quite lucky where I live ,I see fox's squirrels about 10-12 different bird species and last week a wild rabbit , I should be grateful for where i live atm

Love my time in the country - best of both worlds weekly commuting (3-4 hours from London)

However, we are 7 miles from the nearest shop (a small CostCutter), 12 miles from the nearest petrol station, supermarket etc., 15 miles from the nearest mainline station, 30 miles (45 minutes) from the nearest hospital, and 2+ hours from any major city / airport (any of Cardiff, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester). And of course no public transport...

We have lived rural and loved it but what you have to consider is you most likely won't get buses, no gas so have to rely on oil or solid fuel for heating, your own cess pit, never having verges cut by Council or having roads cleaned. We had to travel 20 minutes to a supermarket, also had no pub or shops or even a church in our hamlet. But we got clean air, no neighbours and pure peace and quiet. However, after about 10 years we sold up and moved on.

I live in a very small village away from shops etc. The view from my windows is sublime - rolling hills. Nearest shop/garage is in the next village about 1.5 miles away. Main town is about 18 miles; smaller town is about 12 miles.
We have a small primary school and a pub (which is only occasionally open) and a state-of-the-art eco friendly village hall, where the range of activities is many and varied: community choir, regular cinema, weekly post office, coffee mornings, plays, keep fit, therapies, panto, banquets - we do not miss out!

Virtually no public transport apart from a bus twice a week to the nearest town and back. There are school buses that stop here and go to an assortment of schools around and about.

I absolutely love it - being able to go for a stroll in the beautiful countryside and chat to neighbours; having good friends around to call on in times of trouble - it is the way to live for me. And we do have diversity: people from Sri Lanka (they run the pub), Romania, South America, Ukraine, Poland, Nigeria.

Perfect!

Every day i wish to live rurally. A budget of 400k and we can afford nothing like what we want - a smallholding.

However, I won't live South of England, only midlands-North. Currently live in a Suburban Northamptonshire village. We can hardly afford anything and I dislike our house and the area. Would rather be as poor as we are in a house we love that I can see us in for a long time.