General Chat

We used to have a shop that sold everything in our village but it closed years ago. Our little post office now has a small shop and it's great for basics. Fortunately it isn't due to close but we were worried until recently.

We have a mobile library every three weeks and once a week a vegetable van comes round.

Our house was built in the 1960s and I expect the locals weren't impressed then but 20 or 30 years ago everyone seemed to get on well and join in everything which was going on.

We used to back onto fields but 15 executive 5 bedroomed homes were built there. It seems to me that the recent incomers just use this village as somewhere to sleep. They don't get involved in the village activities much.


Sue

we have a similar thing here petrol station to side and garage behind when the place in front was turned into a house the people moved in and then complained to council about garage behide luckely the council said tough but they still kept wingeing to the garage

Know of a garage and repair shop in a village - a small development was built next door and one day one of the owners appeared and introduced himself to the garage owner and whilst chatting said I believe you are selling up and will be gone by next year. Garage owner was bemused and said 'don't know where you got your info but I am here to stay - I am third generation and the fifth is following on'! We reckon it was the estate agents!

A bit like people that move in next to the pub and start compaining that its to load on a friday and saturday night

They are supposed to be putting through a law to protect gardens as it is a loophole and gardens and knocking down dwellings is regarded a using a brownfield site! To me a brownfield site is ex industrial or when houses are no longer viable and require rebuilding as against refurbishing.

Yes Mac I agree 100% !

I too get involved with the local village and love the local way of life...wouldnt change a thing about it either.
ok Im not keen on the smell of slurry but then the local Devon villagers complain about it not me!!!
I'd never dream of complaining about the country way of life. If I didnt like it I'd have never moved here in the first place and can't understand people who do.

When I live in a seaside city area I remember the Co-op selling off one of their houses situated at the back of the store...within weeks the new tenants complained to the council about the early milk deliveries and after a few months and a court case the shop was told it couldnt have the deliveries until the afternoon !
and in High Wycombe where the famous furniture factory Ercols traded for donkey's years....that closed down due to new tenants complaining about the smell of smoke from the wood burners.

Daft as it sounds people dont always check out what they are letting themselves in for before they move.

Mac I was not haveing ago at all people that move to the country .I myself was town breed .My point was that some and far to many that move in do not fit in they try to bend the communitee to what they want,instead of embracing the life as you and your OH obviously did.
Victoria

Tescos there everywhere they do cause a lot of problems

If they have large gardens chris you can garentee that they will squeeze as many as poss in

Maggie that is so cool.some people get right up my nose good for you for standing your ground.

It sounds great Maddiecow

We have lost our post office and the local garage - which was the local shop.

We are about 200 homes and I have lived here about 10 years.

Apparently 20 yrs ago there were 5 shops in this village, but I think Tesco has killed this.

Not to far from me then!!!

that is correct!

Chris of wessex does your name reflect the area you are from???

Our village like so many is being ruined - one road in particular had a mix of houses and ages - so many houses have been knocked down and where there was one there is now 4 or perhaps two blocks of flats - latest I see are 2 bungalows next door to each other bought by developers - all of these properties have large gardens.

Until I moved here I had lived in the country for most of my life, either in small villages or hamlets. Moved here as I don't drive, local shops were closing and buses were becoming rarer and rarer.
Not only have I heard the ridiculous complaints as stated above - combining too early, cocks crowing, church bells ringing, noise of shoots (although even I complained once when they were shooting in my garden outside my loo window - and I was on the loo!!)
I have also been on the receiving end of 'incomer' patronisation!
Just before I had my first child, I was an agricutural worker, ex and agricultural engineer. Certain 'incomers' were under the false impression that this meant we were uneducated!!
My eldest would never wear gloves, it was cold and her hands were red. This 'worthy' incomer accused me of not keeping her warm enough!!
Poor child was lifted from her pushchair, the mini sleeping bag (feather & down) made by my fair hands, that she was in was shown to old bag. THEN she said her jacket was too small. Jacket (bolero type - very trendy at the time) was undone to show padded dungarees that went way above the bottom of the jacket. I pointed out they were good quality. She replied 'If you say so' , So label was exposed - Harrods!! I asked if that was good enough quality or did she know a better place to buy!! LOL

Then, after I had had daughter number 2 she asked whose she was - When I pointed out she was mine - she said 'I didn't know you were pregnant' I asked why she had to know, and would she like to know next time I had sex, in case I bred again, as I intended repopulating the village with yokels!!

maggie

Victoria I live in a small terrace and am no better than anyone else (well apart from the local scoungers who's kids drive better cars than the rest of us - have nicer things and have never worked (legally) but are not disabled either). They hack the hole rd off but thats a hole different thread.

I am lucky to have moved to a nice freindly place have wonderful neighbours (thats something you always take with life in hands when you move) have a local shop which is the hub of the community, work locally and am 100% glad of my lifestyle change.

I'm lucky I am on the boarders of the city and the countryside and couldnt pick a better loction to live, work and play.

No thats alright then (as she wipes head!!!)
~ I'm in Dorset


Xx

My Oh drives a 4x4 but if you spent a winter round here you would need one lost trak of the roads that he has cleared and the people and there cars out of ditches .the rivers overflow as do the ditches so would be lost without it and Oh would never get to work without it.But yes most are very clean and they don't drive them well.
As for the shots it doesn't surprise me in the least that they complain.I am glad to here you have fitted in in afraid most round here look down there noses keep within their group get on to school commitee and price locals out of events for fundraising and use the school as a free prep.