Countryside dwellers and townies
Discussion
FredClogs said:
I did live in a rural working environment, unfortunately the borough council has seen fit to include our village in it's local plan for expansion, so two farms are under threat and 100 acres of working agri land.
I guess people have to live somewhere. Most large villages, towns and cities grew up from what were small hamlets/villages in rural locations.
FredClogs said:
I did live in a rural working environment, unfortunately the borough council has seen fit to include our village in it's local plan for expansion, so two farms are under threat and 100 acres of working agri land.
Only if the farmer chooses to sell that land.Development plans are just "Where will we look favourably on planning applications?" - no more than that. They don't necessarily mean the landowner is going to sell the land, that anybody is going to want to develop it, or that anybody is going to make money out of the whole saga... They certainly don't mean there's a compulsory purchase order landing in Monday's post.
TooMany2cvs said:
Many urban-dwellers simply don't understand that the countryside is a factory, with large machinery, not simply their playground.
These things don't have to be mutually exclusive, though, and if done properly, can be mutually beneficial.Up until Secondary school, I lived in a village with 400 people, two farms, a shop, a pub, a church and a primary school. The countryside then was absolutely my playground, and I'm currently making plans to move back to the countryside, at which point it would become so again.
Get people properly educated on shutting gates, not leaving litter, respecting animals & crops and all that sort of stuff, and tourist influx brings money with it that can keep those pubs, shops and more in business so that they're also there for the local farming community.
Kermit power said:
TooMany2cvs said:
Many urban-dwellers simply don't understand that the countryside is a factory, with large machinery, not simply their playground.
These things don't have to be mutually exclusive, though, and if done properly, can be mutually beneficial.captain_cynic said:
Monkeylegend said:
A visit to the Doc would be in order if it was cheese.
Cheese is made from milk, so they're really the same source Of course to make cheese from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Guvernator said:
I love when I'm on the tube and you get the occasional country yokel family on a day trip to the big smoke who totally oblivious to standard city etiquette, try to talk to everybody (weirdo's) or worse proclaim loudly "This is very busy, I don't think I'd like to do this every day" at 2pm on a Tuesday
BUSY!? BUSY!? You haven't seen busy until you've experienced the shear joy of a 5pm rush hour crowd on a matchday, sandwiched between the armpit of a person who seems not to have washed for 5 days while being gently bummed by the semi-tumescence of the rather large gentleman pressed up behind you.
I'm pleased I don't have need for "standard city etiquette"BUSY!? BUSY!? You haven't seen busy until you've experienced the shear joy of a 5pm rush hour crowd on a matchday, sandwiched between the armpit of a person who seems not to have washed for 5 days while being gently bummed by the semi-tumescence of the rather large gentleman pressed up behind you.
Kermit power said:
Up until Secondary school, I lived in a village with 400 people, two farms, a shop, a pub, a church and a primary school. The countryside then was absolutely my playground, and I'm currently making plans to move back to the countryside, at which point it would become so again.
Same here, and I feel sorry for kids growing up towns spending thier free time hanging around outside McDonalds at an age when we were making bike ramps in the woods and scoffing wild plums and apples.TVR Moneypit said:
and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel,
Well he's right. Go over to Calais, land all the way to the N.E tip of Russia, across the Baring Straight when it's frozen over, to Alaska, turn right and a quick blast down the Pacific coast to Mexico. PositronicRay said:
I'm pleased I don't have need for "standard city etiquette"
Oh it's an absolute necessity I'm afraid otherwise you only end up with people arguing\fighting instead and indignant commuters getting all afluster are never a pretty sight. 
Luckily we mostly have our papers or more recently our smartphones so we can all pretend to be reading something really interesting while studiously ignoring the handbags at dawn altercation happening 2 foot away.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
TVR Moneypit said:
and that you could drive to Mexico only crossing the English Channel,
Well he's right. Go over to Calais, land all the way to the N.E tip of Russia, across the Baring Straight when it's frozen over, to Alaska, turn right and a quick blast down the Pacific coast to Mexico. Already discussed, I think this was the last successful effort.
I can't find any mention of the Blue Peter one.
I'm not going to have children but I think I think it must be difficult living in a village, playing cricket on the green, very genteel etc and then moving to London to find work. Most of my friends who grew up in that environment hated it, everything miles away, have to drive everywhere, and so an urban environment is where I think most young adults would prefer to be.
duckers26 said:
I'm not going to have children but I think I think it must be difficult living in a village, playing cricket on the green, very genteel etc and then moving to London to find work. Most of my friends who grew up in that environment hated it, everything miles away, have to drive everywhere, and so an urban environment is where I think most young adults would prefer to be.
I grew up in the Peak District, then moved to SE London for Uni. It's certainly very, VERY different... But it's nowhere near as alien as the other way round would be. You can get the bus or a lift to town fairly easily from almost any bit of the UK's countryside, after all.TooMany2cvs said:
duckers26 said:
I'm not going to have children but I think I think it must be difficult living in a village, playing cricket on the green, very genteel etc and then moving to London to find work. Most of my friends who grew up in that environment hated it, everything miles away, have to drive everywhere, and so an urban environment is where I think most young adults would prefer to be.
I grew up in the Peak District, then moved to SE London for Uni. It's certainly very, VERY different... But it's nowhere near as alien as the other way round would be. You can get the bus or a lift to town fairly easily from almost any bit of the UK's countryside, after all.TooMany2cvs said:
I grew up in the Peak District, then moved to SE London for Uni. It's certainly very, VERY different... But it's nowhere near as alien as the other way round would be. You can get the bus or a lift to town fairly easily from almost any bit of the UK's countryside, after all.
I kind of see what you mean but whenever I've been to the countryside for a holiday, it's nice and pretty and then in the evening you wonder what to do. It seems quite limited in terms of restaurants so you may occasionally find a nice one, the local shop is normally quite small and getting around seems difficult after dark. Nightlife seems quite subdued.duckers26 said:
TooMany2cvs said:
I grew up in the Peak District, then moved to SE London for Uni. It's certainly very, VERY different... But it's nowhere near as alien as the other way round would be. You can get the bus or a lift to town fairly easily from almost any bit of the UK's countryside, after all.
I kind of see what you mean but whenever I've been to the countryside for a holiday, it's nice and pretty and then in the evening you wonder what to do. It seems quite limited in terms of restaurants so you may occasionally find a nice one, the local shop is normally quite small and getting around seems difficult after dark. Nightlife seems quite subdued.Our social life round here (150-person village 5 miles from a 2,000 person town in the boonies of the Welsh borders) is far livelier than when we lived in a 12,000 person town a mile off the M25 with a tube station at the end of the road - simply because people are so much friendlier and more engaged with the community. Hell, there IS a community...
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