Countryside dwellers and townies

[Last Visit]

I love living in the country, currently in a small village, if you can call it that, of about 10 houses and 2 farms.

No street lights
No mains gas
No mains sewerage
Hardly any traffic
Fields and farmland all around
No crime (certainly not that I've ever seen)

And yet wierdly FTTP broadband

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valiant said:

Funnily enough there's a Kilburn in London that looks almost exactly like that.

Well almost...

I lived in Brondesbury Rd (off the Kilburn High Rd) for 5 years, and I can confirm that it's almost identical

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[Meridius]

The countryside is lovely

...for a couple hours

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[RizzoTheRat]

ClaphamGT3 said:

Surely everyone has a pad in town and a place in the country?

I'd like a place in the country, for now I'll have to settle for a place on the outskirts of a small town, and a pad on the beach.

At home I can be on the canal towpath in a couple of minutes, and then out on to army training areas or farmland a few minutes later.

During the week I can run home from work through the dunes, have a dip in the sea if the weathers nice, and walk back from the beach barefoot as it's only 100 yards away

[4x4Tyke]

anonymous said:

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Obviously, don't the bessiks know this?

[SCEtoAUX]

I've lived in small village in countryside, a town in the countryside, and few locations in London.

For me, without a shadow of a doubt, the town in the countryside is the way to go.

[Yipper]

There's almost no proper countryside left in southeast England. Every square cm is populated or managed or farmed to within an inch of its life. It's hard to go more than 1-2 miles without seeing a farm, house or building.

And 85-90% of the UK is deforested. Almost all the old forests are gone (despite efforts to replant them). Scotland has some reasonable forests and solitude, but even those are almost all artificially managed.

For proper countryside, you gotta go abroad, to somewhere like Spain or Poland.

[Storer]

My nearest neighbour is at least a mile away but town is only 7 miles.

I go out of my back door and I am at work in 20 metres walk (no smelly bodies to put up with). My dogs can run free, daughter has horses she can ride from home. Broadband is a bit crap but works (almost, most of the time). Waitrose deliver. Shopping is mainly internet and delivered. Films via Sky or Amazon Fire.
Meals out locally or in town. Taxi if needed.
Takeaways have to be collected though (big deal!!!).
Grass in my garden along with trees. No traffic pollution. I know all my neighbours. Friendly and helpful.

Theft is a growing issue, mainly from our pikie infestation. They are the main downside to living in the countryside at present. Everything needs bolting down, locking, alarms, CCTV. Never used to be the case. Now essential!

I lived in a major town for two months. Never again.

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[PositronicRay]

Kermit power said:

julianm said:

Lovely spot you have in mind. You can do this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajue4Z0iJcA
& roll back home for a cup of tea or a pint!

Close, but I have in mind something more like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXD5_1iGbM

I feel a bit sorry for the walkers

[Kermit power]

PositronicRay said:

Kermit power said:

julianm said:

Lovely spot you have in mind. You can do this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajue4Z0iJcA
& roll back home for a cup of tea or a pint!

Close, but I have in mind something more like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXD5_1iGbM

I feel a bit sorry for the walkers

Why so? Walkers have access to over 3,500 miles of rights of way in Shropshire, the large majority of which are footpaths to which they have exclusive access.

They've every right to also use bridleways like this one, as do cyclists and horsey people, but I'm not sure why you'd feel sorry for them just because they have to let the occasional rider through when they do choose to use a bridleway?

[PositronicRay]

Kermit power said:

PositronicRay said:

Kermit power said:

julianm said:

Lovely spot you have in mind. You can do this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajue4Z0iJcA
& roll back home for a cup of tea or a pint!

Close, but I have in mind something more like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXD5_1iGbM

I feel a bit sorry for the walkers

Why so? Walkers have access to over 3,500 miles of rights of way in Shropshire, the large majority of which are footpaths to which they have exclusive access.

They've every right to also use bridleways like this one, as do cyclists and horsey people, but I'm not sure why you'd feel sorry for them just because they have to let the occasional rider through when they do choose to use a bridleway?

No bells.

[ATG]

Willy Nilly said:

They've got electricity in Church Stretton now

But they don't know how to use it. Some are shouting at the fuse box telling it to go back where it came from, others have sacrificed a goat and are dancing around in their underpants.

(It's actually a nice little town in an amazing landscape. It was one of the places we considered when we moved out this way.)

[ATG]

Yipper said:

There's almost no proper countryside left in southeast England. Every square cm is populated or managed or farmed to within an inch of its life. It's hard to go more than 1-2 miles without seeing a farm, house or building.

And 85-90% of the UK is deforested. Almost all the old forests are gone (despite efforts to replant them). Scotland has some reasonable forests and solitude, but even those are almost all artificially managed.

For proper countryside, you gotta go abroad, to somewhere like Spain or Poland.

There's something like 3 times as much forest in the UK now than there was a century ago, so the direction of travel is encouraging.

[Ziplobb]

Last Visit said:

I love living in the country, currently in a small village, if you can call it that, of about 10 houses and 2 farms.

No street lights
No mains gas
No mains sewerage
Hardly any traffic
Fields and farmland all around
No crime (certainly not that I've ever seen)

And yet wierdly FTTP broadband

snap sounds like the place I live - broadband can still be a PITA when the wind blows because the twigs touch the phone lines

[Kermit power]

PositronicRay said:

Kermit power said:

PositronicRay said:

Kermit power said:

julianm said:

Lovely spot you have in mind. You can do this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajue4Z0iJcA
& roll back home for a cup of tea or a pint!

Close, but I have in mind something more like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXD5_1iGbM

I feel a bit sorry for the walkers

Why so? Walkers have access to over 3,500 miles of rights of way in Shropshire, the large majority of which are footpaths to which they have exclusive access.

They've every right to also use bridleways like this one, as do cyclists and horsey people, but I'm not sure why you'd feel sorry for them just because they have to let the occasional rider through when they do choose to use a bridleway?

No bells.

This is true, but in my experience, a friendly "excuse me" always works, whereas ringing a bell in a quiet environment like that often comes over as a bit aggressive.

[juice]

Ziplobb said:

Last Visit said:

I love living in the country, currently in a small village, if you can call it that, of about 10 houses and 2 farms.

No street lights
No mains gas
No mains sewerage
Hardly any traffic
Fields and farmland all around
No crime (certainly not that I've ever seen)

And yet wierdly FTTP broadband

snap sounds like the place I live - broadband can still be a PITA when the wind blows because the twigs touch the phone lines

We're getting FTTP rolled out in our area through a company called Truespeed - 300Mbs !

BT