Living In The Sticks

[silliemillie]

SO many peoples dream is to move to the Country in the middle of nowhere.
I often look at some of the homes on Escape to the Country and suchlike and think I would love to live there.
But thats when its broad daylight & the sun is shining. SO would I really?
I dont mind bad weather so much but I think I would be scared to live somewhere where there were no other houses around.
Not just because of the obvious like intruders but suppose you were on your own and had a fall, you could be there for hours.
DO you live in such a place? Do you get scared at night?

[maggiebee]

For the first 19 years of my life I lived in the middle of nowhere with my parents. Thought nothing of walking home in the pitch dark after a night out. Don't think I would do it these days, I've become a townie over the years. Not afraid of the dark though.

[Prudie]

I do live in a fairly rural area but I have neighbours. I lived for 4 years in a house on its own in the woods when my daughter was a baby. I was scared every night.

[rsvp]

Used to live in a foreign country sixty kms from the nearest European - loved it -

[seadogg]

We loved it until our daughter had to be hospitalised for some time. Four hours driving every day became a bind. On the other hand there was a mountain outside the garden gate. As to darkness, there was nobody about to harm us. Glad we live near a town now that we are older.

[carrust]

I live on the edge of a city, I can be in the centre in 10mins & in the peak district in 15mins. I think I've got the best of both worlds:-)

[fairycakes69]

I live on the edge of a town, 5 mins car ride or 2 min walk to bus stop. Live at a dead end, no houses opposite only fields and farm, great views from upstairs, countryside as far as the eye can see. 5 mins car ride to the beach as well, best of everything, and few neighbours we have are very nice.

[silliemillie]

Carrust & Fairycakes, you both seam to have the best of both worlds.

[Maydup]

I live in a rural area but am not far from a reasonably main route and a village railway station. We have views across the fields, wildlife and wild weather, but not quite as remote as others. Strangely enough we have no gas and no main drains, but a great broadband connection. Thanks to being not far from the village school I guess.

You can live in the countryside without being completely cut off silliemillie. Just choose wisely. We are halfway between a major city and the coast, its ideal.

Having said that i couldn't live without working in and going to the town everyday!

[hammerman]

I'd love to live in a small village or hamlet in the country....just a pub, village store and maybe on a bus route. The further away from people, traffic etc, the better. I feel quite lucky as i live on the outskirts of Lewes, the small but historic county town of East Sussex. It's a nice place but is full of sandal wearing, 2CV driving weirdos.

[tamborine]

the postman would know if my post piled up and I love the quiet of night and wandering through scampering wildlife.

[Ann]

Living in a remote village and not being able to drive would be so difficult for me if anything happened to my Hubby. Also I have a life-long fear of the dark but I love pretty villages and would much prefer to wake up to cockerels crowing and lovely scenery than being on the edge of a town with all the traffic.

[atalanta]

Disadvantages of living deep in the country :
no mains drains so you need a cess pit.
no mains gas
no street lights
no pavements
tractors on the roads when you want to be on the roads
all the neighbouring farmers spend half the summer muck-spreading, and the pong is dreadful. Not to mention the flies.
You get cut off by snow in the winter
Advantages of living in the country:
Utter silence at night, birdsong all day
Cheap wood for your log fire
Astonishing stories to be heard in the pub about monster cats roaming the fields and other superstitions
Lots of wildlife like foxes, hedgehogs, badgers

[LoftyLottie]

All true Atlanta and I love it. I feel much more nervous walking around a town at night than I do in the pitch dark of the country. There are four houses where I live and they are not close together. I have never felt nervous and spend nights alone quite happily. I am not security conscious.

I was born and bred and London, but would never ever go back to live in a town (even a village would seems crowded). You could have a fall in your home in a town and not necessarily be found. We have phones just the same as town dwellers. In fact, country people tend to look out for each other more. We know who lives near us.

[heathfield]

And, Atlanta, the filthiest weather you've ever experienced and you find you've run out of matches. And pub? Wot pub? ;-)

[spudqueen]

I live in a village which suits me. There are two pubs, a handful of shops (village store and post office, hairdressers, chemists and a chippy) and we're on a bus route (though there's only a bus every hour - at the most- and no buses on Sundays). I look out onto trees at the front and from the back can see the fells. We are three miles from a small market town and seven miles from a major town.

I wouldn't like to live in an isolated place. I would always like to be able to walk to a shop for a newspaper and a pint of milk. Not to mention having neighbours to call on if I needed them. My neighbours are lovely. We all look out for each other and if someone is away then we make sure that their bins are put out for collection etc.

[Maggoty]

I live in a rural village with neighbours but country walks within a spit of the house.

I too live on my own but we still have a local bobby (who tells me off for leaving my bedroom windows open for the cats) plus Mark, our postie of 19 years would notice if I wasn't around for any length of time. Three of my neighbours have keys and two text most evenings to discuss cat sitting/dog walking etc.

Wouldn't swop it for the city for anything :-)

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