Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

shirley_basso

rick_chasey said:

shirley_basso said:

You literally don't know what it's like growing up in the countryside if you think a wheat field on the edge of a city constitutes countryside

Don’t think Girton and mates in Cottenham is rural enough?

Not really. Girton is basically a suburb of Cambridge and is surrounded on 2 sides by A roads that you can hear from your garden (we nearly bought a house there). Cottenham , maybe.

rick_chasey

shirley_basso said:

rick_chasey said:

shirley_basso said:

You literally don't know what it's like growing up in the countryside if you think a wheat field on the edge of a city constitutes countryside

Don’t think Girton and mates in Cottenham is rural enough?

Not really. Girton is basically a suburb of Cambridge and is surrounded on 2 sides by A roads that you can hear from your garden (we nearly bought a house there). Cottenham , maybe.

Girton is now, wasn’t in the 90s.

Stevo_666

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

That sounds like a very good couple of tests. I'm assuming with the first one that you mean animal sh*t and not the sort of cars that would have to pay the ULEZ charge

Yes, mostly cowshit. Fine when it's dry but lethal when wet.

We have more problems with horse sh*t round this way. Don't want it sprayed up your back.

First.Aspect

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

School bus literally stuck behind tractors, driving between rapeseed fields, went to a “village college” which fielded children exclusively from villages, my upbringing was village, there just happened to be a large town with a big university which made it a “city” nearby.

Half of the houses built between Cambridge and my village didn’t even exist 20 years ago - I know what the countryside is like

We're there any hills, water features, woodland or wildlife around?

For me a test to see if you are in the countryside is how likely you are to see deer.

Had three jump out on me, in separate incidents, the other night.

pangolin

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

School bus literally stuck behind tractors, driving between rapeseed fields, went to a “village college” which fielded children exclusively from villages, my upbringing was village, there just happened to be a large town with a big university which made it a “city” nearby.

Half of the houses built between Cambridge and my village didn’t even exist 20 years ago - I know what the countryside is like

We're there any hills, water features, woodland or wildlife around?

For me a test to see if you are in the countryside is how likely you are to see deer.

Had three jump out on me, in separate incidents, the other night.

Saw plenty of deer commuting through royal parks in London

pinno

First.Aspect said:

Talk about trivially annoying, yet another tradesman one.

Getting removal quotes. Okay it's the length of the country, but our house is perhaps 1700sq ft so not big.

First quote was £10,000.

Where are you moving to and why?
I thought you are in the lovely Borders.

rick_chasey

lol love how I need to prove my countryside credentials but anyway.

Used to cycle out to Fen Drayton lakes in the summer for bit of mucking about in them or trying out RC water planes.

Seen more deer in RP and bushy park than pretty much anywhere else.

But nah, not many woods nearby. There are a few if you’re happy to trek across various farm fields to get to them, but who wants to go to the woods unless you’re doing underage drinking, drugs or burying bodies?

First.Aspect

Pross said:

First.Aspect said:

Talk about trivially annoying, yet another tradesman one.

Getting removal quotes. Okay it's the length of the country, but our house is perhaps 1700sq ft so not big.

First quote was £10,000.

That's twice the area of the average UK house so pretty big!

Strictly speaking is a 2 bed end terrace. With kind of an office room you could sleep in if you were being held hostage.

Anyhow , it's a medium sized house not a mansion. £10k. No.

pangolin

First.Aspect said:

Pross said:

First.Aspect said:

Talk about trivially annoying, yet another tradesman one.

Getting removal quotes. Okay it's the length of the country, but our house is perhaps 1700sq ft so not big.

First quote was £10,000.

That's twice the area of the average UK house so pretty big!

Strictly speaking is a 2 bed end terrace. With kind of an office room you could sleep in if you were being held hostage.

Anyhow , it's a medium sized house not a mansion. £10k. No.

Ours is a "3" (2 plus a box) room terrace and it's 832sqf according to the listing.

Do you have 6 reception rooms?

shirley_basso

rick_chasey said:

lol love how I need to prove my countryside credentials but anyway.

Used to cycle out to Fen Drayton lakes in the summer for bit of mucking about in them or trying out RC water planes.

Seen more deer in RP and bushy park than pretty much anywhere else.

But nah, not many woods nearby. There are a few if you’re happy to trek across various farm fields to get to them, but who wants to go to the woods unless you’re doing underage drinking, drugs or burying bodies?

Building dens and climbing trees, what else? My parents' house backed onto the woods and if we left the gate open the garden would fill up with horses, cows and deer, surprisingly quickly! They moved a few years ago down the road and the new one comes with rights to put pigs out at certain times of the year to eat the acorns, which we did a few times.

First.Aspect

Stevo_666 said:

First.Aspect said:

Talk about trivially annoying, yet another tradesman one.

Getting removal quotes. Okay it's the length of the country, but our house is perhaps 1700sq ft so not big.

First quote was £10,000.

What are they going to do, wrap your possessions in gold foil? Also out of interest, are you moving back to England?

Yes. With regret in some ways. In other ways, not.

TheBigBean

I broke a spoke on the way home and was very pleased to discover that not only did I have a spare spoke all I needed to do was screw on a new nipple.

But then struck my inability to take a tube and tyre off a wheel without pinching the tube with the tyre lever. Same equipment I've used for years, but somehow I've become completely useless.

Kids were unimpressed with the extended garage time and let me know.

First.Aspect

pangolin said:

First.Aspect said:

Pross said:

First.Aspect said:

Talk about trivially annoying, yet another tradesman one.

Getting removal quotes. Okay it's the length of the country, but our house is perhaps 1700sq ft so not big.

First quote was £10,000.

That's twice the area of the average UK house so pretty big!

Strictly speaking is a 2 bed end terrace. With kind of an office room you could sleep in if you were being held hostage.

Anyhow , it's a medium sized house not a mansion. £10k. No.

Ours is a "3" (2 plus a box) room terrace and it's 832sqf according to the listing.

Do you have 6 reception rooms?

No, 2 and a conservatory. Big rooms, not many of them I guess. It's nice. We don't want to leave really.

It'll be worth less than you think. Scotland, rural.

shirley_basso

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

rjsterry

Stevo_666 said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

That sounds like a very good couple of tests. I'm assuming with the first one that you mean animal sh*t and not the sort of cars that would have to pay the ULEZ charge

Yes, mostly cowshit. Fine when it's dry but lethal when wet.

We have more problems with horse sh*t round this way. Don't want it sprayed up your back.

That'll be all the horsey gels. Far less smelly and splattery than cowshit.

TheBigBean

If horse manure is the test for stick living, then I'm rural.

rjsterry

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

School bus literally stuck behind tractors, driving between rapeseed fields, went to a “village college” which fielded children exclusively from villages, my upbringing was village, there just happened to be a large town with a big university which made it a “city” nearby.

Half of the houses built between Cambridge and my village didn’t even exist 20 years ago - I know what the countryside is like

We're there any hills, water features, woodland or wildlife around?

For me a test to see if you are in the countryside is how likely you are to see deer.

Had three jump out on me, in separate incidents, the other night.

They're practically a pest now, aren't they? You get them on the outskirts of Croydon. A few more years and they'll be tipping over wheelie bins with the foxes.

Stevo_666

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

That sounds like a very good couple of tests. I'm assuming with the first one that you mean animal sh*t and not the sort of cars that would have to pay the ULEZ charge

Yes, mostly cowshit. Fine when it's dry but lethal when wet.

We have more problems with horse sh*t round this way. Don't want it sprayed up your back.

That'll be all the horsey gels. Far less smelly and splattery than cowshit.

The dogs certainly approve of the stuff...

First.Aspect

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

Pross

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

School bus literally stuck behind tractors, driving between rapeseed fields, went to a “village college” which fielded children exclusively from villages, my upbringing was village, there just happened to be a large town with a big university which made it a “city” nearby.

Half of the houses built between Cambridge and my village didn’t even exist 20 years ago - I know what the countryside is like

We're there any hills, water features, woodland or wildlife around?

For me a test to see if you are in the countryside is how likely you are to see deer.

Had three jump out on me, in separate incidents, the other night.

They're practically a pest now, aren't they? You get them on the outskirts of Croydon. A few more years and they'll be tipping over wheelie bins with the foxes.

Oddly I’ve never seen one in the wild in my part of Wales despite being on the edge of countryside pretty much all my life and regularly walking more rural areas. I did see a video a couple of weeks ago of one running along a street in Cwmbran so they are obviously around.

I see foxes quite often (proper rural ones) and the odd badger, rabbits all the time but last week was the first time I’d seen a hare in the parts.

First.Aspect

Pross said:

rjsterry said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

rjsterry said:

Stevo_666 said:

rick_chasey said:

First.Aspect said:

rick_chasey said:

Countryside version of complaining about the noise in Soho, no?

No, it's the equivalent of having a firing range in Soho.

The actual countryside equivalent is complaining about the morning chorus or something like that. You'd hate it.

Literally grew up with the garden backing out onto a massive wheat field, I know what it’s like to live in the countryside.

So you lived on the edge of town?

To me, the key test is 'is there sh*t on the road?' but that may be due to growing up in a dairy farming area. East Anglia is mostly arable, so I guess 'are you occasionally stuck behind a tractor?'

Having said that, I was in Ongar on Sunday where we had to give way to a combine on the high street but which had a tube station until 1994.

School bus literally stuck behind tractors, driving between rapeseed fields, went to a “village college” which fielded children exclusively from villages, my upbringing was village, there just happened to be a large town with a big university which made it a “city” nearby.

Half of the houses built between Cambridge and my village didn’t even exist 20 years ago - I know what the countryside is like

We're there any hills, water features, woodland or wildlife around?

For me a test to see if you are in the countryside is how likely you are to see deer.

Had three jump out on me, in separate incidents, the other night.

They're practically a pest now, aren't they? You get them on the outskirts of Croydon. A few more years and they'll be tipping over wheelie bins with the foxes.

Oddly I’ve never seen one in the wild in my part of Wales despite being on the edge of countryside pretty much all my life and regularly walking more rural areas. I did see a video a couple of weeks ago of one running along a street in Cwmbran so they are obviously around.

I see foxes quite often (proper rural ones) and the odd badger, rabbits all the time but last week was the first time I’d seen a hare in the parts.

In all the years I commuted to here, I saw two deer. Plus another couple from the house and a few more on walks. Did a balloon trip over the area a few years ago in the middle of the day and saw dozens from the air. They are remarkably good at not being seen.

shirley_basso

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

This is about 30 mins drive from Aberdeen airport.

First.Aspect

shirley_basso said:

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

This is about 30 mins drive from Aberdeen airport.

Would be interested to see the listing actually. We looked at a few places in Scotland, even on the Black Isle, and lowest I got was about 2/3 price of here. Am going to guess the house itself needs more work than is viable for most people who might appear to be able to afford it.

Often the acreage is a red herring. It exists, but there's nothing on it and never could be. Even in Devon a paddock is only about £4k an acre, unless its got development potential (in which case multiple by 10).

Pross

I'd like to get my hands on a paddock around here to use as a dog field and maybe an allotment / somewhere to chill in summer but nothing comes up. Any land that does come up seems to be badged as having development potential even when it's obvious it would never get planning. I've seen a few woodlands I'd be interested in but they tend to be too large and / or too far from the house to make them usable.

TheBigBean

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

This is about 30 mins drive from Aberdeen airport.

Would be interested to see the listing actually. We looked at a few places in Scotland, even on the Black Isle, and lowest I got was about 2/3 price of here. Am going to guess the house itself needs more work than is viable for most people who might appear to be able to afford it.

Often the acreage is a red herring. It exists, but there's nothing on it and never could be. Even in Devon a paddock is only about £4k an acre, unless its got development potential (in which case multiple by 10).

How much do you think a four bed in Fulham is? That might explain the differing views.

First.Aspect

Pross said:

I'd like to get my hands on a paddock around here to use as a dog field and maybe an allotment / somewhere to chill in summer but nothing comes up. Any land that does come up seems to be badged as having development potential even when it's obvious it would never get planning. I've seen a few woodlands I'd be interested in but they tend to be too large and / or too far from the house to make them usable.

Yeah and if they are attached to a house they do tend to add more value than they could be sold for alone.

That said, anything 10 bedroomed and 40 acred is a farm. That's a different property market entirely. I'd even wonder whether there are conditions attached.

Pross

Half an acre within a couple of miles of the house, preferably with a water supply, would be all I want.

shirley_basso

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

This is about 30 mins drive from Aberdeen airport.

Would be interested to see the listing actually. We looked at a few places in Scotland, even on the Black Isle, and lowest I got was about 2/3 price of here. Am going to guess the house itself needs more work than is viable for most people who might appear to be able to afford it.

Often the acreage is a red herring. It exists, but there's nothing on it and never could be. Even in Devon a paddock is only about £4k an acre, unless its got development potential (in which case multiple by 10).

PM'd you

kingstongraham

TheBigBean said:

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

First.Aspect said:

shirley_basso said:

Scotland prices are staggaring at times. You can get 10 bed farmhouses with outbuildings and 40 tenanted acres in semi-rural scotland for less than a 4 bed in Fulham. Cost of upkeep ain't cheap, though.

It's not quite that cheap 10 miles from the capital, or honestly anywhere you'd want to do anything other than visit. There are parts of the mainland out west that are more isolated than you imagine. So yes land is cheap, but good luck finding a plumber. Or a bank. Or a shop. Or a petrol station.

All that said, it helps having no ambition and tolerating living somewhere else other than Ambitionshire. Means your meagre salary goes a bit further.

This is about 30 mins drive from Aberdeen airport.

Would be interested to see the listing actually. We looked at a few places in Scotland, even on the Black Isle, and lowest I got was about 2/3 price of here. Am going to guess the house itself needs more work than is viable for most people who might appear to be able to afford it.

Often the acreage is a red herring. It exists, but there's nothing on it and never could be. Even in Devon a paddock is only about £4k an acre, unless its got development potential (in which case multiple by 10).

How much do you think a four bed in Fulham is? That might explain the differing views.

To be fair, this one is genuinely the same price as a 4 bed terrace in Fulham.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/133418687?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/&channel=RES_BUY

shirley_basso

Bloody hell that is good value. I know Dufftown is yet further away, but not a million miles of Aberdeen.