Why should I spend more time in the English Countryside?

[Linford]

My parents moved to the countryside when they retired (Nr Northleach)....10 years later, they were back. they realised they had made a mistake after about a month, but toughed it out.....no local services, isolated from family and friends.

It is nicer to live in the city and have a view of the countryside with the amenities aroundd you (as we do) than live in the countryside and have nothing to do.

 

[4F]

Maybe they just don't like what your giving them. Do you have a cat. ? If you do maybe thats the reason they avoid your bird table. And where is the bird table. ?

To be fair to the wildlife they can probably spot a weirdo easily and hence why they avoid @threebikesmcginty garden.

 

[byegad]

I was born in an industrial town where if you couldn't chew it you didn't breath it. My weekends were spent in the North York's Moors, Yorkshire coast or the Lake District. I know why the countryside is important and when I grew up chose to live in villages or small towns where the countryside is only a short bike ride away. Currently there are exactly 9 houses between my house and green field, a wood and I love it. London, and other large British cities are the epitome of my nightmares and I spend as little time as possible in them if I really MUST visit at all.

The lack of connection to the natural world that our increasingly urbanised world encourages is, in my voew not good for the long-term future of our species.

 

[Boris Bajic]

@User1314, there is no compelling reason why you should spend time in the countryside. It's all just a big gateau of opinion with everyone thinking they're right.

Lots of people will tell you you should spend more time in the country and then trot out the reasons why they feel the need, quite ignoring the fact that you may have different triggers.

I am a city boy who went semi-rural about twenty years ago. I love it here but I still miss London and get back whenever I can.

Today it is cold and pissy wet and the weeds are thriving and even the trees look sad. The wind is making the rain rattle on the panes every few minutes and everyone who's ventured out has their hood up and very cold fingers and noses.

Today, nothing makes the countryside inviting. On other days there is plenty, but if it isn't your thing that seems perfectly fine.

As far a cycling goes, I do love to ride in London, but when the sun is out, the roads are dry and I'm climbing or descending (or riding along a ridge) in the Malverns or the Beacons or in rural Gloucestershire, there is little to touch it. Certainly not Archway Road in rush hour.

Try it. You don't have to like it. There are no rules about these things. In terms of ornithology, I saw as much diversity inside the M25 as I do outside, although I do enjoy seeing the buzzards and kites we have out this way.

 

[welsh dragon]

I lived in Birmingham for a few decades. It was dreadful having to make sure you kept you handbag safe at all times, and didn't wear expensive jewelry that was on show because of pick pockets. Watching doorways and street corners for muggers and handbag snatchers, and if we went out for a meal after work it took a great of organising to make sure that no one had to walk through the city centre on they're own. Then there was the fact that if anyone were to say hello to you you would have looked at them as if they had two heads and would have been suspicious of they're motives.

Great living in a city isn't it. ?

 

[Fnaar]

I am a bit like a four-wheel drive car* in that while I am primarily 'built' for the countryside, I am equally at home in the city.

(*massive bumpers and driven by a nidiot)

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 2713398, member: 259"]Uncanny. You've obviously met me before, then. [/quote]
Oooooo, arrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Noodley]

Oi @Crackle you nobber, I seem to remember the time you lived in the Scottish countryside you ran all the way back to your English city cos you got scared by "things" outside making noises. Just saying like.

 

[welsh dragon]

@Noodley that is so funny. Ha ha ha lol. Ah diddums.

 

[Crackle]

Oi @Crackle you nobber, I seem to remember the time you lived in the Scottish countryside you ran all the way back to your English city cos you got scared by "things" outside making noises. Just saying like.

Lurky things would be hunted down during the theme'ing process. You don't get lurky things in England, except Scotsmen.

 

[Noodley]

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/thats-given-me-the-creeps.9753/#post-230417
There you go @welsh dragon - witness for yourself his cowering englishness when he lived up here in a proper country.

 

[welsh dragon]

@Noodley. Please that is just so funny. I'm practically peeing myself here. Oooooooh something outside in the dark. Ha ha lol. I love the dark here. We don't have any street lights and you can't see the hand I front of your face. It's great. Thanks for that. Poor crackle. No wonder you don't like the countryside.

 

[Crackle]

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/thats-given-me-the-creeps.9753/#post-230417
There you go @welsh dragon - witness for yourself his cowering englishness when he lived up here in a proper country.

Have you got that permanently farking bookmarked?

 

[welsh dragon]

@Crackle. There's nothing to be embarassed about just because you were s..t scared.......well not much anyway..

 

[Noodley]

Have you got that permanently f***ing bookmarked?

I might do