Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
I keep getting emails from Uber offering me £15 off my first order of Uber Eats then they refuse my order when I try.
Mind you so do dominoes and they send me a leaflet most weeks
Village People.......
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Mind you so do dominoes and they send me a leaflet most weeks
which one are you then ?
- Location
- South Wales UK
Have a "feed" on that one .
Needed a passenger riding Shotgun, WITH a shotgun....
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
Geronimo!which one are you then ?
Perhaps a bit off a generalisation, but I find that people who move from London to our area ( Cotswolds) seem to be very hard to talk to , they never seem very friendly folk , some have a job to say hello , if one says good morning to them,ignorant so and so’s.
ollie989898
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Had some of that a bit when we moved in here.
Being rural folk, knocked on doors and introduced ourselves. Some folk looked bewildered or terrified that someone would knock on their door.
A lot of these people live behind net curtains, you never see them, they never wave, they just scoot out and back in the cars. Don't see them in the pub or at the local chip van. Morons living in a community but not actually making the most of it. All the do is part stones on grass verges and complain to the parish council there are no street lights or pavements.
Back when we lived on a new development in a village, besides a foreign couple and a local chap who had worked locally all his life, no one talked to each other.
Always got lost going to yfc discos there, even worse coming home in thick fogGet them in the saint's, that'd sort them out
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
To be fair if I saw you approaching my door I would lock the doors and hide under the bed so you can't really blame them! [emoji3]
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Two large houses have just sold in my village, one house the people couldn't be nicer, spending lots of money on it using local trades and keeping themselves to themselves, the other house well..........they bought the house of a lady who moved into a smaller house in the same village and then one month later she got a letter from their solicitor saying that she has to pay £30k+ for "remedial" works that the house needed despite two surveys by the buyers and all the certificates that they needed and now are complaining about traffic going past the house at unsociable hours (basically anytime on a Sunday) good job there's no room for anymore people on the parish council ! The couple were wanting to join !
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
A new housemate had moved from her London job to work in the country (Basingstoke). On her first night she came running in to ask when the streetlights came on ? We told her they didn't as there weren't any. Someone lent her a torch (she would have to buy one) and half an hour later she was shouting for everyone to come and look at all the stars. Apart from being on holiday she had never lived anywhere where stars were visible at night.
Anywhere nice absolutely teeming with arseholes
THE picturesque parts of Britain are now full of utter dickbags, it has emerged.
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Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
Went to buy a newspaper at the local shop a couple of days after moving in, they knew who I was, where I lived and the fact that the furniture van had nearly come to grief a couple of times before getting here.
Chopsy Varmint
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A few years ago a friend lived on the edge of Richmond Park. It was great sport to see how many folk I could startle by saying 'hello', 'nice day', or 'afternoon' as we walked past.The city is a very strange place, when I visit my son in London , he has a nice flat in an old victorian house . When I say good morning to any of his neighbours, they jump and look most odd at me. I feel a bit like Crocodile Dundee
I also remember going on the Countryside Alliance march, getting the Tube from Greenwich and the fear on the faces of regular Tube users as the carriages filled with robust, ruddy-cheeked, ruralites in smelly Barbours, all saying 'hello' as they walked past.
Whilst it was funny at the time it's actually quite a sad reflection on urban society.
Chopsy Varmint
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Same here when I moved into a village up north. One of the locals saw me unloading the car of the final bits and bobs and stopped for a chat. He already knew who I was, where I had moved from, where I worked and invited me round to a regular monthly drinks do at the other end of the village that weekend.
What a difference when I moved into my current place which is something of a dormitory village for Cambridge and London. Since no neighbours came to say 'hello' I went round knocking on doors to introduce myself, but I think I scared a few of them. I'll talk to anyone I see in passing but there are a few who will just scuttle past with a face like a dog's bumhole.
Swarfmonkey
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- Location
- Hampshire
I lived in London for three years when at university. What really rammed it home about how impersonal the place was when this old dear keeled over in front of me and a mate on Oxford Street. He and I went to help, damn near everyone else just walked past without even casting a glance at her.
I was very glad to get the hell out of that cesspit. Didn't even bother going back for the graduation ceremony.
I was very glad to get the hell out of that cesspit. Didn't even bother going back for the graduation ceremony.
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
My daughter did a year at LSE and hated it, son just loves London. personally I am in your camp!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Most villages have a local loony like that [emoji3]