Village People.......

Look on Google maps (or fly over it if you get the chance), quite an "eye opener".

Some specific parks have a bad reputation for drugs, violence etc though.

Some of the rivers I looked after in East London ran through some quite pleasant parks.
I've flown into Heathrow and Auckland, guess which one felt like you'd ODed on LSD for being excessively "green"?🤔😁😆😆😆
 

melted welly

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Arable Farmer
Location
DD9.
friends family home backed on to Richmond Park. I was invited down for the weekend after A levels and drove in ( that was an experience!) parked up and went in, all very jolly.

the next day he suggested a walk for us all to recover from night before so off we trotted, across the lawn to a door in a big wall, opened up on to the park. I was suprised by the vastness but even more so by the herd of deer who just walked past a few metres away! I’d never been so close to (alive) deer before then, they assumed this was normal!
Did he own a dog called Fenton?
 
We’ve had some great people move into our village. We are close enough to London to be commutable but far enough out that it is still properly rural. I find people who move in with families are fine- they want to get involved in the village and are too busy to make a nuisance of themselves.

I used to work in Dorset where most of the newcomers were retirees. What a nightmare. They had nothing to do but complain.

eg. ‘The whirring noises start at 4am every morning. It smells etc etc’
Well you did buy a house next to a dairy farm love.

To be honest I think you will find grief with new people arriving in the area anywhere if you look hard enough. I can well imagine people moving into some parts of Dorset and finding things not to their liking.
 

DrWazzock

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
When I lived in Manchester we had two old ladies as neighbours. Every week they mowed their bit of lawn with a heavy old cast iron push mower which they stored in their cellar. I always wondered how they managed to get it up and down those steps. One day I saw them both struggling with it and offered to give them a hand. Easy I thought. They willingly agreed and I set too letting the mower down a step at a time. About halfway down I was so knackered I thought I was going to have to let it go, but just managed to hold onto it till I got to the bottom step. We certainly don’t have a monopoly on strength and physical ability in the countryside!
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
London does actually have a fair bit of green space in it with lots of parks. Right in the centre, though, many are small private ones in the Georgian Squares and only open to the (very wealthy) residents.

I lived on Tottenham court road, above spearmint rhino, and next to the hospital. The best walks were at 4am through the City as at the weekends it's just empty.
 

MrNoo

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Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
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.
Yes, I find the same here but bet your bottom dollar they will get on the Parish Council in short order, it's what they seem to do, that and bring their dirty little habits with them, I am not very tolerant towards them.
But it's the same if you are unfortunate enough to go to London, holding a door open or making way for someone to walk past, they never say thank you.
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
I think maybe it occurs nearly everywhere now but you'd get thanked maybe 6-8 times out of 10 in the local town here, depending of course which establishment you were in at the time, McDonalds or M&S
And, in London, you'd probably find 1 in 100 occasions you'd get a rant about mysogeny from a heavy duty London feminist activist, especially in certain boroughs. :rolleyes:
 

holwellcourtfarm

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Livestock Farmer
About 6 weeks before the Olympics opened I was grabbing a coffee at Starbucks in Westfield Stratford Centre and noticed a girl in the queue wearing a Barbour and green wellies so I went over for a chat. She turned out to be a rural Yorkshire lass who was part of the team coreographing the opening ceremony. She'd spent the weekend with a friend in the country and only brought trainers and her wellies. It'd rained hard earlier and soaked her trainers so wellies it was! We had a good laugh about it while getting annoyed looks from the other "diners".
 

Paddington

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Location
Soggy Shropshire
When we first moved here and going to buy a pint of milk, every person you passed on the street would stop to say hello or ask after you, commentate on the weather etc. I had no idea who I was talking to, but presumed they knew who I was ? Sadly times have changed, Covid hasn't helped and people just scurry past now.
 

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