Are people from the country more NOSY than city folk?

southsiderosie

Coming off the heels of the 'where are you from' thread (and other assorted threads in AH), it seems that country people have a reputation for nosiness. Yet having grown up in apartments in large cities, I always felt the opposite: at least in the country your neighbors aren't close enough to where they can hear you fighting with your OH or comment on the raging house party sedate gathering you hosted the night before (there is one nosy old broad in every large apartment building!).

So, AH, who is nosier, country folk or city slickers?

Mickeroo

Noisy in what way? If you mean to live with then I've not noticed much of a difference between either. That is to say you get noisey and quiet people on both sides.

southsiderosie

Mickeroo wrote: »

Noisy in what way? If you mean to live with then I've not noticed much of a difference between either. That is to say you get noisey and quiet people on both sides.

Nosy not noisy! :P

Honey-ec

Mickeroo wrote: »

Noisy in what way? If you mean to live with then I've not noticed much of a difference between either. That is to say you get noisey and quiet people on both sides.

Nosy, love, nosy.

Latchy

Nosy or Noisy ? ...it's your choice .

Naomi00

Wtf is the point of this poll?

It's so stupid there aren't words for it..

Absurdum

only the jewish ones arf arf arf

southsiderosie

Naomi00 wrote: »

Wtf is the point of this poll?

It's so stupid there aren't words for it..

Welcome to AH sweetie...

Kevin Duffy

What are you asking for? Where are you from? Who sent you? Who's your people?

Feckin' jackeens.

Mickeroo

southsiderosie wrote: »

Nosy not noisy! :P

I have a rare bone desease that prevents me from seeing the letter 'i' in the word Noisy

Naomi00

southsiderosie wrote: »

Welcome to AH sweetie...

Not new actually.

Also, what's up with the 'country' people terminology? Dublin is not the centre of the universe, sorry to say

CatMH

i read noisy too.....only realised it was nosy when i read southsiderosie's post! Don't feel so stupid now when i see someone else misread it too.

Mickeroo

I grew up in a rural area and I can honestly say that yes, people from rural areas are nosier. When my mum moved back from London in the late 70s she hated it for that very reason. Of course she's been fully assimilated back since

wonderfulname

Mickeroo wrote: »

I grew up in a rural area and I can honestly say that yes, people from rural areas are nosier. When my mum moved back from London in the late 70s she hated it for that very reason. Of course she's been fully assimilated back since

You're confusing rural with Irish.

southsiderosie

Naomi00 wrote: »

Not new actually.

Also, what's up with the 'country' people terminology? Dublin is not the centre of the universe, sorry to say

I'm not from Dublin, or Ireland for that matter.

City/country; urban/rural, what's the big deal?

stovelid

City slickers don't exist in Ireland. You're thinking of yank sitcoms.

Mickeroo

wonderfulname wrote: »

You're confusing rural with Irish.

Nah, having lived in both rural and urban areas there's a certain anonymity you get living in a city or town that you don't get in a rural area.

wonderfulname

Yeah but its not a nosy thing its a community thing, the nosiness levels are the same, you'll just find them in the workplace etc as opposed to next door.

southsiderosie

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nah, having lived in both rural and urban areas there's a certain anonymity you get living in a city or town that you don't get in a rural area.

Well, yes and no...I grew up in a city, but my neighborhoods was basically like a small village.

If you are out in the country and you live on a lot of land, how would anybody know what you were out there doing?

wonderfulname

southsiderosie wrote: »

If you are out in the country and you live on a lot of land, how would anybody know what you were out there doing?

It's actually a lot easier than working out what your neighbours are up to in a block of flats... unless your neighbours are particularly noisy...

southsiderosie

wonderfulname wrote: »

It's actually a lot easier than working out what your neighbours are up to in a block of flats... unless your neighbours are particularly noisy...

Given how ****ty so many new apartment blocks are, you can't help but to be nosy, or at least an inadvertent eavesdropper...I feel like I know a little too much about a lot of my former neighbors.

Mickeroo

southsiderosie wrote: »

Well, yes and no...I grew up in a city, but my neighborhoods was basically like a small village.

I guess it's different if you grow up on the street, but if you move to a town or city I find you could live somewhere for years and not know anyone in the next house/apartment. If you move to a village in the middle of nowhere it won't be long before everyone knows who you are around the place.

southsiderosie wrote: »

If you are out in the country and you live on a lot of land, how would anybody know what you were out there doing?

Nothing happens in my village without everyone knowing or finding out. Having said that if you mean in a more sinister "ooh its dark out on the moors" kind of way you could probably get up to all sorts of stuff without anyone knowing yea :P

wonderfulname

southsiderosie wrote: »

Given how ****ty so many new apartment blocks are, you can't help but to be nosy, or at least an inadvertent eavesdropper...I feel like I know a little too much about a lot of my former neighbors.

The difference is in a block of flats you know your neighbour is a screamer, in rural Ireland you know who's making them scream and their entire life and family history.

In fact I take it back, rural people are more nosy, but it's only because it's easier to be, not because they are somehow predispositioned to it.

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I saw a documentary called Fair City which pretty much proved city folk to be just as nosy

Oh_Noes

Having lived in both situations I strangely find that being a bit more removed from your neighbour tends to make you more curious about them.

When you're in an apartment upstairs from a couple who are screaming at each other regularly, you start to wonder if they'll shut the fúck up so you can get some sleep rather than wonder what they're shouting about.

Naomi00

I think you're confusing 'nosy' people with people from an area (rural or urban) where everyone knows everyone.

Knowing your neighbours isn't necessarily a bad thing.