Pros/Cons of living in the countryside

Lucifer MorningStar

Pro - The peace and quite

Con - ****e on the land

4zn76tysfajdxp

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Con - ****e on the land

Well, you don't have to.

pundy

pro - you're far away from bankers and culchies who moved to Dublin and think they're amazing.
con - you're not far away from people who ride their own cousins.

best solution: another country's countryside

Kintarō Hattori

Pro - People are friendlier
Pro - Things are often cheaper
Pro - It can be quite scenic

Con - It can be far away from shops/work

Sir Arthur Daley

pundy wrote: »

con - you're not far away from people who ride their own cousins.

Is this not more frequent in built up areas?

dgt

Pro: i can do what i like

Con: if someone sees me doing what i like, ill be arrested

Wolff

Cons – Human Trafficking for strawberry picking

Pros – Strawberry Picking for Humans Trafficking

Knex*

From my own perspective having grown up in a rural area and then living in a City the last few years.

Pro: People are friendly and sociable
Pro: Good place to grow up as a kid - Plenty of space to play about in, reasonably safe
Pro: Can make a load of noise and no one will notice. Be that shouting as a kid, or even now if I go back to the folks and am playing guitar or singing, or whatever.

Con: Boring as hell when you're older.
Con: Everything is further away. Can't just stroll to a Spar or take a wander to a busy restaurant or pub.

Joe Duffy..

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Pro - The peace and quite

Con - ****e on the land

The peace and quite what?

buck65

Running in the fields forests etc. I do this regularly.

yeahimhere

Pros
- seeing a proper starry night sky without town / city lights
- peaceful
- lovely scenery

Con - going anywhere involves driving and long commute to work.

The_B_Man

Pro: Relaxing and quiet

Con: Town gossip

Philo Beddoe

Pro: People have more pleasant accents.
Con: They have little to say worth listening to.

kippy

Knex. wrote: »

From my own perspective having grown up in a rural area.

Pro: People are friendly and sociable
Pro: Good place to grow up as a kid - Plenty of space to play about in, reasonably safe
Pro: Can make a load of noise and no one will notice. Be that shouting as a kid, or even now if I go back to the folks and am playing guitar or singing, or whatever.

Con: Boring as hell when you're older.
Con: Everything is further away. Can't just stroll to a Spar or take a wander to a busy restaurant or pub.

Agree with all of that.

Conmaicne Mara

dgt wrote: »

Pro: i can do what i like

Con: if someone sees me doing what i like, ill be arrested

Leave the animals alone :eek:

BikingIsBest

Pro: close access to the bog so you can cut your turf and have a free supply of fuel for the long cold winter nights

Con: you have to go out to the filthy dirty bog and cut the turf which is hard work

Lucifer MorningStar

Adaline Pitiful Fish wrote: »

Well, you don't have to.

All this heat must be getting to me

emmabrighton

Con: nothing to do in the evenings
Con: spending 40 mins driving back into town because you forgot the bloody milk
Con: takeaways dont deliver to you
Con: cant walk home from the pub
Con: you have to drive to meet up with your friends
Con: you have to leave an hour earlier to get to work in the mornings
Con: you get no quality time with your kids because it is 7 before you are home from work
Con: having gone out for dinner/to the pub you have to get a taxi home
Con: no local amenities - cant just walk to the park
Con: your neighbours thrive on knowing your business
Con: it is impossible to keep your home muck free.
Con: your garden isnt the size of a postage stamp which means you have to spend your life gardening or your garden turns into a forest
Con: more pot holes and more driving means more wear and tear on your car

Pros: for the price of a 3 bed semi in dublin, you can get a 4 bed detached house on 0.5 of an acre

maguic24

Con: Twitching curtains!

ArtyM

Pro: No neighbours to see you digging 'disposal holes' in the back garden at night.

Pro: No neighbours to complain about noises - screaming etc.

Con: Far distance to travel to stock up on supplies - duct tape, bin liners, car batteries, electrodes etc

Sir Arthur Daley

Pros: Not to have to put up listening to your neighbours riding 2-3 times a week through the paper thin walls of the celtic tiger semi detached.

Cons: Not having all the amenities of living in a built up area.

Different strokes for different folks i guess.

Dramatik

Pros: One can have a large rave in back garden.

Cons: Only sheep and cows will attend.

yeahimhere

emmabrighton wrote: »

Con: nothing to do in the evenings
Con: spending 40 mins driving back into town because you forgot the bloody milk
Con: takeaways dont deliver to you
Con: cant walk home from the pub
Con: you have to drive to meet up with your friends
Con: you have to leave an hour earlier to get to work in the mornings
Con: you get no quality time with your kids because it is 7 before you are home from work
Con: having gone out for dinner/to the pub you have to get a taxi home
Con: no local amenities - cant just walk to the park
Con: your neighbours thrive on knowing your business
Con: it is impossible to keep your home muck free.
Con: your garden isnt the size of a postage stamp which means you have to spend your life gardening or your garden turns into a forest
Con: more pot holes and more driving means more wear and tear on your car

Pros: for the price of a 3 bed semi in dublin, you can get a 4 bed detached house on 0.5 of an acre

Hmmm....would it be safe to presume you're originally from dublin?

Usually this is the attitude that some dubs have when they move out and don't embrace the pros of country living. And wonder why the locals don't like them.

TeaBagMania

Pro: peace quiet relaxing

Cons: can’t think of any

SouthTippBass

Pro: I can play the drums as loud as I want.

Con: The commute.

Corvo

Pros:

The smell o' the land
The smell o' the taters
The smell o' the hay
Hang sandwiches

Cons:

The smell o' the silage

emmabrighton

yeahimhere wrote: »

Hmmm....would it be safe to presume you're originally from dublin?

Usually this is the attitude that some dubs have when they move out and don't embrace the pros of country living. And wonder why the locals don't like them.

You are correct in your assumption, I moved there... made a few lovely friends, married a local - had to move back to dublin for a couple of years and now trying to come up with a reason to move back down.

all that hard work down the country will mean i will die of exhaustion before i am 50

life in dublin is so much easier

shruikan2553

Pros: Cheaper housing
Cons: Need a car, shops are far away, no fiber broadband, have to travel for a job etc etc.

Chucken

emmabrighton wrote: »

You are correct in your assumption, I moved there... made a few lovely friends, married a local - had to move back to dublin for a couple of years and now trying to come up with a reason to move back down.

all that hard work down the country will mean i will die of exhaustion before i am 50

life in dublin is so much easier

Where do you live that you have to drive 40 minutes to a shop?

ComputerKing

Pro: People are more friendly and sociable
Pro: Good place to grow up
Pro: Can make a load of noise and do what you want and no one will notice.
Pro: Cheaper
Pro: You know everybody and there is more a community rather than being the family in the house at the back of the housing estate of the lad in apartment no. 10
Pro: No light pollution you can actually see the stars at night
Pro: Bigger gardens and houses
Pro: You can play walk and cycle safely on the road with out getting knocked down unlike in the city.

Con: Sometimes can be boring as you get older
Con: Things are further away you can't just walk to the shop

This is just for me personally there are loads more but they'd take ages to type up

yeahimhere

emmabrighton wrote: »

You are correct in your assumption, I moved there... made a few lovely friends, married a local - had to move back to dublin for a couple of years and now trying to come up with a reason to move back down.

all that hard work down the country will mean i will die of exhaustion before i am 50

life in dublin is so much easier

Looking for a reason to move back down to the country? You may want to work on reversing the long list cons and short 'list' of pros to the other way around.

Otherwise you'll always hate it. It's not for all, but great for some.

The Backwards Man

Pro: Everything

Con: Nothing

Ruu

Pro: relaxing, only neigbours are a mile or two up the road and have lived there as long as yourself or longer.

Only con is medical facilities are far away but same could be said for any rural spot in Ireland.

chosen1

emmabrighton wrote: »

Con: nothing to do in the evenings
Con: spending 40 mins driving back into town because you forgot the bloody milk
Con: takeaways dont deliver to you
Con: cant walk home from the pub
Con: you have to drive to meet up with your friends
Con: you have to leave an hour earlier to get to work in the mornings
Con: you get no quality time with your kids because it is 7 before you are home from work
Con: having gone out for dinner/to the pub you have to get a taxi home
Con: no local amenities - cant just walk to the park
Con: your neighbours thrive on knowing your business
Con: it is impossible to keep your home muck free.
Con: your garden isnt the size of a postage stamp which means you have to spend your life gardening or your garden turns into a forest
Con: more pot holes and more driving means more wear and tear on your car

Pros: for the price of a 3 bed semi in dublin, you can get a 4 bed detached house on 0.5 of an acre

I think a lot of what you're describing is referring to living in the wilderness rather than countryside.
I grew up in the countryside about 10 minutes drive from a decent sized town with all the amenities you describe. Am currently living in suburban area about a 25 minute walk from town centre but still will drive to see friends, supermarket shopping, go out and get a taxi home as would all my neighbours.
Only difference to me is lack of real privacy now, having to keep noise down at night etc.

I'd jump at the chance of getting a house in the countryside if we could afford the move. Some day hopefully.

Lando Griffin

Pro: You can drive legally at 16.
Con: You will be driving legally from 6 in the morning till 11 at night drawing silage and spreading muck.

Capt'n Midnight

cons - less infrastructure

pros - knowing that you city cousins are subsidising that infrastructure for you

Lucifer MorningStar

Pro - Country People Telling Townies ' Touch The Electric Fence' For The Craic

Con - Townies calling you boggers

caustic 1

Pros- Friendly folk, birds singing, starry nights, country smells, wildlife, freedom, solitude.

Cons- Feeling like being on an elastic band running 3 kids into town to meet friends, of course never can be at the same time and same goes for collections.

Tail Docker

Pros - gun ownership.
Cons - all the mad neighbours are armed.