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  • Gibbon
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    In my former town, we used to get new neigbours buying new houses near the airport and then complaining daily about the noise of planes taking off.
    Like this previous one on here!
    Coleshill: Woman who moved next to busy A-road insists she's not stupid | Metro News

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  • Paddy
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    In my former town, we used to get new neigbours buying new houses near the airport and then complaining daily about the noise of planes taking off.

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  • d000hg
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    There's been ructions in a nearby village where the parish council did/plan to ban cockerels on one group of allotments.

    Lots of "if you don't like sounds of nature don't live in the country" comments from those using their allotment to raise rare-breed birds.

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  • SueEllen
    started a topic Those who move and complain about...

    Those who move and complain about...

    church bells, donkeys and roosters. Feck off!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ist-complaints

    Some called in to complain about braying donkeys. Other tourists dialled up officials in the northern Spanish village of Ribadesella, population 5,700, to notify them of the mess left behind by wandering cows.

    “Last week we had a lady who called us three or four times over a rooster that was waking her up at 5am,” said Ramón Canal, Ribadesella’s mayor. “She told us that we had to do something.”

    Officials sprang into action. What they came up with, however, likely fell short of what the grumbling tourists were hoping for: a tongue-in-cheek poster campaign that calls on city slickers to “assume all the risks” of rural life.

    “Here we have church bells that ring out regularly, roosters that crow early in the morning and herds of livestock that live nearby and at times carry cowbells that also make noise,” reads the poster put up around the town in recent days.

    “If you can’t handle all this, you may not be in the right place,” it adds.


    The aim is to bridge the at times yawning gap between urbanites and rural life, the mayor told the Spanish broadcaster Antena 3. “One needs to realise that milk doesn’t come in cartons, it comes from cows, and that you have to feed and maintain them.”

    The idea for the posters came from a village in southern France, said the deputy mayor, Luis Sánchez. About two years ago, Saint-André-de-Valborgne, home to about 400 people, pushed back against petulant urbanites with posters that warned of tolling church bells, clanging cowbells and crowing roosters in the area.







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