I often drive around the south of England and see houses of all shapes and sizes that appear to be very isolated and yet somehow also have a busy road meters away from their front door or garden.
How is life in one of these properties? I presume a walk to the local pub is impossible, so does socialising always involve driving? What happens if the road gets cut off?
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Very few places in the UK are really the “middle of nowhere”
For my late teens I lived in a hamlet, maybe a dozen houses and a pub (that became a decent restaurant in the time I lived there).
We were about three quarters of a mile from the nearest village and 5 miles from the middle of the nearest town. I’d walked to and from both at times for various reasons. It wasn’t that big a deal….
Probably have more luck posting this question in the r/lonelysinglehousesonAroadsinthesouthofengland reddit.
I have often wondered who lives in those houses too. Here for example https://maps.app.goo.gl/kVmoqLShKSHCn8Gb9
Not sure, I live in a city
I live in the middle of nowhere but not near a busy road. There’s a track alongside my garden that people occasionally ride up on horses.
Socialising is only a problem if you want to drink, which I don’t do often. My partner is out with a friend this evening so I’ve dropped her down to our nearest town (15 – 20 minutes away). I’ll have to go get her later.
I love being out here. It’s like a little sanctuary, just us and the birds.
I couldn’t live near a big road, the noise would irritate me.
There’s no ATM, no shop, one bus an hour that usually runs 10/20 minutes late and not on Sundays or past 7pm any other time. The pub opens if and when they want to. The only road into town is an unmaintained footpath next to said A road which is so overgrown in places you have no choice but to walk on the tarmac. Your cat gets run over but no one ever stops because it’s an a road so you find them yourself (not my choice before anyone comes at me, my parents choice).
The village hall is paid for yearly even though we never use it because the old people won’t let you do anything other than yoga, cheese and wine sessions or something other than anything the general population enjoys.
Unable to walk to town for work without the fear of being hit and killed on the road – it’d happened before, couldn’t find work I could get to to afford a car, no prospects, no future. Fuck my parents for dragging me out of a city with all the prospects and dumping me there. I don’t live in the UK anymore, but that was my life for six years.
I’m just hear to see how many people on reddit actually live in these houses
I live in the middle of nowhere 5 miles from the nearest town. I don’t feel inconvenienced at all, prior to living here I would walk to the shops which took just as long as a drive would.
Even though there’s a main road nearby I don’t hear it and at night it’s silent and pitch black.
The only problem I would say is deliveries, most can’t find us and I often have to give directions over the phone as the post code doesn’t direct people here.