'Do it later, or not at all': Farmers teach a lesson to city folks after they make 'smell complaints [and] noise complaints'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 28, 2023 5:00 PM EST

These city people had a lot to learn about life in the country. 

A few years back when everyone was stuck indoors for a year or so, lots of people couldn't handle it. Especially for city dwellers, being cooped up inside made it feel like we were trapped. For people who had the money to do so, moving to the countryside seemed like a great solution. They could be properly isolated from others while actually having space to roam around, garden, or take walks. But since this was such a last-minute decision, folks didn't always think things through all the way. 

These people, for example, were unhappy with the smells and sounds of country living. There's not much to be done about that. Farm animals are going to smell a little stinky, and they're going to moo/neigh/oink/cluck accordingly, because that's how they communicate. You can't come to a dairy farm and tell the farmers to knock these things off. It's their livelihood, and the farmers are totally used to it. 

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  • Well, these city people realized that the farm life wasn't quite for them. Instead of the peace and tranquility they were probably expecting, they realized that farmers get up at the crack of dawn to work. As the OP, u/Doriantualus, writes, “Work started at 5am, tractors and all." Apparently the city slickers would rather sleep in than have help with their snow plowing!

    After you check out this great malicious compliance story, this student managed to outsmart their principal in order to have a snowball fight. 

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    Short and Sweet: City folk come at the farmer SOC I grew up on a dairy struggling every day 365 to help my family live. About 10 years in the farmers land next to us has a single house built onto a small plot near the irrigation riser and a younger family from the city moves in for a quiet life in the country. Over the
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    next year the cops are at our place a dozen times about smell complaints, noise complaints (work started at 5am, tractors and all), and other complaints about anything this family could think of, basically trying to get us shut down for existing outside the bounds of their imagined country life.
    via u/Doriantalus
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    In the winter, my dad would drive our tractor around to all the neighbors houses on our mile and dig the snow out of their driveways so they could drive to work, a costly and time consuming endeavor, but one of the main things a farmer can do to gain praise and feel good every day.
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    Well, about three weeks into winter this guy from the new house shows up at our door asking us to not do his driveway so early in the morning because it was waking him up. My dad explained he had to do it at 5am because he did it before he started the other chores that took hours. The neighbor insisted he do it later, or not at all. That was the last time my dad did his drive.
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    Turns out, you have to wake up about 5am to use your snowblower to dig out your own car if you want to get to work on time.
    via u/Doriantalus
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    Auirom I shovel old people driveways in the neighborhood. 1) so they don't have to because it terrifies me thinking of them slipping on ice in 20 degree weather, and 2) sometimes the nice old ladies bring me banana bread
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    bertieb d Why do city people move to the country and then expect country life to change to suit their needs. A little tip for anyone who is thinking about moving to the country. Farming noise and smells are part of country living,if you don't like it stay where you are.
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    ncgrits01 Reminds me of a friend who had a new neighbor move in. This guy had never lived out in the +1 country before, and in a few days came over to complain that my friend's birds were in his yard and she needed to come and get them. These were wild birds, not escaped chickens or anything like that, and their houses were about a quarter mile apart.
    via u/ncgrits01
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    ACP68 Reminds me of the local racetrack here in Northwest Indiana. Was there for years, urban sprawl surrounded it, and the inevitable complaints rolled in. One day the owner had a forum there, the public & local news there to cover them trying to reach a solution. At one point, an upset woman stood up at her turn and
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    said "I don't understand why you people always build stuff like this in our neighborhood". The owner stood up, pointed over to a large aerial photo hanging on the wall of his racetrack surrounded by forest and said " I'm very sorry ma'am, could you point out which tree you live in?". I would have loved to been there right then.
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    WinginVegas Sounds like the idiots in my old area. Although in LA City, fairly rural edge with horse property all over. Some of the houses sold to "new" people who then started to complain about the horses. Who were there first. They tried to get one stable shut down that had been there for about 40 years and found out that not only was the zoning permanent but that two council members boarded their horses there, so that went nowhere. I never understand why people knowingly move to a place where
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    Key-Priority1547 A city story: Raleigh NC became a growing spot for the building of high rise apartment buildings and condos. The joke was when those people found out that the trains run through Raleigh at all hours of the day and night, and are required by law to blow the horn at all intersections. And it is loud.
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    + [deleted] What a tool bag, can't stand people who move somewhere new and then try to force it to either A) be like it was where they came from or B) make it what they though it would be.
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    thekikuchiyo I hate shoveling snow.... You can show up at 3am with a marching band and I'd accept it as a trade off for keeping my driveway and road clear.
    via u/thekikuchiyo
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    NotMe739 If someone wants to wake me up by digging out my driveway not only will I get dressed to go outside and say thank you, I will probably come by with a plate of cookies in the next day or two to say thank you. My country driveway takes forever to snowblow. That reminds me, I need to get the snowblower in to the shop to get it running and tuned up before the snow starts flying.
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    Hobokum We had the neighbors that complained about flies and got upset when the state health department laughed at them.
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    Hohohoju Ugh this reminds me of people who move into apartments near pubs and nightclubs and then submit complaints, as if somehow they couldn't predict it would be a problem.
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