Is living in countryside (Villages in UK) racist

Norma_Desmond

Our tiny village is often a little 'old fashioned', eccentric, nosey, politically incorrect and barking mad.

Any newcomer however is welcomed after the usual who-are-you-are-you-married-what do-you-do-and-what-did-you-have-for-breakfast question session.

I was a little apprehensive at first being English in a Welsh-speaking area, but I have never experienced such kindness and real community spirit as I have here - if you're a nice person then you're treated as such.

Good luck OP wherever and whatever you decide.

Fadileeds

gazter wrote: »

No, the opposite. When wealthier professionals move in to an area it pushes up property prices, the families near by, who in themselves of course are benefiting from the increase, have problems in the sense that their children are no longer in a position to afford homes in the vicinity.

Oh okay Thank you. The house prices in BIW are very high already and to be honest i have seen 4 detached houses and they sold within matter of days

Fadileeds

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

Our tiny village is often a little 'old fashioned', eccentric, nosey, politically incorrect and barking mad.

Any newcomer however is welcomed after the usual who-are-you-are-you-married-what do-you-do-and-what-did-you-have-for-breakfast question session.

I was a little apprehensive at first being English in a Welsh-speaking area, but I have never experienced such kindness and real community spirit as I have here - if you're a nice person then you're treated as such.

Good luck OP wherever and whatever you decide.

Thanks i learnt alot already from this thread than all my past 14 years :-) here

wannahouse

you'll always come across some racist idiot, where ever you go in the world i have found, as sure as the sun rises and sets.

gazter

wannahouse wrote: »

you'll always come across some racist idiot, where ever you go in the world i have found, as sure as the sun rises and sets.

Some people just dont like other sorts of people. Often for good reasons, often for bad reasons.

MrsE_2

princeofpounds wrote: »

The main thing to understand is that a village on the edge of a declining mill town or in a nationalistic area is likely to be much less hospitable than a 'middle England' village. If you go to deepest Wales (where even English people are discriminated against) or a poor village outside a dying mill town then you may have issues. If you go to a middle class slightly prosperous village somewhere then you'll probably have few issues (bearing in mind this is a broad generalisation).

I agree, the more working class an area, the more likely to suffer racism.
People availing of the public purse (benefits) tend to stress that foreigners are taking their entitlements.
I live in a Surrey village, I doubt the OP would experience racism here.

Tancred

Fadileeds wrote: »

Hi,

I am really worried after i read few news online about UK Villages and countrysides are more racist than its towns and cities.

I am originally from Jordan and my wife Poland i have been in the UK for about 14 years. We decided to move burley in wharfedale just on the edge of Ilkley so our little girl can go to good a school and have quieter life as i lived before in villages back home.

But when i check police .uk websites only show few crimes a months in the village.

Your opinions much much appreciated as this is for us is big move and lot money to buy new house and sell our house.

Thank you all.

I think you'll find that the British are more xenophobic than racist. Many British people dislike the French and Germans, who are not too different from us genetically, but usually get on well with all kinds of coloured people from the furthest corners of the planet. This is a reflection of our traditional deep insularity as an island nation and also the legacy of the British Empire, which was run more like a giant commercial enterprise than an empire in the traditional sense.

gazter

Tancred wrote: »

I think you'll find that the British are more xenophobic than racist. Many British people dislike the French and Germans, who are not too different from us genetically, but usually get on well with all kinds of coloured people from the furthest corners of the planet. This is a reflection of our traditional deep insularity as an island nation and also the legacy of the British Empire, which was run more like a giant commercial enterprise than an empire in the traditional sense.

Or possibly the french and germans have repeatedly tried to conquer us, and hundreds of thousands of our direct ancestors have died on battlefields fighting them.

Strapped

Elsewhere wrote: »

I live in rural Dorset; grew up on the South Coast - and the people I find myself most prejudiced against are the folks who retire here (they seem mainly to come from Maidenhead, weirdly).

Typically they have enjoyed holidays here for years; suddenly when they move to the area they want to remake it into their familiar suburbia. eg. Where are the street lights, the pavements? Why is the internet so slow? etc. etc. I once thought Hyacinth Bucket from the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances was a caricature - now I know better.

And then there is the patronising way they talk about the natives (rarely actually becoming friends with local people) - and price them out of the housing market - (though that works both ways; locals suddenly develop thick accents and a gormless expression to take the mickey out of the foreigners and up their prices to do work for them!)

However, having children of school age makes it much easier to fit in and be accepted because you will instantly become acquainted with a broad range of villagers and, most importantly, the gossip!

Because everyone knows everyone in a village, you will be judged for who and not what you are.

^Yes. Yes. And yes.

deejaybee

We moved from Brum to the South Hams In Devon a few years ago.... wish I had done it many years before.

We are both working and contributing to the local economy, and our daughter is happy at the primary school..

Fantastic place to live & work, great community spirit, very low crime rates.

Everytime I go back up to Brum to visit family it seems to have gone down the pan a bit more

I often joke with people that I have moved back to England... hopefully I have 20-30 yrs before the minarets start appearing even in places like this, but I worry what my kids & grandkids are going to have to live with...

DEmographics mean the UK is heading the way of the former Yugoslavia

Beg, steal or borrow a copy of " America Alone" by Mark Steyn, read it and you will laugh out load because he is a very humourous writer, but the underlying message is alarming.