How often have you found yourself talking wistfully with friends of relocating to the country, as if it will offer a magical answer to everything wrong with city living - fresher air, better schools, an altogether less stressful, more wholesome existence? Beware! Most of these assumptions are based on memories of blissful weekends spent in a round of cream teas and blazing log fires...You know that Aga you coveted? It will soon reveal itself to be a living, breathing devil-spawn waging a personal vendetta against you. And that fantasy about becoming a self-sufficient, trug-toting son of the soil? If you've got the patience to make it through to the end of the baffling seed packet instructions, you'll be doing well. As for those children - do they spend all their time outside, fishing with jam-jars on string? Do they hell; they're slumped indoors watching telly, cursing the day they were wrenched away from their friends in town...

Reasons Not to Move to the Country

Rumbold, Judy

Short Books, London

<p>Clean air, good schools, big gardens, low stress—the whole farm-fresh, quality-assured lifestyle of the countryside seemed the answer to urban woes for Judy Rumbold and her family. But the charms of country living soon faded into a rather stark reality. Living off the land became an exercise in trying to decipher seed packets, and the homely oven quickly turned into a fire-breathing demon with an apparent personal vendetta. Rather than spending their time outside happily making catapults from twigs and fishing with jam-jars, her children instead were slumped indoors watching television, cursing the day they were wrenched away from their friends in town. Packed with humor—and plenty of regret—this memoir shows that farm living is not the life for everyone.</p>

Reasons Not to Move to the Country: One Woman's Calamitous Attempt to Live the Rural Dream

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Reasons Not to Move to the Country

Reasons Not to Move to the Country: One Woman's Calamitous Attempt to Live the Rural Dream