I live in a rural farming area. Due to the mass immigration in our small country building land has become very profitable - the town has been added to dramatically with nasty starter home estates. And the first thing these new homeowners do, drawn by the sleepy and picturesque rural element in the first place, is complain about the smell of fertilizer and cows. WTF did they expect a rural area to be like? These wankers exist everywhere it would seem according to the OP's story.
In CT in the second half of the 20th century, the pattern was as follows:
1) People come to small town to escape hustle and bustle, have peace and quiet, and enjoy lower taxes and relaxation. They put up subdivisions in the middle of farms, wilderness, and other rural "attractions".
2) They clamor for better (more modern-looking) schools, playgrounds, and parks.
3) They miss the conveniences of the burbs, and want supermarkets and shopping centers and malls.
4) They want street lights, municipal sewer and water, sidewalks, curbs, paved roads, police and fire departments, senior centers, youth centers, youth programs, etc.
5) They no longer want to live next to farms, but they don't want to lose their scenic view, so farmers are heavily restricted, and taxes skyrocket.
6) The entire town is a suburb and everyone interferes in everyone else's business, and the town wants to control everyone and everything, so the people flee and...
1) People come to small town to escape hustle and bustle, have peace and quiet, and enjoy lower taxes and relaxation. They put up subdivisions in the middle of farms, wilderness, and other rural "attractions".
Wash, rinse repeat. It turned CT from a business-friendly producer state to a blue-green, soccer-mom welfare state in less than 4 decades. Half of the state is now one giant aging suburb, and the other half is split between delipidated cities and rural areas struggling to either resist or support the suburbanites who want to continue the cycle described above.
