Might need a tin hat here. I live in a small village, well, it was a small village. But over the last 3 or 4 years it's become 40% bigger. There are no jobs here, the farms all run on minimal labour and the new villagers all get into their cars and drive to the nearby towns for work. I don't really object as the new population has helped the local businesses grow and become more sustainable, and that has to be good. Except that the planners are muppets - why build loads of new houses in villages where there are no jobs? WTF?? And they've had to massively extend the primary school, and there's talk of having to move the doctors surgery (purpose-built about 20 years ago) to another new-build, because of all the extra patients. And the hot topic is car parking - which the local councillors say they will fix. Where? How are you going to magic new land near the village centre when it's already fully developed?
OK, people have to live somewhere, but why not build those houses near the major employment areas, and where you could bus or cycle to work? Why did we move here 30 years ago? Because my doctor wife was working in the local community and it didn't matter much to me as I was all over the UK and other countries for work anyway.
But (and this is my point) when I walk into the local barber, the only barber, to find it's now an hours wait, that's going too far. It used to be the case that the single barber, the owner, would get you a cut after maybe a 20 minute wait. Now there's him and 3 or 4 girls cutting, and it's an hours wait! They are all flat out and there's no room for any more people cutting. The place is full. I may be retired, but I'm not sitting reading classic car magazines for an hour when I could be doing something more productive. And I deliberately waited until the schools had gone back so that there would be less of a queue. My wife frequents the ladies hairdresser (and they do cut men's hair) and tells me to go there as you have to make an appointment, but there's no way I'm paying £30 for a cut.
My only hope is to wait until next week, when people who maybe were taking advantage of a bank holiday week have gone back to work.
And don't get me started on 'Italian' style freeform parking in the High Street (I'll only be a minute - yebbut that big tractor and the silage machine now can't get down the High St and so he's blocking up traffic both ways, because of your inconsiderate parking), and the litter chucked around on our hitherto near-pristine local footpaths.
And breathe.....