To detest people that think they own beautiful parts of the world?

Maybe it should go the same way as plenty of other terms that were once acceptable in our society and are no longer

Ah bants n lols eh? never hurt anyone - i'm not sure the user of the term is in a position to say whether its offensive

Some people think emmet is offensive and some don't. It's a Cornish word for anyone who isn't from Cornwall and is used interchangeably with foreigner. Someone from Devon could be called emmet or foreigner and whether it's derogatory depends on the feelings of who said it. Some people use it in a derogatory way and others will be neutral. It's a term that has been around for many years and isn't going away.

Emmet is used lightheartedly, only mildly derogatively, like grockle elsewhere in the UK. It's meant as a joke. We don't go after incomers with pitchforks, even after they buy up a lot of housing stock. Anyone offended doesn't understand Cornish humour.

I can understand why people who have lived in a lovely place become territorial and feel their right to remain there trumps people moving in and inflating costs but unfortunately its a fact of capitalist life and our society. At some point a local person sold to a non local person no doubt at a good profit and that's that.

The modern world with all the knowledge passed around , images, reviews etc etc has its good points and for people in chocolate box villages its bad points.

And i notice twetmerf hasnt mentioned the offensive term of emmet

How on earth did you manage to interpret Yoga's post like that? Not what she said at all.

Well no, not really like the Welsh Irish and Scots at all. Since they're different nations.
If Cornwall gets independence THEN you'll be like them. But until then you're English. Sorry.

We have official minority status like the Welsh, Irish and Scots
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/people-and-communities/equality-and-diversity/cornish-national-minority/

You are the english

Hotel rooms are fun for families, we love em

Yes, I agree.

I was born and grew up in West London and South London and I couldn't afford to live there after graduating despite having a job in London. My DH was born on Camden and grew up in North London and Oxford. He likes watching these expensive property sales programmes and I find it shocking that properties in Westminster for example are only owned by foreign investors that don't live in them. In the 00s with better jobs we could eventually afford to rent in Westminster but there is no way that could happen now and we are considerably wealthier than those times. Where we live now is similarly going the way of London and it is frankly shocking that these seafront properties are just bought up by foreign investors and left empty or air fucking BNBs when there is such a problem with lack of affordable homes in our current city by the sea. There are 90,000 air BNBs in London, why don't we go the way of Amsterdam, what's the issue when there is so much poverty caused by affordable housing.

My part of Zone 2 London. Shopkeepers all look out for each other and for customers. If I have a cash card issue or forget my wallet, at least a couple of local food shops just wave me off and say I can pay next time. I have several neighbours who hold a spare set of my keys and vice versa. There's a well-functioning FB group for recommendations/help/lost pets etc. Tons of community events, generally volunteer-led or -run. There was lots of mutual support in the pandemic; people getting shopping for those who were shielding etc.

As for the people who say "well people don't want to stay in hotels". This is mainly because of dog ownership.
I don't have a dog and I prefer self-catering to hotels or B&Bs. I hate being restricted to one room and not being able to just knock up a bit of toast if I fancy it. And I've had my fill of B&B hosts, who if you're lucky are just eccentric but more often seem to have a bit of a dictator complex.

I hate to break it to you but the Cornish are part of "the English". In fact you're probably "Englisher" than London considering all the immigration we have here.

I'm so pleased that our culture and dialect are offensive to you. Maybe we should ban anything from our heritage and make everything like England. We'd have to rename anything in Kernewek and translate it into English. Lots of St Piran flags to remove and the 5th March will have to become an ordinary day.

We've already got for some insane reason got Greggs popping up, next start putting the cream on first? We're proud of our Celtic roots down here, the English tried to eradicate our way of life previously and we shouldn't still be fighting.

Is this not reflective of the world we live in these days though? How many youngsters who have just passed their test in the last couple of years are driving round in new cars? Mine was a 13 year old banger. Finance schemes these days are much more common than they used to be. How many change the phones and gadgets in our continually changing world? Everything is instant these days. People who save up for something are in the minority. Many just get what they want when they want due to the availability of credit. There are about 4 families in my road with adult kids living at home. It would be a safe bet that they'd say they can't afford to move out. They all have cars less than 2 years old. Nearly all of them newer than their parents' cars.
So having to move to an area you can afford and work your way up to the nicer areas which is what used to happen when they can have pretty much everything else is going to seem so much harder.

Where I live it is illegal to offer accommodation without possessing a hostel license, which is a really big process involving regular inspections, proper wiring and facilities, earthquake proofing and evacuation signage and much, much more etc. so AirBnB ends up being just the odd place, not hollowing out neighborhoods. It is however much much easier to build hotels and new houses than in the UK. Making it easier to build in attractive places and improving public transport plus restricting visitor cars would help in such locations.

Why do you think that it was the "greedy local neighbours"?
Where I lived it was the fuckwit developer who got the contract by saying that they would be providing low cost housing for the local workforce and then sold them to the Londoners that wanted to retire.

I'd rather stay in a cottage than a hotel because I like the extra space and having a kitchen. I have young kids. Id be just as happy in an apart-hotel.or a lodge though. A hotel room is no place for a family. No privacy, no facilities.

The regulations you talk about are already in place in some areas and are enforced.

It is not just dog owners who prefer cottages and it is not dog owners who stop people being able to buy houses!

I agree and it's not difficult to have local rules that stop a house being used for holiday lets, although it's not so easy to enforce.

As for the people who say "well people don't want to stay in hotels". This is mainly because of dog ownership.

I don't think the fact that people (who own or rent a house elsewhere, but have somewhere to live, anyway) want to go on holiday with their dogs and therefore stay in a house outweighs someone else's right to a home.

@YogaBearBasket low income for a lot of people all farming and tourism which is low paid seasonal work. Prices have been pushed up. Many were cash buyers. At one point my newly divorced friend was trying to buy a house, the EA said about 80% of buyers were from London. Also buying to AirBnB smaller houses and cottages.

How do you prioritise for housing exactly? Are you suggesting locals need to sell their homes cheaply?

I think there is a difference between someone who wants to move to a beautiful part of the country to live and work, compared to someone who wants to buy a house as a second home or to rent out to holiday makers. Where there is a shortage of housing I think that people who work/live there should be prioritised for housing. That doesn't necessarily mean that they have to have been born there.