Second-homer wanting to be part of the community

Wanting locals, who perform important roles in their community, to be able to live in their community isn't small minded. Second home owners tend to take much more than they contribute. Most people don't need two houses.

Again, you have no idea what you're speaking about.

It's widened to second home owners in general though.

“They might be entitled twunts, but you might be unfriendly and inassertive.”

I think this is unfair to the OP, who has given the holiday home neighbours her telephone number, and does favours for them. If I were her, I would be piqued by their entitled attitude - but I would have turned off the “read”:function on what’s app and would be making sure it took me several days to reply to their messages. And I would NEVER answer the phone if they were calling. It’s far too easy for them to take advantage of the OP, and hard for her if she’s a normal sort of person who likes to be helpful and not seem unfriendly.

Eh?

What about that doesn’t SCREAM small-minded.

Absolutely what?
There's nothing that reflects reality in PPS comment. 🫣

Again - your debating skills really need a polish.

Again, you've no idea. I won't be engaging further.

The post is about Londoners owning second homes and inconveniencing locals.

Why don’t you and other locals get together and have a pact not to sell to outsiders? Why do your greedy neighbours keep selling to people who have not been bred for three generations there?

Yup. Maybe those from villages shouldn’t be allowed jobs in London, then London would retain the wealth that currently spreads across the UK. Not to mention London footing the lion share of the HMRC bill, which props the entire country up.

What's the focus on London all about?

Not strictly true where I live.

I'm sorry to hear this, though based on some of the locals in my area I'm not surprised, unfortunately.

Absolutely this (in all aspects)

80smonster · Today 14:29
If there was adequate wealth in your villages, and locals earned sufficiently, why would there be a market for wealthy out of towners? There wouldn’t - as you could afford to sell to each other. Most Londoners can’t afford to buy in the area of London they grew up in, because of people from all over the world buying property. Not sure what makes a village any different… Yawn!
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Don't go on about people from overseas buying properties here. So what? Plenty of British people buy properties abroad and have second homes here.

It is expensive to buy anywhere, particularly so for those wanting to get on the property ladder with whom I sympathise. However they generally manage to do it eventually and who knows how this situation will change over the next couple of years. I've seen many changes in the housing market in my lifetime, including the late 1980s/early 90s when prices rocketed leaving buyers with negative equity, some losing their homes in the recession, and nothing lasts that long.

Great debating skills! I’d have to conclude there wasn’t sufficient wealth in your village, hence the bitterness. Presumably if the village held enough wealth, you could sell, one village (idiot) to another?

Second home owners and incomers only bought property that was on the market. It was sold to them by (I'm guessing) villagers. The new folks didn't invade and settle like Visigoths.

@80smonster your comment shows you do not understand. The village was not wealthy, it was a proper village with a mix of incomes. Some housing was rented and owned by someone pretty wealthy, he sold a lot of the houses. Other houses people moved out or died. One house for example was a bit of a shack, it looked like a build your own off grid house but was on the grid. When that man died his family who lived elsewhere sold it, and incomers knocked it down and built a massive cottage. All the very cheap houses like that have now been knocked down and rebuilt by wealthy incomers or wealthy landlords. Local people who rented can not live there any more.
No one cares if day trippers went around the village wearing floral dresses. Bloody irrelevant. The point is that the village only depends on tourism for money because second home owners and incomers destroyed the local businesses that used to exist. Farming used to support a lot of small businesses.

Agreed. So narrow-minded, makes it impossible to see how one could ever move from London. Not that we would be welcome of course!

The attitude by some rural people here is disappointing. I am a person of colour and would be very very wary of moving to a place like this. I imagine that my ‘otherness’ would be even more difficult for locals to accept. I’ll stay with London life I think.

You know absolutely nothing about where I live.....so, yawn right back at you with your assumptions.

Actually, it's a bad situation for local communities in cities such as London and in rural areas.

The fact that it happens in different areas doesn't maje it in any way ok.