AIBU to resent the mess and antisocial behaviour from bank holiday visitors?

I agree you shouldn’t have to put up with the anti social behaviour etc and if I lived there I wouldn’t like it either, however and I’m sure it’s right in some cases, but to say people come to visit who can’t afford to live there is quite judgmental.

Leaving a mess and antisocial behaviour is not acceptable.

Have you thought of doing something that might prompt change - discussing with your local council or MP to come up with possible solutions - extra bins, possibly a police presence/wardens etc. Petition for change. If your area makes money from tourism some of that money should be reinvested into solutions for these issues.

Does anybody else have to put up with this

Everyday as a Londoner

statistically 80% of the uk population earns below £50k a year. Therefore it’s likely that 80% of the visitors have that income. So the OP is correct in that the majority of the mess is left by people earning £50k or less.

I was at our local David Lloyd yesterday and was still sitting outside when the families were all kicked out of the outdoor pool and the life guard was finishing up before they stopped providing a life guard outside....

I was HORRIFIED at the mess. The lifeguard spent about 20 minutes going around taking all the rubbish people had left behind and throwing it away. ditto, most people get towels from David Lloyd and just leave them lying around, notwithstanding the multiple bins for used towels. I asked him if this was normal and he said yes, it's shocking how people just wonder off.

Having money, not having money is irrelevant. People are just twats, selfish and lazy.

Oh dear OP 😊

Take a rubbish bag with you, and take your rubbish home. There’s absolutely no excuse not to.

Oh dear.
Yes only the poor throw rubbish about. It's because they don't know what bins are don't you know?

Fair point

You said "the whole conversation gets reduced to peoples class or income purely because the OP blamed the visitors"

If you hadn't missed the fact the OP stated that those responsible for the litter and antisocial behaviour 'couldn't afford to live there', then you'd know it wasn't just because she 'blamed the visitors'.

Well you carried it on to the beach no problem, so carry it off again!

I feel for you, OP. Could you move somewhere nicer that attracts a better class of visitors?

Surely you can’t mean that only people who can afford to live in your village are capable of, or should be expected to, respect your environment?

Pretty sure that in the days before I could afford a nice house in a nice place I used not to play loud music and leave disposable barbecues in farmers’ fields.

Yep,

I had to stop a bunch of Londoners from unaliving themselves yesterday as they tried to take the chain off the bascule bridge and cross it when it was about to open!!!!

When I stopped them the woman looked at me like dirt on her shoe. I await the Tripadvisor review about ‘unfriendly locals’ 😂😂

I dont think so. What do you think I've missed?

@SandwichSuperstar

YANBU, I also live in a popular tourist area. However, I find that the local groups of youngsters that meet up on the beach are also the ones who leave it in an absolute tip. It's not just the holidaymakers.

As others have said, your original post had a point - areas that attract large numbers of people can attract significant anti-social behaviour, which is a massive pain for people who live there.

However, you deserve to get flamed for this. I live in an increasingly busy touristy area, and I can assure you that (a) some locals absolutely do act poorly, both where they live and where they go to on 'holiday', and (b) being wealthy doesn't exempt you from being an arsehole, or demonstrating antisocial behaviors.

I've actually challenged antisocial behaviour here (examples include letting dogs chase my livestock, hanging poo bags in trees) and been told "I'm local, I can do what I want." You might believe it isn't locals because there's less of it in winter, but some of that is because those locals only come out in the good weather too, and it's more noticeable where there's a lot of it.

You really need to go back and read again as you've clearly missed something she wrote...

Why are people using Covid as an excuse for this? People like this would have had this mindset in 2019 and before.

Exactly this. Except that the whole conversation gets reduced to peoples class or income purely because the OP blamed the visitors 🙄

My parents lived in a place like that . On hot days we didn’t usually go to the centre or the beach but we got to enjoy its beauty all year round. I remember it as really really busy,queues for ice cream etc but not really so much for litter. tCount your blessings OP.

Oh my goodness I completely missed this bit when I read the OP.

I worked in retail and hospitality for years. There is no correlation between income / wealth and how considerate someone is.

Eh? You will be flamed for other people being swines?

Our council put lots of extra bins in busy park locations over sping/summer snd people still leave mess or don't even bother bagging up their rubbish. I find it so frustrating and cant understand the mentality of people who willingly leave litter around.