How hated will we be?

[SecondH]

DH and I are looking at buying a second home by the coast. I would love to hear from other second home owners and people who live in areas where there are lots of second home owners. How hated by the locals would we be? Do neighbours ignore you etc?

The OP is probably being ripped off, there will be an Arthur Daley character somewhere driving a tractor with a bit of straw stuck in his hat.

LOL, or you would search with Search Assist and find three films you have never heard of, if you don"t know about Straw Dogs you are not likely to be familiar with All The Presidents Men?

We have had a holiday home in Cornwall for about 8 years now. We don’t have neighbours really close by so didn’t have any issues there. There was a woman that worked in a small local shop that told us we were ruining things for the locals and she used to almost throw our shopping at us. 😂 Other than that, we haven’t had any issues. The people who live nearest to us who have always lived in Cornwall keep an eye our house for us when we are not there and we have all made friends.

We did have a holiday home in Wales and the people were not very welcoming, but our house was fairly isolated so we didn’t have a huge amount to do with anyone.

If you’re going to rent it out OP at least do it properly and do it via change of use planning permission. At least then the council will be able to assess the impacts of the loss of another home for locals from the housing stock, it means that the proper safety regs will be put in place if you are successful and also it means your neighbours can consider your proposal.
how would you feel if your neighbours rented out their house and it was full of noisy tourists each week and you had no way of changing that?

Lol. You don’t like outsiders much do you?!

“You obviously don't have good social skills because why would you move away from a lifetimes worth of friends”

What a spiteful and ridiculous comment

But your YouTube link didn't state the title and so all I had to go on was your Straw Dogs post. My parents watched All The President's Men, that's why I am aware of it.

Yes. Spiteful with unintelligent reasoning. I am so relieved not to live anywhere insular people like this.

Seems that you will have an equal chance or either living next to an empty second home in a bleak ghost community as well as being potentially next to a series of ever changing, anti social, disrespectful / disruptive air b n b users.

Know about Apocalypse Now because I studied Novels into Films, Heart of Darkness, if you are wondering (lol) and the Wicker Man because well, it's the Wicker Man. As a child I didn't really have much choice over my parents' film choices!

The new renters rights legislation that came in last month will have put paid to that arrangement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Siege_of_Trencher%27s_Farm

Not if the renters are happy with the arrangement?

Why buy it now? Is waiting until you actually want to move an option?

I didn't study every novel into film, it was one module on a three year degree course! I only know about All The President's Men due to my Parents' video rental choices, my parents were pretty liberal so I was watching this kind of film when I was a young child- 7, 8! Obviously, wasn't invited to watch anything too violent.

Be warned not all hospitals in Cornwall operate a full 24 A&E. I say that as someone whose mum fell out of bed in the middle of saturday night, we spent several hours in Bodmin, the next morning when she told me, only to be told she needed an Xray and the nearest open department was Launceston, which we then spent many more hours on sunday. It was broken and we were told the nearest broken bones clinic was Plymouth, luckily they decided she didnt need to go on the Monday.

I would love to live full time in Cornwall, but my medical needs are such that I would be looking at either Truro (unlikely), Plymouth or Exeter at least twice a year.

I think it depends where in the UK you go, as some areas are more parochial than others.

In Lincolnshire sitting in a doctors surgery sounds like the East End and no-one bothers.

In North Wales you're more likely to get sideways looks.
An elderly relative of mine went to retire there and her neighbours didn't speak to her at first. When they realised she was actually living there and it wasn't just a holiday home, they were a lot more friendly 🙄

I wouldn't worry. There are no locals left.

So all of those people were born, already connected, in the area where they now ply those trades and thrive in those careers? Interesting. I'm sure they won't have moved around at all because that would display how little they value those social connections that are so meaningful to you. I do suppose they deserve to be all off around the world, to places where they weren't born and aren't deeply rooted and connected because, um, why?

The rest of us are busy working in design led businesses, professionals - surveyors, vets, publishers, lots of tv. Our technical trades are all off around the world on mining, satellite dishes, airport furniture projects. The postie and the delivery drivers have had previous trades or adventures.

For your next post, are you going to make an argument in favour of autosomal recessive genetic disorders? Because you're toeing up to that line.

Ok, Straw Dogs wouldn"t be on the watch list for 7 - 8 year olds.

Two of our dearest friends own a second home near us (in Cornwall). We met them when they invited us to a party in 2012. They come down as often as they can and their lovely family use it in school holidays. They rent out it out a few weeks a year using an agency.

We have visited them in their part of the country and been away on holiday with them 4 times and counting.

If people are nice and respectful they will always be welcome (to the majority of us locals anyway!) 😊

This is such a great solution (and repeated later in in the thread as well in a UK context).

My parent lived in a well-known chocolate box holiday village by the sea (Cornwall-adjacent...) and the abject loathing of 'the grockle' was quite shocking, topped only by the animosity shown toward owners of second homes.

This isn’t quite true. I grew up in Cornwall and going back 40 years when I met my husband we could never have afforded to live in the area we wanted. It’s taken a lot of years of hard work to get to choose where we live. It isn’t a typical first or even second time buyers’ area for average earners but it never was.

So wait until your Dh retires and buy a house in the place ‘you have your heart set on’ then. There are many people who have their heart set on living where they grew up and where they have family and a community but they can’t because they have been priced out of buying or renting due to second/retirement homes and airb&bs. You know the answer to your question so why on earth are you asking it?