To think the holiday home is my only option?

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I live in a different country. I was over here visiting family from the start of March and several cancelled flights/worldwide pandemic later me, my dh and ds(2) can't get home.
My parents are very high risk and don't have enough space for us. On paper my in-laws have enough space on paper but in practice this isn't the case (currently squished in a room filled with storage boxes while dh sleeps on the floor).
No other family can accommodate us BUT my gran has a mostly unused holiday cottage in a tourist hot-spot that she has offered us for the duration and I've accepted. It is literally around the corner from where we were living before we moved abroad 2years ago.
I am now being made to feel guilty by various people because me and my family are 'part of the problem', 'running to our holiday homes and swamping these places', 'overwhelming the medical services' etc.
I'm doubting myself, we can't stay where we are for months, we can't get home, and we are not choosing to be here. We are having to pay astronomical rent and pet care costs in the country we are living in and can't afford to rent somewhere so I really cannot see that we have another option.
Wibu to carry on with our plans despite the naysayers?

Well if you self isolate in arrival for 14 days you will not lake a risk to them.
You can’t stay where you are - so I would go but be strict about the self isolation.

To me that sounds the perfect solution - a house is empty , you are currently living in very cramped conditions. Don't feel bad you are doing the best for your family.

YABU - post on the covid board

Self isolate in the cottage. People are angry in the villages because they don't want to end up all in and whole village quarantined and that risk rises if people from more populated towns come in now. If you self isolate and don't go for scenic walks etc, they shouldn't have a problem in the end

I have a feeling I know which country🙈

It sounds sensible to me. You have nowhere else to go.

If it's in north west Wales PLEASE do not come here. We only have 11 critical care beds in Ysbyty Gwynedd for the whole of Gwynedd and Anglesey. It's like August bank holiday here at the moment and the NHS won't be able to cope.

Wait. I got it turned around. you are stuck in uk, not other country oops

It’s not the same as people fleeing the cities, I don’t see that you have any choice! This is going to go on for months, you can’t all live in one room all that time!

It's not your fault you can't get home. You need somewhere to stay and have a family member's home to stay in. Self isolate when you get there but yes go.

Do you have citizenship in the other country, or residency? Embassies are collecting people and providing emergency transports.

Mamimawr but she has no realistic other options, it isn't like she's coming for the sea air. Also, there aren't enough critical care beds anywhere in the country.

I think you've misunderstood what people are saying about certain people running to their holiday homes. People aren't taking issue with anyone sheltering in a random holiday home. They are annoyed with those idiots who are taking the opportunity to go on an actual holiday to their holiday home and swan around like nothing's wrong.

What @Mamimawr said.
Please stay away from north-west Wales.

Perfectly reasonable to go there! You don’t have much choice. Just be sensible re isolating

Our villages in North West Wales have been swamped with tourists today 😔

Cumbria also having problems. And we have very limited hospital care at the best of times.

Of course you should go. It makes sense.

Of course you should go. Self isolate for 14 days.

@RosesandIris - it doesn't make sense for the local population to have more people moving to the area. OP should stay where she is.

I don't think you have a choice. You can't stay where you are.

Please stay away from the Highlands.
8 beds in critical care at Raigmore in Inverness

You have a good reason to need to use it. You're not fleeing your town house for your country house.

Do you have the correct immigration status? Especially, are you an EEA national with the right to reside? In which case you have every bit as much right to be there and to use the medical facilities as the people already there.

I'm in rural mid Wales. If you come here and get ill or need prescriptions you'll be sent back home. Holiday parks, hotels, b&bs etc that are registered as such are all being closed and emptied of people.

Too little too late in my opinion. But it's the only way. We don't have the resources for those who live here.

I appreciate your situation but I know here it's become a zero tolerance approach, we have no hospital, no ICU. Most GP surgeries have already been closed, those there are are triaged via 111, the cottage hospital triaged via 111. Pharmacies are only open four hours a day from tomorrow; most shops are closed; nothing other than food shops are open and those barely have anything in.