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?

You will all need to self isolate for 14 days, but remember there may not be the beds at the hospital if you become really ill.
The tourist hot spots are the worst and the NHS will have to decide who lives or dies.

I think we're broadly on the same page. I understand completely your concerns. Although I sympathise with those who have fled to the countryside. They're just very scared for themselves and their families. I don't suppose they thought about any possible negative impact on local infrastructure.

This is the fault of government mishandling. Poor communication, poor planning, poor policy, and successive governments - Labour and Conservative, not running the NHS well. Mismanagement as much as underfunding. Let's hope things improve in the future. I hope you and your family stay safe. Same to OP.

adaline they are designed to cope or they would go into meltdown each summer. I think perhaps you overestimate what coping means. Our nearest big city hospital takes patients from 90 minutes away - by helicopter - if they have a complicated pregnancy and it is not uncommon for mums to have to travel a further 90 minutes to the next city hospital for NICU beds. And that is a big city hospital.

It's a worrying time for all I understand that. It just feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth when a rural hospital is expected to shoulder a huge burden cause people wanted to get away.

Ethically, if an area is happy to base its economy on tourists and take their money in the good times it should be willing to help them when times are tough. Legally (unless they are actually illegal migrants) they have every much as right to use the NHS there as anyone else.

AND the entire thread reads like it's been posted from Royston Vasey, and reminds me why I avoid those places like the plague!

(Except it won't )

@Aesopfable Ysbyty Gwynedd struggles year-round. Wales has the poorest provision in the UK thanks to Welsh Labour's mismanagement.

I'd like to remind posters that rural areas aren't some kind of playground that residents have to share with the children from over the road. They aren't somewhere that exists solely for city-dwellers to let off some steam. These are our homes, our workplaces, not a theme park.

This isn't you going on holiday, this is you accepting somewhere to stay while essentially being homeless YANBU

they are designed to cope or they would go into meltdown each summer. I think perhaps you overestimate what coping means

Our permanent population is under half a million, yet we get 15.8 million visitors each year. Believe me, our hospitals are not designed to cope with that kind of population boom.

Barrow hospital is already full. We have no ICU beds as there are already 20 Covid-19 cases there. Cumbria has one of the highest rates of infection in the country, and yet people were still coming up over the weekend to go on holiday!

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to bloody well stay put! The Lake District is not just a giant playground for you to come and explore when you have a free weekend or time off - people live and work there year-round and in times of national emergency, they have to take priority.