If you had a second home, have you or would you go to it ?

[Lardlizard]

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I think the only real reason I could see for doing this would be if one partner was a medic working on a Covid ward and didn't want to expose their partner and children to the disease so they went to the second home while the medic stayed alone in the main home.

@WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo

The reply to that scary chart you’ve shown is going to be “Yes but I want to do what I want to do because it’s my right!!!!!” or something like that?!

I have no skin in this game. I live near a city and I could never afford a second home. I feel for people on rural areas who are trying to protect the NHS and save the lives of their population.

Come on, people. It’s a few months. It’s rubbish for us all. Don’t move around, you move the virus around.

I have a second home overseas and I had the option of travelling there before the lockdown started. I decided that it would not be sensible and I really did not want to add to the burden in another country.
Instead I have opened up my home here, and currently have my mother, sister and a few other relatives staying with me for the duration.
My mother is in the shielded group, so we are all self isolating for 3 months with her.
Using a second home in a pandemic, seems a bad idea for the locals. Also I inherited my second home from an aunt who passed away, several years ago. I can't bring myself to part with it because the care taking couple looking after the property, have lived there for nearly 34 years. So I am happy to give them employment and a home for as long they want to continue.

Why does that graph show only Cumbria and not Norfolk, Suffolk, Devon, Cornwall, Wales or any other area where urbanites might have tried to escape to? If the graph showed a huge spike for them also then it might prove something, but as it is it proves nothing. Cumbria isn’t the only place people leave the cities for. It isn’t the only place people have second homes.

If I had one I would have considered it before lockdown. I can see why someone would if they had a large second home and a tiny flat in London and two kids for example.

AnnUmm I think you'd be surprised at how many people crowd into a relatively small space. Windermere / Keswick etc aren't massive areas and they are rammed even on a normal day. Easily as busy as a London street, it's not unusual to have to walk in the road. And the day after lockdown it was busier here than on an Easter weekend.

Cumbria has had a massive outbreak, those aren't doctored figures and as said repeatedly we have 8 ICU beds. And don't have the facilities for over spill........our nightingale hospitals are in school sports halls.

It’s been horrendous in Cumbria. Husband is a key worker and drives around the county. First week after lockdown there was very little change in tourist numbers.

TheDrs I think the reason is solely our location. We're in the middle so get it from all directions really. It's a very, very different place to what it was when I was a child. We don't really have a low season, it's busy year round.

Depends on circumstances, if I lived in a city flat with children and had a second home with garden I would have moved for the outside space. I'd have moved before lockdown though.