To remind those living in tourist areas not to assume people aren't local!

[GlummyMcGlummerson]

I was born and raised in Yorkshire, but spent my whole adult life living in Scotland.

I'm now back in my hometown, armed with a mild Scottish accent I accidentally picked up after 18 years living there . Went for a walk in a popular tourist area today, a 10 minute drive from my home, with my DC. I heard two sets of people grumble about people travelling to come to the Dales after they heard me chatting to the DC. There were also a few posts on local Facebook groups about our-of-towners - I may be paranoid but one said "One family came from as far as Scotland!" - so possibly referring to me!

I've also seen it on another thread too someone saying that people from the Midlands were in Devon this week. No mention of how they knew where they came from

Unless you actually ask them and they confirm they aren't locals, please don't assume. Some people do move to new places! And while I'm at it I don't actually think local areas "belong" to local people any more than they belong anyone else and I'm a bit when locals grumble about tourists.

Also I managed to snap a picture of a couple who grumbled at me. Bastards

[JacobReesMogadishu]

Way before Coronatimes I went to a village meeting in the packed village hall. Someone at the back made a sensible suggestion about making the busy High St one way.

Some old guy at the front stood up, purple with rage, and turned round and screamed at him that "I bet you're a bloody incomer, you're not local, you probably live on that bloody estate".

[Stinkycatbreath]

My cousin lives in a very touristy part of Yorkshire and is black. Her husband is a white man and their oldest daughter is darker skinned with curls and the younger has light hair and lighter skinned oldest has a more southern accent like mum and youngest has a Yorkshire accent. CV has brought the racists and wannabe border patrol out of the woodwork. While walking round as a family mum and oldest daughter have been singled outcand asked where they are from and should they rally be visiting. They would actually say something to a little girl!

[JacobReesMogadishu]

also think toilets should be opened, there is going to be a whole new epidemic if this carries on

Cholera epidemic?

[Coffeecak3]

@giveitarestjosephine. Yorkshire folk even have their own day.

@1forsorrow. My husbands family are from Lincolnshire. His dm fell out with me because his aunt sold us a secondhand tv and when we no longer needed it I gave it to my db who had just got his first flat. Apparently it should have stayed in the family, in other words my dh’s cousin wanted it for her children’s bedroom.

[Waitingforboristoletusfree]

@GlummyMcGlummerson well yeah!!! You should have driven back to Scotland for your walk. Obviously.

The world will be a better place when these type of people are no longer here. Usually the same people who hate gay people, have zero tolerance for immigrants and don’t even get them started on refugees!

[MarieQueenofScots]

That is obviously wrong but so is locals threatening to slash tyres because people are parked on "their" road

I agree the action is abhorrent however with regards to “their” road. Is it definitely not? In a rather bizarre situation me and the house next door own our bits of road (and before a poster from another thread who told me this couldn’t possibly happen arrives I can guarantee I do!).

Once again I completely condemn any violent action but it is possible people own their roads and get sick of people parking there?

[PhoneLock]

In some places, you are not local unless you were born in the village.

It's almost like that here. You never live in you own house, but the person's that lived there before you.

We have chuckle in the pub sometimes over how easy it is to spot the people staying in the holiday lets. Their brand new "outdoor" clothes, walking boots or shiny wellies gives them away.

[YinMnBlue]

Does this need to ramped up as a territory war?

Surely people in relatively isolated places that have very low rates of infection are simply concerned that people arriving from miles away where the virus is still being transmitted, will bring it in.

It’s common sense.

One of the main ways this virus came into the UK is due to leisure travel: people coming back from Italian ski-ing, Spanish football fans coming here...

Over the coming weeks, with tourist attractions still not open, seaside and other popular destinations will get the very real threat of infection without the business benefits.

Can we just drop the outrage and aggro and think about the bigger picture?

Igniting infection in areas currently almost free hardly helps any of us in the long run.

[VeraorHolly]

This happened to me too. I was called out on the local Facebook page. I've lived in this village for 20 years but still have the accent of my childhood.

I did an excellent job shaming the poster. That felt good. He deleted the thread.

[1forsorrow]

I agree the action is abhorrent however with regards to “their” road. Is it definitely not? It is definitely a public road going back many, many years. I can't speak for every road in the town but this particular road, where residents were on FB making threats, is half a mile from my home and we use it frequently, DH is disabled so he can't walk it so we drive to that road and then another half mile down the road to the beach.

[MarieQueenofScots]

It is definitely a public road going back many, many years

Then of course you can park there.

Unfortunately here the confusion over a partial private/public road makes people (not me I hasten to add!) act like twats at the moment.

[1forsorrow]

Cholera epidemic? I hope not but I honestly don't want to be wading through human excrement because people needed a loo that was locked.

[Clottedcreamandcliffedges]

This thread is so funny. To think Cornish people are vile for not liking tourists - most “Cornish” people were tourists originally so this is NOT a common opinion!

Those with generations of Cornish genes often have “emmet” grandchildren of their own.

I have an unusual non Cornish surname and I love it - people are often interested but nobody has ever told me to “go home” or whatever.

[Beeep]

CV has brought out the tut-tuttedness in lots of people.

What a brilliant word!!! It's my new favourite

[Macncheeseballs]

The cornish have finally got what they've always wanted - to be cut off from the rest of the uk

[MouseMartin]

Just wait for those tourist areas to start pleading for people to visit as their local economy tanks because there are no visitors.

[iamapixie]

Agreed. It's horrible. National divisions over Brexit were just the precursor. And the awful thing is that it's hard not to be dragged down to that level. I find myself thinking equally horrible things, a kind of 'stuff you and your tourism industry; I hope no one ever visits again' and then I think of the lovely people running farm shops and pubs etc in areas I visit who just won't survive long term without tourism. So yes it's nasty, and it breeds more nastiness but I try to remember that it's almost always just a vocal minority who ruin it for everyone else.

[Aesopfable]

We live in a little hamlet and sometimes venture out by foot to the next village and we get stared at a lot!

There was a thread not long ago complaining that people who lived on an estate a mile away were walking to her pretty village even though they hadn’t spent the money necessary to buy a house in the pretty village. She got short shrift

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

I hear that there is a post-virus jobs creation scheme on the cards for post-lockdown. Something about repairing a long stone wall between Newcastle and the Solway Firth.

[RustyBear]

And talking about "locally registered" cars, which don't exist
Actually , they do www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/

But the registration doesn't prove anything - I live in Berkshire, but when I wanted a second hand automatic Yaris, my local Toyota garage got it from their branch in Derbyshire, so it has a Sheffield number. So presumably if I drove to the Peak District for a walk I'd be accepted as a local

[Myimaginarycathasfleas]

Years ago I had a meeting at a business in Cornwall. When I phoned to clarify directions I was asked “are you coming from England?”

I don’t blame residents of holiday areas for being hostile to swarms of tourists, especially now. But they have a funny way of deciding if you “belong”.

[GlomOfNit]

I do find this Coronavirus Parochialism deeply depressing - I think it might always have been there, but now it's out of the box and some people think it's acceptable to voice it, I think that it'll take a lot longer to go away.

As we're not going to be able to visit my parents abroad (they live in an EU country, my dad has dual nationality) this summer as usual, I'm wondering if there's a chance we can get away somewhere in the UK instead, and we do often also go camping in the UK. But where? Assuming restrictions on holidays are lifted, that is. Wales doesn't want us, the South West doesn't want us, I'm scared of being hunted down by vigilante citizen drones in the Peak District and I'm honestly not sure I want to holiday anywhere people are going to mutter about us.

Clearly it would be the better thing for none of us to go on holiday and restrict our movements within the UK to our local areas, because it'll dampen down the transmission, but we all need something to look forward to this year, and unless the government actually ban UK holidays as well as recreational travel abroad, that's not going to happen.

[Springersrock]

And talking about "locally registered" cars, which don't exist

We have a registration prefix which is specifically for cars registered here. We don’t all have it though. I’ve lived here nearly 20 years and none of the cars we’ve owned in that time have the local prefix

There is a lot of hysteria from one individual who is spotting cars that are “not local”. It’s been pointed out to him time and time again that not all of us who live here have cars with the local prefix but he’s not having any of it.

To be honest, I don’t see that anyone would bother coming here for a day trip. The transport required to get here is very limited and expensive and there’s fuck all open anyway.

[hoodathunkit]

I moved to a rural area a couple of years ago. Locals here were very Royston Vaysey even before the current crisis.

I've been getting the side eye and muttered complaints about incomers for the last 2 years and things have gone downhill since lockdown.

If I smile at people going past me they often give me that horrible smile with the mouth and hate stare with the eyes that means "I know exactly what you're up to you incomer you".

Nothing like a pandemic to bring xenophobic insanity to the surface.

It could be worse. At least i'm white. Darker skinned people round here and ethic minorities are having a very hard time here at the moment due to brexit, "the country is full up" and now this.

[Greengrassgravy]

I have been to Cornwall before - a long time ago before I was aware of the feeling towards tourists. Although clearly does not include everyone, it has tarred its image - I don't really feel the urge to return, it seems they won't mind one little bit either.