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

London has put up with people from every where we just accept it and get on with life

Everyone I know who lives here loves London't multi-everythingness, and see the mix of residents (from all communities) and visitors as part of the richness and atmosphere of London and one of its strengths.

It is the Capital City - it belongs to everyone in the UK.

You can’t base judgment on an accent. Plenty of people move around. I live in the southwest and always lived here but my neighbours are from London and the other side north of the country somewhere (no idea). There’s Scottish people on the street too even American. My own partner has a slight accent from being raised elsewhere.

Today my friend was asked for directions to get to a tourist hotspot. Now that’s how you spot a tourist!

@ToffeeYoghurt
Whether they were on about immigration or visitors the same concept applies, London wouldn’t be London without them!!

I drove an hour to go for a walk (it’s allowed now!). In a 3 hour walk we saw 6 people, whereas in our city we’d have seen that many on one block and it would have been much harder to socially distance.
I imagine locals may not be happy we were there, but I also imagine they are perfectly happy for me to work nights as a nurse at their local hospital (which I do!) with much less ability to distance.

@howmanysleepsnow I can’t imagine anyone would object at all. It’s the people with no imagination who go to tourist traps and ‘beauty spots’ who are the issue. It’s gonna be bedlam up the road from here all weekend I predict. I will avoid however and stick to less touristy places like you

Agree @Waitingforboristoletusfree
But the government does need to start catering for everybody's essential needs. Across the UK. Whoever they are and wherever they're from.

That is true and also why I voted labour but that’s for another thread 🤣

Shades of the Black Death

A lot of these places rely on the tourists, so are they going to continue to question where people are from when the shops and tourist attractions are back open and these people are spending their money in the area ?

I live in a large town and if you drove 10 miles to here you would not be local.

Official ban for all non-Londoners coming here then!
This is similar to people thinking they own the bit of road outside their house. You don’t! You also don’t own Cornwall or Wales. In the same way I don’t own London.

Although first thing this morning I was out with a bucket and trowel on the very large grass verge outside my property and filled it half the way up with masses of dog turds - so yes I don't own the verge - our private estate does but all those walking up it with awful dogs are using it as a lavatory - I wish I could keep the bucket of the stuff and throw it over the head of the next dog walker who leaves turds behind on there.....

We live in a small norfolk village, at the start of lock down , the nearest town was overrun with London weekenders , fair enough they emptied the shelves etc etc
Honestly if I had a weekend place and a young family ,I have to admit I would probably do the same.
but what really pisses me off the 4 households who have legged it from London
That we know of in the village here , one old couple he is 80 their kids and grand kids came stayed for a couple of week s then back and forth throughout!! Same lot have had cleaners and gardening people in and out .....
Next gay couple no kids he is so bloody important that he has been working in London and coming “up “ at the fucking weekends again all though lockdown .
One other very important chap came from London their kid ended up in the local hospital with covid very hard for them yes but ....don’t walk your dog in the village and ride around in your bike spreading it fuck of back to London.
Oh and my next door neighbours have been back and forth for the past 8 weeks.
We have not been anywhere or meet with anyone, because it’s not the way to best this horrible virus , the numbers here will be more than other countries in Europe because we have a country full of Morally corrupt twats

Agree op and your photo perfectly sums up the strange and insecure mentality of these odd 'local' folks. We are all locals to someplace and don't own anything other than our own dwellings and gardens so as long as we are not trespassing over any private land, we have a right to go anywhere that we please (lock down and social distancing dependant of course)

I've driven twice now to the seaside and no-one has realised I wasn't local either time. Even the campervan wasn't commented upon negatively. I got lots of smiles and "wish I had one of those right now" type comments from passers by.

I’m another that probably won’t be returning to Cornwall after all this. For the past 10 years we’ve been staying at the same B&B for 2 weeks a year and the owners became our good friends.

Unfortunately they must have forgotten that they added us as ‘friends’ on their personal Facebook so we’ve had the pleasure of reading their general opinions of us tourists whenever they have ranted on their local Facebook site.

Safe to say we’ll be finding alternative UK holiday destinations from now on.

fuck of back to London.
You're a charmer aren't you?

How did London get so many cases? It didn't just magically pop up there. People from elsewhere came there.

I love that. Four families equals a place 'over run'...

The vast majority of people who left London and other cities at the start of lockdown were in fact locals returning home. It's been acknowledged that was what caused the spread in Cumbria. Actually no. That was caused by ski holiday returning locals. Still locals causing it.

Those repeatedly banging on about (in capitals) one hospital. And?
It was in London where the hospitals couldn't cope. Because one or two extra hospitals is irrelevant when there are nine million people living there. It's quite rude really to continually display such levels of insensitivity. It's not Cornwall that's lost more people than died during the blitz.

The hospital that couldn’t cope was in Watford, which is in Hertfordshire. The hospitals in my part of London are all empty.

And London is recording very low numbers of new cases and is on track to be COVID free within a couple of weeks, according to Public Health England.

I'm from a place with a lot of international students and an elderly man at the bus stop mentioned the weather being crap. I agreed it was crap and we had a little chit chat then he told me I speak really good English. Instead of saying, well I am english I just said thank you 😂😂

Clearly London's hospitals didn't cope. It was widely reported how struggling London hospitals had patients turned away from the nightingale (due to lack of staff). Some of those patients subsequently died. It was also in London where the criteria for hospital admission was raised (to a level survival was less likely).

Patients from outer NW London are sometimes sent to the Watford hospital. It's closer for some. Watford is only just outside London. It's quicker to commute in to central London from there (20 mins) than for many in outer zones.

It's a huge worry if PHE really do believe that nonsense about London being clear of Covid soon! Any empty hospital there now is merely a brief respite.

Is it preferable the people in charge of health decisions are beyond stupid or that they're liars, I don't know?

How will London be clear of Covid when thousands of people are arriving daily at the airports? No checks or quarantine or any kind of restrictions. And then there's the infection rate rise waiting to happen re the crowded tubes and buses.

toffeeyogurt and you probably don't need to pay hundreds of pounds to get hospital treatment every time you need it because there's no public transport here and the health board will only pay for a bus for you to get to treatment, anything else, even on benefit you must pay, if you're seriously disabled you get a 20% discount.

And if you break a bone you don't need to cross two counties to get to someone who can treat it.

And if you get cancer you need to pay hundreds of pounds to get to clinics and if you can't afford it then that's your problem.

And if you're on a specific diet, even if it's advised by your dr, you can forget being allowed it when admitted, there are no vegetarian options for example, you get whatever has been prepared.

Rural healthcare is horrendous.

The Facebook for my healthboard has heartbreaking stories on it right now.

London isn't going to be covid free. That's just spin.

Hundreds are still dying daily and that figure changes according to where you get it from.

From 8am the road outside my house has been humming with traffic. It's not been this busy since Christmas.

Oh I agree! I live in a seaside town -population around 25’000 - and people on the Facebook Are ranting about campervan did on the seafront! These people likely live here and have taken their van out because it’s nice to have a cuppa in your van with a nice view and the battery will go flat if it’s not driven!

People are seriously pious.

If they were where I am then they'd have been spoken to by the police and told off for making a non essential journey in their van. That's not to say I agree with them but that's what's happening. Even those sitting in cars on the seafront are being told to move on. Sitting on the sea front will almost guarantee you a fine. Even if you're disabled.

It's rediculous.