AIBU to expect people to stay away from our AONB?

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I live in the North East, a village within an area of outstanding natural beauty. AIBU to want people to stay away for the time being?

People need exercise for sure, totally agree with that. But the swarms of people descending on us right now is an absolute joke. As a village we have (mostly) followed all government guidance, particularly as we have a lot of elderly residents who are at hig risk. Since the rules have been slightly relaxed, our village feels overrun. No social distancing measures by these visitors either. A friend even caught a bloke weeing behind the public toilets as they're currently locked. What is wrong with people?

Anyway, what are your thoughts?

People should follow social distancing (and rules of common decency by not peeing outdoors) but, as long as they are, why shouldn’t they come to your nice area. YABU

Well for a start it's not "your" AONB...

The lack of open public toilets is an issue for a lot of places. Perhaps this is the secret control that will stop people travelling far from home for exercise. Can really blame the bloke too much, though should have been able to find a slightly better place for an al fresco wee though.

I feel your pain. They turned our AONB into a national park, and as we're only an hour from London by train, we're overrun with walkers and mountain bikers.

One of my neighbours came back from walking her dog earlier and said she'd had to wait for ages as what appeared to be an entire peloton cycled past them.

We never normally see so many people about, even on a bank holiday weekend.

It's not "yours" though, is it ?

It's not "your" anything. You own only the land that belongs to you, if that applies. As long as people are not trespassing on private property, breaking any laws or behaving badly then you really have no grounds to object. If people are not observing social distancing then yes that's ridiculous and they are in the wrong on that count, but to object to them simply being in "your" area is extremely unreasonable.

I think people should stay close to home for a while longer. It's not right to swamp people's home towns just because they live somewhere nice. Clearly people aren't socially distancing.

It would be great if people actually thought about their actions and how it would impact others. Alas , there’s a group of people who just interpret government guidelines to suit them.
It’s also , really unfortunate that the government’s guidelines are very vague and, contradictory.

Alas, I think your village, as with many other beauty spots, are going to bear the brunt of people’s misinterpretations.

Personally, I cannot have my mum in my house, but I can have a cleaner?! Maybe I’m wrong... but many others are too.

This is why I am happy that my local area is a place that is nice enough to live in, but not nice enough to visit!

Yabu. No one should be weeing in public but people are free to roam now, they will lose interest quickly.

Our village was swamped today. Could not get near the village centre. No room on the paths. People dropping rubbish everywhere.

We have a really low infection rate. That is probably all over now people from higher infection areas are coming in (we are surrounded by them).

Blame the government who decided to allow people to travel to exercise

I think it’s a terrible idea but if people are following social distancing (and general countryside rules) then they have the right to go to “your” area.

OK, so I used the word 'our'. Doesn't mean it belongs to me. You surely know what I mean.

My family are unable to get out for their exercise because the paths are covered in people, motorbikes and cars. Is it not just respectful to keep within your own bounds?

I haven't travelled further than 10 miles from my home since lockdown commenced. This is purely to get our food shop. Why do people feel the need to travel so far for their exercise? In usual circumstances we are significantly quieter, so it's not like they come to us when there isn't a global pandemic.

Blanchland?

No social distancing measures by these visitors either. A friend even caught a bloke weeing behind the public toilets as they're currently locked. What is wrong with people?

I'm not how to feel about this to be honest, obviously you can't tell people to stay away but I would be very unhappy if the above was happening in my village. When you say overrun, are you still able to socially distance yourself? That would be my main worry.

I only ask because I have moved to quite near Blanchland recently and drove through it last night and noticed that there were very many walkers and cyclists in the area.

Nope, all them city folks should stay where they are, entirely their fault for living in the city anyway... at least until we can open the loos and the cafes and the gift shops and carparks and make some money out of them!

It would be great if people actually thought about their actions and how it would impact others.

I agree, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Everyone has the right to go to natural public beauty spots. Not just people rich enough to live there. Sick of seeing people on my facebook going to the beach to dog walk or walk their kids and go to the woods every single day then they have the audacity to go mad when outsiders arrive to do the same thing as them.

YABU. It's not 'yours'.

@BillywilliamV jumping to assumptions! We have no paid for car parks, no gift shops and only 2 cafes. Our community runs on farming, not tourism. Hence why I say we do not usually have anywhere near the numbers visiting currently.

My thoughts?

Well the first one is, it's not yours.

They have every right to be there though why anybody would want to go with all the toffee nosed sneering beats me.

Tis not your area.... Tis ours

Is ‘your’ AONB really so crowded people will catch the virus from eachother? I doubt it. Have you seen how full city streets and parks are? The govt literally just told people they could drive as far as they want. I haven’t driven further than five miles (no national park near us) but with cramped housing and nothing else to do please stop blaming people for using the natural resources that belong to ALL of us.