Bordering Tiers!

[chubbycheeks26]

I live on a border, it's ridiculous - walk 5 minutes one way and it's tier 2, 5 minutes the other way and it's tier 4 🙄🤦‍♀️

I'm tempted to walk to the open pub 5 minutes to the right tomorrow AIBU

Get why you want to but we live near a border, we were tier 2 and had tier 3 Manchester folk over mixing households in our tier 2 venues, now we are tier 3 and everything is fucking closed.

How could you be unreasonable?

Genuinely. How could it be unreasonable? Pub five minutes’ walk away, of course you can go.

@maddening I won't, but it's stupid having places that close in such different tiers, one locked down and the other open 🤷‍♀️. It's just daft the tier 4 area was tier 2 until boxing day. As areas they are both just as low as each other, however the tier 4 area is Hampshire and has been taken as whole because some areas are high and a lot of London commuters but it's a vast county and has some very low areas as is Wiltshire. What happened to Boris saying about more localised tiers? He just talks bullshit after bullshit.

@NoSquirrels because technically my one letter differing postcode is in tier 4 🙄🥴

This is why the full of Scotland was thrown into tier 4 apart from the island communities (they need to be able to access the mainland and under our tier 4 restrictions travel restrictions are actually law). The full country no matter what tier an area was previously under is now tier 4 no ifs, no buts, no coconuts! It stops people doing N exactly what you are considering ‘hmm can’t go to the pub here but I can be really stupid and selfish and hop across to another tier and risk spreading a killer virus’.

There was a period during our Leicester local lockdown where non-essential retail in Leicester city was allowed to reopen but all residents were still on stay at home orders not supposed to leave the house except for essential reasons. Official guidance was that we could go into a non-essential shop if we were buying an essential item, and while there could also pick up some non-essential things.

It was fucking ridiculous.

Being on a border is annoying, I know as I'm 100 feet inside the Leicester border so had all the restrictions for bloody ages because of 100 feet, but as annoying as it is we stuck to the guidelines to carry our restrictions with us. It's not morally right in my opinion to leave a higher tier area with the express purpose of engaging in an activity you are restricted from doing, with the full knowledge that you are at higher risk of carrying the virus with you.

@BashfulClam I'm not actually going to go, just me expressing how ridiculous it is, you know how easy it is to put one foot in one tier and one in another. My next door neighbour is in tier 2!

@FatGirlShrinking so I'm a higher risk than my next door neighbour, come on 🙄

@chubbycheeks26. Are you my neighbour?
We are in tier 4 with tier 3 just down the road and tier 2 a few minutes walk Up the road. Going out anywhere it’s difficult not to leave tier 4!

There has to be a border somewhere though, so if not you then others will be in the same situation. Unless the whole country is locked down

@Lindor we could be 👀

Ridiculous isn't it!

@Chloemol indeed, but perhaps if they are going to border two widely different then they need to look at the system, it makes no sense.

There’s a road in Swindon, one side is covered by Wiltshire Council (tier 2) and the other side by Swindon Borough council (tier 3). Theoretically they could be very strict and not let people cross the road without good reason
If you do go to the pub, don’t forget your Substantial Meal.

Same here, we’re 5 mins away from tier 2 so 5 minutes up the road they can go for a meal but we can’t. Makes so much sense.

@Emmelina

@Nowaynothappening crazy isn't it!

More and more tempted this morning

Until Boxing Day we were in tier 2 right next to tier 4. I would like to say that the people who make these rules don't live in border areas but there again they're all MPs in London with all its boroughs and boundaries close together.

Yesterday I met a friend for a run, and as the crow flies they must be less than 200m from the county border (although now we're all in tier 4 anyway).

(and we didn't meet when we were different tiers)

In the NW tier 2 surrounded by Tier 3. I really need to go to a shop in tier 3, 10 minutes away, but can’t travel there. Mind you I expect to be joining them in tier 3 soon enough.

It’s a bit crazy but There has to be a cut off somewhere.

@annevonkleve its so true, they don't otherwise they'd think about how ridiculous it is. It's absolutely nuts that my next door neighbour is one letter different at the end of her postcode and she is in a totally different tier

technically and legally you can't, but I wouldn't judge if you did.

@Freshprincess there does, but perhaps the borders should be in the middle of nowhere, where no one lives, my next door neighbour is in a different tier!

@pourmeanotherglass see that's what tempts, as if it's illegal for me to walk 5 minutes to the bloody pub. It's ludicrous and I'm becoming sick of the entire thing! Freedom no more.

I am close to a border but live in tier 3. Work in tier 2. I don’t see why I am good enough to have face to face contact with multiple tier 2 patients but not nip out for my dinner in a cafe.