to ask for your DFL (down from London) stories

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Living in the West Country and we are currently inundated with tourists. Great to have the money in the local economy and I hope they have a lovely time on the beach. However, some are obviously from cities and have no idea what life is like here.
We call them DFL - down from London. (they may be from other places tho)
Most worrying is the lack of knowledge about tides, rips, crumbly cliffs etc, and the sheer rudeness to hospitality staff. Plus they drive shiny 4x4 Landrovers that can't squeeze into a passing place without the parking sensors going off and they can't back up on the lanes.
Last week I heard one say 'Where has all the beach gone? I'm sure there was a lot more sand this morning'

The harshest critic I’ve seen of visitors to the SW grew up in the Midlands, but now he lives in the SW it seems he’s the only fucker with permission to be there

You live in a beautiful place - other want to visit - get over it

God snobbery about London is so fucking boring.

Living. Outside. Of. London. Doesn’t. Make. You. A. Better. Person.

@Shirleyphallus often we are the ones that inject money back in

It’s not only tourists who get into unsafe situations. Lots of locals don’t understand rip currents or tides, or the dangers of a chalk cliff crumbling, especially if they work all week and only visit the beach once a month. It’s possible to live in a seaside town and rarely have the time or energy to spend on the beach.

The people who need rescuing around here are often teenage boys who’ve rowed too far out and underestimated the current, or floated away drunk on a lilo.

FFS OP - so what? Btw, the term DFL is a modern SE expression, founded in Lewes I think, so a recently imported 'expression' in the SW.

But, so what if more people are visiting? They've finally found the little town I live in, because they were forced to; they'll be gone before we've even got used to them.

[quote Blessex]@Shirleyphallus often we are the ones that inject money back in[/quote]
And pay a third of the tax of the country. So when people slag off London as being a cesspit of hell they conveniently forget that.

What a shitty post OP.

DFLs, emmets, grockles, blow-ins. Do you ever travel?

@Pinkchocolate it worries me beacuse they get themselves into dangerous situations then other people have to rescue them

What proportion of the gazillions of tourists in your area does that actually happen to though? Enough to warrant tarring them all with the same brush?

Mancunians go to Blackpool

OMG, this thread!

I'm from Manchester and I've been to Blackpool once in my life. I've been going to Cornwall every year for the last 15 years though.

You do know people Manchester, Liverpool etc sometimes venture further afield than the northwest? Do you think only Londoners travel?

Believe me I miss broke injecting my global/London back into Norfolk. I am not sleeping.

DFL and proud of it. I love Cornwall for holidays and love living in London. I am polite to everyone, service staff included; my London-parking skills come in handy on the tight country roads and I can even read a “crumbling cliff” sign! Bore off, OP!

@Ireolu

It's attitudes like this that means I would rather stay in London and go on holiday abroad than in UK coastal towns and cities. Booked one today for Dec. I'm sure my touristy vibe will be appreciated where we are heading.

Don't forget to moan about the locals not speaking English when conversing with one another.

Okay, but happy to take our money. Hilarious.

Living. Outside. Of. London. Doesn’t. Make. You. A. Better. Person

Exactly! Cities have existed for millennia, so fed up with the noble savage/corrupt city dweller narrative , so patronising as well!

@Hellotoallmyfans

Mancunians go to Blackpool

OMG, this thread!

I'm from Manchester and I've been to Blackpool once in my life. I've been going to Cornwall every year for the last 15 years though.

You do know people Manchester, Liverpool etc sometimes venture further afield than the northwest? Do you think only Londoners travel?

It was tongue in cheek. Even so, I can bet that more people from Manchester go to Blackpool each year than to Cornwall. The trains here are currently being overwhelmed by what seems like half of the populace of the North West of England all decamping to Pontins. No idea why, Pontins is a dump.

DFL’s (not all tourists) can be knobs. The coastguard has had to go out 6 frigging times this weekend so far to rescue plonkers from the quay and flats where I am.

What a waste of time and money because they don’t bother to understand the massive sign about tides.

That does drive me batshit tbh.

I find this thread interesting. There is a kind of feeling among the DFLs that provincials should be thrilled at their arrival. They carry the lucre you see, like a passport they are immune from criticism. I have got this impression a/ directly through working in hospitality for 18 months, b/ via stories from family who are local service providers (plumbers and electricians) c/friends who work in changeover services. We live near a place very popular with DFLs and the stories are really atrocious. The stuff they leave in the rentals, the way they speak to the services, and the way I've seen them in the restaurant. And then they complain no one wants to work in these jobs anymore. Who the fuck wants to be treated like the dog shit on the bottom of their shoe? No amount of lucre will make that better.

Sounds like one of those journalist threads trying to get 'silly London tourist' stories?

The trains here are currently being overwhelmed by what seems like half of the populace of the North West of England all decamping to Pontins. No idea why, Pontins is a dump.

How do you know, do you spend your times hanging around on trains asking all the passengers if they are going to Pontins?

Maybe it's because they don't have much money and Pontins is cheap? Not sure why you're so bothered about people going on holiday....in the summer holidays.

Begs the question, why live in a seaside resort if you dislike tourists? I live inland (not in a city) and bloody hate the superiority of some coastal types whining about outsiders.

I lived very near Cornwall for a few years, just over the border into Devon. In that time I witnessed the most awful examples of overt racism I've ever seen in my adult life, from a number of different people, in a number of ways. London is so much more inclusive and welcoming.

As a child (from Manchester) I used to go and help on my Grannies farm in rural Ireland every summer. One day I was out in a field helping to stack peat bricks and a huge coach load of American tourists stopped to take photos and chat. I was with my cousins fro. Leicester and London and we all put on Irish accents as we didn't want to disappoint them

Ooh it’s all green and there’s so many trees
From a sweet london family , not used to a whole paddock of land on the doorstep for them to enjoy whilst Airbnb in our converted cottage

They drove a 61 Ford Focus , all the new Discovery’s are driven by locals ( and covered in Welsh mud )

Not sneering at all , we need the tourists and welcome them

And I’m.very much looking forward to my trip to london next month
Hoping I don’t look too much like a yokel ( and Londoners won’t laugh at me )

Whilst I think some of the comments on here are unreasonable, there is a valid point about how you behave when visiting anywhere on holiday. Not being entitled.

I wonder when the OP or anyone on this thread goes to Spain, France or any other country on holiday, how much they expect the local hoteliers, restaurants and other places to speak English and not even bother with a few words of the local language.

I agree that Cornwall needs tourism, but as I Iive here,, and have done for 30 years, the big change is the swing to Airbnb. As long as it's possible to rent a rabbit hutch for £1000 per week without controls from councils, then there will be problems. Personally, if I am going on holiday, it needs to be a bit nicer than home.