Sick of some Cornish people bleating on as though they are the worlds only tourist destination

[Endlesssummer2022]

Just read the article below and found a few gems such as these:

’ have you ever wondered where the local people live? Or have you noticed that many of your holiday neighbours are recognisable in the narrow lanes of the pretty fishing villages because they are the same people you live near in London?’

and…

‘Despite what you may have read, we Cornish do welcome visitors and are happy to share our love of our land with you. But it might help if you do a bit of research – Cornwall is fiercely independent and has a proud and unique history and heritage…* *And try not to be rude to local people. If you’ve been asked to not drink from a glass bottle on the beach, there is a reason for that. Don’t forget to tip waiting staff. ‘

What patronising bollocks. So Londoner’s (as those are apparently the only people who visit Cornwall) are so untraveled and boorish we need to be told not to be rude to people, pay tips, not to smash glass bottles in sand, that we’ve bought all of their houses, that it’s ‘their’ land and we’re the ones who are rude?

I’d already decided I wouldn’t go back there after how some of them carried on during Covid but this article has pissed me off. Why would anyone go there when they can go to equally lovely places in the UK/World and not be treated with contempt?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/29/welcome-to-cornwall-please-dont-ruin-it-for-us-local-people

1dayatatime, plenty of cornish air bnb

Londoners cause most of the problems in this country. Especially when they go elsewhere and behave in an entitled manner.

There are idiots in all Counties.

@SashaPearce

"What was the behaviour during Covid?"

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The Cornish got upset that 62% (£100 million) of local government support for small businesses went to second home owners rather than local businesses because technically they were "businesses" are therefore eligible to apply.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10044949/amp/Furious-Cornwall-residents-demand-countys-second-home-owners-PAY-100m-Covid-relief-grants.html

Apologies for a link to the Daily Mail.

You again 🤣🤣🤣

What exactly was it that the 9 million+ of us did to incur your wrath? I've forgotten since your last excitable, shiny-faced rants on whichever London-bashing thread it was 😂

Cornwall - brexit, London - remain, I know which place has more tolerance

Of course Londoners whinge about tourists. Usually though they find it easier to just elbow them out of the way.

Venetians moan about tourists, Spaniards moan about tourists, Highlanders moan about tourists, the Welsh moan about tourists... Basically anywhere that gets flooded with them will moan.

62% of all holiday homes and Airbnb owners are registered as outside Cornwall.

Yet not all people moan about tourists, i don't mind them and I've lived in several touristy areas

True... But someone who has lived all their life inland and is not particularly well educated or informed is not likely to understand tides. Maybe not at all, but certainly not in the way coastal people do. I mean, how many people in Penzance understand the London Congestion charge or the ULEZ rules?

1dayatatime - 38% is not insignificant

I hate these threads. They just stir up even more ill feeling.

However I've worked in Cornish tourism for years and will say that I've known people return year after year. I've seen families come to the same place since their kids were tiny, who are now grown up. They can't all feel unwelcome and put upon and despised and moaned about or they wouldn't come.

Too many visitors all at once do cause problems. It's a fact of life. However this has really been the first busy week down here. This spring has been noticeably quiet for visitors numbers, even more so than last spring

Surely the point was to get people reading the article, talking about it and perhaps even posting on MN about it.

Everybody hates a tourist. Isn’t that the whole point of the Pulp Song!

People who want your money smile and put up with bad behaviour. (Because that’s what you are really saying here: ‘I pay my money so should be able to do what I like and be beyond criticism)

Not every person in Cornwall works in the tourist industry and so I’m not surprised that they don’t want to get down on bended knee for someone that isn’t treating the area and people where they live with respect.

I feel no particular way about Cornwall, most places have tourists and most local people probably want to live their lives in peace.

We all know trickle down economics is a load of rubbish so there is no point saying that everyone in who lives in a tourist hotspot has to put up with being looked down upon by people who unfortunately think that having a little money makes them above normal societal behaviour.

It’s actually a quintessential part of being British to go on holiday somewhere and have all the locals look at you like scum until you prove otherwise.

The whole modern attitude of ‘I’m a customer and that’s more important that just being human’ is very American and just shows how commercialism has really taken us over since the 90s.

Who were the Benidorm brigade?

Everyone in Edinburgh is not the same. "They" dont all "milk the tourists", tourists have very little to do with their lives. Most just want to get on with their office or other non tourist related jobs, without hellish issues caused by crowding and infrastructure that just cannot cope.

20 years ago the level of tourism was fine, but it has exploded to the point it is now very unpleasant.

Absolutely agree with this.
Also in a pretty part of the Highlands, this week found a bucket with used sanitary towels down my lane, litter everywhere and a person in a camper making rude gestures on the road to a local who was just driving on the road sensibly, plus sat in traffic for hours on end trying to get to a drs appt.
Tourists can be incredibly insensitive and rude, forgetting people actually live here year round and deal with them day in and day out literally defecating and urinating on their home.

I live in a Scottish tourist trap and would say that people need to be continually reminded not to behave like arseholes when they are on holiday. For some reason tourists here are unable to comprehend that there are literally thousands and thousands of them passing though an area where the infrastructure was designed for a few hundred people and some sheep. As well as the stupid fuckery with giant motor homes and bloody cycle tours on the roads there is just general selfishness with things like lighting fires on the ground, using bushes as toilets, or emptying motor home rubbish into public bins. If one person is doing those things it’s a minor issue but when thousands and thousands of people are doing it it causes huge and disgusting problems for the people that live here.

I have no issue whatsoever with anyone who hires a motor home, drives it considerately and them pays to stay at a campsite so they can dispose of all their waste but would quite happily see the the roadside ‘wild campers’ banished forever!

Also should say we got tourists before COVID but it was actually pleasant, but since summer 2021 it's been ramping up to abnormal levels of people just being disgusting- leaving bags of human poo where they've been camping overnight and being rude and obnoxious to locals.

I mean, how many people in Penzance understand the London Congestion charge or the ULEZ rules?

Plenty. And those who don't could I imagine, use google.

Tide times are also available on Google. What is not, is basic pissing common sense.

What a ridiculous comment.

You are absolutely right but the point I was trying to make is that the Cornish economy wouldn't be as hard hit as the GDP (20%) figures or many posters would suggest given that a large proportion of "tourism assets" are owned outside of Cornwall, so the money simply flows out.

People in the UK just cannot behave when the sun comes out. Simple as that really.

I live and work in central Edinburgh. I don't complain about tourists. Edinburgh in August is amazing. I've no problem with tourists.

Peaches, and plenty of tourists know how to google and read a tide timetable