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

It's a media conflation. Cornish people are gorgeous. Love them. We have been going donkeys and will continue to do so. See you in St Ives late August

Well, people will always travel and move around and that's life. Nothing anyone can do about it. The whole world descends on London. I hope people will always want to come - even if it means crowds and traffic and inflated house prices. Good. London is better for the tourists and anyone else should wants to stay longer or make a life here. Couldn't imagine taking an attitude of 'this is MY London', just because I live here. Anywhere is free to anyone and nobody owns anywhere except for their own house and garden.

@Paperlate being Cornish has meant that we absolutely know how NOT to behave on holiday,

Ah ok. I'm black.

And you holiday in other peoples home towns? But that's different is it?

Well said.

Peaches, you could move and let someone who likes people live there

There was an article about pretty bits of Kent which you can visit on a bicycle on Facebook. Cue lots of comments "Just what we need, more DFLs." (Down From London apparently). Royston Vasey was a documentary!

Took your money though I expect.

Peaches, and who on earth can you go to dinner with if people are awful

Living in a country where it is quite common for tourists to behave like absolute arseholes I can understand where they are coming from.

Don't you know that Wales is Cornwall for poor people - or so it was written by a Cornish person on a travel forum. 😎

@Paperlate

I holiday in holiday destinations too. But the difference is I know how to behave.

Well we actually left before being served as we didn't feel very welcome.

oh dammit, I'm a poor person and I didn't even realise. That's hilarious.

Yes but two arseholes don't make a good person. No need to pre-judge people before they have done anything. That's prejudice and is in the same vein as racism.

This. In the past few years I've rented three different properties in Cornwall - around St Ives. All owned by...locals

It would be fab. if you’d also stay south of Watford Gap so we don't have to clear up
all your rubbish here either, many thanks 😊

That’s so sad to hear. That has been our experience of Cornwall and our friends too. They’re quite insular people I think, not that that excuses some of the locals behaviour.

I think they're right. There is no solution to this problem, but obviously it's annoying when your town and local area gets flooded with tourists who disrespect it.

And it's all very well for YOU to say that you're polite and won't shit on the beach. Loads of tourists do treat places that they visit badly, it's a sad fact. A local obviously takes better care of the area, it's their beach and it would be their own neighbours clearing up. Also they're not on holiday mode, it's just another day for them.

disclaimer: I do not live in Cornwall - in fact, I live further away from it than anyone in England - and I do holiday there once every few years.

I am not in Cornwall but do live in a town where people tend to congregate from a fairly wide area during nice weather. There was an event in our town yesterday and the police riot van came speeding past me with sirens on as I was waking to pick my dd up from a music lesson - I was a bit worried I was going to struggle to get her back, as she was in the town centre (luckily whatever was happening had settled down by the time I got there). People were absolutely hammered - I don't doubt that some were local and that plenty of people came from outside the area and behaved themselves, but there is a significant minority of dickhead visitors and we find we're unable to enjoy our own town when they descend. I'm sure the situation is similar in Cornwall and I doubt those people on facebook are talking specifically about you, assuming you don't behave like an idiot when you visit.

I am sympathetic to the Cornish. I live in the other popular destination, and some tourists are extremely irritating.

I'm Cornish and today I had a tourist park and block my drive. They also left a nappy full of poo on my garden wall. Open and not closed / wrapped up in a parcel.

I have it all recorded on my Ring doorbell. I'm a nice person and I treat everyone with kindness but it sucks when they literally shit on your belongings 😔

It's not their beach though. It doesn't belong to the locals.

The accent and car sticker flag was the clue.

But then, I guess, locals can behave similarly 😢