Has all this changed your opinion of tourist spots you used to love?

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There's one in particular that we used to visit for a few days several time a year. The last time was January and under normal circumstances we'd have been there this week.

Obviously we have no intention or desire to go there until the relevant restrictions are lifted but the venom being directed towards tourists and visitors by people fortunate enough to live in beautiful places is making me think it won't be comfortable there, we won't be welcome for a long time after restrictions are lifted. I understand people are scared etc but they also love to see us and our money in happier times and, I assume, do want tourists to return at some point.

Will you be rushing back to your favourite places to support their economies or will you wait?

You'd all better brace yourselves for an influx of second home owners and holiday makers. If posters on other threads calling for an early end to lockdown have their way. I'm sure I'm not the only one who will leave the city in time to avoid spending the second wave there. (I don't have a second home but I can rent one).

Meanwhile new developments spring up which are bought by overseas investors and many of them lie empty. Or properties are bought by the rich as buy to let investments. It's changing communities in a similar way that second home ownership does in rural and coastal communities.
@sanealaddin 1.5% of homes in London are second homes. In Cornwall it's more like 5%, much of it concentrated in the more popular villages where the rate can be as high as 70%.

The bigger problem is that some second home owners have decamped to their second homes and then carried on as if lockdown is only a thing in cities. Wandering about whinging that everything's shut.

Yeah the second home owners I can think of are definitely NOT from London! Home Counties tastic.
I don't care if someone lives in London, Birmingham, or Middle Wallop. They shouldn't be making unnecessary journeys.

Well if you are talking about local groups etc. on FB, the same nuts who berate tourists, take on the locals who own dogs, the locals who cycle, the locals who look at them the wrong way. Two women I note have joined every local group going to post the same objections/polls on every group. They try to whip up hysteria about absolutely everything.

I would ignore people like this.

I know there are some second home owners in our area, they arrived before lockdown. They still look well, but the same rules on lockdown apply to them to, I do wonder if they are more bored than if they were at home now.

Totally agree Bless

None of my family rely on the tourist industry so actually tourists are 'unwanted'. I don't mean that unkindly but I live in Cornwall & we often can't make good use of the beaches etc because they are FILLED with tourists! Sadly they also leave huge amounts of rubbish & bring antisocial behaviour to quite family places.

Obviously I know plenty of tourists are fine etc etc & yes we go on holiday but generally go out of season & are quiet, tidy, polite people!

It was actually quite scary when the roads were full of people coming into Cornwall when all this started. My parents were isolating before we were told too for medical reasons & the thought of loafs of tourists decending was awful!

I don't care if someone lives in London, Birmingham, or Middle Wallop. They shouldn't be making unnecessary journeys

Yup.

Selfish tossers can live anywhere.

I know lots of people in London - and the owner occupiers I know are struggling to keep up the mortgage repayments on their bog standard 3 bed semis, valued at £1.2 million.

I can't quite see what the value of someone's home has to do with this. We all know London property is expensive but mortgage affordability is calculated on income multiples; if a property is valued at 1.2 million then the owners either had a huge deposit or a much larger than average income. Plenty of people with lower value properties will also struggle to pay their mortgage at the moment and I suspect things will be harder still for people in private rented accommodation.

But still don't see how that's relevant to the issue of second home owners ignoring lockdown.