What counts as local?

[FestiveChristmasLights]

Is there formal guidance on this?

Whatever you want

Within a 15 min drive, I'd say.

My town.

FFS do you want everything spoon fed to you? What would you have called local before the pandemic? Its still the same thing.

Or do you want boris to drive to your house and leave you with a written plan?

@ScottishStottie

FFS do you want everything spoon fed to you? What would you have called local before the pandemic? Its still the same thing.

Or do you want boris to drive to your house and leave you with a written plan?

I’d love him to drive down. I’ll just drop an email to Downing Street to arrange. Thanks so much for the suggestion. 😘

Your tier area, I believe. Or that’s what our council are saying - essentially stay within the area that is within your tier.

I suppose the same distance as your local school, supermarket or hairdressers, depending where you live. Less than 20 min drive.

I think of it as “stay as close to home as possible” so ....if you’re going for groceries choose your local supermarket rather than the posher one in the next town over, but if your children are at school in the next town then of course you take them there. So it’s not really about a fixed distance or area, it’s staying as local as you can.

I count it as where we go frequently so for us it would be up to about 1 hour away. I won't be changing ds's routines and the regular places we go.

@Grooticle

I think of it as “stay as close to home as possible” so ....if you’re going for groceries choose your local supermarket rather than the posher one in the next town over, but if your children are at school in the next town then of course you take them there. So it’s not really about a fixed distance or area, it’s staying as local as you can.

I'm going to the scummier Waitrose to pick up my food as it's easier to park there. Is that ok? 😉

We had a similar conversation - I'd say local is within 30 mins however for us ... 15 minutes in one direction is a different Tier ... so who knows!

Frankly I no longer care! I'm going to my mothers 240 miles away! I'm not changing plans this late in the game and we are in a support bubble. Nobody is going to be policing it so does it really matter!!!

I'm going to my daughter's for christmas day (fingers crossed!) - it's a 30 minute drive away. We do regular childcare for her so we do the journey a lot. I definitely consider it local

The place you pick up your groceries each week, not where you summer or ski.

My in laws do childcare once a week and live 1h30 away so I'd say about that. I don't think there is clear guidance though as we were wondering the same!

Whereas to me up to an hour is local but then I live in the middle of bloody nowhere.

I one is policing it what does it matter?

If I want to drive 2 hours to a field to walk my dog then I will

See this puzzles me. There's been no clear info on outside exercise.

DS(13) and vulnerable uses a mobility scooter. If we as a family want to go for a walk locally we are really very limited. We can do it, but we basically have to stick roads. The local park has no hard surfaced pavements. But there is a place 30-35 mins drive away we go roughly once a week that has a significant amount of suitable pathway away from roads, and frankly has been brilliant for our mental wellbeing. It is the same tier.

I do think they've left a fair amount of ambiguity. Atm I see nothing in the tier 4 guidelines to say if we can still go or not.

Local to me is not in my tier! Right on the border.

@FestiveChristmasLights your last post really made me laugh, thank you!!! I have no idea why people are soooo rude, don't comment if you don't want too, it's not compulsory.

@HappyChristmasTreeRex

My in laws do childcare once a week and live 1h30 away so I'd say about that. I don't think there is clear guidance though as we were wondering the same!

With the light traffic at the moment I could be 100 miles away in 1hr 30n no way is that local, would anyone say that it is?

My supermarket and workplace are 2 tiers higher than me

@HopeAndDriftWood

Your tier area, I believe. Or that’s what our council are saying - essentially stay within the area that is within your tier.

This wouldnt be local for me, to shop within my tier is a 35/40 min drive, so shop two tiers below mine is a 10 min drive...

I either stay local and go into a lower tier or drive a long distance...

@PaperMonster

Local to me is not in my tier! Right on the border.

Same! :/

Well I suppose it is to us as they are here weekly and in normal times we are there once or twice a week. It's about 60 miles I would say. I guess local is quite a subjective term. The rest of our family live much further away (about 250 miles), so they do seem local.