If you were buying a holiday home anywhere in the world - where would it be???

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Can be UK or overseas?

Palm Beach, Sydney. Just glorious long unspoilt beaches, enough amenities not to be too isolated, and still in Sydney though quite a way from the CBD.

Vancouver or Lahaina in Maui.

France or Italy

In the UK, the north Norfolk coast or St Andrews in Fife

CD my second choice after california would be mudeford. Last time we went there was a house for sale on Avon beach but it was £650k

San Juan islands (between vancouver and seattle)
Northumberland coast

I want a pied de terre just off Beauchamp Place...

West Coast of Scotland.

Aussiesim my uncle has a house on Palm Beach!

Nowhere.
Very bad move indeed.
Second home owners generally add nothing whatsoever to a culture or a community.

Well that's bollocks, my Mum's next door neighbours are second homers, they are there every weekend and are very active in the community

Really??
How so??

They are always at each others houses, they play in the boules team, they throw frequent parties, she sits on DSS tribunals and appeals boards and was enormously helpful to my mum when her husband died, filled out all the forms etc for her. They get their gardener to cut my mother's grass too. They had a friend of another neighbour's to stay for a MONTH when the neighbour was ill and had a nurse in her spare room.
They helped with the catering for my stepfather's funeral.
They run people to the airport

I personally have been round there for drinks/food at least 5 times in the last year and I don't even live there.

North Queensland.

That's just called indulging other second home owners-it's not being part of a community.

I wonder why anyone would want to live somewhere (even on a p/t basis) where they have no ties ormeaningful reason for being there and where frankly people couldn't give a flying f**k about them????

sorry?

They are the only second home owners in the village that I know of. Who are these other ones you speak of?

Have a look at this Gomez I rather fancied it but Mrs A was less than impressed!

west bay/burton bradstock - eg about 40 mins away by the sea, then we would actually GO there

having a house abroad toooo stressful in case things go wrong with it, also dh would spend the entire holiday fixing it up.

Wot???

Whatever your mother's pillar-of-the-community neighbours do or don't do,I still fail to see why anyone would want to be somewhere where they are not welcome,and generally speaking second home owners aren't however much they like to believe that pastis on the terrace with Marie Claire and Pierre means they belong.

They don't.

And never will.

Look at p.18!

Moondog - that all sounds a bit worthy for me!

I'm quite happy to go on holiday somewhere and enjoy my children's and DH's company - if nice locals come with it so much the better!

In most touristy areas the contribution to teh community is the cash we spend without which many people would have no livlihood!

Eh? Not much Pastis in Hampshire

Falmouth, Cape Cod - as close to beach as poss (but with prices as they are this is only a fantasy!)

You are coming across as rather chippy about this, have you got PMT

hmm I take moondogs point - I live in dorset, second homers are, generally, irritating. mainly as they have the whole London centric country lifestyle; porsche 4x4 in cath kidston paisley, spend the whole time moaning aobut the death of trad country crafts then buy all tehir furniture from SCP etc etc

I don't have any ties in the place I live f/time and I am sure that noone apart from family gives a flying f**k about me either moondog. So erm, hmmmm, can't see your arguement really.