No emmagee, I'm not suggesting that "that all of the incoming people are loaded city types with their 'city ways'", to quote you. What my long lost message said was that I do feel sorry for agricultural workers and other local people (meaning people who were born here and really don't want to move away) who can't afford to buy/rent houses or stay living in the countryside where they were brought up. Often these people are forced away from the land they work (i.e. agricultural workers) and into the nearest cities, the countryside having been priced out of their reach by incomers who think that £250k is a bargain for a second home in the country (which it is, let's face it, for plenty of people). OK, you could argue that the locals who ask the high prices and gladly take the cash are equally culpable. But I don't want to argue (don't care enough about this issue actually) and I don't know what the answers are either. More agricultural restrictions/covenants on land and housing? Subsidised housing for locals/essential workers? Maybe.
You also ask "are you really suggesting that all of the incoming people are loaded city types with their 'city ways'?" err, no, I didn't say that at all but you can tell the incomers/Londoners from the locals here (and I speak as an incomer whose mobile phone would regularly ring in the park to p* taking from local mothers and Look at Her kind of comments) - the London holiday makers are the ones screeching in the supermarket "goodness, haven't they heard of harissa paste here?" Or they're like the woman who proclaimed loudly at school one day that "we only made £350k on our house, if only we'd have waited another year, would have been half a mil..." OK, not that big a gain in London house price terms but you should have seen the dropped jaws of the £15k earning locals! She really had NO idea she was being insensitive!
It's fine for people like us who can afford to move out to the city to earn a living but lots and lots of people can't and you can't blame them for resenting 2nd home owners (who up until recently paid reduced council tax here - locals were angry about it but the irony was that most 2nd home owners couldn't care less about paying the full whack - they could afford it and meekly paid up when the rules changed!) or incomers who say "let's all pay £5 each for a non uniform day".