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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Do you shop in the quaint little Cornwall shops? I love the shows which use Cronwall as the location.
SirenCalledLuce · F
@samueltyler2 I think you mean those crafty day tripper shops. I’m off to the corner shop.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SirenCalledLuce I bet it is tedious to see all of the tourists.
SirenCalledLuce · F
@samueltyler2 They buy up the best houses and only live in them two months a year. They clog the roads for four months a year so my half hour drive to work becomes a two hour drive. I can’t get sat down in my local pub. There’s nowhere to park, no bench to sit down on. I can’t get a table for me and the girls to eat out because it’s booked up. And the beach nearest to me is swarming. And then when season ends, so do most of the jobs. That’s what it’s like.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SirenCalledLuce I am so sorry that I threw salt into your wounds. We TV fans don't think of the ramifications. We just watched the Netflix movie abut the fisherman's son, and loved it. I never really thought about the disruption to regular people in the towns.
SirenCalledLuce · F
@samueltyler2 It’s okay. I was just being grumpy. Ignore me. 🙂
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@SirenCalledLuce It is okay, how can I ignore a beautiful woman from Cornwall!
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SirenCalledLuce I can understand that. My county, Dorset, faces much the same problems, particularly that of house prices skyed beyond local reach by the second-homes and holiday-lets lot from the M25 Corral.
Someone living in Falmouth once told me that Cornwall had become one of the poorest and most deprived areas in England, and I could see why.
Someone living in Falmouth once told me that Cornwall had become one of the poorest and most deprived areas in England, and I could see why.