Is TOURISM a PROBLEM in CORNWALL?

Cut from the longer video with Tony from ‪@Evcarnage‬
• Tone Geoff…. Answering...

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Full video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJnamZ-uer97iLcsi=OdvQohlzczDMxz9Q

[@jameschambers6975]

Have you considered social engineering as the cause?

[@rosehippyguy3402]

I dated a woman who has an air bnb. She also has hens, that lay all year round. Cornwall climate is unique to the UK. Anywhere else, hens stop laying over winter without artificial heating.

[@stevenwatson3963]

"Only when the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned, the last fish has been caught - will we realize we cannot eat money" -Cree.(Canada).

[@bingpz]

What about when the last hippie gets kicked in the nuts?

[@kellyeye7224]

Give it a few years and no one will be able to afford to drive to Cornwall and all the holiday lets will return to local ownership for 'pennies'.

[@jameslavender444]

Give it a year, housing market is about to get the first swipe from the bears claw, I'm really surprised it hasn't tnked but very little is selling.

[@primordialpouch565]

probably won't be allowed a car more like!

[@highlyunlikely3698]

@@kellyeye7224 I can hope..

[@JamesAlexander14]

I look forward to that time!

[@davidaynsley7348]

Only if they have energy certificates higher than F otherwise they can’t be let.

[@edwardsierpowski3839]

Remember the joke from years ago… ‘come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales.” They were complaining about the same problem.

[@Dungshoveleux]

Not The Nine O'clock News

[@wormwood6424]

Some Welsh counties have put a block on sales to outsiders.

[@YenRug]

Anecdotal, I caught this being discussed on another KZbin video, can't recall what it was to double check the details. Apparently one of the highest priced skiing towns in Colorado ended up collapsing, at least with regard to tourism, because the wealthy patrons ended up pricing the locals completely out of the area; none of the hotels or facilities could operate as there was no one nearby to work in them, yes, there was huge amounts of money to be spent but when there was no longer anyone who was actually local there was no one left to pay. This is what will probably eventually happen to Cornwall, it will just take longer because it's an entire county rather than just one ski resort.

[@SierraNovemberKilo]

The genocidal "elites" are determined to back themselves into exactly that corner with their depop/poison the globe 2030 strategy.

[@therainbowgulag.]

Your forgetting the Ala u Akbar factor

[@user-hc6uo5fp8n]

I watched a program on this about 5 years a go it turns out that local Cornish people were sell house to non local and cash in. Then complaining that there children can afford house and work locally. You can have it both ways.

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

Exactly

[@lat1419]

Same in Wales. Mind you, in my part of Wales even people from the next village are "outsiders". Cardiff types are considered as bad as English.

[@charliejackman2953]

Where did they move to after they "cashed in"?

[@lat1419]

@@charliejackman2953 they mainly sell off inherited properties.

[@charliejackman2953]

@@lat1419 So if 3 brothers inherit a house and they sell it & split the proceeds, if they do this in Cornwall it's somehow wrong? They should just live in it and never sell it. (not directed at you in particular, but this seems to be the consensus)

[@clemo49]

I grew up in Cornwall in the 50s. Even then you had to move up country to get a job to earn enough to save a deposit to buy a house. We moved away when I was 13 and I now live 350 miles away in the East Midlands. We did consider moving back about twenty years ago and we could have afforded a house in my home town. However, advancing years brings health issues. There is but one hospital for the entire county, almost 50 miles away in Truro. I recently underwent treatment for prostate cancer which entailed a daily trip to a hospital in a nearby town.- for over seven weeks. If I had been in Cornwall it would have entailed a daily trip to Plymouth at considerable cost in time, diesel, parking and energy. We will be going on holiday to Cornwall in the next month or so. The chalet overlooks one of the best beaches, the view is wonderful, and who knows, we might see some stars at night. But- this will be my final visit. Now we are on pensions, the cost is eye watering.

[@DMAEmmeryJohn]

Nice Post ❤

[@wendysharpe4568]

Its not just Cornwall, kids have been outpriced from their home towns and villages for years across the country wherever is considered a "desirable location", not to mention the problems with local job markets, crap schools and the option to choose different schools etc etc, its helped to split families and communities, divide us and conquer us

[@SierraNovemberKilo]

Road charging also completely knackers the employment prospects of people - especially younger people who are just trying to get a toe hold into any kind of employment. Expansion of the London commy-zone was devastating to people with no access to tube/suitable bus routes in the outer London boroughs.

[@primordialpouch565]

completely agree, having grown up in Bath 40 years ago it was never on the cards to get my own place there or with a 50 mile radius, same in every place I've lived

[@AR-dn6kh]

A week all inclusive in a 4 star hotel, 1300 quid. A lodge in Cornwall gor a week over 2k plus you need spending money. You can shove that

[@eyesodd]

We've been looking to take a trip away in the UK for the school holidays. Non holiday time £45 a week, school holidays £245 a week, no scam there then.

[@BrainfromSpain]

Why do you think the Spanish are marching against tourism ? It's the same problem, with people buying property and putting it on Airbnb and locals are stuffed !

[@primordialpouch565]

exactly, when I heard about that I thought yeh same things being happening here for decades

[@itisabird]

Locals in Spain are happy selling their houses on inflated prices, and then their neighbours cannot buy a house. As everything in live, it has winners and losers, but not all locals are victims. Many of them cashed out.

[@annettesturgess5400]

2 grand for week ! In Cornwall, possibly no sun , jog on , please . Wtf does that ?

[@tilerman]

For years we used to go to Perranporth and rent a mobile home for a week. For some time it was fairly reasonable, now the same mobile home high season is £1250. For one week! It's insane.

[@primordialpouch565]

these days certainly No sun!! we are still having to put the heating on

[@itisabird]

@@primordialpouch565 That's because the era of global boiling has arrived" XD

[@n2obob]

Tourism has been going on since the 1960s, it is not just because of Padstow

[@primordialpouch565]

Padstow isn't that nice anyway, the surrounding parts where all the rich people have homes is a bit of a grotty oily old estuary , the chip shop again ain't worth writing home about, there's a better local one right round the corner

[@primafacie6442]

Doc Martin show also attracted city money to quaint Cornwall, perhaps more than some celeb chef ever did.

[@hamshackleton]

I suspect that Wales is going the same way - no real employment any more, so low or no wages coming in, and property prices rocketing. While visiting, eight years ago, I looked in an Estate Agent's window, and saw that an old mining-town 2 up 2 down terrace was in the region of £60K - and that was in a small village in the middle of nowhere.

[@davewalker7126]

You are spot on. I moved to rural Wales 6 years ago. Then, £300k was a very expensive house. Today £450k isn't uncommon.

[@VisorView]

@@davewalker7126 I moved to Wales, bought a house that I could never have afforded in England. I have spent a lot of money on it. All of which has gone back in to the local community. It is worth more now, but, and this is the big 'but', if I now want to move back to England, I will only get a modest house for the same money. The locals would probably think that I was making a huge profit on the property, but I am not, in fact it is a lot less than I would have made if I had stayed in England. There are plenty of £150k houses in Wales, the local builders queue up to buy the £100k ones and renovate them. They then flip them at £150k, it is isn't all profit, and youngsters do not possess the tools or experience to renovate them themselves. The costs of renovation of cheap houses are expensive, and at todays prices for labour and materials. The selling price of a house has to take that into account.

[@steveh9229]

Used to go to Perranporth at least twice a year but was my last visit in 2022 because the price to park was ridiculous and you need to add food & drinks. No thanks, far too expensive. RIP Cornwall you lot have done this to yourselves by cashing in.

[@PhannyObsession]

It’s not just Cornwall, it’s the whole of the UK. You have to think of it like this… most people would rather pay £100 to EasyJet and go to Spain than all the hassle of going to Cornwall. Have you seen the prices of Trains these days. Or if you choose to drive, you know it’s going to be a nightmare. I’d rather get a taxi to the airport

[@pads-zr9ln]

Wouldn't dream of going to Cornwall, much prefer the Yorkshire coast

[@primordialpouch565]

some people didn't want to have to get j*bbed to get on a plane

[@herbiemitchell9156]

Anyone else old enough to remember the problem with holiday homes being torched in Wales? There was a slogan. "Come home to a roaring fire, buy a holiday home in Wales"

[@frizzlefry5904]

Pentewan sands..... mevagissey, when I was 17 in the mid 70's, riding down on my bonnie, camping and beach fires and too many pasties and jazz woodbines, happy daze....

[@indiakane9327]

Tony's spot on! My husband got a job down in Cornwall 11 years ago & it's been an eye opener I can tell you! We're originally from Yorkshire we love it here but it's really expensive & our son's can't afford to move out even with full time jobs. Great video guys ❤

[@barrybarry6592]

In Catalonia in particular Barcelona the authorities have banned all Airbnb for tourism in the city. Mank local authorities are following suit. The increase has been exponential this year. 100% occupation and rates up. This has forced property prices through the roof. An example two bed terraced house in need of restoration 350000 EUR. No joke for local people

[@noken11]

I live in a country tourist town in Australia. Same here. Housing prices have gone silly, businesses closing down as staff on relatively low wages can’t afford to stay in the area. Nursing home only half utilized as staff can’t get a rental at reasonable prices.

[@xr6lad]

How long has it been a tourist town? And did you move there after it became a tourist town?

[@dannyjonze]

i do think it is no coincidence that this happens rght across the planet simultaneously. Most things are a cover for transrfer of wealth.

[@noken11]

@@xr6lad it has been a tourist town for a long time. Yallingup surfing Mecca. I have been here 15 years and my children have stopped visiting as prices are high. Businesses who were thriving 15 years ago are now closing.

[@annashear7331]

Thank you for this video as someone who is born and bred cornish 100% agree with everything said great video

[@debbiecross8980]

Maybe the house prices are so high, to price the young people out of the housing market, and to move out of the little towns and villages and into their 15 minute cities, with their 'affordable housing' - the UK was being touted as a tourist attraction and a tax haven not too long ago as well! 😉

[@user-iv1ed9mj5i]

Dunno,but i know migration is

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

Who sold them in the first place oh yeh the locals.All hypocrites

[@paulhargreaves1680]

and for a handsome profit of course. Well said 👍

[@TruthAndFreedom.]

You are small minded and low iq to think thst

[@highlyunlikely3698]

But its pointless profit, because they still need a house...and houseprices have risen...​@paulhargreaves1680

[@DMAEmmeryJohn]

Think lot are bought back by Cornish/Devon people who left to make their fortune in London. Factor in too lot of people inherite them the commutes impossible if you say work in London...We full of as many Lannnderss up here on the. Norfolk/Cambridge border.

[@charliejackman2953]

Victim blaming much?? Supposed to live in the 1st property you ever purchased forever are you?

[@user-dv3fi7zs3t]

They are such hypocrites who sold the houses to second homeowners in the first place THE LOCALS

[@charliejackman2953]

So, if you owned a house & wanted to move, would you decline offers from buyers? Even if it meant a move to your next house falling through?

[@dannyjonze]

i live in cornwall and as much as i agree with you, that is £1400 pcmonth, not per week. I have lived here 15 years and i left London because a two bedroom flat cost that in London then. And that business about coming down and renting till you find a place to buy, that's a great way of spending all your money in a year. the other thing, it's weird that if you watch the national express arrive, people get off from other continents with new sports clothes and big suitcases who are obviously NOT on holiday. Did they come from Victoria station or Heathrow airport? other questions, are they ever going home? don't think so.

[@lolitapitpong3826]

Maybe they’ve just come for the summer to work fruit picking 🍉

[@TrumanShow-im2ve]

Zionist orchestrated Coudenhove-Kalergi plan.

[@adrianrichards4104]

What people are not talking about is the difficulty with getting planning permission to build a house in Cornwall. It cost an absolute fortune and takes forever. If you can’t build houses the problem will never go away. As always, government and local councils are hampering things.

[@wesleyconn620]

yip it destroyed the north of scotland too

[@ChaosXOtaku]

i consider Newquay a 3rd home as i grew up in Hertfordshire then moved to mid wales. However i was lucky to have grandparents who lived in Newquay & ran a guest house till i was 10. I have always visited Newquay every year as a kid i would take part in more holiday activities but as a teenager i worked summer jobs there & now i just come down to visit my Grandmother for her birthday.

[@webpigjohn4959]

I live in Evesham and rents are ridiculous ..if I rented my house out I'd get £1,100 a month how the hell people can afford to live i do know😮

[@andylannon322]

For starters, nobody ownes a region. Try building houses and watch the locals complain. Its a tourism area. It payes your wages. I love cornwall but i aint rich

[@charliejackman2953]

Who said anyone "ownes" a region?

[@G-ra-ha-m]

@@charliejackman2953 Isreal.

[@charliejackman2953]

@@G-ra-ha-m I meant in this video, not the middle east old chap, but fair comment.

[@andylannon322]

@charliejackman2953 The locals act as if they have a say in who owns what. Yes I agree that properties are expensive in coastal areas. Then build affordable housing for local people but somepeople will object

[@robertwood574]

Tennis is a racket

[@DeeCee-nb6ev]

Similar situation here in Whitstable, Kent and its noe spilling into neighbouring towns Faversham and Herne Bay. What’s compounding it on top of the 2nd home DfL’s is that a lot of Londoners are moving out of London period as it slowly becomes a Caliphate. Problem for a town such as Whitstable and i dare say for most of the Cornish Towns is lack of parking and narrow roads particularly in the centre of the town. Most of the housing is terraced and there is going to be a big problem if EV’s do take over as charging cables would have to cross over the pavements.

[@augustinbelza2418]

Stopped going to Cornwall 15 years ago due to the increase in prices for holidays. Now I go abroad, sun, sea, great food, great beaches, low cost. Why stay at home?

[@RushfanUK]

I've worked in Devon and Cumbria as a hotel manager in hotels that are reliant on tourism, November through February the hotels would lose money, March to October thanks to tourism they would make the money that kept them open, during the winter months staffing would be reduced to the core local staff keeping them in employment year round, without tourism or a significant reduction those hotels would no longer be viable to operate and would close as would many other businesses, tourism brings problems but it also brings jobs and money into local economies that they really need, when you take out one aspect of a system the consequences are usually far beyond the intent of those making the changes.

[@HisDudeness2023]

I gave you a sane pathway. If you want to see pathways I do not suggest watch the following films : the Beach, kiss the sky. The successful pathway is your family . Look inward, not outward.

[@mcfcok3773]

Its the same everywhere rural in the UK

[@TomTwain]

It's bloody expensive... that's for sure... 😉

[@primordialpouch565]

Now I'm right on the border of Devon/Cornwall, it's just the exact same in Devon too, and Bath where I grew up it had already happened - I moved to Hayle, Cornwall 20 years ago and there was only one property for rent in the whole town, which was a horribleterrace in a square with paper thin walls but we took it as my partner had a job there, when the next 1 property came up for rent we took it, a new build detatched bunglalow for £600 a month! Same place today would be £1200 now doubt, but even back then the locals told me they couldn't afford to live in the village they grew up in, I knew how they felt having grown up in Bath, to find a nice little home with as few neighbours as possible and lots of nature around, anywhere within 50 miles of Bath was impossible back then but now is so far beyond the realms of possible and it's the exact same here in Devon, Cornwall and almost any other place in the country if you look at rental prices online - I got very lucky with renting a tiny cottage from a church here but have now becoe trapped and it's not big enough for us but we have zero choice for what we pay in rent we couldn't even get a studio flat for now!

[@alanpearce1753]

Job prospects, in 1966 farming , fishing, tourism I and many others migrated out of Cornwall

[@Elsie-uy2kl]

Despite all the pressures in Cornwall, it could be much worse. It could have become a failed tourist destination, like Blackpool for instance, which has become a benefits city with no realistic prospect of real improvement. 😔

[@davidaynsley7348]

Part of the trouble is that houses with energy efficiency ratings of F or G can’t be let to tenants. Many older houses in Cornwall have low energy ratings. Many are inheritances and owners don’t want to sell and pay capital gains tax. Only alternative is massive bill to improve energy efficiency, or make into holiday lets.

[@dazt5831]

funny thing is if cornwall does not have tourism then it becomes a dead region as it has no industry that can support the region, they are all happy enough in late spring and summer to up their prices nearly double on literally everything which not only screws over tourists but they are screwing themsleves over aswell, its cheaper to fly to europe and holiday all inclusive than to spend £1200-£2000 for a lodge per week in cornwall in summer and thats down to the locals pricing it up horrendously

[@jagracershoestring609]

I lived in Cornwall between 1998 and 2004. Three bed semi in 1998 about £30k in Redruth. Single room to rent £50. Factory I worked at then, wages up to £50k on shift. Average wage about £7 to 8 an hour. Factory now nearly gone, others nearby appear to be retail outlets now. Cambourne had Holman's, the once largest employer in Cornwall, and provided houses for employees. Grockel's are a harvest in Cornwall, and I knew a few holiday home owners milking the system=, making a good return, often on borrowed money.

[@briankinder9292]

Moved firm to Falmouth 1985, lots of manufacuring, electronics, shipbuilding, engineering, we had a lot of fishing and farming, and all was well. Then Thatcher started altering things, then the Council and the idea of us being a tourist industry was born, seeing the end of well paid jobs and the birth of low cost service industry jobs. But house prices were okay, that was till 2000, we had a new campus built, all local houses for sale were boought and became student lets, house prices went shot up. House in our village, 97 - £51K, 2000 - £76K, 2007 - £230K, 2021 - £295K, today it's around £370K.

[@charliejackman2953]

What did Thatcher alter?

[@russthebiker]

​@@charliejackman2953sold off council housing, 80 percent of which is now in the overpriced rental market

[@briankinder9292]

@@charliejackman2953 That was the point when we started to move from manufacturing to a service / tourism based economy

[@charliejackman2953]

@@briankinder9292 Nothing to do with complacency and other countries competing with and dominating those markets then? Just Thatcher's altering.

[@briankinder9292]

@@charliejackman2953 Perhaps you should re-read the comment. Thatcher was just one domino in the chain, why make it, when you can buy it and just sell it, remember the YUPPIES. It was not one thing, it was many going back to around 1960.

[@BarnabasHooker]

Yep this video makes perfect sense, I have lived in Cornwall all my life and the imbalance between what is affordable and cost of everything down here gets worse with every year that passes, I live on family owned property that was bought and paid for many years ago when life was simpler and houses were cheaper and if it wasn't for that I'd be utterly screwed

[@will-lg9ze]

If you think Cornwall has a problem try being generationally from Surrey. There is no space un built and the prices are crazy. Yes you have to go back a couple of generations but its the same thing in the end.

[@svr5423]

Similar things happening here in Switzerland. Lots of immigration. Mostly qualified, so they do have the money to rent. Little is being built due to plenty of regulations. Especially the leftist parties are suing against new buildings because "the rent is too expensive". So developers would not get enough ROI and put their money elsewhere. Meanwhile, market pressure is driving up prices everywhere. I'm glad I bought a brand new apartment for cheap in a low tax area. Since COVID, the people are moving out to the countryside, so prices are going up and will be going up there as well.

[@HisDudeness2023]

I was able to watch your video “delete this Geoff”. I had a long think and couldn’t find the video again on KZbin. So I’m posting it here. I hope you repost it, it’s one of your best videos. Well, welcome to the wall! You finally figured out that it’s all rigged. And everyone that has big bucks sold their soul. It almost rips your heart out. The reason it’s worse for you is the same reason it was worse for me… you’re smart enough to realize the ramifications. Everyone hits the wall!!! I live through this and made the wrong choice, but survived .You have two choices : 1. Continue to wallow in it and end up like me. I lost the ability to relax at 43. And I faked it for over 20 years. Finally regained it at 66. The only reason I finally regained it as I retired and I have enough savings, which is referred to as “fuck you money“. It’s enough investments to be able to not be reliant on complying with the bullshit. 2. Check out of the world as you know it now with your family. I suggest the south Island of New Zealand. Or southern Alberta Canada. Whether you realize it or not, you have an adventurer spirit. The correct choice is number two. PS: the key is the ability to relax completely. Most people lie about relaxing. Find a point in your life where you spontaneously relaxed. Find the things you did at those moments. Take the path number 2 above. Now here’s the horrible part: you need to turn off all your electronics. and you need to find one other person and just agreed to not talk or think about anything negative just positive. And do that list of things that you did when you were younger and relaxed easily. You have to break through what I call emotional scar tissue. You can go through your own videos and you have a record of all the scars building up. One typical thing that causes folks to relax is music. So a simple song use to get you to relax…. It doesn’t work like that anymore. You would have to play dozens and dozens of songs over an afternoon n evening in the hope that one or two breaks through subconsciously and give you a little bit of natural dopamine. Repeat this for all of those other activities on your list. Something that used to happen spontaneously now takes a planned afternoon evening and night. By the way, the innocence of you children is also an escape. Your children’s purity. Also find some thing that you can do solo that maintains relaxation. Me: it is watching the waves come ashore. Basically my mantra is: don’t tell me what to do. I gave you a path to come out of the other side. Consider the path I took or find your own. But you have to make a change. There’s a crazy channel called way out west from Ireland. I could see you doing that… of course your version! Sorry for any typos I’m on an iPhone dictating … on a beach in North Carolina watching the waves.

[@westhighlandtraditionalarcher]

Tourism isn’t a problem, uncontrolled excess tourism is a problem, the situation is completely unsustainable.

[@Ben-id3op]

I was planing to move to Cornwall for the laid back life style. After many visits I realized my bissness restoring property’s would fall. So I’m staying in summerset where I have 2 years of work and I can rent 1 bed properly for £600 a month.

[@NeilBarratt]

I grew up in Cornwall in the 1970's and left when I turned 18 due to a lack of jobs and higher education. Even then it was difficult to buy a house on local wages, but it wasn't impossible to get a council house. Now there's plenty of work but a lot of it is low paid and the cost of housing makes it nearly impossible to live a "Normal" lifestyle. I've returned now. By British standards it's still a nice place to live.

[@Beauloqs]

So, still pretty white then.....

[@NeilBarratt]

@@Beauloqs Very, although the main hospital has recently taken on a lot of staff who aren't.

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

​@@BeauloqsLots of dark skinned Cornish from the Spanish invasion a few hundred years ago.

[@mikefoley360]

No, it's just communists and entitled "local" attitude. I want a house in Mayfair but can't afford one, I bought one elsewhere in the country that suited my budget.

[@michaelbrooks8332]

Living here, tourism is needed but not the second home there is a north south divide north is just like London.

[@VisorView]

I doubt that the local builders are complaining when someone buys a house and then spends £50-100k on kitchens, bathrooms, landscaping, and roofing. The owner, even if they sold it, would want to get their money back on the increased value of the house when they sell. The locals are just looking at the buying and selling prices, and totally ignoring the added cost/value due to renovation work.

[@AlienLivesMatter]

Population growth to expand the tax base is endorsed by every Westminster party. No alternative to vote for. Westminster clownshow is beyond saving

[@davidcollidge7206]

Have lived in Cornwall for 10 years. Moving back up country next month. Very few good jobs, frightening housing situation, education system not great, difficult to access healthcare/dentist, bleeding miles from everywhere. I do feel like the situation is getting worse.

[@Vince_Paul]

House prices across the uk are higher than they should be. Ten years ago the average house price was 4 times the average wage. Now the average house price is 8 times the average wage. This means one of two things wages have not gone up at the correct rate or house prices are over inflated. Four things need to happen in the uk when it comes to housing. 1. Second homes owners should pay double council tax, plus an added tax yearly on the value of the second home. This money goes back to the local councils to help with the costs of building housing and helping the locals get housed in the local area. 2. Private landlords should be forced to charge rents at the rates set by the council for social housing. Any that charge more should be taxed 50% of the rent income, this tax’s is also *oven to the local councils to help with the cost of building housing and helping the locals get housed in the local area. 3. Social housing should only be given to the local people within a councils area, those that are on the housing list. Immigrants and foreigners should never be given social housing or council or housing association housing, they can only be put in private renting housing. 4. The housing pricing set up needs to change. To be based on the average yearly wage/ Income in a given area. For example if the average yearly wage/income is £25k then the starting point for a one bed flat should be around £100k. Then other properties work off of this starting valuation. So a small two bedroom with a small or average garden would be around £120k to £125k and so on.

[@wokelefty]

Welcome to Southern England. It's the same anywhere in the south.

[@therainbowgulag.]

Its the same everywhere. And will get worse under Liebour.

[@Spacemonkeymk1]

Same story in Dorset. I had to leave my hometown of Christchurch just to be able to buy a house. I bought a 3 bed semi in wales for a third of the price of a beach hut back home...

[@Denise-vn8wz]

Friends moved to Spain a few years ago. They're fed up of being treated the same way as illegal immigrants to UK. Funny when the boot is on the other foot.

[@mike1117777]

I wouldn't rent to that graffiti artist

[@jackiefisher1820]

Not just Cornwall same in Rivera Wolverhampton! £200,000 for two bedroom terrace house! Up the Revolution! Lots of love from the Black Country!

[@robg521]

Anything that makes somewhere lucrative causes the same housing problems. I live in a city with a massive university, in certain areas it is impossible to get somewhere to live because all of the landlords rent their rooms out to students. The price of the rooms then become elevated above the local going rate for the area, so then even more landlords put their fees up and rent out to even more students. The local people then have to move to a less desirable area to get somewhere affordable. The are now locations in the city that have nothing but students, so the pubs, cafes and laundromats do well, but all of the other shops and business are struggling. Same argument for the countryside, it a beautiful area so the wealthy city people want to live there, they have lots of money and can pay higher fees so buy a 2nd house, because of this the costs of the local properties keep going up until the local people can no longer afford to live in their own area. You have people whose family have lived in a small village for generations having to move out to an urban council estate mile away because that is the only place they can afford to live.

[@terrymoore3335]

This is common across all seaside results.And small villages Where prices have shot up dramatically

[@jamesheap7194]

Please don't use the Tamar bridge! The traffic is horrendous, especially in the summer.

[@user-pw5ls9ti2j]

Funny how you have to pay to escape Cornwall but not enter!

[@user-pw5ls9ti2j]

This is happening all over the country - not just Cornwall: you simply cannot allow the population to grow by millions over a few years, not build new cities and expect the price of housing to remain static.

[@RB-lt8kt]

Is it down to the UK removing all manufacturing ? Most UK based firms manufacture in China so they can make bigger profits. Allowing second homes was a mistake as many stay empty. Visiting Cornwall next week but can't take caravan due to KIA taking 6 months to fix our car. It should be fixed in August sometime.

[@StevensPaul]

"Yer SCREWED!" Breif and to-the-point journalism that is😮. Honestly IS the BEST policy.....💥👍. Time for a revolution me thinks.....😮👀😮👹.

[@DougalR]

It exactly the same in my town..on the north Kent coast...... Rental properties.... 550 available for Air BnBs all owned by DFL's.. 8 available for conventional rent. 8 fucken 8.

[@philliphugh3347]

those pesky groccles! love um or hate them we need them. p.s. nice hat Geoff 🤠👍

[@brendanpells912]

For every home owned by an outsider, there was a local prepared to sell it to them. Maybe there should be a law banning locals from selling property to a non-local, even if it meant selling for a fraction of the asking price.

[@chrishart8548]

The locals are probably in minimum wage. You would have to sell the house for pennies

[@lolitapitpong3826]

Money talks Brendan

[@eddiereed5025]

Cornwall for a holiday no way too expensive I can fly to countless destinations and spend a fraction of what I would in Cornwall tried it never again and weather was shite.

[@Flatmat]

Simple. The council need to control the numbers. You can’t stop the holiday letting but you can control the numbers of holiday lets.

[@stephengirling7859]

"You vil own nuzzing..."

[@Beauloqs]

...unt you vil be happy

[@deborahendersby7234]

Tourism has a beginning and an end. People need to be tolerant. I'm lucky enough to live in Spain and it gets swamped here...but residents know its coming and adjust accordingly. I think the Tourism complaint (which is active all over Europe as well)is yet another distraction in this endless game🤦🏻‍♀️

[@BigReptileCrew]

Add to that - the recent influx of immigrants into the Southwest, and you are truly screwed... 😂😂 Good luck with that 🤣

[@UtubeRwokeLefties]

Currently I believe 2nd Home owners get a discount on council tax. This is wrong, they should be charged 2 or 3 times the local rate.

[@andrewnevermind4902]

Governments. Governing money. Nothing more.

[@n2obob]

Yes that is correct

[@iainrobinson4280]

We live at the north end of cornwall and looked at doing a weekend at the other end to see and do some stuff down there. Outrageously expensive. Could buy another car to drive there and back for the money. £500 self catering, £1000+hotel. I'll just drive everyone down there early doors and the kids can sleep in the car

[@EnglishTurbines]

Money in the banks, useless returns....Pensions....Useless returns and now risky....Houses, better than money in the Bank all day long, often used as a Pension nestegg....Its not complicated...Its been going on for DECADES now Geoff....Plus filling the country with useless excess people ramping up Property prices...🤔😳🙄🇬🇧

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

House better than money in the bank. Tell us about your properties then & how much you've made....👌

[@bigal6789]

The banner says Fair price, surely it's the going rate for a property in that particular area

[@WeAreAllDoomed-n5i]

What typically happens? Children move away to work and then move back to retire.

[@dozerblade]

We moved back to Devon, after 15 years in Cornwall, sold in 2021 for 60 k more than our first sale (that fell through) in 2019.

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

But you had to pay more for your property in Devon too, so no win.

[@dozerblade]

@@Lookup2Wakeup Well we were lucky, we did win as the place we were buying was put back on the market as a rental, and when were ready to buy again the seller only put it up 20K

[@yeright5785]

I will rent my second home when you lot stop charging me £20 for fish and chips

[@Enl1thened1]

Isle of skye is the same, its a double edged sword, good thing is its too far for most southern p...s and we have better wet weather than you do 😂

[@chrishart8548]

My dad goes to the Isle of sky with his Scottish friend malcolm macloud

[@jddarnes1131]

That headrest looks like a dyed black mullet on you Geoff ! lol

We only go down there in the winter now,it’s nice and quiet then, Wales is going the same way unfortunately.

[@davewalker7126]

Its always winter in Wales

[@Caroline-ue7lp]

I live in Cornwall and I'd say 90% of my income comes from tourism. We cant be having beef with the tourists, they pay the bill's! 😊 Hey Geoff, if you and Mrs Geoff and little Geoffs fancy house sitting my dog you're welcome to a week at my house next year for free, I live near St Austell, then I can go on holiday abroad without the dog, something I can no longer do! Yeah I know you're not a dog person but a free holiday in Cornwall isn't a bad trade off! 😂😂

[@wormwood6424]

My sons live in Newquay. Rentals are great in winter but they get booted out in summer !

[@nellspencer6417]

Zero hours contract for a summer holiday sandwich round? Welcome to tourism in Cornwall.

[@Jack-lo1uc]

We went to st Ives in 2020 and got the feeling we weren't really wanted there by the locals

[@bpenny4352]

Stopped going to the Southwest years ago, it’s a victim of its own success, the Peaks, the lakes, all going the same way. These areas want tourist money but not the tourists, life doesn’t work like that

[@nixswatson]

Love Cornwall...hate whats being done to it...

[@the1beard]

Property is Still cheap in Cornwall then .. 4x salary cheap as chips. They appear to want everything their way ,, and ignore reality . Zero pity

[@GeoffBuysCars]

That was 4x TWO salaries. So £50k combined. And there aren’t many jobs paying over £25k in Cornwall!

[@the1beard]

@@GeoffBuysCars Two NHS nurses? Two council employees Two teachers Seriously £200,000 isn't expensive for a home anywhere on the planet

[@absoluteentertainment9854]

We used to say in hayle and a place had a cheap chalet option 550 a week in school holidays last time i checked cheap chalets gone now 1300 quid id rather go to spain in an all inclusive for 700 quid more

[@bongsound]

I left Cornwall 10 years ago because of all of these problems, it's even worse now

[@jimhardy1897]

to many holiday homes triple their council tax..

[@TheHidden-ny4rk]

And make the council more money to steal

[@sempereadem54eadem64]

Ah bless.Don’t sell them for vast profit in the first place then.

[@jimhardy1897]

@@sempereadem54eadem64 changed my mind quadruple their council tax

[@Lookup2Wakeup]

And then what? It would just be an envy tax. 😂

[@jimhardy1897]

@@Lookup2Wakeup your one of them i bet.