Why are the Cornish so hostile to the English?
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The local house prices are in polzeath are 23 times the cornish average wage,so it is a rather bleak outlook for the young locals growing up there.
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
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The local house prices are in polzeath are 23 times the cornish average wage,so it is a rather bleak outlook for the young locals growing up there.
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
Oh, I love Mevagissey. Used to go there years ago with an ex-boyfriend. We used to stay in a B+B opposite the Harbour Lights Hotel. Then I used to go to Lamorna Cove every year. I love it down there..........*sigh*
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The local house prices are in polzeath are 23 times the cornish average wage,so it is a rather bleak outlook for the young locals growing up there.
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
Having lived in mevagissey for a few years i can vouch for it being very quiet in the winter with second homes and holiday cottages stood empty. Not that it bothered me as i did not have to put up with emmits getting there caravans wedged in my doorway
its soooo much nicer on the southcoast -- especially the Roseland Peninsula
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i've been going down to Penzance and area since the later 70s as a small child.and now with my own family.i stopped going down in the summer years ago.october time is much better and quieter.and i've never had problem with the locals
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Errrr.........are you asking me or Hodgy, KOT?
I've never had any problem with the locals, and we were particularly friendly with the Lamorna ones. I would love to move to Devon (my brother lives there) or Cornwall, and 'go native' and personally, I hate the way the locals have been priced out of the market by 'second homers'.
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If it wasnt for tourism, now that mining isnt so big, what would Cornwall do for revenue ?
Its the same in other places, Anglessey where we go is generally cheap inland but go near the sea, anywhere nice and it goes mental, no locals, just wealthy English families, I think the local council do offer assistance and property not for outsiders.
Its the same in other places, Anglessey where we go is generally cheap inland but go near the sea, anywhere nice and it goes mental, no locals, just wealthy English families, I think the local council do offer assistance and property not for outsiders.
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If it wasnt for tourism, now that mining isnt so big, what would Cornwall do for revenue ?
Its the same in other places, Anglessey where we go is generally cheap inland but go near the sea, anywhere nice and it goes mental, no locals, just wealthy English families, I think the local council do offer assistance and property not for outsiders.
Its the same in other places, Anglessey where we go is generally cheap inland but go near the sea, anywhere nice and it goes mental, no locals, just wealthy English families, I think the local council do offer assistance and property not for outsiders.
Again that's probably where a lot of resentment comes from as the d1ckheads in westminster have sold our fisherman down the river for the past 30+ years. We still have our clay though although that is slowly going as well.
Don't get me started on the foxhunting ban either..
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I associate Cornwall with nice beaches and great vanilla ice cream and a reasonably nice pasty (if you are fat and like that kind of thing.....) other than that nothing else springs to mind........its like all this regional talk..... all hot air and bull****.........everytime I hear someone proclaim they are "whatever" like I'm Welsh or I'm a Yorkshireman/Geordie/Cockney...... I end up coming to the same conclusion.........."So phoooking what.........."
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
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Probably the worst thing you can say on these forums which i have seen and will make the average Cornish person blow their Tractor gasket is....
'Hey hope you can help me, i came to Cornwall last year for a week in the summer and loved it, so i've decided to live here. can anyone recommend me a place to live which is cheap with good schools etc. and also where can i get a job that pays 40k?'
Guaranteed to **** 'em off!!!
'Hey hope you can help me, i came to Cornwall last year for a week in the summer and loved it, so i've decided to live here. can anyone recommend me a place to live which is cheap with good schools etc. and also where can i get a job that pays 40k?'
Guaranteed to **** 'em off!!!
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I associate Cornwall with nice beaches and great vanilla ice cream and a reasonably nice pasty (if you are fat and like that kind of thing.....) other than that nothing else springs to mind........its like all this regional talk..... all hot air and bull****.........everytime I hear someone proclaim they are "whatever" like I'm Welsh or I'm a Yorkshireman/Geordie/Cockney...... I end up coming to the same conclusion.........."So phoooking what.........."
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
I get what you are saying if its being rammed down your throat. However someone's identity isnt really meant to be important to you, only to them! Left alone it shouldn't cause any problems at all.
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I associate Cornwall with nice beaches and great vanilla ice cream and a reasonably nice pasty (if you are fat and like that kind of thing.....) other than that nothing else springs to mind........its like all this regional talk..... all hot air and bull****.........everytime I hear someone proclaim they are "whatever" like I'm Welsh or I'm a Yorkshireman/Geordie/Cockney...... I end up coming to the same conclusion.........."So phoooking what.........."
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............
I just live here, its ok but I acknowledge other places are nice as well, I dont expect someone to have had a family here for 100 years before I speak to them, I cannot hate anyone based on the fact they are from another town or support another football team, ok a bit of friendly rivalry but the thick dont get that concept.
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at the end of the day (cliche)
whether you be english, irish, welsh, cornish, geordie or whatever - we've all got lips and ar5ehol3s, so that makes us all the same.
whether you be english, irish, welsh, cornish, geordie or whatever - we've all got lips and ar5ehol3s, so that makes us all the same.
#51
I'd happily recognise a sausage from Cumberland, a fish cake from Iceland and a Lotus from Norwich............
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Well I thought I would throw it into the "National" debate. Well if you believe the "TeeVee" How many UK mums have been there? "Plenny" as they seem to pay that stupid fat cow millions to advertise their ****e sorry produce/food.......
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If it makes the Cornish feel any better - I went to Cornwall once - really did not like it and really enjoyed leaving.
Never been back, never will (unless I get washed up there due to some great misfortune!)
PS And it is not a Celtic thing as I love Scotland (and lived there along time - it is almost civilised now) and love Ireland; just a Cornish thing.
PPS Don't like Devon much either.
Never been back, never will (unless I get washed up there due to some great misfortune!)
PS And it is not a Celtic thing as I love Scotland (and lived there along time - it is almost civilised now) and love Ireland; just a Cornish thing.
PPS Don't like Devon much either.
#55
Well Devons' a different "kettle 'o fish" entirely....I mean apparently the Devonshire laydees do a mean "cream tea" and if you are of the other persuasion...well there is always the "Devonshire fudge"
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