not forgetting the agent gets a bigger commission!

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:D

Oh, I love Mevagissey. :D 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* :luvlove:

and what makes me laugh is the weather is generally much worse on the north coast of cornwall (sh1t in fact)

its soooo much nicer on the southcoast -- especially the Roseland Peninsula

Did he take you up chapel point ;)

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:thumb:

Errrr.........are you asking me or Hodgy, KOT? :Suspiciou :lol1:

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'.

for the record I have never been taken "up chapel point"

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.

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:D although that is slowly going as well.

Don't get me started on the foxhunting ban either..

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that's chapel point:norty:

For all its sins. Cornwall is the place to be if you want a relatively quiet and peaceful life. It's atleast 10 years behind anywhere up country in terms of crime, etc.

I'm glad i didnt grow up living here though as it makes me appreciate the place alot more.

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.........." :p

Just unintelligent, tribal banality..............

English = (unts ;)

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 piss 'em off!!! :nono:

You are English ;) :thumb:

Fabioso are you the first generic Scoobynetter Brit;)?

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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Yep, agreed, p1sses me off, getting all tribal because of where you are from, I accidently called a North Eastern type a Geordie and he didnt like it, he is a "Mackem" or something, told me not to say that when in the north east as it could get me killed, ffs, how the hell am I meant to teel the difference, why should i give a flying toss and how could that get me killed ?

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.

I blame football.

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.

Absolutely true and left alone it wouldn't and I haven't got a problem with people who have an identity and are just proud to be from <whatever location>. But in my experience the said "Whatever Pro-area" can't keep their gobs shut without mouthing off with this or that and how " if you dunnae understand you're gonnae get urself stabbed etc"......its the negativity that gets on my tits :D

I'd happily recognise a sausage from Cumberland, a fish cake from Iceland and a Lotus from Norwich............:)

LOL - a Fishcake from Iceland. You sir are a man who knows no boundaries:D:thumb:

D;)

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 :D sorry produce/food.......:p

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.

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" :thumb:

When I said "other persuasion" I absolutely meant "not much of a tea drinker........." :)

Unless you have a cleft lip of course. In which case you're fukced.

:lol: :nono::lol1:

Zod we have 99% the same DNA as chimps - does that make us monkeys too-oo-ooo-ooo-ahhh!!! ;) LOL

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Dont quite understand how that applies unless you mean what I said about fitting in with the established way of things.

Do you really think the the locals are all inbred and so far behind the times?

Les