Grockles: the second-home-owning out-of-towners ruining the West Country
Property prices in the Cornish town of St Ives have risen so dramatically that locals can no longer afford to live there – and it’s all your fault
The Guardian-9 Nov. 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/society/sho ... st-country
Let’s move to St Just and the Penwith peninsula, Cornwall
Don’t be put off by Land’s End – the tip of Cornwall is rugged and Rebecca-esque, with raging seas and bleak moors
The Guardian-19 Dec. 2014
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/ ... a-cornwall
I love irony.
I love irony.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: I love irony.
30 minutes to go from beach haven to wind-blown, raging seas?
Re: I love irony.
Long Run wrote:30 minutes to go from beach haven to wind-blown, raging seas?
Sounds like the Bay Area...



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Without the quirkiness and irony.Sounds like the Bay Area...
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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In my town it's like 3 minutes, or whenever the weather changes!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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From what I've read, Cornwall has a fair amount of quirkiness...dales wrote:Without the quirkiness and irony.Sounds like the Bay Area...



Re: I love irony.
We've got more than enough of that, too.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Re: I love irony.
We are totally sane and normal around here. Except for me, and most of my family. And the neighbors, they are nuts too. And most people I meet. It must be the water.



Re: I love irony.
People are strange all over.



For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan