The Cornwall Housing Crisis - Geoff's Stories from Cornwall Part 3
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- I took an impromptu trip to Cornwall to speak to people who live here about stuff that's going on in their world. Here's Part 3, we summarise a chat at a car garage with some of the gents who work there, and take a candid look at the housing crisis in Falmouth and Cornwall as a whole. #Cornwall #Falmouth #Crisis
Now you can watch Part 2, where I address your comments and speak to some locals:
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Cornwall resident here. All true. You mentioned South West Water polluting at will. The Cornish Lithium Company is extracting millions of gallons of water from reservoirs, rivers etc to flush out lithium in reworked Cornish mines. Chemicals are added and the toxic soup is then 'disposed' of but nobody wants to say where. Meanwhile we're told we're in an endless drought in spite of above average rainfall. Tell me again about how good electric cars are for the planet.
100%. they try to sell this lithium buisiness as 'bringing back mining to Cornwall'. My arse. It's bad news all round.
I'll spend a bit more time researching this and address it properly. Where is the mine...
I knew about Cornish Lithium Company, but didn't know they use so much water! I thought we are so low on water because of leaks. Do you know where I can look to see how much water they use please?
There's a test site at Twelveheads nr Chacewater & some more going on up around United Downs.
@@KennyfuKennard lithium mines are known for using many gallons of water.
Hi Geoff; I'm a Cornishman living in the North of England. In the late 1980's, there was an effort made to stabilise house prices by the then Lord Lieutenant and The Stannery (Cornwall's Parliament). This was due to the vast number of properties being bought up by wealthy outsiders as second homes, most of which lay empty for the majority of the year.
Sadly, in later years, and with the creation of Cornwall Council, (which took over governance of the entire Duchy), those stabilisation measures went out the window. The result is what you see today. I still own a beautiful 17th century home there, which is lived in by my Grandson, so I'm able to go home whenever I wish. I mourn the old ways and traditions of my home, but I can't see things changing anytime soon.
Great comment.
The native people were never asked if they wanted these young men of fighting age in their areas.
@Lookup2Wakeup
Multiculturalism turns everything into a shìt hole. Fact
We didn't ask for this government either and they kept changing the guard without understanding why we didn't want them.
Certain people if you(can watch europa) will wreck us all
Come on ,why ask,if you were would you say "yeah fine" would you fuck ! That's why they didn't ask you, sorry mate,got to open your mind,government is not here to help the taxpayer anymore those days have gone, if they were ever there firstly!!!
She who.w of the UK wasn’t asked if it wanted mass immigration and to be a minority in our own capital city
I live in Newquay, it's a story that is not discussed. The exploding of property prices was never proberly discussed. It went crazy. Airbnb was really to blame for a lot.
If you want to chat to me, i'm over your way in the coming days, be good to interview someone about what happened, as I have my own anecdotes to add too, we tried to move there in early 2020, and I know the town well. geoffbuyscars@gmail.com
This country has died a very slow death through neglect, on every level. The blame lies squarely with generations of self serving politicians.
Not just this country, it's by design all developed countries. The few richest people are plundering.
And the people that vote them in.
Blaming politicians at this point is laughable! Politicians get away with what they’ve always done because we are a spineless nation that doesn’t hold them accountable.
Living in bankrupt Labour Croydon, I'd suggest you look closer to home than Westminster. Councils have much more to be answerable for the way the country looks than your local MP, and the levels of nepotism are frightening as well.
@@richardallmark1589 It's not the politicians, they're small fry in all of this.
I feel for the Cornish, as I do everyone this government continues to let down. I expect all coastal villages like Torquay and Paignton to be hit with migrant quotas soon enough. We'll be packed to the rafters.
You could be packed to the rafters or rise up and say you don't want to live with third worlders.....
It isn’t this government, it’s every government, I’m nearly 70, I’ve witnessed governmental disasters of every colour, red or blue. So next time you get the option to vote, don’t be led by party, or loyalty, do as I do, vote for who you believe will do the least damage, because there will always be damage! Politicians care about themselves, apart from the rarity, the plebeian masses are only there to empower! Sorry rant over, but, remember, Geoff buys cars for the best non car content! Have a good day!
@@FullFact548 And who is going to wipe immigrant arses when they eventually retire? Do you think the UK can handle unlimited immigration forever? Maybe we can change ends at half-time and have the geriatrics serving coffee in Pret.
@@FullFact548 Is this your argument, seriously?
Birth rates have been falling since the Baby Boom. Get stats prior to WWI for comparison
The immigrants we get are unskilled and here for benefits. Maybe they will contribute a few rape babies and kill some Englishmen, but that's the price of multiculturalism, isn't it?
Tories are doing what Labour had been for the previous 12
years, but observing the speed limit. If Corbyn or Starmer were in charge, we'd be in thrall to the unions.
How you can blame anything on Brexit just baffles me. We haven't left yet.
This happened in Devon as well. At the start of 2020, ex local authority houses sold for around £170-£185k. Within a year they rose by about £100k, and a year later in 2023 they’re averaging £350k plus in some areas. Similarly, a ‘lodge’ on a holiday camp pre 2020 usually sold for under £100k, but now costs £250-£300k.
Those lodges are a rip off, if anyone wants to go down that route, get an empty plot on a park and get a second hand lodge for 20 to 40 grand ! But then you have to be careful about ground rent and dodgy park owners. I used to work at one doing gardens and maintenance.
2nd homes should be heavily taxed, also a problem that’s occurring including near where I live in the north of England is people Homeworking, but on wages for London while living away from London, this should be not be allowed to be so far away or have their wages put lower, and the housing issue is greedy investors and we have a lot of people abroad rich buying up properties in the uk. The whole thing needs a major shakeup!
We pay for all politicians to have their 2nd homes.
This stuff doesn't just happen Geoff, it seems to me,it's by design! Just sayin😢
Absolutely. A displaced and fearful population is a controllable populace. Totally intentional, whoever's 'in power'.
You don't mean all those Bilderberg meetings were used to plan all this!
Falmouth full of university lefties! Yack! WHO the hell wants to live there! Great if you sell hair dye and multi coloured DrMartins!
I live in a harbour town just up the road from Falmouth , my local lifeboat and fire station can't find people to man them as no one can afford to live close to the stations anymore .
I read today that Cornwall County Council have initiated a 'new' team to help refugees and asylum seekers as part of a wider resettlement service funded by the Home Office. It appears the Council and the Government care little for the Cornish and the problems they are facing.
That’s true
The place is flooded with long term visitors from over seas
I used to live in Guildford. I was born there. Had 4 or 5 generations of family there and possibly even longer in the wider area. I didnt pay attention to house prices until i looked to buy one. It took 12 more years of being pissed off and miserable before the penny dropped. I had to leave and move to a cheaper area otherwise i couldn't move forward. I couldn't compete with 6000 foreign students. I couldn't compete with the housing developer vultures who put 10 students in each house. I couldn't compete with people blowing in from London with huge pay packets. I didn't want to leave. I was forced out. If you live by the sea you'll be forced out. I was in Poole this weekend. Other than sandbanks the town is not very nice. The irony is I've now done to someone else what was done to me.
It's like that here in Australia. Where I live on the Central Coast of N.S.W. house prices have skyrocketed because Sydney real estate has been dominated by the Chinese, outpricing any chance for the locals to buy so everyone's moving way out west or up here. Few years back the Chinese discovered the Central Coast and saw cheap waterfront real estate and pushed the housing prices here through the roof. And then there's Air B n B. So there are no more affordable and available properties to rent. If you're on a low income you're reduced to sleeping in your car. I'm so glad I bought my property when I did. Yeah, there is no substitute for having to suffer from other peoples greed. Especially when they don't live here.
Hi Geoff , another so very well done video with important issues troubling these costal towns,I really feel for the locals and wish them the best in a difficult situation, keep up your excellent work best wishes Mikey Edinburgh
Thanks so much for that compliment!
@@GeoffBuysCars thank you,as you have just made my day , best wishes Michael ❤️
As a young person in Cornwall I could real off a list of things the pee me off. For example older generation moaning about second homes, then the come to sell their home, they sell to second home owners, i don’t blame them for getting you E b best price to move on how ever the hypocrisy is what annoys me.
Then south west water, are you aware Cornwall has had a hose pipe ban since the end of august? South west water point their finger at residents saying we need to do our bit while not fixing the leaks. South west water have the highest water rates in England (possibly the uk) yet they are one of the worst offenders for not fixing leaks and pollution, how are they allowed to get away with this!
Yep. Wettest drought I've seen for years. The lithium mining they're so fond of telling us all about in the 'local' paper uses vast amounts of water & causes vast amounts of polluted water.
You filmed that on Custom House quay behind Trago mills & the Chainlocker didn’t you, I love Falmouth. The problems you are highlighting are desperately sad. Talking to guy from Cornwall, told me about his mate,a builder, had a job doing up a fisherman’s cottage in Mousehole. The London based client picked floor tiles for the ground floor that cost £26000. He was sweating like he was defusing a bomb when laying them. That house will never be sold at a price that a young Cornish couple could afford. Good work Geoff.
My eldest daughter is studying at Portsmouth University…8 of them sharing a house at £560 per month each. I certainly think there is a debate to be had about 2nd homes and how they adversely impact areas like Cornwall. I stayed in Keswick last year and a huge number of shops/cafes/pubs had window adverts for staff because unless you are still living with mum/dad then you can’t afford to live there on low wages…one of the town centre pubs was shutting at 7pm through the week because of staff shortages. I stay in a small family hotel and they were telling me how many of their sons friends parents work in London.
I expect your daughter will come back brainwashed and woke 😵💫. No disrespect intended!
@@boombox2661 She hasn’t involved herself with any of that nonsense….and since she’s studying criminology she has a worldly view of politicians
@@ianchalklen1047 Cleaver girl! She sounds awake not woke. Good luck to her and best wishes to you! 😊. . . . .
Geoff, I think you're wrong to lay the blame on foreign policy (Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Albania?). It's domestic policy and it's the pull factor - migrants and students alike. Coming to Britain is an upgrade for them, plain and simple. I'd do the same.
Falmouth is a Lovely town. One of my Old Army mates lives there. Which is how I first went to there. We have had House Prices rises here in North Norfolk for year due to Rich second home owners buying second homes. Some places you will not see Locals being able to buy a shed let alone a house in those areas. We didn't really see massive price rises like others have said in the comments. The nearest we have got is some areas are catching up and others like where we live the prices falling. AS our House dropped in Value in the last year. We had it valued as we were thinking of downsizing and paying off our mortgage.
House prices in Blackpool doubled during Covid 🤬 I was all set to buy a house in the £300k range end of 2019.
The market froze 2020 as no one wanted to do viewings during the lockdown, then as everything started opening back up, the same houses I was looking at for around £300k were now £600k and they were selling! Blackpool is a very low income town with a lot of problems, so before Covid, the "nicer" houses could be listed for sale for 2-3 years plus with no interest at all. Now they sell instantly. I've given up looking, I will never ever ever be able to afford the current prices. My only realistic option to get the sort of space I need now is to leave the country. 😔
There is no way you could convince me that Covid was not entirely engineered to change absolutely everything about our lives, because it has, and it has worked out so conveniently for the billionaires/politicians/bankers 🤡
Great comment, thanks for sharing your experience! And yeah. It was designed...
I think the words you are looking for in your last sentence are the ''Ashkenazi Frankish Sabbatean Moloch Worshipping Cult '' and their bought and paid for minions.
Really enjoying these vids Geoff, proper journalism and talking about serious issues that are simply being ignored. 👍
Thank you. I like making these... Maybe I can be the new ViceNews.
@@GeoffBuysCars Would be nice to see you do a roadtrip with Mr Vobes & MacMaster covering similar issues like these. That would be ace. Though I’m not certain Lee is far enough down the rabbit hole quite yet though I do have suspicions (I’d like to think anyway!) he maybe puts an act on that front so as to not alienate many of his viewers.
This has been like this BC ever was a thing.
Lots of ghost towns in the winter . It's been like that for years.
I know. I lived there for a fair while. Winters were hard.
I left Cornwall 9 years ago because of the problem with housing, it's only gotten worse since then.
I'm a staff nurse working at the acute hospital in Cornwall, I have two primary school aged children and have just been served a section 21 notice with 2 months to find somewhere to live (the letting agents told me a few days later that the landlord has actually sold the house already without informing me or giving me any prior warning at all). I have already been priced out of my local home town, so have been driving 30 mins to the children's school. And now the house prices have gone up so much that for an equivalent house I will need to find an extra £400 a month! I cannot afford that, let alone the moving costs. I have made a homelessness application to the council and have not heard a word from them in a week. My mental health is in its boots and I am heartbroken for my children. (There are currently over 1k air bnb properties in cornwall).
Can you email me please? Let’s make this a video. Geoffbuyscars@gmail.com
I don't understand the council housing
I am with a housing association and I've been bullied by them for 3 years, anyway, I'm on the council housing bidding site too seek housing with council but all the propertys on the council bidding site are with a housing association
2 of the board directors are on the association aswell as being board directors at council
The housing association is a charity
It dont make sense
Hope you sort your housing out ❤
It IS intentional.
The blame lies squarely at the feet of the fiat banking system which is at the root of all of these problems. No one will talk about that though.
✡💯correct! 🎯
I lived down there for 2 decades, Falmouth,Helston, Hayle, Praa Sands, Gweek and St Erth. People on spud and flower picker rates cant afford housing, those jobs then went to Eastern Europeans who were bussed in and kept in caravans on farms, working for half the pay and loving it......they went home after picking season comparatively rich. Most of the council housing stock has been sold off, bought cheap and sold high, so no social housing. This is why you end up with people living in caravans and buses in fields and on boats. They developed the harbour area in Hayle, and now there are apartments going for over 1 million......its all for those who live in London, but fly down to Newquay for a "quiet weekend" by the sea. Yes its capitalism. Just remember, a mortgage could never be more than 3 times the average wage and that set local house prices, now banks are lending up to 6 times income. You can see why home ownership in some EU countries is so low, but they have well regulated rental practices. People need to live some place, and if its affordable, they have MORE excess money to SPEND......that is better capitalism.
Crony capitalism
@@Alloya I hear ya. I bought a plot of land in Sweden and a derelict house, worked in the UK for 5 months each year......now Brexit. Working class always get the shitty end of the stick. How much is a pasty these days?
I remember picking daffys at Varfell Pz, back in the late eighties, you could make a living at it, hard graft but fair pay. Then the Eastern European appeared and the pay per crate halved the next season.
Once upon a time a second home was a Caravan, now it's two cottages knocked into one and the price is x10. All the nice costal towns are completely unrecognisable from 30 years ago for the worse.
Happening in North East England too Northumberland coast Sea houses Bamburgh Holy Island locals been getting priced out of there Sea side towns villages for years now with second homes!
Yup, spent a bit of time up that way and my dad was trying to buy on Holy Island but it went crazy.
Strange that coastal property values are rising if theyre all going to be under water in a few years time due to climate change, warming, etc.😂
Same here in the Highlands and Islands
Thanks for that info, I can read between the lines.😮
Looks like you might have to stay on tour Geoff. Lots more towns to cover.
Excellent video Geoff. Thanks.
This happened to me in Wiltshire, the problem is not unique to Cornwall. Me and all my mates had to move away. In our village there are literally on half a dozen local people left. The difference in that it happened to me thirty years ago before social media and did not get the coverage. The government totally neglect rural communities and people are just seen as cash cows for letting agents etc.
The Cornwall Council need to follow through with their policy to change the Council Tax so that second homes are charged at 1000% (currently 200 or 300%). And if that still doesn't stop people having second homes that only use for a few weeks per year, they should increase it still further. Second homes kill the local economy.
I live in Kent with London only 1Hr away, you can see France on a clear day so what you've just been saying starts / started here long ago, with many second homes and now AirBnb, rentals are few and far between with a disproportionate number of renters to properties.
Every town is expanding N/S/E/W with new housing developments, and with affordable housing starting at well Over £300k! With all this development and no new schools or hospitals opening to accommodate the new builds.
Thanks Geoff 😊
I like a pasty me. What other Cornwall subjects need covering?
Geoff, the problem lies solely with the planning legislation. Places like Cornwall attract second home owners, thus depriving locals from accessing those homes. Surely the best way forward would be to create a planning category that is specifically for second homes. This could be set out in the local plan and distributed about the County in areas more suitable for part-time or seasonal occupation. Why don't you get an interview with Phil Mason, the Chief Planner for Cornwall Council as ask him what his proposals are to address the situation?
Cheers Paul...!
Chaos - Order.
We are being replaced. There is no question about that. We only have to look at the street we grew up in, the school we went to, the supermarkets we use and where the pub used to be.
Once you see this, it shouldn't take long to realise it's on purpose.
Hi from Bude. You forgot to mention the water issue. We've been on a hosepipe ban since the summer, it's still on. With all the rain we've had the reservoirs are still very low. This is what I'm worried about most.
You are on a hosepipe ban because all the water is being redirected for the mining of lithuim. Which will ruin your water. I'll do a video on it real soon.
Most of us locals can't afford a decent home down here. As for South West Water - the on the ground employees are worked off their feet whilst the shareholders and pen pushers get fat. There is NO water shortage but we have a hose pipe ban. Mr Big can fill his swimming pool but Mr. Average will be prosecuted if he waters his allotment crops to feed his family - the rot is at the top! - The great and mighty at SWW won't invest in repairing antiquated water treatment works or harnessing the water that falls from the sky. Our children in their mid 30s can't afford to buy even a one bedroom flat - and that is inland Cornwall.
coudenhove kaIergi was an interesting fella with interesting views.
Hiya, have a look at UK Column. Debbie Evans who is a co-presenter often comments on South west water.
Our water company in Cornwall still has a hosepipe ban from last summer..but we had floods in the winter
Has none of these politicians ever thought maybe Albanians don't get along with Georgians and Somalians don't like Sudanese etc etc ... its utter carnage
It's meant to be. Soros is in charge of the 'diversity' part of the agenda.
We lived until about a month ago on the isle of wight which has no housing statagy so is a free for all the property developer's to make a quick buck like a hit and run on land buying and new builds aimed at the weathly which are advertised soley in London as second+ homes. Airbnb has killed the rental market here along with a brown envelope loving council also extortionate ferry/bus costs. It's become a dumping ground of known troublesome families from the inner city estates. There are no jobs unless highly skilled poverty is a huge issue and also neglect of the towns like Sandown and Ryde. What once was a old world beautiful island has had it's heart and soul ripped out of it and become over populated area. every NHS service is stretched beyond breaking point it's a terrible sight there is nothing there for the tourist to pay the insane ferry charge for. so feel for anyone along the south coast.
Not just in the costal area's where prices are skyrocketing for properties. I live in that town where the Range Rover, Discovery made by Land Rover products are made. Houses are at ridiculous prices even the meant to be affordable ones. Even where you live in Worcester area prices are rising in the picturesque towns and areas because wealthy people want their escape to the country homes. Its all absolutely crazy.
Hi Geoff guy again E38 Manchester, During lock down i got an EYE problem, I was having trouble seeing So i bought 2 houses in Cornwall i drove down from Manchester my eyes are ok now .
Glad you sorted your eyes out. Was it 2 houses or double vision? Did you get double glazing and a double garage?
@@GeoffBuysCars i could have gone to DURHAM but its all up hill.
The house problem has been obvious for years too many second homes owned by people from other parts of the country
This was so bad that the west coast population of some villages were never to recover and collapsed and there are still villages now that are gone for good.
English lives matter too! We are being taken for mugs. . . .
For over 300 years, the coastlines of the south west of England were at the mercy of Barbary pirates (corsairs) from the coast of North Africa, based mainly in the ports of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Their number included not only North Africans but also English and Dutch privateers. Their aim was to capture slaves for the Arab slave markets in North Africa.
The Barbary pirates attacked and plundered not only those countries bordering the Mediterranean but as far north as the English Channel, Ireland, Scotland and Iceland, with the western coast of England almost being raided at will.
Barbary pirate
Partly as a result of an inadequate naval deterrent, by the early 17th century the situation was so bad that an entry in the Calendar of State Papers in May 1625 stated, ‘The Turks are upon our coasts. They take ships only to take the men to make slaves of them.’
Barbary pirates raided on land as well as at sea. In August 1625 corsairs raided Mount’s Bay, Cornwall, capturing 60 men, women and children and taking them into slavery. In 1626 St Keverne was repeatedly attacked, and boats out of Looe, Penzance, Mousehole and other Cornish ports were boarded, their crews taken captive and the empty ships left to drift. It was feared that there were around 60 Barbary men-of-war prowling the Devon and Cornish coasts and attacks were now occurring almost daily.
Sir John Eliot, Vice Admiral of Devon, declared that the seas around England “seem’d theirs.”
The situation was so bad that in December 1640 a Committee for Algiers was set up by Parliament to oversee the ransoming of captives. At that time it was reported that there were some 3,000 to 5,000 English people in captivity in Algiers. Charities were also set up to help ransom the captives and local fishing communities clubbed together to raise money to liberate their own.
In 1645, another raid by Barbary pirates on the Cornish coast saw 240 men, women and children kidnapped. The following year Parliament sent Edmund Cason to Algiers to negotiate the ransom and release of English captives. He paid on average £30 per man (women were more expensive to ransom) and managed to free some 250 people before he ran out of money. Cason spent the last 8 years of his life trying to arrange the release of a further 400.
By the 1650s the attacks were so frequent that they threatened England’s fishing industry with fishermen reluctant to put to sea, leaving their families unprotected ashore.
Oliver Cromwell decided to take action and decreed that any captured corsairs should be taken to Bristol and slowly drowned. Lundy Island, where pirates from the Republic of Salé had made their base, was attacked and bombarded, but despite this, the corsairs continued to mount raids on the coastal towns and villages in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset.
Those kidnapped would be sent to the slave markets of the Ottoman Empire to be bought as labourers or concubines, or pressed into the galleys where they would man the oars. The Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes, author of ‘Don Quixote’, was a captive in Algiers between 1575 and 1580, when he was ransomed by his parents and the Trinitarians, a Catholic religious order.
Barbary slaves
The Barbary slave trade even features in Samuel Pepys’ diary, in an entry from 8th February 1661:
‘…went to the Fleece Tavern to drink; and there we spent till four o’clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life of slaves there! And truly Captn. Mootham and Mr. Dawes (who have been both slaves there) did make me fully acquainted with their condition there: as, how they eat nothing but bread and water. … How they are beat upon the soles of their feet and bellies at the liberty of their padron. How they are all, at night, called into their master’s Bagnard; and there they lie. How the poorest men do use their slaves best. How some rogues do live well, if they do invent to bring their masters in so much a week by their industry or theft; and then they are put to no other work at all. And theft there is counted no great crime at all…’
Something had to be done. In 1675 Sir John Narborough, backed by a Royal Navy squadron, managed to negotiate a peace with Tunis. A heavy naval bombardment by the British then brought about a similar peace with Tripoli.
barbary pirates - Algiers
Algiers was also attacked from the sea, not only by British warships but also by the French and Spanish. The United States fought two wars against the Barbary States of North Africa: the First Barbary War of 1801-1805 and the Second Barbary War, 1815 - 1816. Finally after an attack by the British and Dutch in 1816 more than 4,000 Christian slaves were liberated and the power of the Barbary pirates was broken.
Now we are still Slaves, but now the old Banksters traders debt slaves. They are filling our towns and cities with the single working fighting aged fruit picking immigrant men (new slaves) to save their financial system from crash and for the good of their/our GDP to keep their ponzi system going and keep them in power. GOD SAVE THE KING, the empire with no clothes!
How do I not know about any of this?!
@@GeoffBuysCars One reason that history repeats itself is that so many people were not listening the first time. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Are we all going to sit round and do nothing? Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves upend hurry off as nothing has happened. The Deep State system is rigged. . . . .You seem like a good man!
What hacks me off is the estate agents put crappy run down houses for exorbitant prices and say well that’s what it would be worth if it was done up to a high standard. Now that just shouldn’t happen, then maybe locals would stand a chance.
Got to ramp up the Council Taxes multiplier on the second homes to 10x the norm.
That wouldn’t work and would most likely just backfire on the people your trying to help unfortunately
@@jamesbarran-scott437 Yup. They'd just pay it.
@@GeoffBuysCars probably not as a lot of people with money have it due to being quite careful and clever with it.
I’d imagine it would be perfectly possible to rent a house off a housing company that you yourself own….
As I said before, look back more than yesterday. Lived here now for 40 years, other side of the river now from were you filmed, House prices went up with the Uni arrival, our village, £55K 1998-£355K 2015, £57K 1997- £222K 2012, Penryn all the low cost housing bought for student let, same in Falmouth, last I heard 45% of housing is now student/holiday let. When I moved the business in 85, there was a lot of manufacture down here, now virtually all gone, all we have left is min wage cafes, phone shops and pastie shops. Around 55% of school leavers have only GCE's what do they do now?, !985 they were doing okay, it's the problem of being part of the majority today.
Geoff love your channel. Keep up your truth comming. Cars your hobby but this mix is correct. Keep as you doing great content and truth. . You are speaking the truth. Keep at that level. God bless you. And family.
Thanks so much Ken :)
@@GeoffBuysCars you are welcome my friend. . Be your self do what you do. . ?
I live in south Devon and everywhere you go business's are all looking for staff ? As for second homes, take a walk around many small Devon and Cornish villages and hamlets . . . they are somewhat deserted . . . because much of the properties are second homes.
Yup, I addressed the staff issue in my latest video, the one filmed in front of the sea
Appreciate!
The present situation in East Cornwall is agents vet all tenants and say if a property is advertised at £1000 pcm those passing vetting are put in to an auction to bid the highest rent.
The bidder willing to pay the highest rent gets the house.
My son was outbid on a £1000 pcm property at £1750 a month. goodness knows what the winner must be paying..
For 6 months, then its back to square 1 and you never get your deposit back, because the DPS always side with agents and false evidence. .
Jesse Christ.
Funny I was talking about this at work. Its disgusting, I cannot afford to live anywhere. Simply working to put a key in door and nothing else.
Ultimately it will end in tears from the children of the parents that have instigated this not so great reset.
What I’ve seen happen to quite a few of these types of places is them building more affordable houses at the top of town / just outside but still walkable in, the locals then move into them and leave the rest for the second homers. Whether that’s a good or bad thing given the situation I don’t know.
Its all the way along the south west coast right up along north Devon.
Have a look at the Kalergi Plan.
Those prices were crazy even by London standards! It's just a sad fact of life, there's no guarantee that you should be able to live where you grew up. As has happened many times throughout history, sometimes you have to migrate to somewhere you can afford.
I watched The TurdTowns video (RUclipsr) video on Cornwall other day. Was a bit of a surprise but similar thing happened in Yorkshire dales, Cumbria and Snowdonia
Yeah I watched that too and reached out to try and colab.
It's definitely a tough one !
Importing 1.1 million people last year didn't exactly help. Sure they aren't all going to Cornwall, but I bet a fair few people who are, are just trying to get to somewhere which still looks like England.
Geoff How many Migrant's are you getting to the gallon on your trip to Cornwall? How many can you fit in a back of a Volvo estate?
50 mpg but zero because i was always taught to be suspicious of young men of fighting age in quantities of more than one.
When property is the ONLY game in town ..Money in the bank has been useless for DECADES....2nd homes used as Pension providers, its not new or complicated....It isnt good for the poor locals of course.....🤔😳😳🙄🇬🇧
Western politics is going down the same path South America went down. Especially with the destabilisation.
People need to start just building and say FO to regs. Second homes should be taxed properly, or a provision made for a replacement home for a local. The blame is Quantitative Easing + Migrants (caused by blairite interference overseas). London houses have become massively expensive due to supply and demand plus a lot of money in the economy. Those who are closest to the bank note press benefit the most.
Morning mate 👀👌
The problem with Cornwall is there are too many Cornish pasties! It's not diverse enough! At least pushing the prices up is likely to keep it that way. No where to live? Find out where the CEO of PortlandPort lives and camp there!
You also have no service staff as the people that help in the pubs and restaurants can not live in the county to work, St Ives now in an evening is a dark dead town in the off season as there are that many 2nd homes which are empty in the winter.
Correct
The only way to stop all this madness, is by the people saying enough is enough, start electing people who are not from the main parties, elect people who are locals to your constituency, who understand your needs and will fight for you, not for their own agenda!
Round here in Wiltshire 5 years ago renting a house was easy. Now, every time someone posts a room to rent on Facebook, there are 40 ‘I want to view it’ comments.
Falmouth is starting to sound like er.... London.
nobody has ever said I am moving to "such and such" because of the people! Its all about location location location, and maybe the restaurants ;-) we have lost over 75% of our long term rental market on the south coast of NSW to Air BnB, this problem is happening all over the world, this all started to happen thanks to the internet (my opinion). Its very easy for people to house search all the beautiful locations, and there will always be people with more money, its very sad. Australia, especially Melbourne and Sydney have a housing shortage, and we expect another 700k immigrants over the next two years, keeping wages down and pushing up rental and housing prices as well (by design)
what is happening is strategic population engineering...which is taking place in the US and most likely all of the West.....
The controllers are controlling.
Great holidays in that area then ? Just wait Till it really gets going .
Don't hate the players, hate the game.
My comment removed, I'm on the radar ut seems😂
Really...? I never delete comments.
@@GeoffBuysCars not you fella, we know who. Posted another 3 worded differently to make sure😂 if you guys could earn doller from another plat. I'd be there.
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 i am a whore to the slag of the tube. im' not sure that makes sense so lemme have another beer and try again in a bit.
@@GeoffBuysCars makes perfect sense to those of us awake enough.There is no room for discourse here, by permission of the owners. We apparently have to stay clear of subjects that don't insult or call them out lol I hope for a day we can leave the clutches (get it clutches) of this sh@t platform.
Seems the 77th like taking down post’s today and are watching your channel Geoff.
Eh…?
@@GeoffBuysCars Hi Geoff I put a couple of posts up mate but nothing derogatory, but they’re just disappearing into thin air, like the good old CON vid days and I tried the old copy and paste trick a few times and the posts just disappeared within 20 seconds.
Certain words seem to trigger the powers that be and Tobias Ellwood and his merry 77th are not happy bunnies today.
@@vspencer9764 Email me instead then, geoffbuyscars@gmail.com
Apparently 60 % of family houses are second homes for rich people or airbnb so how can local young people even get on the "ladder"
Geoff it’s been my experience in democracies we get what we vote for. It’s simply voters are simply stupid. In the US now after 2 years Democrats stoping oil inflating the dollar an uncontrolled border now people are saying they did not ask for this and the answer is yes you did. Please do a video on the equipment you use to do your channel. Your camera mounts in particular. Thanks
I don't think Cornwall will have a migrant issue, it wouldn't sit well with the second home owners, they stayed in a Newquay hotel for a while before being moved back up country.
Cornwall is going to be turned into a holiday camp. The locals call it Pornwall.
Question who sold out to the second home owners in the first place ? And profited ?
Exactly. That's capitalism - make as much money as you can - you can't blame the home owners really. It's the system.
Doesn’t matter what financial system we operate under !! Greed is a human condition and always will be 👍
Kalergi plan.....
Just thought I'd let you know I have just bought a 07 Astra 1.6 diesel just had all new brakes and disc's and springs a timing belt service with 187 thousand on the clock six hundred pounds and it runs sweet keep them bangers rolling 👍👍
Bargain that!
There's a market crash coming......
No To Northeye.
DFLs should be stopped from buying second homes
How do you do that though?
Does a video sympathetic to the invasion then puts one out an hour later talking about the housing crisis... Eh? 🤔🤔🤔
Was I sympathetic....?
Estate agents !
Makes it all the more crazy dumping migrants there with zero chance of ever integrating into area
People NEED to come together and end all this NONSENSE,fk the sheep, Where are the strong to help protect 🤔 1 million strong would soon change London! 🤔👍❤