The Pros and Cons of living in a tourist destination

[Lee909]

Very nice

Would love to be a position to move to the arse end of nowhere. Preferably near some mountains and a lake

[stringvest]

I was under the impression off here that Stringy was an auld arse? I always imagined him something like TokyoJoe's avatar.

 

That’s not his avatar

[deiseach]

I saw threads entitled 'Edinburgh' and 'York' in succession recently and was about to start one called 'Widnes'. Living in a tourist trap can be a pain, but there are loads of places where the populace must gaze longingly at the big castle or church, built somewhere else in days of yore, and wish it had been them.

[General Dryness]

I’m permaskint mate

It was an oblique joke referencing the assumptions people make when they see a bloke punching above his weight in the woman department. It was rubbish anyway.

 

You two make a nice couple, all the very best to you. And you still don't look a bit like Alvin Stardust.

[General Dryness]

Friend of a friend owns a house in Byron Bay in northern NSW. Fucks off at the beginning of December every year and returns in February, rents the place out to tourists over the school summer holidays. Makes enough to live on for the year - the prices, especially over Xmas/New Year are stupid.

My wifes cousin owns a restaurant in Byron Bay.

[Josef Svejk]

I saw threads entitled 'Edinburgh' and 'York' in succession recently and was about to start one called 'Widnes'. Living in a tourist trap can be a pain, but there are loads of places where the populace must gaze longingly at the big castle or church, built somewhere else in days of yore, and wish it had been them.

I really like where I live, for all its tourists. I've lived in grim enough places and am happy to put up with French kids and Chinese photomaniacs, if that's what it takes...

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

I really like where I live, for all its tourists. I've lived in grim enough places and am happy to put up with French kids and Chinese photomaniacs, if that's what it takes...

Kind is similar, I grew up in a part of Halewood that got rough as fuck over the 20 years l lived there. I also lived in a shitty part of Leeds for a year.

Lived in some boss places since then, both in Liverpool and over here in Aus. Now I’m St Kilda, live over the road from the beach, next road along from the main drag of shops and restaurants, can see Luna park from the roof. Place is always full of tourists, even in the winter, but it’s a fucking boss place to live, so no wonder it’s full of tourists. Take the rough with the smooth.

If global warming and rising sea levels ever pits the Grenadier and Mackets on a smilies vibe I may well move back and battle the tourists there, but for now, this will do.

[cloggypop]

Students doing my head in more than the tourists this week. Just had to stop the bike there to ask a gaggle of them to fuck off out the middle of the road so other people could actually use it.

[stringvest]

Taking the Thai bride via Italy to make it easier through customs? Great thinking.

 

 

English/Irish mate

[stringvest]

It was an oblique joke referencing the assumptions people make when they see a bloke punching above his weight in the woman department. It was rubbish anyway.

 

You two make a nice couple, all the very best to you. And you still don't look a bit like Alvin Stardust.

 

 

cheers.  And be careful crossing that road.

[A Red]

English/Irish mate

I'm guessing she regularly gets scouse in her 

[Champ]

I’m just home from watching RagnBone Man with a floodlit Castle for a backdrop. It was fabulous

[A Red]

Kind is similar, I grew up in a part of Halewood that got rough as fuck over the 20 years l lived there. I also lived in a shitty part of Leeds for a year.

Lived in some boss places since then, both in Liverpool and over here in Aus. Now I’m St Kilda, live over the road from the beach, next road along from the main drag of shops and restaurants, can see Luna park from the roof. Place is always full of tourists, even in the winter, but it’s a fucking boss place to live, so no wonder it’s full of tourists. Take the rough with the smooth.

If global warming and rising sea levels ever pits the Grenadier and Mackets on a smilies vibe I may well move back and battle the tourists there, but for now, this will do.

Fuck Cornwall this is where i want to be

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Fuck Cornwall this is where i want to be

To be fair mate, I’ve never been to Cornwall.

I’ll do yer a fortnight’s house swap next June.

You can go and see the penguins, cold as fuck though!

[deiseach]

Pity about St Kilda's crap footy team. But you can't have it all.

[A Red]

To be fair mate, I’ve never been to Cornwall.

I’ll do yer a fortnight’s house swap next June.

You can go and see the penguins, cold as fuck though!

Hang on, penguins? I like, err....... assumed you were in the Caribbean. Fuck that

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Pity about St Kilda's crap footy team. But you can't have it all.

I may live in St Kilda, but i watch Collingwood. St Kilda training pitch is next door to us, always chocca at the weekend with the rezzies, youth and auld bastards etc.

Pies are looking good this year, but I’ve only made it to one game.

[Josef Svejk]

English/Irish mate

Irish?

 

Sorry to hear that...

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

Hang on, penguins? I like, err....... assumed you were in the Caribbean. Fuck that

St Kitts - Caribbean, St Kilda - Antarctic

 

Close, as in same planet.

 

[A Red]

I'm sure its lovely but I aint living where theres penguins not in a zoo

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

I'm sure its lovely but I aint living where theres penguins not in a zoo

Mid autumn, last paddle boarding session was about 4 weeks before this.

[A Red]

 

Ill stay here, not a penguin to be seen

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

 

Ill stay here, not a penguin to be seen

Nice one.

 

Penguin as seen this summer:

 

[Anubis]

 

Ill stay here, not a penguin to be seen

 

That looks like a nunnery in the distance so you could be wrong about that.

[Chairman Meow]

Very nice

Would love to be a position to move to the arse end of nowhere. Preferably near some mountains and a lake

 

There is a lot of woodland for sale in Northumberland, but they always have absolutely ridiculous covenants on them which has stopped me from doing it.

 

I'd love to be able to fuck off into the middle of nowhere like that.