10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT CORNWALL

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  • Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
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    Living in Cornwall ain't all beaches and smiles folks! There are some things that really do my head in too! This is a tongue-in-cheek look at some of the less enjoyable aspects of life in this wonderful coastal county, in my opinion. I have also released a companion to this video '10 Things I Love About Cornwall', you can find it here • Video
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  • @cebusapella9125
    @cebusapella9125 2 роки тому +40

    Interesting list Wendall. The biggest thing I dislike you missed out, which is house prices, the fact that many locals can't afford them, and so many houses are 2nd homes for rich weekender, rendering so many villages & seaside towns half empty. Love the seagulls, despite the shit, though in St Ives they are particularly delinquent!

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +2

      I do agree on house prices, but I wanted to keep the controversy to a minimum (my channel has enraged it's fair share) so I kept a pretty 'tame hate list' 🤭

    • @suchisthismystery2814
      @suchisthismystery2814 2 роки тому

      😂🤣

    • @ianlaccohee7180
      @ianlaccohee7180 2 роки тому +1

      @@WendallExplores I will be moving back to England later this year from Florida. My wife is from Cornwall, so moving there is high on our list of possible locations. I have been keeping an eye on rightmove over the last couple of years, but over the last 12 months, the prices of property have gone through the roof. This video is a great insight for me, into the reality of moving there. We have considered the difficulty of getting around during busy tourist periods, & the possible difficulties of finding steady employment, along with many of the other valid points that you make. Thanks for the info. I am going to watch your other video so I can get an even handed opinion. Cheers. I gave you a sub to help you along.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +2

      @@ianlaccohee7180 thanks for watching and subbing. A lot of my content on the channel may well help you with in some way for perspective for your move. If you have further questions, if you follow me on Instagram I’m happy to answer DMs 🤙

    • @raychambers3646
      @raychambers3646 Рік тому +3

      Who sold them to outsiders ?

  • @richardcummins5465
    @richardcummins5465 5 місяців тому +3

    Lived in Cornwall for 20 years, and agree with all 10 points. But i wished I'd never left!

  • @wolfwise44
    @wolfwise44 2 роки тому +12

    Having grown up in Cornwall, been away and came back again, my biggest gripe of all is employers viewing potential employees as less valuable to their business. Proporionately, workers outside of the Public Sector have been, and still are paid less than for the same position east of the Tamar. This was the case 25 years ago and nothing has changed. 25 years ago, Cornish people were shown to be 25% worse off in real terms than they were back in the days of Queen Victoria. Scary to think what it might be now! Opression is a wicked thing for anyone to have to tollerate, but this is your Government which is guilty for this on all counts and for centuries.

    • @DerekGM6
      @DerekGM6 7 місяців тому

      "25 years ago, Cornish people were shown to be 25% worse off in real terms than they were back in the days of Queen Victoria." Really? Can you back this up with figures?

    • @wolfwise44
      @wolfwise44 7 місяців тому

      @@DerekGM6 The survey I am recalling was quite clear, sadly the actual figures you ask for I do not have. Typical examples of what I referd to I re-experienced in recent years, whereby my skills and 20 years experience were undervalued by local employers by as much as 50%. Needless to say I made dam sure that these people did not benefit from all my years of hard work.

  • @guitarlover302
    @guitarlover302 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you again for these very informative videos ! Very helpful
    for us in semi retiring decisions

  • @jameswiglesworth5004
    @jameswiglesworth5004 Рік тому +7

    As a person originally from London, that has holidayed here since the mid 80's and now
    lived here for 10 years. Surely you do your research if you are moving here, lack of
    shops ? lack of airports? far to travel to friends relatives? then don't move here.
    The only thing I slightly miss is the close proximity I had to theatre's and music venues
    but I can live with that for the laid back beauty of this County, by the way London is
    much more humid and just as wet.
    Biggest issues I think are lack of work, but that is a problem that goes back to the decline
    of the tin industry and has no easy fix.
    But the main issue is second home owners, who buy and use the homes for a few weeks
    of the year, this needs to be dealt with and the only way is surely to ban sales to anyone
    outside the County

    • @ibiza_andy
      @ibiza_andy 2 місяці тому

      Who wants theatres.. godsakes .. typical emmett comment

  • @helenndow1101
    @helenndow1101 Місяць тому

    I love everything about Cornwall. I love humidity and rain. It’s not as cold in winter as everywhere else in U.K. I do wish I’d never left.

  • @bibby5000
    @bibby5000 Рік тому +2

    All of this... spot on!
    I was born in Cornwall, but after 25 years I just had to get out. I am also a live music lover, so I feel ya.

  • @ashleywoods1333
    @ashleywoods1333 2 роки тому +13

    Great Video as always however I think your listeners if they are interested in moving / living in Cornwall should heed the following advice : 1. The weather , the winter can be quite nice to go and watch the stormy seas 2. Truro is a large town technically but that is how it should stay , full of character and independent shops , can you imagine a big Trafford centre style shopping centre there , No ! Can always travel to places like Plymouth / Exeter which are a couple hours drive if you desperately seek that need. 3. Travelling airports. Why travel when you live in such a lovely part of the country however if you do want to then this should just be accepted , can always drive / take train to a London airport. 4 Family - should arrange with family to make the journey to yourself as well as you to then , that way you half the amount of trips required.
    Carry on with your vids …. Looking forward to the next one …. Ride on !!!!

    • @oneoflokis
      @oneoflokis 2 роки тому

      We have a Newquay Airport! 🙂

  • @danttny151
    @danttny151 2 роки тому +8

    Wendall mate, your bang on bout Cornwall, we would love to move there, BUT, we are 6hrs away (Kent) & it is a hell of a journey. It's bad enough going up North to visit my wife's family 4hrs nearly 🤷🏻‍♂️ so living in Cornwall would be even further 😏 but matey it is paradise where you live 😎 PS beats Birmingham 😂👍🏼

  • @nerdmaid1240
    @nerdmaid1240 Рік тому +3

    Ha the slugs and snails in Redruth. I thought it was just our old house! Woodlice too. And the weather!! Something I find funny is the Cornish weather optimism. I remember a couple of years ago my Cornish mother in law talking about what a lovely sunny summer it had been. I reminded her that it had rained from June to September and that Boardmasters had to be cancelled because the wind was so strong! When everyone else is in a heatwave, we get a couple of days of sun…with a coastal ‘breeze’ (100mph gusts). The lack of live music surprised me. Of course there are amazing places like the Minack, but I’d love it if there were open mic nights and gigs in pubs like when I lived in Liverpool and Dudley/Wolverhampton.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому +2

      No thrash metal at the Minack, more of that in Wolvo. Less ocean views though.

  • @lizpenrose6429
    @lizpenrose6429 2 роки тому +2

    Your comment about seagull poo made me laugh out loud 🤣
    Yup, agree with eating out totally.

  • @tontotv2550
    @tontotv2550 2 роки тому +4

    You forgot emmets! 😂👍

  • @samedmonds131
    @samedmonds131 2 роки тому

    Top man Wendall!!!!! Great videos....

  • @normhanson981
    @normhanson981 Рік тому +2

    The winters are so wet .

  • @junelaw4162
    @junelaw4162 2 роки тому

    I’ve just found you and tbh I agree in what you are sayin I love Cornwall we usually stay at Padstow and use that as a base great video going to listen to what you like now 😊

  • @ToOldToTurnProcycling
    @ToOldToTurnProcycling 20 днів тому

    I lived in Port Quin, in the summer it could be sea mist or some of the worst storms. You should investigate the stupid idea of putting a seaweed farm in Lundy Bay.

  • @Christophers-Assorted-Stuff
    @Christophers-Assorted-Stuff 2 роки тому +3

    I don't live in Cornwall although I would like to. I visit so often and have done for over 50 years that it feels like I am coming home when I get to the border. Now, there are some things I hate about the place. First off, I don't like the crowds in summer so I go out of season. Next - the rip off parking charges and underhand practices of some car park operators. Then there are the rip off prices of everything from restaurants to holiday rentals (not all though - I have my favourites). I use the supermarkets for most food shopping simply to save some money. Then, wherever you go, any bit of space or verge is blocked by rocks so you are forced to use a car park or move on. Here in Norfolk I can get a decent steak meal for £5 or £6. A crab sandwich £10 in St Ives - no thanks, it's half that in Norfolk. As you say, the traffic is bad in summer. The council keep wasting peoples money on stupid traffic schemes that cause chaos, then have to scrap them.

  • @badkeiser
    @badkeiser 3 місяці тому

    I will come to Cornwall’s defence and say that there are more live music acts than you could shake a stick at outside of covid. Abd similarly you can get a meal at your favourite restaurant if you book a few days ahead. Sometimes you can just walk in.

  • @Mounhas
    @Mounhas 2 роки тому +1

    Slugs & snails, yep. Also you have to check that your dog(s) don’t have any attached to them on returning from a walk.

  • @nigelharris175
    @nigelharris175 2 роки тому +3

    I didn't want to watch this, just to the negativity but you're absolutely bang on. I was washing my car almost on a daily basis because of the bloody seagulls, and it wasn't a bit, they literally covered it so yes, £4 jet wash everyday!!!
    Keep up the good work...

  • @louisep5178
    @louisep5178 2 роки тому +3

    I heard they had a shortage of chefs in Cornwall. Terrific vids I was thinking of moving to St Ives prior to lockdown so this is all very interesting 👌I remember my first visit to St Ives enjoying my Cornish pasty overlooking the harbour before a seagull swooped in from nowhere behind me and pinched it 😂😂

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +2

      There is an extreme shortage of chefs, if you are a chef we need you!

    • @louisep5178
      @louisep5178 2 роки тому

      @@WendallExplores Not a chef have done waitressing and general cooking Wendall. I was thinking of buying a shop or gallery there which I would enjoy I think. Wanted to buy a holiday home to rent out but I suspect prices have rocketed since covid. Thanks for the great vids 👌

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you for watching

  • @TravellingTorunn
    @TravellingTorunn 2 роки тому +3

    Very understandable. As a tourist I am not affected by most of this as I take train & bus to the coastal path and walk to the next village far away from most roads 😊 Cornwall is also (believe it or not) a very welcome escape from the weather in the coastal areas of South-West Norway where I live. Google says that Cornwall has on average 1113 mm precipitation annualy. Here it is 2461 mm and 200 days with rain a year. 🤪🌧🌧🌧⛈☔❄

    • @kernowforester811
      @kernowforester811 2 роки тому +2

      My Bodmin weather station averages about 1,000 mm precipitation a year, which is noticeably seasonal, with a Summer low of approx 50mm in July. Further east over Devon, to the east of Dartmoor it falls down to 750mm in Exeter, by comparison. July 2018 I recorded only 6mm of rain! Average just a few nights annually when the temp falls below 0 deg C. Peak temp was 31 deg C on several days last July. Mean annual temp about 11 deg C or so. I have only recorded a few days of snow in recent years, typically melts after a few hours. Summers and springs can be quite dry and sunny. It is the fall/autumn and Winters that are usually wet and windy, due to the Atlantic influence, but mild!

    • @TravellingTorunn
      @TravellingTorunn 2 роки тому +1

      @@kernowforester811 Thank you for your interersting info. Last October we had a record here in Bergen, Norway with 641 mm of rain in one single month. And it rains quite a lot here else too.... We have very good experience with the weather in the summer months in the South West of England - as I can see is right by your numbers 🙂

  • @padienataheri1252
    @padienataheri1252 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks for your videos
    Could you please talk about schools in Cornwall.
    I have kids and moving from Birmingham to Cornwall.
    I need to know which part of Cornwall is best to live and find good school.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +2

      Thanks for watching. I don’t have any kids, so I’m not sure I would provide an informed authority on that subject. I can however tell you anything about what’s good for dogs and drinking beer in Cornwall!

    • @padienataheri1252
      @padienataheri1252 2 роки тому

      @@WendallExplores
      Which part is good for living with family?

    • @ruadhagainagaidheal9398
      @ruadhagainagaidheal9398 2 роки тому +1

      Don’t come. We hate Brummies here.

    • @Mounhas
      @Mounhas 2 роки тому

      Best part to live in is without neighbours!

  • @ironix1
    @ironix1 Рік тому +1

    Many of the things which separate Cornwall from the rest of the country and what go to make it such a great place, like no other, are mentioned in this top ten things you hate about Cornwall. Brilliant! We leave the other counties in our wake.

  • @andytara1314
    @andytara1314 2 роки тому +3

    Wend, great video once again. Here it the worlds smallest 🎻 just for you!

  • @Charlestve
    @Charlestve Рік тому +1

    Straight to the point n very sincere 🗽

  • @user-ji4zj5ur3t
    @user-ji4zj5ur3t 4 місяці тому

    Was born in Cornwall. In Austell and when I was 25 I left! Beautiful place but the locals......... Thank god I emigrated for work and lifestyle.

  • @Lukeandrewscarnivore
    @Lukeandrewscarnivore Рік тому +4

    You’ve just listed all the things the Cornish hate about living in Cornwall. 😂

  • @brandonlarkin1987
    @brandonlarkin1987 2 роки тому +1

    Completely agree I mean I feel I use salt more on keeping slugs out the house rather than putting it on food.

  • @antonlevii6426
    @antonlevii6426 2 роки тому

    Good video mate , I live in Oxfordshire but my mom is cornish and lives near looe , i think of quitting my job every day and moving down , can't get on the ladder here aswel but my family in bodmin and St austell all got mortgages

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks for watching, seems it’s very hard for anyone anywhere to get on the ladder these days

  • @paulskillman7595
    @paulskillman7595 Рік тому +2

    You can hate it all you want. It is beautiful there. I loved it there. It is getting there that is the problem, especially in Hope Cove.

  • @martynyoung2469
    @martynyoung2469 2 роки тому

    Hi Wendell, amoving down on Monday to St Breward, would be great to have a few places in North Cornwall recommend to myself

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      I am SW Cornwall based and spend 99% of my time down there, very limited knowledge of North Cornwall. One tip is Rocky Valley though, I have a video on here about it. Amazing place….. ‘Is this North America or Cornwall…’

  • @peteshoulders1
    @peteshoulders1 2 роки тому +2

    awesome video! and i agree!! if i went to another county and disliked it so much, i'd piss off back to where i came from!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @travelingcatman2089
    @travelingcatman2089 2 роки тому

    You should of went you wadebridge the other week, the Kaiser chiefs was at the show ground!
    They also played at at Eden and Falmouth few years back and few famous acts play at Eden

  • @sboswelllive3157
    @sboswelllive3157 2 роки тому +1

    I enjoyed this video mate. A shame there’s not much in the way of live music but I’d imagine the scenery you have and the quality of the life down there helps to soften that blow. For future videos, I’d be interested to hear some of the key differences between Devon and Cornwall and you opinions on this… if it’s safe to do so! 😆
    Peace & love pal

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      Thanks for watching mate! I don’t know very much about Devon, I’ve stayed near Exmouth but apart from that just drive through Devon a lot btw Midlands and Cornwall! Good idea for a video though.

    • @gillywillybythesea
      @gillywillybythesea Рік тому

      I've lived in South Devon for over 30 years and I'd say one main difference is the span between north and south coasts. Sounds like I'm stating the obvious, but that big expanse of granite called Dartmoor acts as a natural divide if you live on one or other coasts - a trip to North Devon from here can take the best part of 2 hours driving! - so I barely know the north of the county at all.
      Unless you are desperate to live by the sea, you could do worse than live in Exeter: it's a small city but has most of what you need in terms of jobs, shopping and nightlife, plus easy access to Dartmoor and both coasts. Plus you're only a stone's throw from the M5 if you want to head up country; ditto for the A30 if you want to head down to Cornwall.

  • @chevibolito8258
    @chevibolito8258 2 роки тому +2

    My fiance is from England and I want to move there soon. However, I am accustomed to humid weather and I think Cornwall is nice. I think I can sleep well alright, haha!

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +1

      Cornwall IMO has the most humid weather in the UK

    • @barriewood9336
      @barriewood9336 Рік тому +1

      Be aware Cornwall / Kernow is a Celtic nation. It is not England.

  • @deelewis8555
    @deelewis8555 7 місяців тому

    If you don't like Cornwall then the Midlands is the place for you.I moved from the Midlands forty years ago and love it.Slugs and snails bother you,oh dear 😂

  • @katb4149
    @katb4149 2 роки тому

    It rains alot there in the summer & it's mostly overcast. I don't think I've had more than three days of hot sun in the fortnight I spend there on holiday each year.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      🤣 you have been quite unlucky! I find September the best month, normally decent weather and the sea at it's warmest

    • @jameswiglesworth5004
      @jameswiglesworth5004 Рік тому

      why are you visiting every year if you don't like the weather?

  • @jells9250
    @jells9250 2 роки тому +1

    1 good thing tho is that we locals know all the small restaurants and places that tourists dont

  • @EricTheHiking
    @EricTheHiking Рік тому

    I have never saw hate videos about Cornwall! 😆😆😆 Perhaps we go there only for holiday in nice warm time as you mentioned! LOL! 😅Sorry we just love Cornwall.

  • @smiffy8364
    @smiffy8364 Рік тому

    I love in Cornwall and you forgot to add the enormous cost of the public toilets! The weather and the incontinent seagulls are a pain.

  • @nishthamodi1924
    @nishthamodi1924 2 роки тому

    Hello,
    I am visiting Cornwall soon, would you know where I can rent a car in Cornwall at an affordable price?

    • @km-gi4lw
      @km-gi4lw 2 місяці тому

      Europcar @the train station (check and have it signed off * scratches dents ,* very fine cracks in windscreens down near the wipers especially * tyres tread / spare tyre pumped and all jack up equipment .* Upholstery and the floor rips / stains . Ask about roadside assistance and the phone number and who pays for the tow . Go direct to the fuel station and retain the receipt for fuel added even though the gauge needle points to F . If it's Europcar you can drop it off wherever it's convenient for yourselves . Ex Tow Driver. Happy Driving in that wonderful place .

  • @camerachica73
    @camerachica73 2 роки тому +1

    I lived in Cornwall for 5 years when I was at uni and my dislikes were:
    1) Cooler wetter summers that I thought there would be (colder than the rest of the south)
    2) Crazy high water bills than the rest of the country
    3) Seagulls pitching on roofs and cawing at 2am
    4) Dead villages in the winter because all the 2nd homers have gone back to London (I've lived on the Isle of Wight and it's the same there)
    Wonderful county though!

  • @aliengrey6052
    @aliengrey6052 Рік тому +1

    Very true Wendell. Very true I agree and I live in Devon. It’s a little better in Devon though.

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis 2 роки тому +10

    We just need more jobs, more affordable/social housing, and better public transport.

    • @griswald7156
      @griswald7156 2 місяці тому

      You need more housing for asylum seekers in Cornwall….more NHS dentists for asylum seekers,and more jobs for asylum seekers.just a fairer deal all around..

    • @griswald7156
      @griswald7156 2 місяці тому

      You could do a march to London….the Jarrow boys tried that tack..the smarter ones stayed in London..

    • @oneoflokis
      @oneoflokis 2 місяці тому

      @@griswald7156 Forget asylum seekers. We need them from everybody.

    • @griswald7156
      @griswald7156 2 місяці тому

      @@oneoflokis Asylum seekers
      Must come first..

  • @maydreamer5
    @maydreamer5 4 місяці тому

    Thank you.

  • @lornawillockify
    @lornawillockify 2 роки тому +3

    In st ives, the seagulls have Doc Marten boots 😎

  • @ExplorewithSarahlouise
    @ExplorewithSarahlouise Рік тому

    I can imagine the jobs situ I think it’s prob best for ppl who are self employed tbh once they can leave bigger cities. I think friends and family is personal rly as I left midlands when I was 23 and never looked back, I’m a tiny family and my parents eventually moved to Devon and I didn’t even keep any old school friends once I had been in London for a while the divide in lifestyles was just too big and the effort to go back too much. I think it’s easier to almost entirely move on and make new friends and I think some ppl are more sentimental than others with this. I quite enjoy meeting new friends and people and moving through life some rly keep friends as far back as school. I feel letting go of old friends kind of helps me evolve and doesn’t hold me back to the person I used to be but this is a personal thing.

  • @tutsecret499
    @tutsecret499 Рік тому +1

    When I went there I enjoyed, but I went in the winter, October low season. I always travel in low season, but I do remember there was a long holiday and many tourists from North of England coming to Cornwall the roads were packed, my host friend was having difficult to drive me around. It's cute seeing the seabird stealing food. I did not see it yet. Here in California, I have these pest snail, what a predator, eating my plants in my garden, I remove them with a stick grabber and toss them away from my garden they come back, what a pest. I did not notice there because I was just a visitor for 1 month. The way you speak, I think you would like California, maybe not, because everybody is trying to run away from California for obvious reasons. For the last 15 years, the exodus is happening.

  • @balls9420
    @balls9420 Рік тому +2

    I agree with all your points except the slugs and snails, sure a few here or there but never been a problem. The lack of anything to really do down here is definitely a problem. Lack of good infrastructure and good public transport is another. One point I have is the housing market is stupid expensive for locals. As you pointed out with lack of job opportunities means that we are rather poor compared to the rest of the UK. Some 5 million emmets are a big problem, as you pointed out with clogging the roads and the few things to do are packed in the summer. Essentially Cornwall is an island of isolation separated by the rest of the UK until it is summer in which there is nothing locals can do.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому +1

      I’ve often said living in West Cornwall very much feels like I imagine living on an island would feel

  • @OperationsAndSmoothProductions

    It is a beautiful place but notoriously hard to wild camp.
    Good vid.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому

      Nice to see a pro hater ✊

    • @OperationsAndSmoothProductions
      @OperationsAndSmoothProductions Рік тому

      @@WendallExplores No seriously. I spent a few months there wild camping and the logistics were insane! Like no decent campable woodland near towns and lots of signs saying "NO CAMPING"

  • @andrewwilliams2353
    @andrewwilliams2353 Рік тому

    Lack of airports ? Isn't there one near Land's End ? I've driven past it several times. Does it not serve travellers these days ?

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому

      Closed due to Covid at the time I made this video, then Flybe went bust and all the flights dried up. Very limited service outside of summer now, unless you want to fly to London

  • @dakta817donkey6
    @dakta817donkey6 Рік тому

    Same here in Tenby. Pain in the arse.

    • @Victoria-kl7su
      @Victoria-kl7su 10 місяців тому

      I am also in South Wales and agree we have the rainy weather plus the slugs and snails issues - I don’t live in a particularly touristy area but I appreciate the issues you would have in Tenby - such a beautiful place though - I think I’d manage to ‘live with it’ if I got my dream to retire there

  • @rafflesxyz4800
    @rafflesxyz4800 6 місяців тому +1

    You're lucky to be here lad. Enough strange folk already in these parts.

  • @travel8k333
    @travel8k333 2 роки тому

    The next one you should make is 10 things you love about Cornwall 😀

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      I released that video at the same time, check my channel 👌

  • @liamfromyeww8786
    @liamfromyeww8786 2 роки тому

    We saw you at pool market today

  • @johnmaggiorino4493
    @johnmaggiorino4493 2 роки тому +1

    Look at that view behind you!

  • @johnwelander
    @johnwelander 2 місяці тому

    Agree with every one on your list, add on high prices to sting tourists which obviously affects the low paid locals (compared to the same job up country). Also house prices; pathetic value compared to elsewhere. This from someone who has lived here for almost 40 yrs... Why don't I move? Married a local whose family is here.

  • @redfilfil
    @redfilfil 2 роки тому +4

    With you on the slugs, snails and seagulls. The other points just don't bother me; life is too short to worry about the small negatives. I think after being in Cornwall for several years you just learn to cope with the travel distances and the influx of tourists. Enjoyed the video though.

    • @tutsecret499
      @tutsecret499 Рік тому

      How we can get rid of slugs and snails for good without chemical hazard? Here in California, I have these pest snails in my garden, they eat my basils.

    • @jayyelland8289
      @jayyelland8289 Рік тому

      @@tutsecret499 put copper tape around your plant pots or on the floor ,

    • @gillywillybythesea
      @gillywillybythesea Рік тому

      The Royal Horticultural Society has now dropped the name 'pest' for slugs and snails :)

  • @deme9873
    @deme9873 9 місяців тому

    What could somebody hate worse about Cornwall? The tourists who visit Cornwall or Cornwall itself?

  • @thestinkshack7211
    @thestinkshack7211 Рік тому +1

    slugs and snails? are you alright mate

  • @carolmiles7474
    @carolmiles7474 Рік тому

    Next to no public transport ,cannot find decent places to buy clothes.i have to go to London to have my hair colour done , coast and life is beautiful, very hard to get tradesmen .

  • @antonharding4090
    @antonharding4090 2 роки тому

    Hi mate, I've been watching your videos for a while now, always great content! Haven't been to Cornwall for over 10 years but me, my Mrs and some mates are travelling down on the 10th july for a week. We're staying in Roche, which is the St austall area, I know you live quite a way from this area but is there anywhere in this area that is a must see/do? I Want to make the most of our stay and was wondering if you knew any hidden gems? Anyways mate keep doing what you're doing, always look forward to the upcoming vids 🤙

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      Hi Anton, honestly I know nothing about the St Austell/Roche Area. I hope you have a great trip though, and its only an hour down to West Cornwall to check out my hood. Thanks for following the channel ❤️

  • @Alex.1739
    @Alex.1739 2 роки тому +4

    Too many fucking holiday lets. Sad really

  • @RGWUltraFan
    @RGWUltraFan Рік тому

    The seagulls r so loud 😂😂😂

  • @garethdavies6723
    @garethdavies6723 9 місяців тому

    Hi Wendall, having lived here all my life i agree with most of your list. Seagulls, lack of live music, tourists definitely. As for slugs and snails? Can't say ive noticed those😂. As for Newquay Airport it is now open again. As for the distance from relatives, thats not really Cornwalls fault. It is where it is, surely you would have realised this when you decided to move here. Other than that I'm in agreement with you.

  • @DerekGM6
    @DerekGM6 7 місяців тому

    LOL I don't think I had ever seen slugs like the slugs we have here in Cornwall, and I have been slug watching here for fifty years. The best ones are black with a wrinkled skin, and about six inches long, slithering and sliding along my tiled kitchen floor. Or little tiny brown ones creeping up my uPVC front door.

    • @ibiza_andy
      @ibiza_andy 2 місяці тому

      Yes.. the brown things that look like a skinny hedgehog poo!!!! 😂I 😂

  • @RLS11973
    @RLS11973 9 місяців тому

    I’d love to live there no matter.

  • @lila133
    @lila133 2 роки тому

    Eden project does some great live music from big bands!! But yeah there's not much, but I prefer folk music anyway

  • @MassiveLib
    @MassiveLib Рік тому

    My number 1 is a lack of forests and mature trees.

  • @cynthiastogden7000
    @cynthiastogden7000 2 роки тому +2

    All those hates is what makes Cornwall the place everyone wants to live. Unfortunately. With all the amenities it would be just another hirrudplace.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +2

      I agree. The video is mostly tongue in cheek. Cornwall’s isolation allows the environment for its attractions.

  • @margaretwatts1620
    @margaretwatts1620 Рік тому

    Nothing to hate love it all lived there my boys went to school there.would love to be back again we need more jobs ,well done wendal

    • @ibiza_andy
      @ibiza_andy 2 місяці тому

      Your boys are probably bckwrd now because of it. As in school wise

  • @lizpenrose6429
    @lizpenrose6429 2 роки тому

    Your video has certainly got attention on Facebook!

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +1

      This happens from time to time. Helps boost the algorithm 👍

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis 2 роки тому

    Yes. Cornwall does have rather a lot of garden molluscs!! We should make like other nations and eat them. 🙂

  • @bubblezovlove7213
    @bubblezovlove7213 Рік тому

    No family, no friends... Sorted. 😕👍

  • @deedontworry
    @deedontworry Рік тому +1

    The slugs! 😢

  • @somaazul5871
    @somaazul5871 Рік тому +1

    You can't have a rural area and city amenities at the same time.. sooner or later you'll complain that Cornwall is now too populated

  • @jcasstudio
    @jcasstudio Рік тому +1

    I just came back from Cornwall and stayed for 6 days. Outstanding views, beautiful place, but I've experienced some of the things you complain. (most of them in St Ives)
    1. Forget about getting a table on a restaurant, I've ended up having a take away pizza.
    2. When I watched this video before going I remember I thought you could be exagereting with the seagulls... Well, they stole my food and almost made me fall from a cliff so I fuckin hate them now haha.
    3. How far is it, is just way too long specially Porthcurno area.
    4. The tourists, (a bit hypocrite from myself as I was being tourist as well haha) but seriously in St Ives I've experienced a town converted to a big Airbnb hotel... Lack of locals... I just preferred smaller more authentic towns.
    5. And because that turistic boom I almost miss my train because the space for my bike was completely packed with luggage of tourists and had to stay 3/4 of the trip from London standed. Also is way too expensive even shitty Airbnbs so I've taken my tent which was around 10-15 pounds per night, the only cheap way to travel to the region.
    Still, it definitely worth it, the coast trail is absolutely amazing, awe and respect by the nature, those cliffs are incredible. Also most of the locals were very friendly and chatty when staying in little towns.
    Love your videos mate 👍

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому

      Thanks for the detailed comment, yes it’s a beautiful land very far from anywhere that has its pros and cons. Glad you enjoy the videos.

  • @ariadnag5210
    @ariadnag5210 5 місяців тому

    I wish I can live in Cornwall ❤❤❤❤

    • @ibiza_andy
      @ibiza_andy 2 місяці тому

      You need help… dont go there.

  • @LFC1122
    @LFC1122 Рік тому +2

    NUMBER 1:ST AUSTELL

  • @stevenblackmore8095
    @stevenblackmore8095 2 роки тому

    Great video mate

  • @barbarahalkyard1901
    @barbarahalkyard1901 15 днів тому

    The thing i hate about cornwall is the cornish .Who winge about Tourism. Apart from that its a beautiful place.

  • @lilly-sw6sb
    @lilly-sw6sb 2 роки тому

    I love ur channel and im visiting aguest 12th I HOPE I SEE YOU

  • @ZacharyWoodman
    @ZacharyWoodman 24 дні тому

    From Foumouth Cornwall

  • @andrewonmyway8184
    @andrewonmyway8184 2 роки тому +2

    You forgot to mention the carpark fees Wendall.

  • @johnmaggiorino4493
    @johnmaggiorino4493 2 роки тому

    The French will love your snails

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      Then can they come and protect my plants from them with a view to harvesting them?

  • @tinaannwilloughby
    @tinaannwilloughby Рік тому

    As regards no. 10 will that could be the case anywhere in the country really you moved remember

  • @tictoc1953
    @tictoc1953 2 роки тому +2

    Lots of slugs and snails in Devon

  • @pipthedog11
    @pipthedog11 Рік тому +3

    Thing I hate about Cornwall are people moving to the county and then moaning about the place. If you listen to this emmet he would be better of staying wherever he came from. His final thing he moans about, I would make even more difficult for people to stay and spoil our wonderful Country

  • @gillywillybythesea
    @gillywillybythesea Рік тому +1

    I LOVE slugs and snails! They are the most fascinating of creatures. We have loads of them up here in Dawlish (Devon), so I do sympathise, especially on the gardening front - but actually only one or two species are a real menace (notably the little brown keel slug), the rest are harmless and in fact very important for clearing up your garden of detritus!
    I also love gulls - though appreciate the ones down in St Ives are superbly adapted to nicking any food we humans are careless enough to leave on show. The sound of herring gulls is what gives coastal resorts that true seaside-y feel, and we'd miss 'em if they were driven away. Bet you'll miss them when you head back up to the Midlands!

  • @BIRMZE
    @BIRMZE Рік тому

    Them seagulls are vicious 😂 They work in gangs

    • @ibiza_andy
      @ibiza_andy 2 місяці тому

      I was in The Grey Beaks.. you??

  • @kernowforester811
    @kernowforester811 2 роки тому +3

    From Bodmin: worst things about Cornwall: 1. holidays homes, 2. emmets and their traffic congestion in the Summer, 3. lack of affordable housing due to second homes and immigration from upcountry, pricing locals out of house and home literally, 4, mass emmigration from Cornwall over the centuries due to lack of jobs, 5. lack of recognition of us as an ethnic minority and minority language status by the English., and finally 6. a lack of a backbone from Cornish people to improve their lot and stand up to the negatives.. From a native in Cornwall (Kernow).

  • @Bartholomew_Musgrave
    @Bartholomew_Musgrave Рік тому

    Let’s concrete over Cornwall and fill it with shopping malls and airports. It would be so much nicer.
    Alternatively, you could move back home and enjoy the diversity in the Midlands.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  Рік тому

      It would also be great if they could put a big shiny neon casino down here 👍

  • @oneoflokis
    @oneoflokis 2 роки тому +2

    Nothing to hate about that view... 🙂

    • @cowboycarl3277
      @cowboycarl3277 Рік тому

      Other than the fact it’s literally in Cornwall... 🤮🤮

  • @MatthewChapmanYT
    @MatthewChapmanYT 2 роки тому +1

    Back over the tamar!!!

  • @cathydyer3774
    @cathydyer3774 Рік тому

    4. Slugs and snails. Don't use deadly pellets. Get some hedgehogs. Encourage thrushes. Put beer in a low container in the garden. Grow marigolds for snails to eat instead. 🦔🌼🦔🌼. 5. Seagulls - yes vicious and awful poo. 🙄

    • @tssw8618
      @tssw8618 Рік тому +1

      Completely agree to your comment "Don't use deadly pellets"..There's a good population of hedgehogs in Cornwall. I do know for a fact there are hedgehogs in his area and now they are at risk of being poisoned. This is very sad, especially as they are listed as vulnerable to extinction...There's lots of natural ways to get rid of slugs and snails....Egg shells, wool pellets, copper tape, garlic spray, coffee grounds, sharps sand and sea shells.

  • @R-K61
    @R-K61 2 роки тому +1

    Move to North Cornwall ,seagulls are eaten here, your closer to your folks, we discourage emits, the weather never changes as it's always cloudy and the tractors stop traffic on the roads, plus Trago's just down a few lanes, living the dream mate.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому

      How do you eat your seagulls? Deep fried or barbecued? That’s a deal clincher.

    • @R-K61
      @R-K61 2 роки тому

      Curried mate it's the only way.

    • @WendallExplores
      @WendallExplores  2 роки тому +1

      I had an Indian in Penzance tonight that was so bad it probably was curried pigeon!

  • @irekfilms
    @irekfilms 6 місяців тому

    I do not get it !
    Why did you moved to Cornwall than ???

  • @georgebright6491
    @georgebright6491 Рік тому

    I'm not going to insult you call let the seagulls in the Slugs do that I suggest you take a trip over the Tamar and don't come back right

  • @louisep5178
    @louisep5178 2 роки тому

    I think they need a decent fish and chip shop in St Ives too imo. I agree about the shopping too no M&S for miles and only the Co-op there really.

    • @MatthewChapmanYT
      @MatthewChapmanYT 2 роки тому

      The incomers like you have different problems to us locals. We can cope with a Tesco. Posh twat, go homr

    • @louisep5178
      @louisep5178 2 роки тому +1

      @@MatthewChapmanYT show your pic if you are gonna be abusive Matthew I have a long family history with St Ives