Welcome to Cornwall

[ladymuck]

KUATB https://www.contractoruk.com/forums/...cing-pubs.html

Yeah I saw that after posting my finding in what I thought was the most appropriate location and decided I really didn't care

[LondonManc]

Cornwall is great if you respect it and aren't a patronising gimp. It's a totally different pace of life down there.

What is funny is when you're staying in a rented house and see the "posh people" in their twin-axle caravans hauled by Chelsea tractors. They're still pissing in a cupboard.

Golden rule to stay safe - always take your rubbish back to your accommodation. There are signs at a couple of local beaches saying "enjoy the beach and leave only your footprints behind".

[LondonManc]

I have the same message for anyone thinking of visiting Swindon.

All three of them?

[d000hg]

Cornwall is great if you respect it and aren't a patronising gimp. It's a totally different pace of life down there.

What is funny is when you're staying in a rented house and see the "posh people" in their twin-axle caravans hauled by Chelsea tractors. They're still pissing in a cupboard.

Golden rule to stay safe - always take your rubbish back to your accommodation. There are signs at a couple of local beaches saying "enjoy the beach and leave only your footprints behind".

It's pretty tragic this needs to be said I mean ok, a stray wrapper from your choc-ice here and there is one thing, but just leaving a bag of rubbish lying around...

The sheer abount of crap on beaches is incredible. I loosely know a photographer down there campaigning on this sort of thing and it's heartbreaking.

[DealorNoDeal]

Just heard this from someone I know in another Cornish village.

The local shop decided to introduce mandatory face covering a while ago. They've just banned a family on holiday for refusing to cover up. The family said they came on holiday to "get away from that sort of thing".

[OwlHoot]

I've bought ten tickets for this house raffle

Not much chance of winning the cottage in North Wales, but I reckon the odds are orders of magnitude better than the rip-off National Lottery

Just thad a horrible thought.

If I did perchance win the cottage and decided to sell it, and it wasn't my primary residence, I'd have to pay capital gains tax on the whole sale price!

Feck that, I'd rather keep it and let it rot back into the ground!

[LondonManc]

Just thad a horrible thought.

If I did perchance win the cottage and decided to sell it, and it wasn't my primary residence, I'd have to pay capital gains tax on the whole sale price!

Feck that, I'd rather keep it and let it rot back into the ground!

So you'd be willing to bin off around £275k because you'd have to pay capital gains?

Technically, you could ask the raffle winner how much they took in total and use that as the buy price? The capital gains calculation may work out a lot better.

[OwlHoot]

Technically, you could ask the raffle winner how much they took in total and use that as the buy price? The capital gains calculation may work out a lot better.

Hmm, it's a possibility I suppose.

One could argue the other contestants subsidised my "purchase", like a parent contributing towards a buy to let which one of their offspring purchased.

But then I might be liable for a load of gift tax!

[AtW]

Just thad a horrible thought.

If I did perchance win the cottage and decided to sell it, and it wasn't my primary residence, I'd have to pay capital gains tax on the whole sale price!

Feck that, I'd rather keep it and let it rot back into the ground!

You might be able to deduct lottery ticket cost

[OwlHoot]

You might be able to deduct lottery ticket cost

Maybe that suggestion was well intended. But sometimes, AtW, you can be really quite annoying.