{"id":146685,"date":"2024-08-10T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-just-a-rich-mans-playground-now-how-st-ives-became-patient-zero-of-british-overtourism\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T00:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:01:39","slug":"its-just-a-rich-mans-playground-now-how-st-ives-became-patient-zero-of-british-overtourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-just-a-rich-mans-playground-now-how-st-ives-became-patient-zero-of-british-overtourism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s just a rich man\u2019s playground now\u2019: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soulIn St Ives, herring gulls dive-bomb for ice-cream and rib\u00a0boats stalk the bay. I am listening to Lizzy, who lives in\u00a0a van. As a child she lived on the hill in her grandmother\u2019s house. Her grandmother had five\u00a0bedrooms and six children: that was her estate. When she died, the house was divided between them.\u00a0None could afford to buy the others out on a native St Ives salary, so Lizzy rented in the town: pretty\u00a0cottages, and bungalows with views. She worked in retail and kitchens. When she had a partner, she had\u00a0money to spend: a good life in a town that looks like a\u00a0storybook.She lost her partner and, two years ago, her bungalow became an Airbnb. With 18,000 on the waiting list, the council told her to go to a homeless shelter. Instead, she bought a van from a friend, insulated it and put a mattress in the back. She joined a spa to use the washing facilities, and she meets second homeowners there. \u201cAnd they go, \u2018Do you live here?\u2019 I say, \u2018I live in a van.\u2019 And they go, \u2018Where\u2019s that?\u2019 And I go, \u2018I live in a van. You know \u2013 those things on wheels?\u2019\u201d All tourists have an obliviousness, but it is particularly marked in St Ives. They park Ferraris in loading bays meant for tradesmen, or stare at the sky. Braver ones wrestle with fish: I met a man on the quay as the flounder he had caught died, bloodied, in his arms. St Ives: pretty, but problematic. Photographs: Orlando Gili\/The Guardian Continue reading…
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