"I was one of the holidaymakers who made it my home," says Sam Long, who moved to Salcombe in 2009. Fourteen years later he has no regrets.
When the sun shines, families hurry around in search of ice cream, cars squeeze past pedestrians on narrow lanes and people dodge greedy seagulls that are eager to snap up any pasty left briefly unattended. There is a "great local community here which I think people forget", he says. He has volunteered for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, is involved with the rugby club, and every year he helps other local residents put the town's Christmas lights up.Image source,The estuary is arguably the focal point of the town.
Then passing Whitestrand car park, which sees ferries pick up visitors to take them to local beaches, a key feature of Salcombe emerges - one of its many hills. This week, local councillor Julian Brazil, told the Guardian that some key workers such as nurses, teachers, care workers and cleaners could no longer afford to live in the area,
Stay out of the sea given amount of sewage pumped !
It's hardly st tropez, pokey little town, a few shops and full of twats from London
Now go and do something with people that cannot feed themselves due to cost and had to go cold this winter.
Very nice & Lucky him that’s what I say.
Errm, expensive?
Expensive I would imagine.
Hotels free of illegals I bet although the locals will all say they're welcome in the UK.
The west coast of Wirral is much nicer.
It is bank holiday so no news
With Devon having 4 out of the top 5 sewage covered beaches in the UK, what’s the whiff like in Salcombe?
Cold and rainy, and plagued by chip-thieving gulls, I imagine.
selective parts of the coastline reserved for the greedy scumbags who are into offshore banking accounts?
Clean and no immigration problems. Probably the best place on earth. I'm sure the bbc will hate it there.
It's the back of beyond. Ok to visit, but like a lot of Devon and Cornwall, it gets boring over time.
Ok .. if u like narrow streets & hordes of people gawping in to your front room.. & paying thru nose for pint cider…
Overrated
Miserable, I imagine Like every other inch of this third world shit pile of a country
I mean, I’m not going to read the article but I’d imagine it’s relatively pleasant.
Expensive?