I wish Scotland would do a bit (lot) more about second homes and letting properties.
Yes and that's a problem about opening up the Highlands to small farmers - Scotland would have to have legislation in place
first that they could not become second homes. Wales in the '70s had huge problems with second homes, which protesters burned down. It shows the depth of feeling, and I'm sure those in Cornwall feel as strongly, but really nowhere needs the disruption caused by protest. Why do people need second homes, which stand empty for large parts of the year? Even time share is better than that (possibly), although it's still taking away affordable housing from those who work locally and want to live near their work. In a way we feel like newcomers here, even though we only moved about 30 miles down the road from Edinburgh 25 years ago and are definitely here for the long haul. I was originally English until I married a Scot at 20, and I have lived here for far longer than most native born Scots, if you think about it (me being a bit ancient and all)
I was born and grew up in Norfolk and we went through a similar thing in the 60s and 70s, with people moving out from London and buying up every house in Norfolk, so local folk couldn't afford to buy anywhere. They brought money with them, renovated all the old housing, drove big fat cars and filled the rural schools to overflowing. Then the money went and suddenly we noticed (as visitors to rellies by then) that the previously renovated houses were starting to look dilapidated, no-one had bought a new car for years so there were plenty of old bangers around, and the local population was by then made up of the children of those previous immigrants, for whom Norfolk was by then home (minus the true Norfolk accent, which has become a sort of London-cum-Norfolk mish-mash). Currently I think Peterborough has become the new New Town for East Anglia with easy access from London via the A1.
So it's all a repeating pattern which different parts of the country experience at different times and to different extents.
I am sorry Cornwall is getting it all now and I hope G7 isn't the last straw.
In fact I think that as far as Scotland goes, many of the true incomers, as opposed to second home owners, have brought new life and a good work ethic to the country, to replace all those who left for America in the 'brain drain'.