Top 10 Cornish towns for charity shops
St Piran's Day window for the Oxfam bookshop in Truro.
When I was moving down to Cornwall, people would say to me oh everything’s so much cheaper down there. I’d look at them and say, oh is it? Is Tesco cheaper? Is public transport cheaper? They’d double back a bit and say, well, you know, property is. Ah. Of course. Aside – and I know it’s a big aside – from property, everything is actually more expensive than London (and wages are far lower), from the dentist and doctor to public transport and restaurants. I’ve never believed the myth that the country is cheaper, having lived in it before. You need a car to get anywhere. Restaurants, being few and far between, are over-priced and terrible. There’s no NHS dentists. Council tax and utility bills are more expensive. There’s no subsidies for public transport so it costs £8 to get two miles down the road on the bus.
Worst of all, as everyone’s poor and there’s no jobs, the charity shops are like rubbish dumps. You may have noticed a distinct lack of barngains in the last six months. There have been none (though to be fair H still seems to pick up some great clothes for a song).
1. Penzance
2. Falmouth
3. Truro
4. Newquay
5. St Austell
6. Bodmin
7. St Ives
8. Redruth
9. Camborne
10. Helston