The tropic of... Cornwall: Coastal county classified as having subtropical climate putting it on par with parts of Vietnam and Mexico

Try and buy a place Amin Cornwall and you'll always be seen as an outsider... I grew up in Cornwall and even if you were English and moved there you'll still never truly belong so if us Cornish are real England then it's not a compliment

Doors left open?? you're having a laugh!!

Funny how everyone else is saying Cornwall is a lovely place, maybe you should move free up a house and let someone local who appreciates the place have a home.

You're from Bodmin mate!

He kind of has a point, emmets ruin the place for months,but he is also in Bodmin and I'm not sure an emmet has ever gone there.

Bodmin has its on sub species of human as well.....

emmet? que?

Loads of emmets in Bodmin!!! It takes 20 mins to drive through it in August!!

I'm not saying Cornwall's crap, it is beautiful on a beautiful day, it's the weather!! it's just not as the article says.

emmet + antin Cornish but is a word used to mean tourist during the summer season. Cornish like emmets - emm ets comes and emm ets goes. We are less fond of those who stay and then try to change things. (Despite the Plymouth address there ,I am Cornish and live in Cornwall now).

It does meet the technical definition.

I'm enjoying myself in this sub tropical paradise. Bleddy ansum so tis!

But because of all the dampness, you get crippled up with arthritis if you go there to live there, so I'm told.

arthritis is brought on by bad diet

Jeremy..so how come I was born with it ? Turmeric helps. What about Tresco , surely more tropical ?

I remember photos of tropical plants when we studied world geography in the US. This was well before the term "global warming" was invented. This nothing new, there were palm trees in Cornwall before Al Gore was born.

Well over 55 years ago I visted Tresco in the Isles of Scilly and even then it was famed for its tropical gardens.I am fairly sure that at that time Torquay had palm trees along its sea front promenade.

Cornish pasties bring on arthritis??????

Wages are the lowest in the country. One employer here pays less than the minimum wage but makes it up to the legal amount by generously adding what they call an "attendance bonus". Cornwall is one of the most deprived regions in Western Europe and is more deprived than Poland according to an article in the Daily Mail. But house prices are soaring though.

Because of Londoners like Alexandra.

LZ Roberts, I couldn't agree more with your post. Visitors live in this pseudo fantasy created by Canary Wharf or Fleet Street journalists that Cornwall is some kind of Key West playground. The cost of living here is horrendous much like any other beautiful place.

Well laugh it up fuzzball, I have holidayed there in February, March and April and got a sun tan. It may get dark early in Feb but if you are lucky with the sun it can be quite hot. I live five miles from the boarder and go as often as I can.

Yep, well hello Mr ignorant.. The person from Wiltshire ( sorry I didn't see your name) is right. It is warmer and he's correct. Tropical plants thrive there.. YOU wouldn't!

@Holly Those are not tropical plants.

Nope, it doesn't rain 24 hours a day for 6 months of the year....coz if it did, that would be ''most of the time'' .... it does rain, SOME of the time.

The cold part?

Unfortunately it is not true, the difference is that the immigiration is by wealthy Londoners etc who buy up the property and out price the locals who then have to move out!

What does that have to do with climate?

they will soon leave as the rain and wind are a feature for 300 days of the year....(at least)

Yes it is like being abroad since England is now full of people who do not look English!

Jenny, my visit to various parts last month showed mostly Brits. You are deluded.

Yes the weather. It's always raining. This article is bs

Reader Swives, in that case the "various parts" of Britain/England you must have visited obviously didn't involve any large city or it's surroundings, and most definitely not London unless you were wearing blinkers...or possibly a Niqab.

Well when I was younger I remember that Cornwall ever hardly got frosts when every other County did. It wasn't for years that I heard that it did. It was well known in the South for not getting them. They have always grown plants that not many other Counties could. Seasons are so much different today, they blend together, not so long ago you felt them changing. I would definitely say it's got warmer all year round, I suppose if you live long enough you can experience these things rather than take someone's word for it.

Might on occasions hit the he same temperatures as Saigon but there is a big difference in humidity, especially in the rainy season. If it is like where I live in Vietnam, you better start fitting air conditioning.

Almost all of Vietnam is actually in the tropics, only the far north is sub-tropical. It would also be classed as a sub-tropical, humid climate, similar to Brisbane, Australia or Florida, US. They are only categorizing Cornwall as being sub-tropical based on average temperature. The comparison is irrelevant without the word humid.

You are wrong.

I have just returned from Hayle and have been going there for the last 15 years. I couldn't agree more with your comments. Such a wonderful place to Holiday.

Exactly,which is why the majority voted out

yes plenty of space for ref ugees