[houshuang]

This was really frustrating to me, because it felt like treating the Chinese visitors not as people, but a natural phenomenon (locusts) or some such. It's natural that the locals would be baffled, and if this had been a short notice in a local newspaper, then fine. But I read it in a Norwegian newspaper, and later saw it on Metafilter, Hacker News etc. By that time, surely someone must be able to talk to the visitors in Chinese, do a little bit of research with tourist agencies from China etc?

I decided to see if I could find any Chinese sources writing about this, since they might be more clued in. Sohu.com's article (http://news.sohu.com/20160708/n458318443.shtml) says that the rumor was spread that this is where parts of Harry Potter (the Dursleys) was filmed.

[sjclemmy]

That would make more sense. So it's actually much more sinister. The Dursley abode is symbolic of all that is bad with the modern world. Bitter people, living in a soulless landscape obsessed with meaningless possessions and social status, devoid of compassion and love.

Is that what Kidlington is like? ;)