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The few people I know with second homes (<--- golf club fodder) just treat them as investments.

They don't want to stay in their own second home as:

• They've done the area to death over the course of many years
  
• The place is now too big/small for them, and inviting friends to fill it can be its own hell
  
• In the weeks they can go there (school holidays mostly) they can get more money from renting it and use that to be a guest elsewhere
  
  

Personally I find the concept of second homes abhorrent.