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• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Have you ever lived anywhere with a lot of tourism? Its not the specific people one dislikes but the atmosphere it creates. That may just be me.

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have no sympathy, I’ve met a fair number of “locals” over the years. The vast majority were transplants after the location became a tourist destination. And happily take tourist money. They bitch about the crowds but still take that money…

    The definition of hypocrisy.

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    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Very empirical observation. You should write a paper about the study based on the vast amount of data points you seen to have gathered with quantitative and qualitative evaluation and questionnaires.

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      • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wrong on all counts, thanks for proving your own biases though! I strongly suspected you were one of the Internet geniuses!

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  • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have, and I can see what you’re saying. But intelligent people who understand how the bills get paid figure out a balance.

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    • prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, society requires compromises, I agree. The problem here is for me that the tourism side seems to only take (space, capacity, mentally) and leave money with no regard (why would they? They paid for the vacation) to a local community. There are exceptions of course.

      As long as you can moderate the influx and the way tourists are able to impact local life then I can see some kind of balance. And yes, as always we need to pay the bills somehow. And that means (sadly in our reality) sucking it up and sacrificing some kind of confort. In general, not just regarding tourism.

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