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I always hated the whole “local economy good” schtick. Not everyone in that city personally benefits from the things the local economy is supposed to be dependent on, and to expect them to be stoked when, say, oil is doing good, or lots of tourists are coming around, but only bad things happen to you as a result of it while rich people around you become richer and the wealth gap increases is just irritating.
Also when I worked in a tourist town doing construction there like 9/10 of the tourists were rich, fat, rude Americans that just made a mess of the beautiful town I was in and were super ignorant to everyone around them. I was so glad to be finished that project man.
Or thanks to tourism you will never be able to afford to live in the area you grew up in and have to move somewhere cheaper.
Yup, this is happening to me. A whopping 70% (not exaggerating) of houses in my hometown have turned into AirBNB's in the last 10 years!
I would certainly believe it easily can be 70%. Been to other seaside towns before when visiting family and especially in the main part of the town everything is now rented out.
I suppose I do also live in a seaside town but it isn't popular with tourists, we have a beach but as its on a peninsula and just like the rest of the beach that stretches on for like 100km or so around the coast there is very little reason for anyone to come here for it unless they live here.
Yeah that also sucks ass.