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In my experience economies based around tourism have much greater inequality, with a few wealthy landowners/business owners raking it in, scumbag tourists throwing their weight around and any non wealthy locals forced into low wage service work and treated like shit in a high cost of living environment. Fuck tourism and fuck tourists.
As usual, seems he underlying problem is capitalism, not people wanting to visit nice places.
Yuuup. The people complaining are not the ones that decided that their city should be a tourism dump.
It's not "a" tourist, it's "a milion" tourists they don't tolerate
And the messes they leave. If they could pick up after themselves and not treat our service staff like shit, that'd be great.
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I recently went to a very.. rich area that’s for sure a destination (there’s a boat tour around the lake to look at mansions, of which there are dozens. It’s really gross. I did not enjoy being there.)
People looked at me funny when I picked up trash that wasn’t mine while walking.. but like there’s a trash can RIGHT THERE! Why wouldn’t I??
But that’s just the vibe in touristy areas.. not my home, not my problem. And that’s gross.
It really depends. Most people are incredibly friendly, give lots of local tips, are interested in where I'm from. People are genuinely excited and welcoming. But I've also been yelled at—"fucking tourist!"—for stopping on the street to reverse parallel park...an hour south of the border for the numberplate my car had 🤷
I don't think it's much tha you meet people that hate tourists, just that you meet any other asshole that hatess the things that aren't them. So of course they hate tourists too. Good thing the majority of society aren't at all like that.
Lived in Banff for 18 years. Some days those tourists are just the fucking worst; feeding animals, littering, having fires anywhere they want. I got real possessive of my home. But the many are decent, outdoor lovers who don’t suck.
When I went to Banff many years ago, the chipmunks near our lodge were the fattest that I'd ever seen. It was obvious people had been feeding them and they had become dependent on it. Very sad.
who's economy
I don't know. Who IS economy?
Oh my god bear is economy how can that be?
Tourists frequently treat the laws as though they are suggestions instead of the law because they'll be leaving and won't deal with whatever they did.
They drove my mother off the road and the tourists walking nearby just watched and did nothing even though she needed medical help as she was on a bike. Luckily she was fine.
Others would argue with me, a kid, about where shit was.
"How do you get off the island"
"One way on and off, it's the way you entered"
"No, there's a way off here"
"There is not"
"Fuck you" they'd say, to a kid, before driving off and finding no no. Kid is right.
Whenever we traveled we were slammed into us to be polite, follow all local laws, be kind, and I just. It feels like a lot of the shoobies just were raised in a fucking barn.
I think this is the first time I've heard the word "shoobies" said that wasn't on Rocket Power
It's not that we live in a direct democracy where the people have a say in the decision to turn the city into a tourism place. More often than not people are born there or moved there long before tourism was so big
While not a city, tourists have ruined the town I work in... It used to be a working town and the surrounding area was where people actually lived. Then the area got popular for rich people to come walk around in the summer... They bought all the housing for their vacation homes/air b&b and the bought up local businesses, turning them into seasonal shops...
Locusts...
I visited a town that is in a great spot for cycling trips. The locals painted 🚳 on every sidewalk, hung up posters and give cyclists on sidewalks a talking-to while the main roads often lack even dashed bicycle lanes and feel really dangerous to ride on. At least there is no free car parking.
Yeah, I'm sure the average person living in a tourist town gets tons of dividends from the extra taxes and capital earnings. It "trickles down" or whatever the kids are calling it these days.
It trickles down so hard that corporations are kicking you out of town by buying up everything and price fixing the rent.
I grew up in San Diego. I can't afford to live there anymore and had to move halfway across the country because of those tourists. Comic Con would be the worst. Just fucking shambles. And then all the people who feel like Comic Con is their home leave their "home" covered in fucking garbage and piss soaked streets. And then some of those tourists started to enjoy San Diego so much, that they all started moving there with their trust funds and high paying remote jobs. By the time I left 5 years ago, I'd meet people and they'd almost all ask, "Where are you from?" to which I'd reply, "From here" to which they'd reply, "No, but where are you from originally?".
Yep. Fucking tourists.
Yes. 100%. Every time I see a tourist in SF blocking traffic to take a picture from the top of a hill in the middle of the street, I want them to get hit by a bus.
That's a waste of a good tourist! You could always grind them up for sausage meat.
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I think the problem is not necessarily being a tourist, but egregiously bad tourist behavior.
I have family in, and we're moving to, a tourism hot spot. I honestly don't mind about 95% of the tourists. I even like a lot of them, since the fun ones are great to have around and you can learn about people's lives in so many different places.
The relatively small fraction that acts like total shitheads is what really stands out to me.
There's a strong correlation between how shitty a tourist is and how likely they are to make posts like OP's demanding that locals get with the program, remember their Disneyland training, and welcome them on their special holiday.
Whose*
OP after being kicked out of his home so that the landlord can rent it in airbnb: “well at least the economy is booming!”
I mean they often only want the place they live to be affordable and focused on catering to its residents and not people coming a week or so every year being the focus of the local amenities and that's a fair opinion to have.