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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.
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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 a tourist town, and it actually does. I loved being able to use services made for 200 thousand people in a town of 14 thousand.
Like you get a small-ish town, but you get multiple supermarkets competing and driving prices down, you get dozens of restaurants you can go out ot and order from. You can get groceries at 3AM. Hell, I moved to a non-touristic city of 400 thousand later, and I had worse services.
Megacorps taking over is a separate issue.
Spain and Italy come to mind. I’m from NYC and while I might not like tourists in my way, I welcome them and help them find their way around town; tourists are a not insignificant part of the NYC economy, and also I’m a strong believer in hospitality
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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'm on the memes side.
While tourists can be assholes.
It's amazing how many of these "locals" bitching, either made their money off the tourists or recently moved to town...
I have no sympathy for either type.
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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.
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.
I’m like this as an american who lives in another country. I get that face when i hear english being spoken because the tourists are usually jackasses.
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.
Sounds more like your issue is with the drivers. The law states (at least in Europe) that cyclists should be on the road when there's no bicycle lane. And that's what they do everywhere I've been so far and it's fine. Drivers complain sometimes that they have to slow down for a few seconds before they can pass, but whatever, screw them.
If cyclists are allowed on the sidewalks, where are pedestrians supposed to go? Especially since often they're barely wide enough for 2-3 people. Hugging the wall every minute to let a bicycle pass isn't fun.
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