cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24377636
Liberal Elite is Fully Geared Up to be Insufferable For 4 More Years of “Resistance”
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Neither. The locals are tired of tourists. Go visit a mountain or something...
Please no, so many tourists on the mountains that I have to make reservations to walk the Manitou Incline
People who live in massive tourist Hotspots then complain about tourists should just move somewhere else :^)
Sell their house to who, ben?
Yes, how dare people enjoy where they live after working hard and voting for good policies.
Colorado isn't the same now. So many people moving there that the mountains are now genuinely crowded with tourists. Tourists that use disposable THC vapes and leave them on trails so they can have a drug vacation.
Sorry but telling them not to live in a tourist area is the exact same energy as telling tourists where to go on their own personal vacation.
I do however completely take your side on the rampant littering and disrespect shown to tourist areas. It's not cool.
Can't afford to. Having lived in a tourist hotspot my whole life, I've been trying to get out since I was 18. The amount of homelessness and drug use/addiction is insane - highest amounts in the entire state, and there's a stretch of road in the state capital called Methadone Mile.
Something happens once an area becomes a popular enough tourist spot: the economy stops getting a boost from tourism and simply becomes tourism. Everything becomes focused around catering to tourists, and 75% of businesses either close outside the tourist season or massively cut their hours and employees. The town I live in has 3 business sectors: restaurants, retail, and retirement homes. There's another town here with a year-round population of 4,000 that can get up to 60,000 during the 4th of July holiday.
And these are the same complaints that I've heard countless times from people that I've talked who lived in other tourist areas. Rampant homelessness and addiction, and poor job opportunities.
So you can kindly fuck off with that snarky comment, you've clearly never lived in a tourist town yourself.