• lath@lemmy.world
    131·
    1 day ago

    Neither. The locals are tired of tourists. Go visit a mountain or something…

    • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
      21·
      1 day ago

      Please no, so many tourists on the mountains that I have to make reservations to walk the Manitou Incline

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
      57·
      1 day ago

      People who live in massive tourist Hotspots then complain about tourists should just move somewhere else :^)

      • AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
        93·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
          43·
          1 day ago

          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.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        32·
        24 hours ago

        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.