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.