[barry-cotter]

> The newspapers reported on the problem: it was so hard to find affordable housing in town that there weren’t enough people left to work in town.

That's the problem. Lack of housing. Not popularisation. The article writer don't decry the popularisation in the article though geephroh does.

[geephroh]

Lack of housing is, of course, a major part of the problem. And why might you suppose that previously affordable housing in what might have once been a relatively obscure locale is now in tremendous demand?

Knowing a number of folks personally who have been priced out of these places -- often the hometown where they hoped to spend their lives -- might give me a different sense of perspective than you seem to have.

[mthoms]

>might give me a different sense of perspective than you seem to have.

I've lived in these towns and know lots of these people too. I've never heard one of them seriously complain about Outside Magazine (or similar publications) being responsible for the lack of affordable housing. I mean yeah, I guess they are partly responsible for it in a very round-about way... but you might as well be mad at the internet, ski movies or the Olympic Games. It's a pointless exercise.