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by dorchadas 1212 days ago
You've got it exactly backwards - It's entitlement from tourists to feel like they should be allowed to live as locals over the actual locals, not for people who work in a place to want to have affordable housing there.
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Ekaros 1212 days ago
I wonder how happy these people were if the homes next to theirs constantly had same issues as these communities suffer from... There seems to be certain lack of empathy. Or they feel superior in sense that we bring money, we should be served as some type of royalty for that.

Even if the money probably isn't that much, at least in bigger cities.

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dorchadas 1212 days ago
> I wonder how happy these people were if the homes next to theirs constantly had same issues as these communities suffer from

Or even if they just live on a normal income in a city acutely affected by it. That's what really turned my opinion on the matter, when I tried to move to Galway city in 2016 to find out that a lot of the housing was taken up for tourists. Now I'm in Dublin, and it's even worse, in the midst of the largest housing crisis the country has seen (and it's not due entirely to lack of building - during the pandemic the number of long-term lets doubled, mostly as AirBnB owners fled back into the market). It's absolutely awful what it has done to cities as whole, not even talking about actual neighbourhoods.

But I suspect most people here make a really good income, and can afford to live in other places that are generally insulated from this, and don't have to worry about competing with others in the lower-end rent market.

There's also a lot of weirdly libertarian "I should be able to do what I want with my property", ignoring all negative social externalities that we already regulate against. It's quite funny, from people who (I'd assume) would generally be more left-leaning/liberal.

> There seems to be certain lack of empathy. Or they feel superior in sense that we bring money, we should be served as some type of royalty for that.

God, I see this attitude way too much. Hotel owners also exhibit this in Dublin, as they demolish cultural and historical institutions to make way for more hotels to cater towards tourists. Tourists are not a viable way for a city to thrive long-term.

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