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On one hand, biting that hand that feeds
On the other, I've lived in buildings with AirBnBs and they're a scourge. The owners and renters of short term rental properties are mostly (not all) awful - residents should be owning property, not spoiled rich landlords eating up space for tourists. Fuck AirBnB.
I also visited Spain last month and I've never felt so unwelcomed in my life while in Barcelona and would never go back, so I guess the anti-tourism is working 😂
I can understand that locals are revolting around the world. The amount of tourism exploded in the last decades. The way tourists are behaving all around doesn't help.
Barcelona has 12 tourists per capita per year. They could easily do with a half of that.
Barcelona is a diverse economic engine; it’s not a tourism monocrop town. It doesn’t need your patronage.
I mean that goes for pretty much every major city, even the touristy ones.
Did you think I wouldn’t notice you creating alt account [email protected] today for the express purpose of following me around and downvoting? I guess I really hit a nerve. How embarrassingly petty.