#Locals and tourists

[kyreniacommentator]

New Plans For Girne's Old Harbour

[unavernales]

if you're in r/maui for any sort of native propelled narrative, don't be.

claiming indigenous people are being "divisive" for pointing out elitism and the legacy of colonization is a tactic of white supremacy. blaming native hawaiians for the hostility between them and their oppressors, rather than racism, is white supremacy. there is no division in these words, only accountability. it is blatant denial to somehow level this tragedy as one that was "shared"

tourists were bussed out of the area using polynesian tour buses. locals burned to death in their cars. tourists were able to go back to their hotels to gather their luggage. locals had to enter a biohazard zone to see the ashes of their homes.

we did not share this tragedy. tourists took resources, took time, and took space that locals were entitled to. tourists will get back on a plane and return to their homes, sleep in their beds, and have clean, running water. local survivors will have none of this.

anti hawaiian rhetoric will be rampant in the coming days. people will want to distance themselves from the reality that the tourism industry enabled services and resources to be redirected, costing life after life after life.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

miaozu fashion on xiaohongshu

[minglana]

this is the mindset of many foreign tourists. we dont speak their language. we complain about them making noise and fucking up the islands. its us that are in the wrong, obviously, and not them........😒

[pratchettquotes]

It was said to be a wonder of the world, except that very few people around here ever wondered much about anything and were barely aware of the world.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

[luckthebard]

It’s been weeks since I saw the post that prompted this, but I once was reading a post critiquing Matt’s worldbuilding cause, you know, curiosity, and also I’m interested in critique if it’s well-argued, but one of the main points was “Hupperdook doesn’t make any sense, a town where everyone parties after work every day?” and I just thought “Ah. Someone who’s never been to several major US cities”

[red-hibiscus]

As an immigrant who grew up in a popular vacation spot, I really appreciate Mut talking about the struggles of the locals

The only people who can afford to vacation where I do are rich people or those with families here. I grew up with a mother who cleaned the houses of rich people, never any mansions, but I know plenty of others who've done that. I grew up with a father who worked at a grocery store (very) frequented by tourists on their way to the beach. I worked as a camp counselor for celebrities and upperclass as a teen.

The messes I've seen. And no, the tourists don't care for the locals. It's like we live in separate worlds. They don't go to the family owned restaurants. They go to the high end ones where everything is $50+. They also have the option of going to the less conveniently located specialty grocery store.

They don't live in a small overpriced houses that locals can't afford to buy. They buy the large houses they only use for 2 months of the year and have local immigrant mothers clean the place that has dirty laundry tossed around randomly cause they were in a rush to head to the beach. Their gardens and homes are built by immigrant men who wait by the side of a 7-eleven to be picked up on the morning by passing trucks. And I can tell you none of these people are paid well.

Them buying these houses are also the reason landlords charge so much. Cause they know someone can and will pay, but it's not locals. Not to mention no local that doesn't come from old fishermen families (or the local upperclass families) can afford boats much less yachts. Yet the amount of boats I see at every port (gotta be at least 10 of them in 3 towns)...

I have respect for Mut, cause I know the bullshit locals have to put up with when it comes to tourists. People like Mut probably have it worse than I do. So even more respect.

[julijbee]

dreaming on red mountain.

[3-aem]

giving myself a caffeine reliance so strong that if the world were to end id be taken out first by the mother of all migraines

[myokk]

beach day!!!

[froody]

British tourists should terrorize the Dutch a little more. I think.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

[badolmen]

hey you guys know that even if the people inside that submersible are rich billionaires, dying in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean is a horrific way to die right. like. yeah stupid choices were made by the people in there signing off on a waiver that says the sub is not approved by anyone and they could die. but it’s the fault of OceanGate for knowingly putting people into a Home Depot DIY sub rigged up with an Xbox controller all to make a profit on people’s curiosity.

[rosalesbeausderholle]

People would call you communist for this (lol) but the solution for the housing crisis we have all over is to set a minimum and maximum price per square meter that you can rent/sell a place for and that maximum price per meter should be adjusted so that it never exceeds a specific reasonable percentage of local salaries. Also, governments should be tougher on places not being fit to rent. No, you shouldn't be able to rent anything less than 45m² as 'a flat', that's either a room or a storage unit.

[mylittleredgirl]

when the side effects of the medication are the same as the symptoms it's supposed to address

[clavicuss-vile]

after the blight, crows and ravens become omens of protection and good news throughout Ferelden. the hero of ferelden has his personal network of message-carrier corvids after all, and its rumoured he shapeshifts into them himself sometimes! one of those ravens could be him, watching over ferelden from above. it's only polite to give a little salute with a "good morning, warden!". leaving snacks for your local murder becomes commonplace, and a house circled by corvids is destined for good health, so the stories say, and farmers leave out scraps away from their main field for them - a farm visited by them is protected from the blight, obviously!