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Alternatively, it's like calling Disneyworld a city. Lots of people there during the day, lots of people staying overnight, but not many people truly living the

by ng12 7y ago

Alternatively, it's like calling Disneyworld a city. Lots of people there during the day, lots of people staying overnight, but not many people truly living there.

lmm 7y ago
Why is people living there something we should want though? Lots of people love visiting Venice. Relatively few people actually want to live there (at least, at the price it would cost to balance the number of tourists one permanent resident would have to displace). It seems like Venice generates the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people by acting as a tourist destination; isn't that something we should celebrate?
- jgwil2 7y ago
  Surely something is lost too though? Part of what makes Venice an attraction is its unique history, a product of many thousands of residents living there for hundreds of years. The world's cultural heritage is diminished when a place like that ceases to be a living city.
nradov 7y ago
The people who bought homes in Celebration Florida are essentially living in Disneyworld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida
- someone7x 7y ago
  > The area is organized under state law as a community development district. As a result, voting is restricted to local landowners. wow, how is that constitutional?
  - why_only_15 7y ago
    It's not a city or a town, it's a special organization provided for by Florida law that can "enter into contracts; own both real and personal property; adopt by-laws, rules and regulations and orders; sue and be sued; obtain funds by borrowing; issue bonds; and impose assessments and levy taxes on property within the district."
flycaliguy 7y ago
When I was staying in Venice for a bit, smoking hash in the "staff accomidations" of a hollowed out mansion turned hostel, the optimistic gossip was that Disney was thinking of buying the whole place and making it into a park.

by ng12 7y ago

Alternatively, it's like calling Disneyworld a city. Lots of people there during the day, lots of people staying overnight, but not many people truly living there.

lmm 7y ago

Why is people living there something we should want though? Lots of people love visiting Venice. Relatively few people actually want to live there (at least, at the price it would cost to balance the number of tourists one permanent resident would have to displace). It seems like Venice generates the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people by acting as a tourist destination; isn't that something we should celebrate?

jgwil2 7y ago
Surely something is lost too though? Part of what makes Venice an attraction is its unique history, a product of many thousands of residents living there for hundreds of years. The world's cultural heritage is diminished when a place like that ceases to be a living city.

nradov 7y ago

The people who bought homes in Celebration Florida are essentially living in Disneyworld. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

someone7x 7y ago
> The area is organized under state law as a community development district. As a result, voting is restricted to local landowners. wow, how is that constitutional?
- why_only_15 7y ago
  It's not a city or a town, it's a special organization provided for by Florida law that can "enter into contracts; own both real and personal property; adopt by-laws, rules and regulations and orders; sue and be sued; obtain funds by borrowing; issue bonds; and impose assessments and levy taxes on property within the district."

flycaliguy 7y ago

When I was staying in Venice for a bit, smoking hash in the "staff accomidations" of a hollowed out mansion turned hostel, the optimistic gossip was that Disney was thinking of buying the whole place and making it into a park.