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> 4. Sylt (think 'the German version of Nantucket/Martha's Vineyard') will burn to the ground. As a non-American, I'd appreciate some further elaboration.
by ValentineC 4y ago
> 4. Sylt (think 'the German version of Nantucket/Martha's Vineyard') will burn to the ground.
As a non-American, I'd appreciate some further elaboration.
- gpvos 4y agoThe suggestion is that it will get overrun with more tourists than it can handle.
- DocTomoe 4y agoSylt is considered "the holiday island for the uberrich". When the idea was first considered, their mayor carelessly spoke to the media that he feared the plebs coming to their island and do lower-class stuff, in short, getting on the nerves of 'regulars'. Which was the inspiration for Germany's youth to - very loudly - start planning the invasion of Sylt to drink cheap beer from tincans and do lower-class stuff. Add our liberal-democratic federal finance minister to the mix, who will get married on Sylt in mid-June, and you got a perfect storm. Something very similar happened in the 1990s, when the Bahn had a cheap ticket - back then, riot police was sent to Sylt to avoid lower-class tourists getting too annoying. This time, though, it's likely going to be a lot worse, because of things being more organized thanks to the internet.
- brazzy 4y agoIt's an island that has been a high society hotspot for decades. Think celebrities and politicians sipping champagne in overpriced beachside restaurants. But even though it's an island, it's reachable by train via a dam, and the locals are worried about being overrun with day trip tourists, and the clebrities are worried about being crowded by poor people.