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Plz don't be xenophobic guys they are just trying to better their lives

spaniard89277 4y ago
If foreigners come to your town and make rents go 2x everyone is likely to become pretty xenophobic. if it was in my power I'd ban vacation rentals. Hotels and aparthotels are nice enough.
- whimsicalism 4y ago
  Hating people because they are foreign seems a lot less principled than because they are wealthy.
  - spaniard89277 4y ago
    Your local wealthy people isn't going to price you out your low-income neighbourhod because he fancys going downstairs and watching people working and speaking in spanish. Anyway, 99% of them are just wealthier workers.
  - Calamitous 4y ago
    Maybe it’s most principled not to hate anybody at all?
    - spaniard89277 4y ago
      nah that would be pretty good signal to not come here
  - k__ 4y ago
    People simply hate foreigners. The rich gentrify and make everything expensive. The poor live of welfare or steal your jobs.
  - kennywinker 4y ago
    Plenty of awareness of that: > "I refuse to talk about the invasion of foreigners, it is not a matter of nationality, of labeling them guilty," explains Mayela Delgadillo, a citizen rights activist But if labeling them xenophobic makes you feel better about the situation, and allows you to ignore their legitimate complaint because it was made in terms you find objectionable, go ahead
- perpetuummobile 4y ago
  If foreigners come to your town and make your wages go 1/2 everyone is likely to become pretty xenophobic. Hmmmm
- strzibny 4y ago
  It might happen without foreigners too, but it's so easy to blame them. Besides every country has foreigners from other countries. Don't they realize U.S. is full of Mexicans, for instance?
  - spaniard89277 4y ago
    It might happen without foreigners but it's happening with foreigners.
  - zappo2938 4y ago
    I went to Mexico 20 years ago. I thought I'd try to find work for a few months. Even though I found a job other people prevented me from working. They were orders of magnitude more aggressive against me than I remembered Americans were in California against illegal aliens from Mexico at that time.
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    - moistly 4y ago
      Imagine that! Impoverished citizens of a third-world nation are more aggressive against wealthy foreigners, than are wealthy first-worlders against the pittance-wage illegal immigrants that they hire to harvest their crops! Inconceivable!
- imglorp 4y ago
  Rents going 2x is a landlord gouging problem. Don't blame the renters infusing money into the economy.
  - spaniard89277 4y ago
    Blaming both seems good enough
- dchftcs 4y ago
  A small number of foreigners couldn't organically make rents go 2x "everywhere". Having small gentrified areas aren't so bad. If the impact was instead quite large, it's a failure by the local government and developers to manage scarce land resources.
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knob_gobbler 4y ago

If foreigners come to your town and make rents go 2x everyone is likely to become pretty xenophobic. if it was in my power I'd ban vacation rentals. Hotels and aparthotels are nice enough.

whimsicalism 4y ago
Hating people because they are foreign seems a lot less principled than because they are wealthy.
- spaniard89277 4y ago
  Your local wealthy people isn't going to price you out your low-income neighbourhod because he fancys going downstairs and watching people working and speaking in spanish. Anyway, 99% of them are just wealthier workers.
- Calamitous 4y ago
  Maybe it’s most principled not to hate anybody at all?
  - spaniard89277 4y ago
    nah that would be pretty good signal to not come here
- k__ 4y ago
  People simply hate foreigners. The rich gentrify and make everything expensive. The poor live of welfare or steal your jobs.
- kennywinker 4y ago
  Plenty of awareness of that: > "I refuse to talk about the invasion of foreigners, it is not a matter of nationality, of labeling them guilty," explains Mayela Delgadillo, a citizen rights activist But if labeling them xenophobic makes you feel better about the situation, and allows you to ignore their legitimate complaint because it was made in terms you find objectionable, go ahead
perpetuummobile 4y ago
If foreigners come to your town and make your wages go 1/2 everyone is likely to become pretty xenophobic. Hmmmm
strzibny 4y ago
It might happen without foreigners too, but it's so easy to blame them. Besides every country has foreigners from other countries. Don't they realize U.S. is full of Mexicans, for instance?
- spaniard89277 4y ago
  It might happen without foreigners but it's happening with foreigners.
- zappo2938 4y ago
  I went to Mexico 20 years ago. I thought I'd try to find work for a few months. Even though I found a job other people prevented me from working. They were orders of magnitude more aggressive against me than I remembered Americans were in California against illegal aliens from Mexico at that time.
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  - moistly 4y ago
    Imagine that! Impoverished citizens of a third-world nation are more aggressive against wealthy foreigners, than are wealthy first-worlders against the pittance-wage illegal immigrants that they hire to harvest their crops! Inconceivable!
imglorp 4y ago
Rents going 2x is a landlord gouging problem. Don't blame the renters infusing money into the economy.
- spaniard89277 4y ago
  Blaming both seems good enough
dchftcs 4y ago
A small number of foreigners couldn't organically make rents go 2x "everywhere". Having small gentrified areas aren't so bad. If the impact was instead quite large, it's a failure by the local government and developers to manage scarce land resources.

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knob_gobbler 4y ago