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resentment? why? won’t the nomads spend money in the local community on goods and services? You make it seem like they would be taking local jobs away, or takin
by lurking_swe 3y ago
resentment? why? won’t the nomads spend money in the local community on goods and services? You make it seem like they would be taking local jobs away, or taking housing away from the locals that earn 2x less. i’m struggling to see your perspective?
or is this just a concern about “crab mentality”?
- com2kid 3y agoPortugal has this very issue. A previous HN thread from a few weeks ago went into more detail about it. The tl;dr is if you drop 5000 people earning 2x the average salary into a neighborhood, the prices of everything goes way up. Rent, food, entertainment, locals get priced out very quickly.
- lurking_swe 3y agonaive question - is the situation in portugal different from japan? i was unaware of the issue so i did some brief reading. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65485908 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65485908 seems like a tourism issue? that and extremely low wages compared to cost of living. If the government functioned for the people, i imagine it would be trivial to place severe limits on short term tourism rentals, but they have chosen not to do so.