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I was living in a touristic area. Guess what was happening, local politicians were treating long term residents as trash in the face of big hotels/apartments w
by ozim 4mo ago
I was living in a touristic area.
Guess what was happening, local politicians were treating long term residents as trash in the face of big hotels/apartments who had loads of money.
Fun part was that those apartments/hotels wouldn’t hire locals but rather people who would drive like 20-30 km away.
Bad deal all way round for locals but of course local government people would pocket their share one way or the other if not from outright bribery.
- TurdF3rguson 4mo agoYou live in a touristy area because you have a tourism-related job, right? Because where are the tourists supposed to stay if there's no hotels?
- watwut 4mo agoOr, he did something else and mived away, vecause this sucked. There is never shortage of hotels. They pop up is actual econony supports it. No reason to take bribes
- ozim 4mo agoFor anyone who was poor in that area it was better to move out.
- ozim 4mo agoNot really. I was just born there and it wasn’t as touristy when I was a child. It blew up as touristy place when I was a teenager and in my twenties. My parents had odd jobs, construction, chemical processing operations. There was some small scale industry running there as well but it went bust when people wanted fresh air for tourism. Even if the industry was really small scale for marketing sake local government got rid of all of it. I also don’t live there anymore as I wrote „I was living in a touristy area”. If I would stay there, there was no future for me there.
- TurdF3rguson 4mo ago[flagged]
- KennyBlanken 4mo agoYou need to take a break from the keyboard. You're being an asshole.
- TurdF3rguson 4mo ago[flagged]
- defrost 4mo agoThe guidelines ask that curious conversation be pursued, drilling into straw guesses about fellow commenters motivations be eschewed. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- TurdF3rguson 4mo agoPointing out that it's normal for hotels to be built in touristy areas is not snarky.
- defrost 4mo ago> your childhood home became more touristy and you're trying to blame somebody for that. Do you know this person or are you just making up a narrative and writing a stranger into it?
- TurdF3rguson 4mo agoAre you following this thread at all? That's OP's description of the events. The "trying to blame somebody" is the only editorial I made, and it stems from: - OP's belief that hotel construction is connected to shadowy back-room deals with local officials - Hotels having weird discriminatory hiring practices based on minimum distance from hotel to applicant's house Yeah, it's weird. And I didn't invent it. I don't think it's snarky to point out that those beliefs are overly conspiratorial and that those things can be better attributed to basic economics. Maybe you do and that's fine because you're entitled to your opinion.
- pibaker 4mo ago> Fun part was that those apartments/hotels wouldn’t hire locals but rather people who would drive like 20-30 km away. This is also true for data centers. They tell you there will be new jobs, but what they don't tell you is the people working there will be employed by an established contractor and driving in from the nearest metro area, not the locals.
- ghaff 4mo agoAnd, in fact, after the initial construction datacenters employ very few people working on the premises.