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These mountain town always suffer from having split identities. On the one hand you have people who desperately look to outsiders/tourists to keep themselves in
by seanalltogether 12y ago
These mountain town always suffer from having split identities. On the one hand you have people who desperately look to outsiders/tourists to keep themselves in business. On the other hand you have a group of people that despise all these outsiders for clogging up traffic and stomping all over everything.
The problem is that locals fall in love with all the amenities provided by tourist dollars, and hate when they're standing in line in front of them.
- x0x0 12y agoI snowboard every chance I get, and this hits the nail on the head. You always get a bunch of idiots that refuse to understand that they live in a resort town, and that the town only exists because of all the tourist dollars. It's the tradeoff you have to understand if you're going to live there. In the article, the town is getting a "donation" of 5% of their annual budget in order to let budweiser turn it into a frathouse for 3 days. It's probably a good trade considering what towns like that are and how they're perpetually cash starved. You always get the pretentious rich jerks who retire there and think it's Marthas Vineyard, not a town full of skibums whose goals are pot, pbr, and 120 days of snowboarding a year (and don't get me wrong, no hate for skibums; I'm jealous...)