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Re:‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Hel... by chrisco255 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:16PM (#17872561)
Yeah I'm sure the very rich had that luxury back in the day... But nowadays anyone can do it.
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Re:‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Hel... by Piskvorrr on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:02AM (#17875156)
That's the point! With the subpoint that it scales...badly.

It's not like you can spin up 20 more instances of the historic city center when you get 20x the usual traffic. Result: cities literally divided against themselves, transformed into a tourist-factory-slash-amusement-park that nobody lives in, segregated from the actual living city.

What, me bitter about my hometown being disneyfied? Nooooosir...

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Re:‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Hel... by chrisco255 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:19AM (#17877428)
Being a 3rd generation Floridian...I can sympathize.
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