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"Why can't an orange be more like apples?" - The title is very stupid clickbait and the reason why people are clicking on it.
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I have lived on Gotland as mentioned in the article and it is similar in many ways but life on Gotland is way more interesting due to the tourism. You still have the calm life of the country side except that during the summer there is a little more people there.
Those people enhance the lives on Gotland because it makes life on Gotland possible for many instead for only a few. Personally I think the anti-tourism mindset is stupid and that is what I was trying to convey in the text. Of course you can think differently but that still doesn't invalidate my points.
If you read on their website it appears like they want visitors but yet seems to do a lot in order not to receive them. If they were more open to tourists they could probably afford more or bigger boats or simply more trips. It's not an unsolvable problem.
We just wanted to pass the islands and see it but it wasn't really feasible due to the restrictions placed. I wonder if it really has the intended effect.