Mallorca Spain protests against tourists.

[ZenOps]

Ban tourists?

[shakalaka]

Mallorca has always been advertised as a cheaper version of Ibiza. We chose to go to Ibiza but Mallorca would have likely been just as much fun except cheaper. Sucks this is happening to the locals though. Ibiza is safe as it's quite pricey so I think it's a bit protected from this issue.

But this sounds like a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation for Mallorca considering tourism is the main economy.

[ExtraSlow]

What's with the trend of places hating thier own economy?

[Xtrema]

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What's with the trend of places hating thier own economy?

Didn't watch the video but I assume it's one or all of the following:

a) Airbnb ruin the local rental market.

b) government not planning public infrastructure properly.

c) food inflation (more than normal) due to increased demands due to being an island.

[max_boost]

take your money elsewhere

[ercchry]

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Didn't watch the video but I assume it's one or all of the following:

a) Airbnb ruin the local rental market.

b) government not planning public infrastructure properly.

c) food inflation (more than normal) due to increased demands due to being an island.

D) working class brits are worse than American cruise ship tourists

[ExtraSlow]

Bomb the airport. Problem solved.

[sexualbanana]

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D) working class brits are worse than American cruise ship tourists

Spent a few days around Benidorm a couple years ago, and the drunk Brits were pretty bad.

[Xtrema]

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D) working class brits are worse than American cruise ship tourists

Majority of tourists have no respect, regardless of race.

Every sakura season you'll see Chinese destroying sakura trees in Japan to force petals to fall for TikTok


It was kinda ugly before social media, even uglier with influencers.

[g-m]

Asian cat nip

[ZenOps]

I always thought this was adequate reason for Canada to ban visitors from California. It for sure will be when Cascadia hits.

$100 USD Billionaires are just going to mess things up for everyone already here. Does money really matter if you are living 30 people to a basement suite that smells like sewer?

[SportEL]

What's the Big Deal? These are the sort of "tourists" that Spain should protest about. Engineered collapse of a Civil society.

[davidI]

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What's with the trend of places hating thier own economy?

Spaniards are brainwashed Socialists.

Think NDP voters, but worse.

They expect free public services, unemployment payments, retirement at 65, all without accepting any economic activity or working themselves. It's infuriating.

[CompletelyNumb]

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Spaniards are brainwashed Socialists.

Think NDP voters, but worse.

They expect free public services, unemployment payments, retirement at 65, all without accepting any economic activity or working themselves. It's infuriating.

My business partner lives in Barcelona and the stories I hear about trying to get people to do their own jobs are a mix of hilarious and infuriating.

I think you summed it up perfectly.

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Spaniards are brainwashed Socialists.

Think NDP voters, but worse.

They expect free public services, unemployment payments, retirement at 65, all without accepting any economic activity or working themselves. It's infuriating.

How is the inflation there now? I remember other than major centers, it was pretty cheap in 2019.

Unemployment seems to be better than pre pandemic days. I assume job market isn't as dire?