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Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?

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SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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Canary Islands. Great place, but the mass tourism is actually killing them, provoking skyrocketing rent and shortages of power and water.

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Taalen@lemmy.world
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Indeed. My girlfriend lives there, last time I was over we went to the big demonstration against mass tourism. I felt a bit sick at the airport listening to all the north European pensioners talking about how they rent a place year round for 800€/month just to spend the odd week now and then there. While many locals working in tourism make minimum wage, around 1300€/month I believe.

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Khrux@ttrpg.network
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Hey that’s exactly what my rent / wage split was in the UK last year. The only reason anything got better is that minimum wage went up while my rent hasn’t yet.

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refalo@programming.dev
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how is rent related to tourism?

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iamanurd@midwest.social
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Airbnbs/rentals drive up the cost of housing.

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Scrollone@feddit.it
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They should just make short renting of apartments illegal.

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Trebuchet@lemm.ee
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I assume because demand outstrips supply, the “value” of the rental units is inflated and landlords can charge more, pricing out locals

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Apollo42@lemmy.world
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Think about it for a second, no, half a second and see if anything occurs to you.

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