If tourists didn’t drive up prices of houses and flats, wouldn’t developers do by just holding and never renting them like in every other country?
“I’ve got 30 more god damn litres in this 0.3 litres magazine”
Its hot, we are just trying to help keep you cool 😎
Brave to assume it’s only water.
Don’t the people who own the Airbnb’s have some blame/responsibility? Or is it too hard to pick them out?
I fucking love how this happened twice (or thrice) and now it’s a thing.
Barcelonian here, we need the local institutions to protect our neighbourhoods from gentrification and tourism transformation. Blaming the tourists isn’t a viable option, but it’s in their interest to missdirect our opinion in order to keep cashing on it.
Also, I’d love some refreshing water pistols in this heat. But I’m not a guiri 🙁
Love that xenophobia is in vogue now instead of recognizing that housing construction fell off a cliff after the real estate bubble in the aughts and never recovered. Also, I’ve lived in the future, and it’s Berlin: even if the tourism industry got reduced by half, lack of housing is a lack of housing, but the left-wing NIMBYs will just move onto the next scapegoats/boogeymen of private housing companies and well-paid outsiders.
That’s Obama running away from his demons
Great business opportunity for Nerf here, Super Soaker BCN edition.
They use water for now. Alien acid is reserved for summer.
Context? I am spanish and no idea what you are talking about;-;
In Venice we were blaming the cruising ships, at least, not the people in them, who bought a ticket and were likely unaware of the issue.
We as residents in Barcelona need to be smarter than this, the tourist is not the cause, is the consequence. The cause is having converted the city into a short term rental disneyland. Who did that? Spoiler: not the tourists.
FWIW I’ve been in Madrid and northern Spain (La rioja and San Sebastián) for a couple weeks and have experienced virtually no anti-tourist sentiment. I do speak okay Spanish but honestly it seems a bit blown out of proportion,
All the people profiting from this crap are catalan landlords who don’t care about airbnbing their aparmtnet instead of renting it at a decent price to their fellows, or rent it to some guiris for 3000 Euros when it was 1500 a few years back. The locals can very well decide to stop renting at foreigners and trust me that will reduce the amount who live there, that’s the truth.
I’ve lived in Spain for years, my gf is Catalan, and love Spain and Catalunya.
Ive read that also the protestants have put tape on the hotels’ doors 😶 … Isn’t the point of the protest to make tourists use hotels instead of Airbnb?
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If tourists didn’t drive up prices of houses and flats, wouldn’t developers do by just holding and never renting them like in every other country?
“I’ve got 30 more god damn litres in this 0.3 litres magazine”
Its hot, we are just trying to help keep you cool 😎
Brave to assume it’s only water.
Don’t the people who own the Airbnb’s have some blame/responsibility? Or is it too hard to pick them out?
I fucking love how this happened twice (or thrice) and now it’s a thing.
Barcelonian here, we need the local institutions to protect our neighbourhoods from gentrification and tourism transformation. Blaming the tourists isn’t a viable option, but it’s in their interest to missdirect our opinion in order to keep cashing on it.
Also, I’d love some refreshing water pistols in this heat. But I’m not a guiri 🙁
Love that xenophobia is in vogue now instead of recognizing that housing construction fell off a cliff after the real estate bubble in the aughts and never recovered. Also, I’ve lived in the future, and it’s Berlin: even if the tourism industry got reduced by half, lack of housing is a lack of housing, but the left-wing NIMBYs will just move onto the next scapegoats/boogeymen of private housing companies and well-paid outsiders.
That’s Obama running away from his demons
Great business opportunity for Nerf here, Super Soaker BCN edition.
They use water for now. Alien acid is reserved for summer.
Context? I am spanish and no idea what you are talking about;-;
In Venice we were blaming the cruising ships, at least, not the people in them, who bought a ticket and were likely unaware of the issue.
We as residents in Barcelona need to be smarter than this, the tourist is not the cause, is the consequence. The cause is having converted the city into a short term rental disneyland. Who did that? Spoiler: not the tourists.
FWIW I’ve been in Madrid and northern Spain (La rioja and San Sebastián) for a couple weeks and have experienced virtually no anti-tourist sentiment. I do speak okay Spanish but honestly it seems a bit blown out of proportion,
All the people profiting from this crap are catalan landlords who don’t care about airbnbing their aparmtnet instead of renting it at a decent price to their fellows, or rent it to some guiris for 3000 Euros when it was 1500 a few years back. The locals can very well decide to stop renting at foreigners and trust me that will reduce the amount who live there, that’s the truth.
I’ve lived in Spain for years, my gf is Catalan, and love Spain and Catalunya.
Ive read that also the protestants have put tape on the hotels’ doors 😶 … Isn’t the point of the protest to make tourists use hotels instead of Airbnb?
🙂 run faster brother
We have DanDaDan in Spain?
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