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Welcome to our town :) …now leave (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I second this. I watched my hometown turn into a tourism focus and there ended up being no careers so there was massive brain drain as people left to other towns and states for work.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    A strong tourism industry in a small city does displace everything else. It's one version of the Dutch disease that actually happens even when the government doesn't actively cause it.

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