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Also, like, how do you even handle the resentment?

Odds are you're just staying with tourists most of the time, and whenever you do need to deal with the locals you have to ignore their thinly-veiled contempt mixed with self-loathing for depending on your patronage.

I hear it gets kind of awkward for Paris people getting summer homes in Britanny. I'm pretty sure the degree of hostility towards mainland Americans getting winter homes in Hawai must be much higher.



In places like Hawaii where the economy is pure tourism there isn't much hostility. You're a paycheck to them.

Also tourism economies are terrible and create a bunch of terrible perverse incentives for both business and government.

Source: Grew up in one




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