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A Buttery Pastry posted:Barcelona is not a tourism-based economy, I'm pretty sure. Not any more than New York City is at least. Can't speak for the rest of Catalonia though. Tourism amounts to 12% of the city's GDP. By way of comparison, NYC, a city of 8.5 million inhabitants, received ~58 million visitors last year. Barcelona, a city of 1.6 million people, received around 32 million visitors, with 8+ million staying overnight.That's a lot of people walking around with wheeled suitcases, going out until all hours of the night and making noise keeping people awake. It's also a lot of people staying at apartments that have effectively been turned into AirBnB hotels, driving up the price of housing where it becomes unaffordable for people from Barcelona itself.
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Yeah, I don't think you can call a 12% tourism share in GDP a 'tourism-based economy' though obviously its importance is not insignificant. The problem is more that Barcelona lends itself a lot better than NYC to going out, getting drunk and partying in the street both weatherwise and pricewise, so that's what people do. And there's a limit to how many drunk Brits anyone can take (us Dutch are also annoying but usually a bit more harmless).
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Aug 5, 2017 13:16
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safely sodomized posted:drunk brits are worse than aussies Are they worse than Russians though, come to think of it?
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Aug 5, 2017 13:30
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I choose to believe that the descriptions of Florida in Carl Hiaasen's novels are completely factual, and therefore have no idea why anyone would want to visit the place.
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Aug 5, 2017 18:20
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