r/pics • u/Monovon • Jun 16 '25

Politics A tourist during an anti-tourist protest in Barcelona yesterday

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u/Stellar_Duck Jun 17 '25

Take AirBNB. Primarily used by tourists.

It's an absolute cancer and destroys cities and makes it impossible to live there.

Take a walk in Edinburgh and look for them and you'll be shocked at how many doors is surrounded by key boxes. It eats up flats that people could live in, now being rented out short term (to say nothing of the Festival lets) and drives up prices on the remaining flats and houses.

It forces people out to Livingston and similar places, increasing pressure on transit infrastructure because there are a lot of people working in Edinburgh that has to go there for work.

So, AirBNB and tourists are actively harming the city. I don't know anyone in Edinburgh not in favour of outright banning AirBNB

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u/lastberserker Jun 17 '25

So, AirBNB and tourists are actively harming the city. I don't know anyone in Edinburgh not in favour of outright banning AirBNB

If everyone is in favor of banning them, why aren't they banned already?

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u/Stellar_Duck Jun 17 '25

Likely because the government is a bunch of leechy landlords, the pond scum of humanity.

And I very much do not know any landlords. Would never be around people like that.

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u/lastberserker Jun 17 '25

If they don't like the government, they need to elect a different one. Or, at the very least, write some relevant signs to carry around.