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    • Barcelona?ben_
    • Salisbury?Fax_Benson
    • ^ LOLHayzilla
    • haha faxNairn
    • Yes, Barcelona. I understand tourists are annoying but it's also their economy. Would like to see them bitching when that income is gone.NBQ00
    • Lot of folk pissed that apts that were rentals (for locals) are now used as AirBnB as make more money. So locals cant afford to rent in the centre any more.microkorg
    • See the same thing happening in Edinburgh too.microkorg
    • See the same thing happening all over the world!Hayzilla
    • The Welsh have been protesting for 40yrs.
      http://news.bbc.co.u…      Hayzilla
    • Yes of course it sucks. At the same time they need tourists for their economy. In the end all these big cities are becoming like theme parks. Especially BCNNBQ00
    • Edinburgh city centre is only for tourists and students.PhanLo
    • Catalonia is where the original douchebag was born. Ya heard it first from canoe!canoe
    • See similar in Lisbon's Alfama 'Disney' tourist area.shapesalad
    • Regarding Airbnb, simple solution is for government to regulate it. It happened in Taiwan and Japan. I don't see why Lisbon, Barcelona can't limit it also.shapesalad
    • Regulation sucks. Hinders innovation. Uber is banned in Barcelona. And I have to wait or search 20min+ for a Taxi.NBQ00
    • There should be some regulation for Airbnb so locals don't get pushed out completely but banning Airbnb totally isn't a solution either.NBQ00
    • Just let the markets decide it'll be fine. Soulless city centres.PhanLo
    • lol fax... again :)fadein11
    • There are some stairwells (a block of tenaments) in the old town where every home is an AirBnB. Thats sad :(microkorg
    • I lived in an apartment surrounded by airbnb's in Lisboa. It was awesome the week 4 hot brunette 20-somethings stayed in the apartment opposite.shapesalad
    • and awful the week 4 German party all night guys stayed in the apartment above mine and came home at 4am bashing around and talking loudly.shapesalad
    • Folk I know in Leith have had their rent go up £300 so the landlord could force them out to do AirBnB. In the long term it will hollow out areas.PhanLo
    • Overall it's an odd feeling, you don't have the stability of regular neighbours, there's a lack of neighbourly community.shapesalad
    • I'd say 1 Airbnb per every 40 apartment/houses along a street/block is an acceptable ratio.shapesalad
    • +1 shape very true on the neighbours. My mates old stair eventually became students or AirBnB with one old pensioner hanging in there.PhanLo
    • No wonder Spain's economy is in the fucking toilet.utopian
    • there's a dumb anti tourist movement in BCN, it's mostly people that are either kids living off their parents or people that aren't contributing to society...ernexbcn
    • ...in any meaningful way. I'd like to see how they fare on a BCN without tourism, they'd eat trash from the binsernexbcn
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