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[โ€“] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 69 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Canary Islands. Great place, but the mass tourism is actually killing them, provoking skyrocketing rent and shortages of power and water.

[โ€“] Taalen@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. My girlfriend lives there, last time I was over we went to the big demonstration against mass tourism. I felt a bit sick at the airport listening to all the north European pensioners talking about how they rent a place year round for 800โ‚ฌ/month just to spend the odd week now and then there. While many locals working in tourism make minimum wage, around 1300โ‚ฌ/month I believe.

[โ€“] Khrux@ttrpg.network 11 points 6 months ago

Hey that's exactly what my rent / wage split was in the UK last year. The only reason anything got better is that minimum wage went up while my rent hasn't yet.