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SheriffComey t1_jebm7hi wrote

There's a reason Ft. Lauderdale worked very hard to stop being a spring break destination of Ft Liquordale.

At the time lots of bars/people were pissed but after highlighting the costs of cleanup and everything else once the spring breakers left, it turned out to be a good move because Spring Break families (people with money) flocked to Ft. Lauderdale and kept it nice-ish and Spring Breakers (the ones with less money) went to Panama City and Miami and didnt' keep it so nice.

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pegothejerk t1_jebngsh wrote

Huh, well it's a conservative haven, where conservative values should fix problems if they're worth the air time they spout them on, so maybe they should just hand out guns to everyone who comes to Miami beach, since arming everyone is supposed to stop the issue of scary people being a threat.

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billiarddaddy t1_jebo6vr wrote

I think I'd be closed during spring break if I lived there.

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebpnux wrote

I live in Phoenix but it's the same thing nationwide. It's really depressing having your city be treated like a drive through for out of towners to pleasure and comfort themselves in.

They do this under the guise of tourist dollars but the benefits never come back to the city. We don't ever see the new community center or high school tourist dollars bring in, because tourists don't actually bring that much money.

Just look at the Hawaiians begging people not to visit.

I don't know what the answer is but modern tourism just absolutely crushes communities. I hate it

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebrr4v wrote

There's lots of reasons, im not Hawaiian so I'm not going to say what is and isn't okay to do on their ancestral land but i think people all just reevaluating things, like do we really need tourist dollars? Especially when the money just goes to some nameless faceless international corporation.

If my money stayed in Phoenix A+ idea, but it doesn't, and it gets tiring watching Midwest Becky come down here and get stupid for a week and tax the fuck out of the infrastructure and pretend like the damage she did is outweighed by the 45$ of taxes we got off of her

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebs8be wrote

Not really.

Fees and taxes just go to make the airport bigger and subsidize tax breaks for more hotel chains.

The money never actually gets invested in the community and call me crazy but communities should exist for the people who live their not for tourists to use as a public toilet

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebsrfp wrote

Not really. This is a comment to how ignorant you are about the abundance of water in the Sonoran desert.

Arizona generates plenty of water to make Phoenix about 4x bigger than it already is.

The water shortage is because we grow outsiders lettuce and alfafa to our detriment. If we cut out those two crops which is like a nothing's to our GDP we'd cut water usage by 65% and the city would have all the water it needs.

But be another ignorant outsider telling me how things are where I'm from and see how it works out for you

Edit: total industrial and residential water usage in Phoenix valley = 18%, agriculture= 82%. Alfalfa and leafy greens grown for export represent the lions share of that 82%

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rogue-elephant t1_jebvgtf wrote

Boo hoo. I've been some of the restaurants at Miami Beach, the prices are insane. $60 for Sysco pasta and a watered down drink for $20. They will be fine. Place is tourist trap in the winter anyways.

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebvrvl wrote

Kind of, because people tell us all how were so stupid and don't have any water but it's all because corporations and large agriculture have robbed and ruined our natural resources and we are locked in a death battle with them ...

People will be like shame on the people... Who collectively use 8% of all the water in the state...

You get sick of ignorant people telling you that you're life is stupid when it's not

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Wideawakedup t1_jebwtap wrote

My cousins went to Fort Lauderdale this year. A group of 40 something’s and 2 teens. They will eat out 2 out of 3 meals. Have 1 or 2 high end cocktails and 3-4 will go back and chill by the pool while 5 stay and continue to drink $12 drinks, share a few appetizers, tip well then Uber home around midnight.

Who do you prefer frequenting your establishment?

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BubbaTee t1_jebx79f wrote

>Just look at the Hawaiians begging people not to visit.

If it wasn't for tourism, Hawai'i would've spent the last 50 years impoverished like modern-day Puerto Rico, following the sugar collapse in the 1970s.

I don't see Hawai'ians complaining that they have public schools, or hospitals, or any of the other services that tourist dollars affords them. Tourists dump $18 billion cash into Hawai'i every year (except during Covid, obviously) - that's a lot more than Hawai'ians are putting back into slots at the Cal in downtown Vegas, it's quite the trade imbalance.

It's like the anti-tourism folks don't see the connection between this:

>“I think that it is too easy for people to visit places like Hawaii,” (Kyle Kajihiro, a lecturer at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa) said.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/us/hawaii-tourism-impact-united-shades-cec/index.html

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and this (all during Covid, when Hawai'ian tourism was massively reduced):

If tourism is so bad for Hawai'i, why were they begging for money from haoles like Biden as soon as Covid cut off their tourism revenue? Could it be that ~20% of the state's entire GDP actually pays for some important things?

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source: mainlander with family in the islands who's sick of their constant monku monku monku about it

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LoveArguingPolitics t1_jebxmpp wrote

Tourism as it exists today isn't the only way it could work. Pretending like i said no tourism ever then posting your unhinged rant when i said the current system doesn't work well is crazy.

You've gotta be a bot or a bad faith actor, you put this together super fast

You posted all that stuff about money troubles in Hawaii but that's all stuff that is happening under the current system. It's more a statement that tourism isn't bringing the financial relief it claims just like i said.

Because everything you posted about all happened under the current exploitative tourist system

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SheriffComey t1_jebxnm8 wrote

That's just it, when it was a party town most spring breakers either brought their own liquor and didn't visit many establishments or they only bought the cheapest, bottom shelf shit.

Add to that they would regularly break the rules with hotels and pack as many people as possible to reduce the cost.

As a resident, Spring Break is so much better than it used to be.

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GrowHI t1_jebyn9l wrote

Hawaiians don't beg people not to visit. Tourism is one of our top sources of income. While you may have seen a couple viral posts from people telling tourists not to come the majority of us realize it's necessary for our economy and well being. Without tourism we would be a poor state relying on the military spending as our main source of income. Our tourists generally are decently well off given the cost of a flight out here.

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BootyMcSqueak t1_jec241c wrote

Absolutely not! I know about reef safe sunscreen, we ALWAYS clean up after ourselves (and sometimes clean extra trash that isn’t ours), are always kind and respectful to everyone. I’m proud to teach my daughter about taking care of the earth and being respectful and polite. She even saw some trash that fell out of a trashcan on trash day and insisted that we go pick it up! I was a proud mama that day.

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BootyMcSqueak t1_jec2c81 wrote

That’s so funny as I’m in the east Valley - we’re transplants from FL and only been here in AZ for 2 years. Haven’t had an experience with AZ tourists, but as a FL native, I am all too familiar with the breed of tourist you speak of.

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Human_DumpsterFire t1_jecf7nr wrote

I live in Savannah, Georgia. We just got done with the St.Pats festivities which are akin to spring break in coastal Florida cities. It’s an absolute nightmare for the locals. Even worse for the restaurant industry workers who are regularly assaulted by drunks, left to deal with cleaning up EVERY kind of bodily fluid imaginable, and physically exhausted by the end of it. Schools close, most non-hospitality businesses close, roads blocked off, drunk people breaking everything in sight, puking everywhere, fighting; it’s horrible for those who are forced to live and work in it.

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BootyMcSqueak t1_jeci5vb wrote

Thank you! We are very conscious of our footprint when going places. Even when we’re kayaking, we pick up floating trash, never stack rocks, respect wild life, etc. And that’s also what I foster in my daughter. I went to Hawaii when I was 6 and remember it being a magical place (except for the Portuguese Man-o-War stings I got). I can’t wait to finally go back 40 years later.

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qzdotiovp t1_jecrtd5 wrote

I like Phoenix, but it is extremely car-centric. I don't really see it as a tourist destination since I just go there to see family, but it's been like five years, so maybe things have changed.

What are the major attractions that bring tourists to Phoenix?

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qzdotiovp t1_jecshye wrote

My wife and I honeymooned in Miami Beach, and the gratuity surcharge was kind of annoying. I always figured it was because of the Spring Breakers that it was like that.

Little Havana was my favorite part of that vacation. Mmmmm, ropa vieja...

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Neokon t1_jecswtu wrote

When I went to Amsterdam a hot while back (like 2015) there were so many shit faced Brits roaming the streets. All daring each other to go to a brothel and dicking around front of the entry doors.

Went to one of the sex shows (because why not?) and there was a group who were all laughing their asses off, way more than they should have at the banana bit.

One then threw up on the floor and they all just left.

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Chiggadup t1_ject4vq wrote

My wife and I had our first “away weekend” in Savannah when we were dating. We just celebrated a big anniversary so we decided to go back for a nice weekend.

Most of our plans included reservations at some nice restaurants, watching some basketball during the day, and generally just walking around the beautiful buildings.

Our anniversary is in mid March…..

We got out, saw the shamrocks and go, “oh these are up early, that’s kind of OH NOOOOOO!”

We lucking were there a week before it started, but even the week before was a total shit show at night. I feel for y’all.

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Miss_Speller t1_jeczb5g wrote

>This past weekend two people were shot and killed on Ocean Drive by gunshot, and another person was injured.

I'm not sure I entirely understand Florida - is there any other way to get shot and killed that somehow doesn't involve gunshots?

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g_st_lt t1_jed1qap wrote

$385 per person restaurant

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Human_DumpsterFire t1_jed9e6f wrote

By ‘locals’ I mean the people who live in the historic district who end up being super inconvenienced by the festivities every year. We’re just trying to go about our lives and everything gets totally upended for a week. Not being able to park on your own block, businesses being closed, having to leave for work an hour early to make sure you can get to your job two miles away on time, finding drunk strangers passed out naked on your porch, things being stolen or broken. The folks from the south side, the islands, richmond hill, garden city, and everywhere else around the city are the ones who really fuck shit up. Not to say the downtown crowd isn’t capable of the same debauchery but there aren’t that many of us compared to the thousands and thousands of people who come in from the surrounding areas.

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bryanisbored t1_jeda0j0 wrote

True but what if the country they’d stolen they had invested in and made them a leader in something and not just tourism that kinda fucks them and not let them develop.

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Icy-Letter-3514 t1_jedxhod wrote

Can’t enjoy fine dining when college kids are drunk and raging in the streets

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pebkacerrorspersist t1_jee4ddx wrote

"Our sole product offering as a state - being a vacation destination for all ages, and a place where misbehavior is a feature and not a bug - is killing us. How could anyone have seen this coming?"

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klaaptrap t1_jee59ln wrote

350 per person is a functioning restaurant in some kind of black mirror/American psycho. Frigging Dorcias had to close for a week . What a shame. /s

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djamp42 t1_jee5o7u wrote

Wow, I only went once for work that happened to be in the middle of spring break. Walked around the beach one afternoon and yeah it was people drinking and partying everywhere.

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floppydisk1995 t1_jee6jzi wrote

I was down there a few years ago and noticed many restaurants along Ocean Drive had a ton of fake 5 star reviews on Google. Luckily you just had to walk a couple blocks away from the beach for decent food. Puerto Sagua anyone?

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sloppymoves t1_jeeac53 wrote

Yeah. Be different if the workers were seeing that bonus cash inflow. But nah. Just a skeleton crew forced to do the work of 10-15 people and lousy pay while the manager is set to retire.

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IamJacksUserID t1_jeeawwa wrote

I was walking past a bar in Amsterdam, and looking through the windows, all the dude’s (and it was mostly dudes) had their dicks out and were pogoing up and down. Pants around ankles.

Apparently the Brits won a big football match?

*I did not go in.

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10S_NE1 t1_jeecexl wrote

Fort Lauderdale has completely priced itself out of the spring break party market. Their hotels are full of people going on cruises and the hotels are priced accordingly. I went on a cruise in February, and the hotels were so expensive it was shocking - nearly $300 CAD for a Motel 6, if you can believe it. We paid close to $500 CAD for the Méridien. Any spring breaker who can afford that might as well party it up in the Caribbean.

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regular6drunk7 t1_jeedsjl wrote

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LetMePushTheButton t1_jeevvw3 wrote

Is Fat Tuesdays still at Beach Place on Fort Lauderdale beach? That place was a must stop before laying on the beach all day. I would bet tall frozen alcoholic drinks didn’t help the rowdy spring breakers back in the day.

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justforthearticles20 t1_jefcsv5 wrote

Who will they blame next when their businesses still fail after the Spring Breakers are gone? Since it's Florida I expect it will be, Trans, Jews, Blacks, Immigrants, not necessarily in that order.

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sweetpeapickle t1_jegnx49 wrote

Lol, I don't know about FL, but here in WI it is one of the few food suppliers. And not talking about premade, but ingredients, paper products,utensils, etc. Where do you think food places get their supplies/items from? They just appear-magic.

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Most-Resident t1_jeh2yjw wrote

You made me remember a trip i got to go on work to madrid. I paid for staying through the weekend. The streets were full of bars hostels and young people on holiday. Didn’t see anything too wild but people were lit up. It was fun but I didn’t have to live there.

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