I’m from a country considered third-world and a common vacation spot for foreigners. One of our islands have a lot of foreigners even living there long-term. I see a lot of posts online complaining on behalf of the locals living there and saying this is such a bad thing.
Currently, I fail to see how this is bad but I’m scared to asks on other social media platforms and be seen as having colonial mentality or something.
In: Economics
Cost of living becomes higher, more workers are exploited, places that used to have affordable housing have their prices skyrocket and local people who have lived there for years find that they cant afford to live there anymore because they cater to expats/foreigners and tourists. Where will the locals go?
Not to mention environmental problems too such as pollution. This just scratches the surface of it.
Take Bali for example, they have a huge gentrification problem and it gets worse every year.
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