Moving from Venice to Florence as the city to discuss, what would keep the city center for the locals if tourism wasn’t the main driver passing people out?

We’re seeing a lot of cities seeing an influx of “expats” seeking lower cost of living areas to work from. Florence has a beautiful city center with a nearby high speed rail train station and decent airport connections. There wouldn’t be anything stopping the locals from getting pushed out by digital nomads and trust fund kids who want a year abroad.

Yes, over tourism is what is currently changing the city, but I’m not sure that the same thing wouldn’t happen anyway, but with the rich guests staying for a few years instead of a few weeks.

It is even worse as there are two feet.

Yeah. The attempt was made to convert everything to metric for official government documents, but that just meant most businesses paid people to convert it back for their use.

I got a big enough armrest to use a mouse on.

But even then, that’s just you moving data. You aren’t changing old emails to have them reply to your new email and you aren’t auto-updating how the rest of the world interacts with you.

How do you transfer email accounts?

And my response back is asking what would happen with that pullback. What happens to the economy when you kill hotels and AirBnB’s?

What generally happens is that either the local population gets pushed out anyway as a haven for the rich or the economy withers and vacancies rise.

You can keep repeating that over tourism kills cities, but so does other issues like economic stagnation.

I did.

In regards to Venice, what would the city look like without tourism? What economy would there be for a city out in the middle of a lagoon after all industry moved out? Yeah, it is a fucking theme park. But is that worse than a ruin?

Has over tourism killed a city that wouldn’t have otherwise slowly died due to economic stagnation? Tourism obviously has negative externalities, but it also provides economic activity to places which otherwise would probably need to make other tradeoffs to prevent economic collapse.

It curbs international tourism, which can help with over tourism. However, it happens at the national or EU level, which makes the impacts of the border restriction far more reaching than other policies.

It also doesn’t help if there is a large domestic tourism industry. An EU tourism visa could help filter out some American and British travelers, but you’d still have the Schengen Area tourists to deal with.

Honestly, cuts alone wouldn’t do it. You could cut all defense spending, fire the Department of Defense in its entirety, and the Federal Government would still run a deficit. Include all non-mandatory civilian spending as well and you’ll barely be above water.

The best things to do would be to increase revenue and enact policies which will allow for savings in existing Medicare programs like allowing for drug price negotiation. There is nowhere near the level of waste in the Federal Government that a lot of politicians claim in how existing programs work.

Northern Ireland is likely a major reason why Brexit hasn’t been finalized yet. There is really no good solution to the trilemma.

Part of me was wondering if the Tories were going to let an Irish reunification vote happen while they were in power as a way to tie up the last issues with Brexit.

Painting a roof white has shown a measurable lowering of temperature inside the building. Any issues are likely caused by the material used to make the roof white.

There is a lot in old religions, Christianity included, where the rewards were obviously written for the desires of the people at the time. It would be very different if heavenly rewards were written with today’s mindset.

If you ever come into some money, whether it be a raise, bonus, or gift, don’t let it sit in your checking account. Move it to somewhere that is able to earn money.

You don’t have to invest in the stock market to invest in a 401k. There are funds dedicated to bonds and you can pick the funds with low overhead ratios. You can even pick treasuries if you really want to.

It is better than shoving it under the mattress.

He’s even been back after he got the job to write something mean on a fish.

You can also get adjustable dumbbells today, so you can add modify your dumbbells rather than needing to buy new ones.

Media has changed.

Sketch shows during prime time were incredibly common when you only had three channels. The reason why SNL had the “not ready for prime time players” was because it was where comedians could go who weren’t able to be on a better sketch comedy show.

As time went on, it became less and less worth it to have a sketch comedy show on your network. You could target a smaller audience as FOX and cable channels became serious competition. There was also a collapse in the television studio system, so it didn’t make much economic sense for a studio to put out a sketch comedy show as a way to develop internal talent.

SNL is only really still around because it is a cultural icon that still gets in the news and acts as a decent promotional stop for Universal projects. Its development pipeline for talent isn’t worth it, in part as the success rate for SNL alum has gone down significantly.

Others mention Dropout as the best Internet brand who could put out a sketch comedy show, but they’ve said that scripted comedy is still too expensive for them and they seem happy to be everyone’s favorite second gig instead of their first.

That requires enough people I follow to where I need an outside entity to do the filter.

I think a big problem is the use case. Most social media sites are account led, not community led. This naturally makes it harder for users to find accounts outside their social circle.

The algorithm got added to fill the void.