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RE: Converting Europe Into Open Air Museum (Real Estate Mania) .:. Late Night Blogging

in LeoFinance2 months ago

each July the tiny town we live in by the sea explodes 10x. the rest of the year is far more relaxed so locals grin and bear it as the tourist income makes it possible to run locally owned businesses cafes/bars, restaurants, construction trades and even supermarkets and a gas station year round. we have lost the post office, all bank branches and much more due to centralization and lack of year round income. that keeps away the chains also. so folks here tend to be glad to see the tourists come and glad to see them go.
rents are high but that is mostly due to the recently established higher education in town. the most profit is made by unregulated renting to students for ten months and tourists for six weeks. that leaves little available for long-term contracts. long term contracts are annually adjusted for inflation. once every three years they can be raised significntly more if the market has gone way up. which it has consistently for decades. so the percentage of home ownership is very high but the mortgage loans are scary.

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In some places, the tourist season is similar to the harvesting season... Everything that you "collect" in that month or two, should last for the rest of the year... Unfortunately, many places in Spain have tourist season throughout the whole year, so there is no time "to relax" 🙂

I suppose that my solution would be to move to a smaller town where there are not that many "attractions" and live more peacefully, and probably less costly... 😃

either that or start a tourist business and get the other businesses together and abuse and suck the tourists dry so they don't come back !LOLZ

hehehehe... I got my idea in my head, but didn't pull the trigger yet... If you can't beat them, join them... 😃

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