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kaktohund · 9 months ago

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rich people pressure lower income residents out of communities and then act astonished when there's no one around to be their baristas or grocery store cashiers or waiters

Janet you either need to get over yourself and apply to that coffee shop that has two overworked employees including the owner or you need to make space for young adults and families. and renting out your 144 sq ft "eco house" (read: uninsulated shack that you slapped a solar panel on) with no running water for $2000 a month (only available 6 months out of the year) is not a solution

#realities of living and working in a tourist town #and its on an island so you HAVE to live here to work here #unless you want to spend $60 a day plus a multi-hour round trip to take the ferry #and if you can afford to do that then you arent going to be interested in going that far out of your way for a minimum wage cashier job #dont mind me im a little sick and grumpy #i keep making friends with cool shopkeepers and they keep going out of business #and here i consider myself lucky to have found one of the aforementioned shacks for half that price #affording me the privilege to live paycheck to paycheck in a place that is as beautiful as it is hostile to many of its own residents #AND which isnt even equipped to handle the volume of visitors its trying so hard to attract #because half the businesses dont have the staff to keep regular hours!!!#okay shutting up now

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