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> The math don't math. It's a drop in the bucket. The entire impact of AirBnB + all housing built in the last decade does not offset the last half decade of population growth.

The population growth is largely due to rich foreigners moving into the city:

"I was born and raised in Barcelona, no longer live there however. I didn't remember how bad it was until I went to visit my family last summer. Me and some friends went to walk around the center and the girl that took our orders at a Pans&Company didn't even know Spanish or Catalan, only English. It was honestly quite depressing. She was surprised we didn't open the conversation with English."

https://www.reddit.com/r/askspain/comments/1833ub1/comment/k...

https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...

People say that it has become difficult to hear Catalan or Spanish being spoken in the city center and there are waitresses who don't know Spanish. Some started to say that this is not a case of gentrification, but a colonization.

>>zrn900+(OP)
welcome to the real world, I guess, for these people? if your city is cheap by global standards then wealth will move in. it's quite simple really.

>>zrn900+(OP)
The only restaurant/cafe I was better off ordering in German in Berlin one weekend last year was a Turkish bakery.

>>zrn900+(OP)
This furthers my thesis that anti-tourism is basically just a dogwhistle/socially acceptable channel for their xenophobia.

>>Nasrud+F31
Is it xenophobia if the only people they have problem with is the ones who come for some days and behave like assholes, regardless of how they look?

I've lived here for more than a decade, I'm not native Catalan or Spanish and never experienced any xenophobia from anyone here.

>>Nasrud+F31
If you ever go to Barcelona, you will see slogans like "tourists go home, immigrants welcome" written everywhere.