Along with the vacation rentals taking up most of the housing and cabins, RV parks, yurts and teepees going up on every inch of private property, bringing more tourists for longer stays and barely serving to inform the visitors of their direct impact on the place... That lack of information manifests in the influx of newcomers who develop and then leave shortly after realizing that if you aren't oriented to outdoor activities year round and live with the weather as it dictates the day, this place can turn out to be less than you expected.
They also bring their superior sense of knowledge, insisting that those of us who are already here are dumber than shit, and TELL us that we're doing it all wrong and they will bless us by showing us "how it's done" proving that no matter where you go, there you are. It's not appreciated and serves to drive wedges between rural and urban all the more.
What they don't get is that we live here because we don't like how it's done in the urban world and recognize that nature has a say in our daily lives. We don't want to live that way so we got the fuck away from the cities a long time ago, please don't bring that shit here.
Just like the SW desert isn't going to transform into a permanently lush, green paradise just because you chose to live there, the Rocky Mountain region is not going to turn into downtown USA so you can pretend it's just like fucking Disneyland with different background scenery.
Sorry, I drove through a large national park yesterday and it triggered some ill content which is why I haven't been there for six years and probably won't ever go back even though it is a shortcut mileage-wise.
I wanted to leave here but there's no place else to go. At least I have housing that I can afford for the time being.
It feels like an invasion here and most of we locals are not happy about it but the corporate tourism fucks and small time opportunists sure are. Since they can afford to push us around, they are.
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