TheFlabbs t1_itlmme2 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 3:39 PM

Reply to comment by AchillesDev in This past Saturday, Salem was full by 11 a.m. Here's what it's like to live there in October. by zsreport

Spot on. I lived in St. Augustine for a while and that place’s tourism is hell. I, a local resident, felt like a tourist attraction as they’d stare at me from the stupid tour trollies. There was just… so much of them… all littering, using up the place like an amusement park, having no regard for anything but themselves. It was honestly horrible. So glad I got out of there

AchillesDev t1_itmgpqq wrote on October 24, 2022 at 6:53 PM

Yep, I lived just a little north from there, just off Amelia Island. It has a similar problem to Salem too where there aren't many ways to and from the island itself (just 2 roads, and only one is really used that much).

TheFlabbs t1_itmjg4a wrote on October 24, 2022 at 7:11 PM

I think I have legitimate PTSD from being forced to work a retail job in downtown St. Aug during tourist season so that I could afford the obscene rent in the area. It has actually affected my ability to work retail jobs since. It never ends in that city either - you finish the summer weather, they disappear for two months then everyone would come flooding back in for Nights of Lights and shit up the place. Even in those two months, nobody shuts up about it being around the corner so there is never a true break. Even just typing this causes my body to stiffen up with how unbelievably difficult that time was on me, I wouldn’t wish those tourists upon anybody

Obligatory fuck Janice Brown Realty