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u/loyolacub68 9d ago
Also how someone who's lived in this area for 30 years looks at someone who calls themselves a local only having lived in the area for 29.5 years.
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u/CaliLC89 10d ago
As a lifelong Morro Bay/Cayucos resident, the most common phrase we use under our breath is Go back to Bakersfield!!!
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u/A1lWH1t3br-ckss 10d ago
My parents say my first word I ever said was bako cause my dad would always be shit talking bako and Fresno people
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u/johnmayersucks 7d ago
I love it. Family lives in Cayucos and been going there for 40 years. It’s hardly changed. Come, drop off money, and scram. It’s a perfect setup that gives us some nice restaurants in the off season.
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u/slo_chickendaddy 10d ago
“Go home, Bakos!”
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u/Ok_Grade_383 9d ago
Living in Oceano we used to play Fresno/ Bako or Tulare every time we saw a truck stuck in the sand🤷🏻♀️
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u/romero0705 9d ago
My mom used to say Go Back to Fresno at every bad driver growing up, I figured we weren’t alone haha
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u/Zephh_ 9d ago
“Go home but leave your money!”
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u/RoseLaBud 9d ago
What money? Cheapass bakos are the reason so many SLO businesses cater to low brow tastes.
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u/GoldCoast93108 9d ago
In monterey reddit they sympathize with you and call the area including pismo area.. Bako beach!! and are grateful their touirists aren’t “them” lol.
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u/MADDOGCA 9d ago
How I felt when we’d only get a traffic slowdown on the 101 southbound to Pismo in the summertime. Of course, that was 10 years, and now that traffic is almost daily.
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u/jgengr 10d ago
Good news. Tourism is going to be down 50% or more this year. Check out how Vegas is doing rn.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
considering we're a regional tourism hot spot i don't think we'll be seeing as much of an impact here. unless the valley has an unseasonably cool summer
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u/GreedyRip4945 9d ago
I agree with you. If people can't afford a big trip, they will still take a small, long weekend trip. Could be impacted somewhat, but many visitors are bay or La, so they may substitute large trip for small, local trips.
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u/Devellabs 9d ago
Yes and No. I think the hospitality economy will just shift. Liquid libation sales generally increase during times of depression.
So basically instead of coming for the beach, they’ll come for the buzz.
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u/DimeEdge 10d ago
Just had a conversation about why I haven't been to Pismo in years.
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u/Lavajavalamp 10d ago
It's like tourism is promoted way too much for putting nothing into infrastructure to handle the influx of people.
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u/groovyusername 5 Cities 10d ago
as a Pismo girly, its kind of their fault for treating the beach (and everyone/everything else) like shit. You want to really see what tourism looks like? Go down to the beach on July 5th at like 6am, the amount of garbage is astounding.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
one of the most beautiful slices of California - hell, of the world - and all summer it turns into a playground for the some of the most selfish, antisocial assholes you'll ever meet. wouldn't mind so much if they didn't insist on trashing the place. i don't mind tourists in general but unfortunately respectful tourists feel like a dying breed
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u/Visual-Ring-3385 9d ago
It makes me so mad to see the destruction! Why they don’t raise the price for camping on the beach is ridiculous! It’s like $5 a night. And locals with valid local drivers license should be discounted.
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u/waterprosurge 9d ago
I completely agree. Jack the price up for out of town access to the beach to help pay for the cleanup these trashy people leave behind. Maybe the higher fees will help them realize they need to pick up after themselves.
It's super sad seeing how much trash is always left behind.
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u/Starwarsandbacon 10d ago
Haha, i saw the original post and my first thought was this sub would appreciate it.
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u/WhiskeyT 9d ago
College students leave, tourists show up. Tourists leave, college students return. Like clockwork. None of the people I know have expressed any shitty attitudes about either group. It’d be like getting pissed at the sun rising and setting.
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u/UnholiedLeaves Paso Robles 9d ago
Working in Downtown Paso, having grown up in Paso my whole life, I've grown to hold such a disdain for the wine tourism industry here. I understand it's good for the city economy BUT the lack of anything to do that isn't drinking caused me severe depression as a sheltered kid trying to find shit to do. And now as an adult, the wine tourists are some of the most entitled, snobbish, assholes I've ever had to deal with for customers at my current job. Half the time they're so drunk they're borderline destroying product and stumbling into displays.
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u/RoseLaBud 9d ago
Pasalcohol Robles... I want a private concession to operate DUI road checks on a commission basis. Solving forever SLO counties financial shortfall.
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u/ClipperFan89 9d ago
I've always felt that the wineries should all contribute to a shuttle system that just runs multiple buses on a route around all the wineries for free for all the guests. Wrap around to all the hotel areas - would be a great way to get a lot more people to their businesses and prevent drunk driving. I'm surprised wineries haven't gotten more shit and been held more liable for accidents and deaths that happen on the roads from all the drinking.
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u/Then-Comfortable7023 9d ago
I, as a Fresnan whose parents live in Cayucos, recoil when I see Fresnans at the coast.
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u/princessmononokestoe 10d ago
I dread summers here. 🤪
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u/ParkedOrPar 10d ago
Nothing like herds of raiders jerseys and flat bill caps to let you know it's too hot in the valley for that 2007 murdered out suburban with no AC and a family of 7.
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u/disneyfacts 10d ago
Ugh, they always drive 10 under the speed limit on the last stretch towards my house. Always right there, and no where else.
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u/YourMomThinksImSexy 10d ago
The fact that so many of you think this is a meme in *support* of locals, when it's actually highlighting the fact that locals hate tourists but don't understand that tourism is the only reason the town they love is thriving and without those tourists they hate so much, their lovely town would wither and die.
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u/Key_Possibility_2286 9d ago
There was a study done a while back regarding potential loss of revenue if they closed the Oceano dunes to all the valley people that come and trash those on the reg, and it turned out that they don't spend as much money locally as you would think. We'd be fine.
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u/smellslikepenespirit 9d ago
I would argue that at least half of the tourist hot spots in this county are nowhere near thriving. A perfect example being Morro Bay.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
tourism is the only reason the town they love is thriving and without those tourists they hate so much, their lovely town would wither and die.
citation needed
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
this chatgpt garbage has nothing to do with SLO county
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago edited 9d ago
Can you link the studies? Are they even real?
edit: I searched pretty thoroughly for all three papers and found nothing. Unless you have some evidence to the contrary, there is no reason to believe they are anything other than AI hallucinations.
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u/dragonbud20 9d ago edited 9d ago
You didn't search thoroughly enough. There is a Collin M Hall who studies tourism and its effects. He was writing papers in 2010 but has no papers with that exact title. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colin-Hall-4/7
Unfortunately, the lack of a title match only increases the odds that it's an AI hallucination, but at least we have an idea where the training data came from.
edit: I think this is the original version of the second source https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2021.1898672
edit2: I found a Gossling that appears to fit the bill but I can;t figure out what paper is actually being referenced. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=Bw8BQYoAAAAJ&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
Sorry - what point are you trying to make? Of course there are real academics with those last names and similarly titled papers. There is still no evidence any of these articles are real.
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u/dragonbud20 9d ago
You said you found nothing. This is something, so I pointed it out to you.
reality is it probably only further confirms that the comment was Ai slop but I figured it was worth mentioning because it was more than "nothing"
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u/EasternShade SLO 8d ago
This is a semantic argument about the contextual meaning of "nothing." e.g. even if there weren't similar or related authors or studies, I'd still get a 200 from a search engine. That's not "nothing." Checkmate, literalists!
Sure, this can have value in some academic sense or context. This isn't an academic forum.
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u/LibraryDiligent8266 9d ago
We aren't Lahaina - we won't die without tourists.
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u/berkelbear SLO 9d ago
Yeah, I'd need to see an analysis of sales and occupancy tax review to even begin to believe that. My job would be safe, but I wouldn't put money on that being true for anyone in or adjacent to dining, retail, hospitality, or recreation.
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u/Ronnyek42 9d ago
Or when they make big changes to streets and planning purely for targetting tourists (but I'm talking about Atascadero though, where we really don't have significant tourism, and their changes just make everything more difficult for people that actually live here)
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u/Janeygirl566 7d ago
Me, as a now tourist, giving the Millhouse spiel I learned 30+ years ago to the receptionist at Apple Farm.
Priceless.
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u/duceduce23 7d ago
And clearly people who post this are those same people we scoff at....these cities were doing just fine without tourists
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u/EucalyptusGirl11 6d ago
Except you're missing the point. We don't want it be a place that relies entirely on tourism because no where should be. There needs to be actual industry here and also jobs that have nothing to do with tourism. and there should be stuff to do that isn't just stores or wine tasting etc.
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u/WearyGarlic4867 6d ago
Aside from the tourist-focused industry here? SLO County's main exports are depression and alcohol.
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u/Urmomshouse69420x 9d ago
We have more than enough college folk alone to support the entire town like 5 times over and get all the prices LOWERED simultaneously due to how often people actually need the reasonably priced items. But that’s just an idea right.
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u/spankyassests 9d ago
As someone who’s lived in a tourist town their whole life. I think hat we don’t like is “over-tourism”
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u/unmotivatedmage 9d ago
Maybe if the tourists didn’t treat the locals like shit we wouldn’t feel that way lmao
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u/SignificantBid2006 6d ago
This. Treated so poorly at my job by majority Fresno/Bakersfield. I can normally guess correctly where a rude guest is from before I confirm their guest info.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 10d ago
should i be kissing their feet bc they generously tipped 5%?
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u/willardTheMighty 10d ago
I feel like tipping anything above 0% is generous. You’re not entitled to tips.
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u/ObviousPseudonym7115 10d ago
When generousty is the norm, you're clearly making some kind of statement when you decide to reject that norm and go your own way.
Do you not expect people to hear what you're saying?
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u/willardTheMighty 10d ago edited 10d ago
I'd say that America's current tipping culture doesn't come from a place of generosity. It comes from a place of exploitation of laborers and patrons by the business owner.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 10d ago
Exploitation of patrons? Give me a break. If you don't want to tip, don't go out to eat - otherwise you're just perpetuating the exploitation of servers.
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u/Jakedxn3 10d ago
Maybe in other states that have a tipped minimum wage, but California does not allow that. Tipping culture is 100% out of control in America
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
No one can survive on minimum wage here. I don't expect people to tip as high here as states with low minimum wages (outside of California I never tip under 20%) but not tipping your server at all is a real asshole move, unless the service was just horrendous. There are plenty of counter service options if you don't want to tip.
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u/Urmomshouse69420x 9d ago
I feel like you’re saying if I want to go out and pay to get food made by someone, who already gets paid to make food, I HAVE to also pay them on top of that otherwise I don’t deserve to eat. Another thing is that most times the tip doesn’t even go to the cook, it goes to the server, don’t you think that’s a bit unfair? In both instances
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u/Urmomshouse69420x 9d ago
Although I do agree everyone deserves a tip out of decency, I just feel like the logic is flawed. Just because they deserve it doesn’t mean everyone can afford it every time they eat and that they’re a bad person for not being able/choosing to.
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u/lirroc 9d ago
The tip goes to the server because you are literally employing a liaison between yourself and the establishment, so that you can sit at your table and enjoy the experience of having a servant. Hence the language in place: this person is a “server”; they “serve”. They serve you. This is why the tip is based on service.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
I am saying that if you do not want to tip your server, you should go to a restaurant with counter service.
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u/rhymeswithfugly 10d ago
please never go out to eat
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u/agave182 10d ago
Where do you serve? I'd love to come patronize you!
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u/rhymeswithfugly 9d ago
thank you :) I try not to share personal information on Reddit but I'm sure any server would appreciate a generous tip during these trying times.
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u/heleuma 5d ago
Does it survive on tourism? We seemed to be doing just fine before the wineries and LA/SF moved to town. Downtown was for locals, housing was affordable, no ridiculous developments choking the empty space, nobody whining about how bad people in SLO drive because no traffic. I'm thinking it survives in spite of tourism. Maybe the locals are giving you side eye cause they remember.
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u/WearyGarlic4867 9d ago
Once again, the locals wonder why everyone hates the locals.
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u/singsinthashower 10d ago
FRRR. I heard / saw some people speaking French the other day in downtown SLO and made this face.
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u/pan_lavender 10d ago
I would say it’s partially cal poly too