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I currently live in Eureka Springs,AR. I am sure some of you have visited here. It is a great little tourist town full of fantastic places to stay and quite a few unique shops.
I was just curious to see what other towns in the US were like this? Eureka is built completely around tourists.
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The Hamptons and Montauk point. Beautiful areas...but I used to go to the Hamptons before the celeb and millionaires started going. It was a lot less crowded.
Sun Valley Idaho
Solvang California
Ojai California
Bisbee Arizona
Sedona Arizona
Santa Fe New Mexico
Taos New Mexico
San Juan Islands Washington
Jackson Hole Wyoming
Aspen Colorado
Vail Colorado
Breckenridge Colorado
Park City Utah
Every one of these places has the following in common: Median housing prices in no way reflect the average wage scale in any of these places. That makes them all devoid of any productive middle class structure. You have two classes: one very, very wealthy class, and the second class is a bunch of kids and wayward 20 somethings carrying trays, and bunking up 4 a piece in an overpriced dwelling.
I currently live in Eureka Springs,AR. I am sure some of you have visited here. It is a great little tourist town full of fantastic places to stay and quite a few unique shops.
Yup, I visited Eureka Springs about 7 years ago while vacationing in nearby Branson, MO. I just got rid of my Eureka Springs T-shirt.
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I was just curious to see what other towns in the US were like this?
Well, Branson immediately comes to mind.
Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Tennessee also come to mind. My in-laws live about 20 miles away from Pigeon Forge. Because of the traffic, it sometimes takes over 90 minutes to get there.
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama. The area has changed a lot during my lifetime (I'm only 30). I remember when it was mostly small wood frame beach houses here and there, now it's mostly high rise condos as far as the eye can see and chain souvenir shops every mile. Some say it's progress but to me it's destructive and depressing.
Sandusky, Ohio
Coshocton, Ohio
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Frankenmuth, Michigan
Traverse City, Michigan
Mackinaw City, Michigan
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Yup, I visited Eureka Springs about 7 years ago while vacationing in nearby Branson, MO. I just got rid of my Eureka Springs T-shirt.
Well, Branson immediately comes to mind.
Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Tennessee also come to mind. My in-laws live about 20 miles away from Pigeon Forge. Because of the traffic, it sometimes takes over 90 minutes to get there.
When we visit, we avoid those two towns.
Branson was not built with tourists in mind, but they surely have ruined what was once a lovely little town.
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