Now a map with tourism overlayed, and corporate ownership and/or rental properties in the EU. I argue this because I know qol is amazing Italy, Spain, etc… and because I live in Spain, I can attest my quality of life is amazingly better than USA. But it’s full of airbnb’s and similar that have priced out locals by raising rent beyond the norm. My rent €1400 a month for a 2 bed place, twice what it is 100km away. If Tourists drive the economy means that you’re dealing with shops and stores that are for tourists only and not locals, prices go up, etc…
So these numbers would show me if places heavily dependent on tourism and “lower” quality of life scores, coincide.
If I understand the methodology correctly, they do not ask locals what the QoL is in their country but people from 33 countries what they think the QoL is in that country.
It measures outside perception more than the actual circumstances of living there.
If anything I would expect tourism to improve that perception.
Now a map with tourism overlayed, and corporate ownership and/or rental properties in the EU. I argue this because I know qol is amazing Italy, Spain, etc… and because I live in Spain, I can attest my quality of life is amazingly better than USA. But it’s full of airbnb’s and similar that have priced out locals by raising rent beyond the norm. My rent €1400 a month for a 2 bed place, twice what it is 100km away. If Tourists drive the economy means that you’re dealing with shops and stores that are for tourists only and not locals, prices go up, etc…
So these numbers would show me if places heavily dependent on tourism and “lower” quality of life scores, coincide.
If I understand the methodology correctly, they do not ask locals what the QoL is in their country but people from 33 countries what they think the QoL is in that country.
It measures outside perception more than the actual circumstances of living there.
If anything I would expect tourism to improve that perception.