dkh17-nik-d3300 Loc: Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

I know a few of you have been to Seagrove Beach, Florida, beaches of 30A. This spring break is the heaviest ever. Does anyone else suffer with lots of tourist?!😜😓I have lived here for 42 years. Gotta live somewhere, right? In the past, it was dirt roads, socializing with your neighbors, etc. Now, hardly know anyone, & not wanting this forced friendliness with your new neighbors. Any one else having this experience?

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

I live in a rural area and things are way different than when I was a kid. When young, every so often we would go to the neighbors (some 5-8 miles away) or they would come to us for a weenie roast, make ice cream, 4th of July fireworks and so on. And yes, we knew most all of our neighbors. These days there’s only one person I’ll go visit and most of my neighbors I know but don’t associate with, know vaguely or don’t know (some white trash I don’t want to know).

I don’t believe I’ve gotten more antisocial, but I literally don’t have the spare time to visit much. And it’s not a security thing because like most people around here I never lock my doors. Maybe it’s a sign of getting old, but it seems that with all of our modern time saving conveniences, the world has gotten faster and more busy. All of the modern conveniences haven’t seemed to have saved us any time at all. Or maybe we have all lost our sense of priority.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

I live in a small, rural, tourist town. Tourists exist, and in the 30+ years I've lived here, year by year by year, the volume of tourists has increased exponentially. Here, the second week of March --a.k.a. the beginning of 'Spring Break'-- marks the beginning of our tourist season which persists until late October. It sucks, essentially, but over time, those of us who live here have learned where and when and how to minimize the inconvenience the quadrupling (and often much, much more) that the gross number of people present. We (or at least I) also curse with greater frequency than usual --more colorfully, and with greater gusto-- than we (or I) otherwise might during the 'off season', but we generally manage to get by.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I lived for ten years in "downeast" Maine - that part of the coast beyond Bar Harbor ("Bah Hahbah") - an hour or more past the nearest traffic light. Few tourists ever get there in spite of it being spectacularly beautiful (that beautiful water is so cold that many fishermen don't even bother learning to swim...), so it was very peacefully nice. Until two years ago my wife and I always joked that to buy a house up there meant that you had to plan on owning it the rest of your life, because you would never be able to sell it. In the past year, however, just like many other parts of the country, there has been a land rush, and you cannot even find a house to purchase and the few you do find have doubled in price. Some of these may be homes that will end up being furnished and listed on AirBnB - I have seen that AirBnB rentals in places like Moab and Sedona during tourist season are now going for $400 or more per night!

alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Last week there was a line of cars waiting to go into Zion National Park over a mile long.

pj81156 Loc: St. Petersburg, FL

We have lived in four states, about six cities, have been married 65+ years so obviously have seen a lot. And we loved it all and still do. We loved the 50’s but love 2022. Stop whining. Start enjoying.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Just remind yourself that those "Spring Breakers" are the ones that will inherit their parent's estates and they will be the ones running the cities, states, and the nation's affairs in the years to come.

Thank God at my age I will be gone by then...!

Runninglate Loc: Saint Cloud, Florida

Wife and I bought a house on the outskirts of St. Cloud, Florida. We passed several cattle ranches and an orchard to get to our new house. Now 10 years later the cattle ranches are now filled with houses and the orchard will be filled with condos. From passing several cars while returning home to now waiting in line behind stop lights. In only 10 years it has really changed.

bhanusa Loc: Maui, Hawaii

When we moved to Maui 50 years ago, there were 40,000 people in 20,000 cars. Now there are 165,000 people way more than 165,000 cars, the traffic is becoming unbearable. Cruise ships are returning, bringing 2000 to 4000 tourists that clog up the sidewalks and malls near the harbor

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

A good way to address the tourist crush and increasing population is to move to some of the less than stellar cities in America. East St Louis, south Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC outside the capital area to name a few. You know tourism is not an issue and neither is booming population. I guess the only thing worse than living in a place where everyone else wants to live is living in a place that no one else wants to live in.