I like the idea they had in Spain of the community having events to incorporate nomads into the community more.

But also I think the important thing hanging over it is how you can experience a place without making it worse for the locals. There’s a two fold thing that I’ve seen while travelling.

One is the more obvious AirBnb scenario, which drives up housing costs. But there’s another.

That other is that even if you do try to be a responsible traveller and stay in more community oriented arrangements, the money you bring in for both housing and expenditures goes to the local capitalist class, which makes them richer and still drives up prices, because they become the ones who can buy things up and increase prices. The general trend is that prices go up more than wages do, so people become poorer.

I’ve been doing this for a while now, and even though I try to be conscientious, I know that even being there and spending money can be both a good and bad thing for the locals.