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Originally Posted by Bearcat
That's my thought of Sedona as well, but have only been there once. Plus, the hiking and outdoors stuff can be very crowded at times, which is the opposite of what anyone should want when you're out in the middle of nowhere.
But, as you mentioned with that Alaskan town and cruises, there are benefits with all of the tourists as far as more retail and food options for the size of the town.
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I've never lived in a tourist town and I'm sure there are some downsides, but it seems like the upsides are greater, especially if it's something like cruise ships where it's sporadic but not seasonal.
Here in Colorado the ski towns have that great disproportionate infrastructure, but it's so seasonal that a lot of it shuts down in the offseason, which does you no good as a resident. Tourism that's sporadic but regular like cruise ships seems like it would keep the restaurants and stuff open all the time. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but you'd think that they'd need to keep their staff in place.
If I was to relocate to a place under 50,000 people, I'm pretty sure that I'd want it to have either tourism or a college.