dinoapple's comments

On: The anti-growth state of mind on the Åland islands

[dinoapple]

So you’re saying they would rather be poor just as long as they can avoid tourists?

[coldtea → dinoapple]

They'd rather be whatever they want to be, including poor (or merely poorer-than-with-tourism), if they can avoid tourists.

Being offered more money isn't a "bend-over-and-take-it" proposition unless one allows it to be. People can choose any number of things over it.

[Arnt → coldtea]

There are tourists there. Waiting some tourists doesn't have to mean wanting any and all.

On the island where I was born (not Åland), they recently placed some large boulders to block access to a beach where penny-pinchers liked to park their camper vans for free. Good riddance.

[veeti → dinoapple]

Åland is where the rich Finnish-Swede elites live. It's a small club and you are not invited.

[Arnt → dinoapple]

Poor isn't quite the right term for Åland.