It’s different. Orlando’s tourism is concentrated at the theme parks and beaches. If you go someplace like Barcelona or Venice, the tourists could be at your doorstep. It would be like living in apartments above Disney’s Main Street. Having been all three places multiple times Orlando’s tourism is more “corralled” than major tourist cities. Sure, volume-wise Orlando has a shitload of tourists, but the dynamic is not the same.
Also, American real estate is stupid money thanks to corporate real estate squatters and air b&b, but at least there was room to grow in the ‘burbs. European cities have no such luxury when investors buy up flats for vacation rentals and squeeze the locals out.
Dude, I LIVE here. Nothing is “corralled.” We have three major theme parks literally IN the city, as well as the 2nd biggest convention center complex in the country. And they are each surrounded by massive commercial zones of restaurants, hotels, B attractions, time shares, malls, etc.
I regularly drive the East Coast between Miami and NYC, and Orlando is literally the worst traffic on the East Coast, with the possible exception of the DC/Baltimore corridor at rush hour. But Orlando is that busy literally every moment of the day, until about midnight. Rush hour, bumper to bumper traffic, is normal at 10 pm at night.
NOBODY drives around without being affected by it every single day. The tourists are EVERYWHERE!
It’s different. Orlando’s tourism is concentrated at the theme parks and beaches. If you go someplace like Barcelona or Venice, the tourists could be at your doorstep. It would be like living in apartments above Disney’s Main Street. Having been all three places multiple times Orlando’s tourism is more “corralled” than major tourist cities. Sure, volume-wise Orlando has a shitload of tourists, but the dynamic is not the same.
Also, American real estate is stupid money thanks to corporate real estate squatters and air b&b, but at least there was room to grow in the ‘burbs. European cities have no such luxury when investors buy up flats for vacation rentals and squeeze the locals out.
Dude, I LIVE here. Nothing is “corralled.” We have three major theme parks literally IN the city, as well as the 2nd biggest convention center complex in the country. And they are each surrounded by massive commercial zones of restaurants, hotels, B attractions, time shares, malls, etc.
I regularly drive the East Coast between Miami and NYC, and Orlando is literally the worst traffic on the East Coast, with the possible exception of the DC/Baltimore corridor at rush hour. But Orlando is that busy literally every moment of the day, until about midnight. Rush hour, bumper to bumper traffic, is normal at 10 pm at night.
NOBODY drives around without being affected by it every single day. The tourists are EVERYWHERE!