Venice is the new model. Cities as mere tourist attractions where nobody actually lives there.
I’ve heard that about Venice. I’ve heard how most people who work in Venice live on the mainland and not in Venice.
And, that big numbers of people who work in Venice have jobs there because of the tourist industry in Venice.
Okay, so go to New York City, San Francisco, even places like Reno to see the cesspool conditions, filth, people living on the streets, drugs, crime, hookers, illegals everywhere? How is that a tourist attraction? Armoured tourist buses, armed security?