My state and City consider tourists a great source of tax money, lodging tax and on and on. Hate to see it, but our voters have never voted down any legislation that will tax tourists.

Kind of sad I feel!!

Californians. They screw up the driving here. The other tourists are, for the most part welcomed, since most fly here.

In southern Maine they used to call Canadian tourists Kabekkahs after Quebec.

Tourists in DC? Victims.

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In my area tourists are called:

A Benny- Called that from coming from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, and New York.

I grew up on the Jersey Shore (Monmouth County) and also referred to the tourists as Benny's. (Shoobies were more of a southern New Jersey problem). But I always considered the acronym to stand for Bergen, Essex, Newark, and New York. Makes more sense to me.

You are right. It has to be in the very southern part of my county that they start calling them Shoobies.

generally, unwanted visitors are assumed to be yankees.

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Originally posted by rtquig:

In my area tourists are called:

A Benny- Called that from coming from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, and New York.

I grew up on the Jersey Shore (Monmouth County) and also referred to the tourists as Benny's. (Shoobies were more of a southern New Jersey problem). But I always considered the acronym to stand for Bergen, Essex, Newark, and New York. Makes more sense to me.

I spent many,40+, Summers between Sea Bright and Manasquan. I thought the term came from the quest for the "Beneficial Sun Rays". My daughter is a resident of Navesink, I'll have to ask her.

No tourists here. Not sure why they'd want to see anything around here.
Lost jobs, heroin problem and random violence.

Snowbirds by the tens of thousands!!

Revenue

There are very few tourists in Houston, and all six of them are at NASA.

When I lived in New Mexico we called them turistas or snowbirds.

79 when we moved there we were called Michigringos or black tag Oakies for our black background license plates. Took a couple of years to lose that term.

Tourists.

Some use the term as an epithet, some affectionately. This town is really nice because of the $$$ tourists bring in. The traffic can be annoying sometimes, but mostly that is the locals commuting. Tourists either don't know what to do in the traffic circles or are a bit lost. We can walk to almost everything, so we can avoid the peak traffic times.

There is a definite cohort who don't think non-locals should be allowed to use our trails, parks, or ski area now that they live here.

We love this town and recognize there are minor inconveniences in trade for living in a first class resort town.

It is annoying that the restaurants no longer offer an off-season 2-for-1. There's not much of an off-season any more.

Californians

Floaters, pitas, various other, less polite things. Float trips on the river are big business here in the summer. Lots of the tags are from the Kansas City, KS area, and they drive a few hours to be drunk and stupid here.

The river outfitters all chip in for the pay for local cops to get paid for river patrol. This has caused much of the mayhem to be dialed back over the last few years. Better rates than overtime pay, and the cops get to look at bikinis all shift.

First memory that pops up is the guy who got into a fight with some Pacific Islanders. They produced a machete and eviscerated him. I remember him laying on the gravel beach next to his intestines. He was calmly smoking a cigarette, while everyone else was panicking.

Don't miss that job.

Tourists or Snowbirds (depends on the season).

flashguy

Judging by the amounts of Graffiti hitting the Parks (State & National) since COVID, I'm guessing "California's".

“Nuts” as in why would you want to visit here?

We are the “Fireworks Capital of America” but you can hire a pyrotechnics show from here to be put on in a better place.

Oh, I guess were the “Hotdog Capital of America”, too. Pfft.

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Originally posted by UTsig:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by rtquig:

In my area tourists are called:

A Benny- Called that from coming from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, and New York.

I grew up on the Jersey Shore (Monmouth County) and also referred to the tourists as Benny's. (Shoobies were more of a southern New Jersey problem). But I always considered the acronym to stand for Bergen, Essex, Newark, and New York. Makes more sense to me.

I spent many,40+, Summers between Sea Bright and Manasquan. I thought the term came from the quest for the "Beneficial Sun Rays". My daughter is a resident of Navesink, I'll have to ask her.

I too grew up in Monmouth County, will be going for my 45 HS reunion this summer, and we also called them Benny’s, Bayonne/Edison/Newark/NY was our definition. And I think ‘shoobies’ comes from the folks from Philly carrying their lunches in a shoe box when they’d ride the train ‘down the shore’ on the weekends.

Sea Bright/Flea Bite was a great place to be in the summer. Small world!

We call them hemorrhoids.