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Dear Sir,

At what price are Bermudians expected to pay for this great increase in tourism? It seems to me that the powers that be focused so much on whether and where they could put up more hotels that they didn't stop to think that they should.

Those guys on the corner that everyone seems so concerned about, the ones that didn't graduate last year or the years before that, aren't planning on applying for a job at these hotels.

They didn't like working at Mr. Chicken so I guess they stopped caring about good references a long time ago. So again the increase in 'much-needed' foreign workers.

Let us be clear that is not the increased manpower that we will need but the increase in people that will want these jobs, but that's a whole different article. My concern as a Bermudian is that my quality of life is being affected by all these fast, drastic changes.

Even the simpletons among us can see that this is not just a bottom line issue but a big picture issue. Lately the watercolours aren't looking as pretty with increases in social ills as those of us at the bottom of the rung get more and more desperate.

Those of us further up are wondering if they are next and those at the top? Apparently they are oblivious.

Anika Smith-Picchia[[In-content Ad]]

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