Comment by motohagiography

Some Canadian cities responded to this with a foreign buyers tax, notably in Vancouver. Florida has a method for balancing its "snowbird" population to do with foreign buyers. Personally, I think this is the effect of governments themselves no longer believing in nations and borders or a responsibility for them, and simply importing polarized populations of both very rich and very poor people whose effect in concert squeezes out the middle who made the country desirable. The cynicism comes from the 90's where multinationals globalized and just became financial rails for stateless revenue flows, and now governments saw the opportunities and are globalizing their constituencies, where if they want to stay in power, all they need is money and votes that come from importing wealthy people in exchange for buying Gold visas and "donations," and poor people to depend on their extractive policies. What we're watching is the intentional dissolution of the nation state and replacement of relatively equal populations with polarized ones. It's barely right/left at all, it's just nihilistic power as its own end.