locals

In my home town, Melbourne, where the locals are raised on expresso, Starbucks was run out of town.

This is in contrast to other Asian countries where the sex trade is basically locals-only (see Korea, Japan, etc.).

Just curious, but are you basically getting most of your part time help from locals to Pittsburg?

There will always be mosquitos and recurrent infections to re-infect the locals after the doctors are gone.

An added bonus is that the hosts are often locals themselves and can help you avoid the usual tourist traps.

It's very well-documented that the reason rent is high is because the locals are strongly resisting the development of new properties.

DIA was built so far away due to complaints of noise from the locals.

And the locals will tell you where the trick half-mile-long speed limit drops that you'll never notice until you're pulled over are.

When a company gets newly 'redundant' workers to train the new migrants, they can't really claim that there are no suitable qualified locals.

And they are also quite pricey for locals too, given our fragile economy.

Quite a lot of locals have a negative balance vs the system.

Someone raised a good point about taking money from locals and bringing it to Europe/America/China, but clearly this isn't breaking the law of physics.

Offensive but insidiously clever: they'll build up the hype as an exclusive, "foreigner only" location and few months later will open the floodgates to locals.

"San Francisco would look like Manhattan within two years." A crowded, hyper-expensive, tourist trap with limited housing that most locals avoid?