For decades, problems such as rising gasoline prices and traffic congestion on I-15 have aggravated Vegas-bound weekenders.

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But the more serious issue, in the long run, for commuters and weekenders who moved to the countryside because it was beautiful, is the relaxation of the planning regulations.

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In the 1980s the Bastille area, to the east of the Marais, was cool but now it suffers from too many tourists and, sniff the true Parisians, too many weekenders from the suburbs.

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It's still a place where hopelessly urbanised weekenders and second-homers are willing to pay handsomely for rustic experiences, provided only too happily by locals whose other sources of income (such as whaling and potato farming) have long vanished.

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