Being self employed and in business myself, this thread is fascinating to me. I don't own a home there but visit a ton of times over the year. I can't say I have felt any sort of animosity on my end ever.
I will say that perhaps in some scenarios this might be more of social class situation perhaps? I can see a lot of high net-worth and income individuals from Calgary arriving and stirring up the pot with some of the locals in a demeaning way and it rubbing people the wrong way.
In any event, we all agree that we should support small business as much as we can these days but our hard earned dollars also need to be appreciated.
I am going to email the Bow Valley Chamber of Commerce with a link to this thread as I think they should know some of the attitudes and how it may be affecting business locally.
A resident of Banff, Canmore, Calgary, Okotoks, Regina whatever. We are visitors into the town. Being Greek myself, we all pride ourselves on a term called "Philoxenia" which is a philosophy of welcoming strangers or foreigners into your home, town, country etc. Most visitors will always say they felt extremely welcomed on their travels to Greece
This clip from the Greek Wedding movie sums it up how we should all feel.
https://youtu.be/6BFnMUJFfYk?si=NPc6KqtRrBOMKVE1