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Except, some of that regulation is important. If you're in a hotel, and there's a fire, you know to follow the signs out. There are exit signs, emergency lights
by mackmgg 10y ago
Except, some of that regulation is important. If you're in a hotel, and there's a fire, you know to follow the signs out. There are exit signs, emergency lights, and maps showing you where to go. In someone's house, they don't have any of that, which isn't an issue for the person living there, because of course they know how to get out of their own house. But when it's being rented out, there are certain regulations to make sure that someone unfamiliar with a building can still exit in a fire.
Driving up rent is something that's probably unavoidable, but safety is something AirBNB could try to enforce if they wanted to.
- elcct 10y agoAnd that should be up to you to decide, not the state. Nobody forces you to use Airbnb. Also you can just ask how to get out in case of fire.
- fegu 10y agoIn a pure libertarian society this might make sense in theory. But when people are injured we all get to pay either through socialised health care or health insurance increasing. This is part of the reason why seat belts are mandatory, your injured sorry ass hurts us all. Thus we should get a say in you not hurting yourself.
- elcct 10y agoHere we go again. So how about we start with banning McDonalds, riding bikes, drinking, running and whatever else that can "injury your sorry ass"... Why not get babies killed right after birth, that will save us from all the troubles that come with living.
- hehheh 10y agoIs it hard to figure out how to get out of a house in an emergency? I mean, houses are only so big, and are typically one to two stories tall. They're not a large hotel with windows that don't open and halls that are nothing but doors.
- megablast 10y agoSo you have never heard of apartments.
- billyhoffman 10y agoI just got back from an airbnb in Amsterdam, where the windows in the bedroom literally had keyed locks on the inside on the windows. They look like normal window sliders until you look closely and happened to notice a tiny keyhole. I never found any key the entire week I was staying there. Could I have gotten out in a fire? Probably. But it's definitely less obvious and less well-equipped than in a hotel for Directing unfamiliar residents out of the building
- dzhiurgis 10y agoIf you sleep at your friends or ONS's place you won't know how to get out either.