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Boarding houses also came with all kinds of guest restrictions (particularly around the opposite sex). Restrictions that would never fly today.

• CydeWeys 7y ago
  Those restrictions are enforced quite healthily in hostels across the US at least.
  • lonelappde 7y ago
    Hostels are temporary housing.
    • blaser-waffle 7y ago
      In the US. Lots of longer stays in places I've stayed at in Australia or Asia. Mostly travelers or foreign workers, but there was a flophouse element, most notably a prostitute in melbourne who rented a private bunk and would sometimes entertain "guests".