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What AirBnB has over hotels is locations inside neighborhoods. Take Montreal for example, the hotels are clustered downtown, which is fine if that's what you're

What AirBnB has over hotels is locations inside neighborhoods. Take Montreal for example, the hotels are clustered downtown, which is fine if that's what you're looking for. But by staying in an AirBnB you get a local experience, in a local neighborhood. It's like this all over the world.

teej 7y ago
This is exactly what’s terrible about Airbnb. A listing in a residential neighborhood creates negative externalities on that community.
- drstewart 7y ago
  That's a failure of urban planning, not Airbnb.
  - fsh 7y ago
    The city probably didn't plan that someone puts a hotel in the middle of a residential area. This is exactly why airbnb hosts tend to get into legal trouble in some countries.
LegitShady 7y ago
As far as I know the locals in most places despise the train of strangers who make noise late near their house/building and hope they aren't people with bad intentions. Sleeping in an Airbnb is no more local than a hotel except hotels can't get zoning in those neighborhoods and wouldn't get permits for fire safety with those buildings.