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> But if you choose to live downtown in an expensive city, who expects you to necessarily have a guest bedroom? I think this one is not quite like the others.
by leetcrew 6y ago
> But if you choose to live downtown in an expensive city, who expects you to necessarily have a guest bedroom?
I think this one is not quite like the others. if you only need a car for one week each year, you don't lose much by renting. but putting your friends in a hotel is not really a substitute for having them stay at your place imo. if I only get to see a close friend once a year, I want to make the most of the time that they're in town, cooking breakfast together, staying up talking until we can't keep our eyes open, etc. it's really not the same if a day of hanging out starts and ends with transit to/from a hotel.
- ghaff 6y agoHonestly, if they're a close friend, buy an air mattress or let them crash on the couch. I've done it plenty of times when visiting someone who didn't have a guest bedroom or there were a bunch of us. I agree on the car if you're really only using it for a trip or two a year. (Indeed, I wouldn't even consider owning a car in that case. I probably would if I were going away a couple weekends a month though.)
- asdff 6y agoThat works fine in your 20s but not in your 30s when your friends are shackled to highly dependent screeching children, or in your 50s when your friends start having shitty backs and can't crash on your couch or leaky air mattress anymore.
- Retric 6y agoI did this by renting a hotel room next to my friend for a few days. It’s actually fun and renting 2 rooms for up to 2 weeks per year is significantly cheaper than paying for an unused bedroom in a city. More importantly you retain flexibility to use that for more than just an empty room. Couch surfing is also a perfectly reasonable alternative.