2 ms·
I've spent the last 6 months doing airbnb hopping and I really need to find a way to share my experience. In a few words: it was amazing. We spent some time in
by baby 6y ago
I've spent the last 6 months doing airbnb hopping and I really need to find a way to share my experience. In a few words: it was amazing. We spent some time in San Diego, Hawaii, Arizona, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara. If the vaccine wasn't here, we probably would have kept going east.
I think the future will have a place for people who do not want to buy or rent a place long-term. #vanlife is already starting to spread throughout the world, but I think airbnb hopping will become much more prevalent as well.
While there were downsides: we often didn't have friends in the places we visited, and we couldn't travel with all of our stuff -- the experiences and memories we've had made this a worthy thing to do.
This is really something that I don't think would have been possible before AirBnB, the same way travelling the world wouldn't have been possible without the B2C'ization of flying.
- romanovcode 6y agoYeah you do realise that most people are not techbros with 100+ salary and are affected by people like you and in some cases have no places to live becasue of airbnb taking flats from regular city dwellers?
- baby 6y agoI reject your theory. I think issues with housing come from the inability of cities to build more housing, the lack of rent-controlled places, and investors who buy housing and do not rent the place out. On the other hand people travelling with AirBnB are much much much more prone to visit the small businesses in the district and the city, eat out, etc.
- StavrosK 6y agoThe fact that X is not the only issue does not mean X is not an issue at all.
- candiodari 6y agoIt kind of does. Unless it is by far the biggest issue any slack in X created by legislation will only feed the biggest issue. The biggest issue in housing is governments blocking construction to enrich existing residents. Without fixing that, nothing can change. You can only create short-term slight easing.
- baby 6y agoI think it's like barking at the wrong tree. Living in SF I can hear it on the daily: it's because of tech workers, it's because of airbnbs, it's because of ... at the end of the day it's misplaced anger. Housing is the main bottleneck.
- StavrosK 6y agoWhat's true in SF is not true everywhere. Not many people visit SF to see the sights.
- romanovcode 6y ago> and investors who buy housing and do not rent the place out I wonder - Why would they do that...
- baby 6y agobecause housing is treated as an investment in the US.
- paulryanrogers 6y agoHow many van-lifers have small children? Also, it seems to me that AirBnB has democratized micro hotels at the cost of unattainable housing for would be residents. I feel conflicted using the service the more I see its impact.
- baby 6y ago> How many van-lifers have small children? How is this relevant? Not everyone wants children
- HWR_14 6y agoIf you are debating how society should be set up, then knowing making it work for the majority seems important. If AirBnB makes it harder to buy a family home and easier to live #vanlife, then it is relevant how many people want a vanlife vs. a family.
- baby 6y agoI'm not debating how society should be set up, I'm talking about how parts of the society can live differently. This debate reminds of people complaining that they couldn't bring their kids in a bar...
- HWR_14 6y agoThe claim that AirBnB is good because it enables #vanlife is countered by it is bad because it hurts #familylife. The analog relevant to your "kids in a bar" would be if you were arguing about "eliminating liquor licenses leads to everyone opening a bar in their living room, leading to more ragers for me". It would be true, but still requires kids to, at a minimum, live next door to a bar. The point is we have a limited resource (housing) to be divided up. Allowing (including by not banning via new laws) AirBnB to exist skews the housing market in one direction.
- baby 6y ago