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I think a larger component of it is that when you're living in a neighborhood with a large transient population it's a lot easier to justify the kind of bad beh
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
I think a larger component of it is that when you're living in a neighborhood with a large transient population it's a lot easier to justify the kind of bad behavior they wouldn't do to people they'd have to deal with again.
This is basically how a tourism economy works (granted the many people getting fleeced are doing it willingly) to normalize dishonest business dealing.
In the case of AirBNB and short term rentals you get an increase in crime.
- asdff 5y agoI imagine you get an increase in trash, too. For many people, renting an airbnb solely to party extremely hard with your friends is a regular vacation for them. You end up getting drunken people stumbling back from the bars pissing and puking everywhere and throwing bottles because they don't live there. Leaving empty cases of Naturdays to clog the storm drains. Getting into fights with other groups of tourist out posturing. Booking rental exotic cars for instagram pictures and getting pulled over for driving drunk. Whats the saying go, you don't shit where you sleep? These people come to my city and proverbially shit everywhere, sometimes literally.
- geoduck14 5y agoI've rented from air bnb and vrbo more than a handful of times. I've never engaged in the activities that you described here. We always clean up after ourselves- and we contribute to the local economy via: paying a maid, tourist dollars, and petting local pets