Ooh, startup idea: "Rent-A-Local" (needs better name) It's a gig-economy thing where locals get paid to hang around and talk to you at popular tourist sites.

Ooh, startup idea: "Rent-A-Local" (needs better name) It's a gig-economy thing where locals get paid to hang around and talk to you at popular tourist sites. For example, four older gentlemen playing dominoes at a small table in Santorini, and they let you join in on the game and converse in broken english. Or an older woman working at a pastry shop in Florence, and she invites her beautiful 19-year-old granddaughter Francesca to translate your questions. All of them: rented locals.