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Most hotel rooms don't have kitchens. It's not unreasonable to want a kitchen if you're staying somewhere for a week or two. But expecting those people to bu
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Most hotel rooms don't have kitchens. It's not unreasonable to want a kitchen if you're staying somewhere for a week or two. But expecting those people to buy or lease a home is unreasonable. Short-term rental of homes is the solution to this.
- mcguire 4y agoIt's called a residential hotel, and they're all over the place where business travelers stay by the day, week, or month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_hotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_hotel
- dorchadas 4y agoIt might be the solution to that, but it creates a lot more problems for the actual residents of the city. Drives up their rent, lowers their supply, makes them have to deal with neighbours coming in at all hours of the night, often without a care for the fact they even have neighbours who have to wake up and go to work in the morning. Ruins any community in a place. All the negative externalities get hoisted onto the actual residents of a town. Now, should there maybe be an area of the city explicitly for short-term rentals, included in city planning? That's a different question; but it shouldn't be mixed in normal residential area, as all it does is make life worse for the actual residents.
- astura 4y agoThey make hotels for extended stays with kitchens - Homewood Suites, Embassy Suites, and Candlewood Suites are the big chains. I lived in a Homewood Suites for three months. It was fine.
- marssaxman 4y agoAirBnB homes are so much nicer than those sterile corporate chains. It is not the same experience.
- dorchadas 4y agoSo, again, it comes down to the entitlement felt by travellers.
- marssaxman 4y agoNot sure what you think my point was or how that remark relates to it.
- mcculley 4y agoI prefer my linens to be sterile.