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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As usual, a few jerks ruin it for the rest of us.

  I’ve stayed at a number of airbnbs and we’re very respectful of our neighbors. We basically treat the place as if we lived there, because that’s what we’re looking for.

  Hotels suck:

  • no kitchen, just a microwave if you’re lucky
  • expensive for a small space
  • housekeeping - I don’t want strangers looking through my stuff
  • target for crime - cars get broken into a lot at hotels and motels
  • annoying check-in process, always seem to need to ask the desk people for something, etc

  I just don’t like hotels. Maybe zoning could limit airbnbs to townhouse/condo communities or something that are all rentals, but give me more options than a stupid hotel.

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe zoning could limit airbnbs to townhouse/condo communities or something that are all rentals

    Yeah, let the people that can’t afford to buy a house deal with them. The poors are used to living in shitty neighborhoods already, right?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe hotels could just learn something from ABnB and offer some larger, more comfortable spaces with kitchens and 4-5 bedrooms? They’re all over in Vegas.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Airbnb kitchens aren’t great either (dull knives, wrecked pans) but at least they exist.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re hit and miss, but yes, existing is the critical part here. I can make up for a missing/wrecked pan, I can’t conjure an oven.

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      • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Roll against your wisdom to not cast lvl 3 conjure gas line

        If you fail your wisdom check You’ll need dex of 18 to not start a fire.

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I live in a neighborhood that regularly (as in, at least once, often more times) a week has people blasting concert grade speakers until like 4 in the morning, with revving cars, fireworks, gunshots, etc etc.

  and thats from people who live there. no airbnbs.

  Shitty people are shitty people. at least with an airbnb you have a chance at a break in the neighbors being dickheads.

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t doubt it’s not great to live next to them.

  you only think it’s quiet because you’re the house making all the noise.

  That’s awful presumptious of you. Why would I think it was quiet if the noise was coming from inside the house? How does that make any sense to you?

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