Writing this article without mentioning AirBnB is quite the exercise in avoiding talking about root causes.
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Your colleagues can’t afford AirBnB? Where do you people work anyway?
Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues
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#32Not the same, but I recently have got problems with moths. So has my parents. This also used to be unusual.
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#33I've just removed that AirBnB weekend in Paris from my things to do this year list :)
It’s not unique to Paris. It is a scourge in the UK as well, and an American friend told me that it was a problem in New York as well (I know, not a great source… I read NYT articles about that but they don’t immediately show up in my history).
I live in the UK (north), and I've never in my life heard of anyone dealing with bedbugs here, and can corroborate with the sibling that the only time I've ever heard about them is through US popular culture shows (I thought they were just a warm-climate bug)
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not unique to Paris. It is a scourge in the UK as well, and an American friend told me that it was a problem in New York as well (I know, not a great source… I read NYT articles about that but they don’t immediately show up in my history).
>> It is a scourge in the UK as well Do you mean in AirBnB’s or generally? Fwiw I don’t know or know of anyone in the UK that has ever dealt with bedbugs. They’re a thing I’ve only heard about in TV shows set in NYC.
I live in London and had bedbugs in my apartment 2 years ago. I knew what to watch for (colinear musquito bites), so got rid of them at the first sign.
No idea where they came from, though. But the building is old and they might have crawled from a neighbour's bedroom.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s not unique to Paris. It is a scourge in the UK as well, and an American friend told me that it was a problem in New York as well (I know, not a great source… I read NYT articles about that but they don’t immediately show up in my history).
>> It is a scourge in the UK as well Do you mean in AirBnB’s or generally? Fwiw I don’t know or know of anyone in the UK that has ever dealt with bedbugs. They’re a thing I’ve only heard about in TV shows set in NYC.
Last year we were at a very well kept Airbnb in Cornwall that turned out to have been bugs.
Last spring we stayed at an equally nice family place in the black forest (Germany) also with bed bugs.
My brother bought a nice wooden cabinet in London that turned out to be infested.
It's incredibly distressing cuz you don't want to bring them home. And I've spoken with a fair few people since who've had similar experiences in the past few years.
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#36Paris subway is and has always been an horrible pathogen nest. My life in the winter changed when i stopped having to use it everyday, i basically stopped being sick.
Now with the record high amount of homeless in the street at the moment i'm pretty skeptical this is going to get any better.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Homes? Nah they’re ‘investments’. I live in Brittany, France and new buyers, low earners etc are completely priced out of the market. My partner is a nurse and at her hospital they are closing wards because nurses, cleaners, healthcare assistants and even junior doctors can’t find, let alone afford accommodation.
Gonna go back to the days where the company owned your accommodation & you had a house as long as you had the job?
I'm hearing more and more about it. Company stores and company towns. Nope, nothing to learn from historically here at all.
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#39Bedbugs have been a problem for years in Paris, but of course the government starts to think about it for the Olympics. Regular people can rot in hell for what they care
for sure, public transport would be different if politicians were using it.
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#40Isn't this a sanitary/personal hygiene issue?