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Not true in SF. Plenty of apartments are on streets that are not main thoroughfares. In fact busy streets are often primarily zoned commercial
Name any apartment complex on a quiet street in SF that's not in Mission Bay that's been built in the last 15 years
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Airbnb lets me rent a whole apartment for a couple weeks. Couldn't do that before. And Uber is so much better than the cabs it replaced that there can't really be any comparison. It's not just about price relative to competition.
VRBO and subletting agreements existed long before AirBnB.
I eventually gave up and resorted to going through an agency. For an actual vacation involving a group of people, that wasn't so bad. As a solo traveler wanting economical, shared accomodations, Airbnb was a game changer when it first came onto the scene. Nowadays, not so much, although I do still get lucky sometimes -- I'm writing this from a perfectly acceptable room in a very nice host's home that is costing me $113/night all-in.
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Even for people who can , family (spouse, kids in school, nearby relatives, etc.), friends, and so forth tend to make moving cities a pretty significant decision at some point.
It's a cultural issue. Give it 1-2 generations and people won't care that much about nearby relatives, friends etc.
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It's a cultural issue. Give it 1-2 generations and people won't care that much about nearby relatives, friends etc.
Th trend line has been toward significantly less mobility relative to past decades--though you'd probably want to correct the numbers for demographics given that 20 somethings move the most (as one would expect).
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“Locals”, heh. https://reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=february-17-2021
Can you explain that comic? I don't see the word Local anywhere on it and I honestly don't get the joke.
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It removes liquidity from housing market, by repurposing flats/houses into hotels.
It's creating liquidity, just not the kind you value. It's liquidity of short term housing rather than long term housing.
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Ok, then more accurately it’s moving liquidity. The next question is which is more valuable to society?
The United States is short O(10M) housing units[0], primarily due to anti-construction policies. Airbnb has O(100k) listings[1] in the US. Banning short-term rentals is a 1% solution. That's a policy distraction, not a useful lever to pull. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/us-housing... [1] https://www.stratosjets.com/blog/airbnb-statistics/
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I don’t mind tipping, as it incentivizes people to perform better than standard work. I can’t see being forced to pay 20% to someone that can bring food on time for instance. Either way, this is Airbnb, the owner of the property sets the “wage”.
This is the correct stance to take. I've been to other countries where tipping hasn't been implemented, and the service and quality has _always_ been worse than in the grand USA.
> hasn’t been implemented
I’m not going to evangelize what a correct stance on this is, but IMHO tipping is a big, not a feature.
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This is the correct stance to take. I've been to other countries where tipping hasn't been implemented, and the service and quality has _always_ been worse than in the grand USA.
You mean like in Japan? > hasn’t been implemented I’m not going to evangelize what a correct stance on this is, but IMHO tipping is a big, not a feature.
Airbnb removed my positive review and accused me of being in cahoots with the host to leave positive feedback. They said they have found an existing relationship between me and the host. Mind you have no social media accounts, this was my first stay at an Airbnb, I'm from USA and this was in Medellin Colombia, I usually stay at Marriott hotels and I only went with Airbnb because the girl I traveled with suggested usi…