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		wintermutestwin on July 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mass tourism protesters squirt water at Barcelona ... …and that is a major plus to using Airbnb. I don’t want to have to be in a tourist zone because they, just like hotels, suck. Airbnb has turned me into a traveller because they disrupted the hotel industry. When a city bans airbnb, they are banning me from visiting.

hindsightbias on July 8, 2024 [–]

So Barcelona builds 50K homes and 49K are airbnb’d.

Build it and they will come.

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