Reasons not to use Uber

Re:Reasons not to use Uber by throwaway729 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:54PM (#12939831)

I don't think there's necessarily a xenophobic component to not wanting to live next to a hotel. In fact, that explanation seems pretty unlikely -- I don't typically see concentrations of minorities when I'm at hotels in the US... most customers are your average middle class professional on business, or vacationing middle class family.

I wouldn't want to live next to any hotel, including a 5 start resort catering to mostly domestic customers.

Hotels bring a lot of problems -- bursts of foot/auto traffic at weird times of the night, public drinking/drunkenness and loud groups of pedestrians on week nights, etc.

Nothing wrong with any of that -- vacations should be fun! -- but when it's happening every other Tuesday night in the next-door apartment, it can get super annoying.

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by elcct on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:23PM (#12939969)

As xenophobia I meant fear of strangers in general. What you listed really sounds like you should have a farm. Those things in residential areas are unavoidable.

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by Anderkent on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:54PM (#12940136)

Those thing occur sometimes, but rarely, in a purely residential area. someone has a louder party every couple of months, people travel now and then... Compare to basically every week with a flat that's being airbnb'd constantly.

They're entirely avoidable. I live in central london, and I've never had any issues with neighbours until I moved to a flat where the landlord upstairs decided to just full-time airbnb the place, rather than rent to someone permanent.

Tourists are way more inconsiderate of neighbours. It makes sense - they're never going to meet us, they're just here to have fun. But pretending it has no impact on the quality of the area is silly.

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by elcct on Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:28PM (#12941072)

There are already laws in place if neighbour is noisy. Also if you move to a flat you have to factor in that such situation might happen. That is just a nature of flats. If not Airbnb, flat above could be bought / rented by party students or family with 10 kids. You never know and that's why flats are considerably cheaper than houses where you can have more certainty.

> Tourists are way more inconsiderate of neighbours.

You cannot generalise. If tourists are making noises then there are anti social reporting services that you can use.

Airbnb is not only for tourists, but it is used by people who just moved in and are looking for a place to rent and don't want to spend fortune on hotels or for example it is a great alternative for contractors - having for example 1 month assignment, why spend money on hotel?

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Re:Reasons not to use Uber by throwaway729 on Saturday November 12, 2016 @03:25PM (#12939979)

> Those things in residential areas are unavoidable.

This is not my experience. Even in urban areas I've lived places that are not like this.

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