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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by namdnay on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:29PM (#23224594)
> If I'm going to mingle, I'd prefer to mingle with the locals rather than other foreigners

I don't understand you here: that's the whole point of couchsurfing! You're staying with "real people", instead of yet another backpacker hostel

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Re:The Death of Couchsurfing? by CapricornNoble on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:12PM (#23225258)
Sorry I kinda jumped subjects mid-post from Couchsurfing to backpacking, after reading some comments of how many CS guests are just trying to get a dirt-cheap roof over their head and don't interact much with their host. I don't recall many "local single woman hosting single guy" posts back in 2011-12 when I used CS anyway, not for places I was considering (Eastern Europe and SE Asia).
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