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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by ghaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:08PM (#27520816)
Depends what you mean by domestic staff. With the at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work, people in the West don't typically have full-time dedicated staff because income disparities are mostly not that great until you get into the 1% or smaller slices of the population.

What I'm sure most Googlers--and indeed many middle class people to greater or lesser degrees--use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.

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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by cannabis_sam on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:13PM (#27520885)
> use is a lot of shared services such as tradespeople, lawn care if they have a house, meal delivery, grocery delivery, car services, housekeepers, etc. You mostly don't need people full-time but many do consume people doing stuff for them that they could do themselves on a regular basis.

How often are these people brought on holiday?

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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by ghaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:21PM (#27520998)
I was responding to this comment: "Even a line Googler doesn't normally have domestic staff do they?"
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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by chrisseaton on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:13PM (#27520900)
> at least somewhat common exception of au pairs if both halves of a couple work

Wow this blows my mind TIL

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Re:Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares... by ghaff on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @04:25PM (#27521028)
A quick Google tells me that there are 17,500 au pairs in the US in a given year. That's not a lot in the grand scheme of things but probably doesn't capture all live-in or otherwise more or less full-time child care arrangements. And of course, it's only an arrangement a couple will need for a bounded length of time.

It's not very common much less routine but if I heard a presumably well-paid tech person tell me they had an au pair or nanny, it wouldn't cause me to think "They must have family money" or anything like that.

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