> One good friend of mine was a member of a Welsh group in the 80s whose name I don't know (but maybe someone on HN does know) who literally burned down the vacation houses of English people. I always think of that every time I'm woken up too early, which is almost every single day.
> I live in a $500k house and Airbnb has wrecked my daily peace and my neighborhood.
Wow, this one is an odd comment. An actual nimby praising terrorism.
Not In My Back Yard
The problem is I don't like getting into conflict with neighbors, or making trouble for people. I try to be considerate even if I feel like they're not doing the same.
I didn't know but DDG did:
Meibion Glyndŵr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meibion_Glynd%C5%B5r
Thanks for the reference!
What steps have you taken to try to prevent yourself from hearing them shout, "Housekeeping," at 8AM and waking up early every day?
People make noise, that's the way things go. I'm not saying it's pleasant - that pressure washer sure pissed me the fuck off, almost irrationally so, so I completely understand where OP is coming from. But what I read in OP's post is that they don't like someone yelling, "Housekeeping!" at 8AM. If that's legitimately the only thing that regularly wakes them up early, then there are plenty of ways to prevent yourself from hearing it.
Edit: Please do not take this as a defense of AirBNB whatsoever - in point of fact, I agree with the general sentiment that they make life difficult for neighbors. That said, there's nuance here, and I'd just like to know more about OP's situation, because what they described doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as other AirBNB horror stories.
The (absent) owner does take some efforts to prevent loud groups, and to inform the guests to respect the neighbors by not playing loud music, etc, and mostly that's adhered to. Because of that, there's developed a kind of detente where I don't want to aggravate them or get into a neighbor war over nits like "Housekeeping", when really it's the totality of it that takes a toll on my sleep and my nerves.
One good friend of mine was a member of a Welsh group in the 80s whose name I don't know (but maybe someone on HN does know) who literally burned down the vacation houses of English people. I always think of that every time I'm woken up too early, which is almost every single day. I live in a $500k house and Airbnb has wrecked my daily peace and my neighborhood. Sure if I were smart and also an asshole I'd just put my own place up on Airbnb and fuck off myself. Part of me just believes it would be fucked up to do that to my other neighbors, and part of me doesn't want to accept that as the world we have to live in.