Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
by tbdenney on Friday September 02, 2022 @04:29AM
(#32688168)
AirBnB already is limited in Amsterdam:
"According to Dutch regulations, you can only rent out your entire home in Amsterdam for a maximum of 30 nights per year, unless you have a specific permit that allows you to rent out your home for more nights, such as a short term stay license."
Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
by bamboozled on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:35PM
(#32696468)
Lived in Amsterdam a few years back, the AirBNBs made it freaking torture during summer.
The old wooden buildings where one could hear everything, people arriving and talking loudly in the stairwells then banging their suitcases up the stairs etc.
We left, couldn't deal wit it.
Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
by ricardobayes on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:42PM
(#32742235)
I feel your pain, it's definitely a big problem in many places in Europe. Bad construction + overcrowded = Noisy.
That said I grew up in a concrete high-rise 'high density' building in Eastern Europe, and I can't recall that I ever heard any neighbor.
Re:The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
by Yaa101 on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:41AM
(#32689065)
But still the problems are not solved, it is not only airbnb, like many places we are in the endgame of neoliberalism which is the wholesale of other peoples property to rich people by the corrupt political class.
Take Amsterdam for example.
A good decade ago, it was crowded in the tourism months (summer), but not too bad. Now it's crowded in the off season too, and during the summer months even more so, to the point where walking around is really hard.
The mayor seems to constantly want to get rid of cannabis, which won't solve the problem, the issue isn't the weed tourism... it's the unfettered tourism.
These things can be controlled, you can control how much tourists you have by limiting the amount of hotels you have in your city. But with AirBnB you lose all control on how many tourists.