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I am not imagining myself part of the local population. Of course I am just a tourist staying there for a few days, I am talking about how it "feels to me". If you want all your travel to be based on hotels, your choice, I prefer homes. Hotels are cold, impersonal places. Anyway, I never rented AirBnb in US, only in large cities in other countries across EU and in Japan.

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What you imagine or feel is irrelevant - if the housing you were in wasn't an Airbnb, it'd likely be occupied by a permanent resident.

That person, for better or worse, would be part of a community and contribute to it.

At some point, a community resembles swiss-cheese because so many people who would otherwise be in the community are absent because the housing they'd live in is absent. AirBNB's are just one part of this equation though.

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