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Cool. If ten people write about relaxing in the Caribbean, will the site list all 10 posts or somehow favor the best piece?

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This kind of thing would also work on an expat site where people could give their impressions of living in X city. Maybe with categorization of person's general income range, lifestyle and type of experience being shared (so others of similar ilk could look at what they might encounter in that city).

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I actually like this idea a lot. Most tourists are visiting the same spots, and most travel sites give me the same stuff. It would be interesting to follow the daily lives of expats or locals, segmented by what type of work they are doing, and what kind of lifestyle they have.

These are two pretty different target audiences though. The formers one caters towards tourists who are about to visit the city for vacation while the latter caters towards people who are considering moving to that city.

Agreed, and it was something that bothered me when writing my comment because the OP obviously is only focused on one of those audiences.

I have about 20 cities under my belt (half, foreign) and could do the low-income version of all of them :D But this would be a good thing to add to the one or two expat-related sites concerning living costs that have popped up on HN in recent weeks.

This is a great idea, i'd more interested reading about someones experience with a similar budget to me that something that might have more (or less) limits that i'll have. In a similar way, mentioning if the trip is an active trip, or a relaxed one might help (if you don't already do that).

Hi personlurking, well it's not really a huge problem right now because the site has hardly any content :) But, to answer your question the trips are generally ordered by popularity (views and likes). Thanks for the feedback

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