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I don't know if this qualifies as "horror", but I think it's a pretty good description of some of the negatives. I was sort of semi-nomadic for a while and I definitely recognize those feelings.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2492064/mobile-wireless...

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Thank you for that link. It was enlightening in ways I didn't expect. For example, I had no idea that airbnb was so broken:

"You'll notice that nearly all the reviews of places to stay on AirBnB are positive. Why? Because if you post a negative review, the host is likely to post a negative review about you in retaliation. And once you have a negative review as a guest, nobody will rent to you."

Not sure whether it was different in the beginning, but nowadays, reviews are only displayed after both parties have submitted theirs - or once the 14 day window for submitting reviews has expired.

Yes — this has fortunately been fixed. I still have the problem where if the hosts are really nice but the place isn't great, I don't want to leave a bad review and shut down their operation. As a result, I mostly leave reviews when the stay was amazing in some way.

That's a very accurate article. One downside that he didn't mention, which is actually the same as one of his upsides, is that you're always a visitor — especially if you have the Schengen problem like he described. It's hard to feel comfortable, acclimated, at home, when you change cities so often. Now I take particular relish in coming back to places I've been before, and I hope I can find an easy way to attain residency in Europe so I don't have to do the UK-Schengen-Balkans thing every 3 months.

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