Post by High Priestess on Nov 26, 2015 15:52:34 GMT
Look here for the New York Times story on a couple who lived in New York City Airbnb's for a year:
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/realestate/our-year-of-living-airbnb.html?_r=0
"Alistair Cooke once described New York as “the biggest collection of villages in the world,” and I dreamed of living in all of them.
That wanderlust, rather than my work as an academic physicist or diplomat, had compelled me to move constantly between continents with my wife, Elaine Kuok, for more than 15 years. Last fall, we decided to follow her art career as a painter and sculptor to New York and finally settle down. But after we had searched for a home to buy or rent long-term, Elaine realized she didn’t want to take the plunge without first knowing the city and its neighborhoods better.
Here was my chance to live the dream. I proposed that we do an experiment and move to a different neighborhood every month for a year. We would find apartments using Airbnb, the website that has rocked the travel industry by offering short-term rentals, often those in private homes."
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/realestate/our-year-of-living-airbnb.html?_r=0
"Alistair Cooke once described New York as “the biggest collection of villages in the world,” and I dreamed of living in all of them.
That wanderlust, rather than my work as an academic physicist or diplomat, had compelled me to move constantly between continents with my wife, Elaine Kuok, for more than 15 years. Last fall, we decided to follow her art career as a painter and sculptor to New York and finally settle down. But after we had searched for a home to buy or rent long-term, Elaine realized she didn’t want to take the plunge without first knowing the city and its neighborhoods better.
Here was my chance to live the dream. I proposed that we do an experiment and move to a different neighborhood every month for a year. We would find apartments using Airbnb, the website that has rocked the travel industry by offering short-term rentals, often those in private homes."