Air Bnb has ruined my life

You could also rent a holiday cottage in holiday park. You don't need to do AirBnB if what you want is self catered.

About eating out - we rarely eat out, or do takeaways, Maybe just four or five times a year. For a family of 5, who eat like adults, it is hugely expensive. We certainly wouldn't do it on holiday every evening. It seems a bit sad that only people with a certain amount of money, and with a certain lifestyle, are allowed to go on holiday. I would say the issue is not Air B and B, but the people who use them. I wonder if they are respectful of their own homes? Maybe not.

I would love to live in a nice area, maybe even the area I grew up in. I can't afford to. I have found a job in an area I can afford, a considerable distance from where my family is. I could blame all the other people who have bought houses in this nice area, for making it high demand. it is a difficult one, isn't it?

And people want to enjoy their homes.

If there was no Airbnb, there would be more free houseswapping by now. We do this a lot with friends and family, internationally. It works really well. And is largely free for all of us.

So go camping if you can't afford hotels

I want to enjoy my holiday

And if I was complaining about the room sizes why suggest something a lot smaller.

I suppose you did say you judged people for not doing exactly what you do.

You obviously judge people for being poorer than you

Yes you did have holiday rentals before Airbnb.

Friend had a holiday home that she would let out when her family weren’t using it
It was just an ordinary house in a touristy destination surrounded by permanent residents and other holiday rentals

I had friends at school in the 60s who did the same

The difference is now you can search for holiday lets on the internet instead of requesting a brochure and waiting for it to be delivered in the post

So go camping if you can't afford hotels
Stop destroying the housing market

Hotels are extortionate prices. Not just the nightly cost but the price of a drink (even soft drinks) you might want sitting by the pool etc

Then there is the size of the hotel room especially when you get a family of 4, suitcases etc in there. Only 1 bathroom. Add in that if someone wants to sleep you can’t have the light on and have to be extra quiet to not wake them as it is just one room.

Just because people use Airbnb’s why do you think they don’t go out to eat. If anything they are probably spending more in the local shops and restaurants than those staying in hotels.

Governments earn tax out of it, they don’t care.

Ive gone back to exclusively using hotels over the past 5 years.

I judge anyone who uses Airbnb. They're usually the right on left wing types.

I find it sad you would go on holiday and wouldn't eat while out and about. Most other countries are cheaper and if they aren't and you cant afford to support the local economy properly then why are you there?

Enough people complained about air bnb in the city where I live that they changed the rules. Now the person who owns the air bnb has to also live on the premises. So no more renting of a full house. (which doesn't affect me as we also go to hotels) for the larger groups of people. We always book self catering suites when on holidays. I find they cost a lot less than most air bnbs and I don't have to worry about leaving the place spotless when I leave.

Are there rules in your building ie. must be quiet after 10 or 11, etc.

its a problem all over, just like crap drivers, typically no english speaking or illegal (and claiming benefits) Uber drivers etc, consequences were ruining livelihoods/jobs of long time registered taxi Folk , AND with a nice side effect of basically increasing prices by a 33% with minimal benefit. workers now get less money too.

As for Airb&b and similar, consequences for so many countries, poor people priced out, tourists ruining area, situations like yours, eventually megacorps buying up all the properties, causing all humans to live like mice in large megacorp owned multi story lego buildings.

We need drastic legislation and laws to be implemented ASAP to sort this out. There is no need for airb&bs, at least not on this scale, there was always cheaper-priced hotels and lodgings..

Fyi, I have no issue private indivuduals (not corpos) renting their home out wherever it is, for the summer or whatever, but this year-round rental basically causes mini hotel problems without the benefits, and miserable to citizens native there.

At least hotels have regulations, sound proofed walls, out-of-the-way locations, etc.

They've lived there for 20yrs, have jobs, a settled family, friends and community.

But, you think they should start again in A Place in the Country, against their will. Nevermind, that there aren't many decent paying jobs in the countryside or small towns. As well as having to uproot their daughter's education and be miles away from friends and family.

I’m so pleased that was helpful. We’ve always had great neighbours until ten years after we moved into our forever home. Really difficult neighbours moved in. We tried everything to keep them happy. They ended up in a legal battle with our other neighbours. Fortunately we avoided this. They stressed me out so much I started to hate my beautiful home.
Two things changed my mind. One was a friend who pointed out how lucky we were to live where we do, when I was complaining about the neighbours. The second was drawing a line, refusing to pander to them and redecorating our home to make it more inviting. 15 years on and they are finally moving out.
I’ve started to love my home again in recent years. These things can change. I totally understand where you are at right now but if you can manage to shift your mindset, it can help. Good luck OP. I know what you are going through.

A lot of property training companies encourage serviced accommodation and sell properties or lease the. With these I creased rents and none of the renter right so they're a profitable model. Not sure where you are but in London you na only rent short lets for 90 days of the year so you could tell your local MP if in LDN. They keep talking about licensing but all things government takes so long.

Very very sorry, but they are economic migrants, hoping for a better future in a country with slackadaisical regulation.

I would be in favour of more family friendly accommodation for holidays. We use youth hostels in London for this reason.

It sucks that holiday let's have become so damaging to local communities and OP should definitely follow @auderesperare suggestions on regular complaints, getting together with other residents etc. Local councils / governments should definitely legislate to make it more difficult to rent out multiple properties. However, the market is driven by what customers want. Hotels are impractical for families for anything longer than a couple of nights and self catering apartments are cheaper for the amount of space you get. In order to free up more apartments for locals needing long term lets, there needs to be an alternative for tourists, or they will go elsewhere and spend less money in the local area. Maybe more hotels with interconnecting rooms so parents have space after kids have gone to bed in the other room, purpose built apartment blocks set aside for short term lets (but not 'aparthotels' which have extra facilities making them too expensive for families). That way the tourists get their self catering place to relax in but don't take too much housing stock from locals. I know it's not a perfect solution but there has to be a carrot (realistic alternatives giving visitors what they want) as well as a stick (legislation making it more difficult for landlords to go on Airbnb etc).

This is a problem where we live too as it's a big tourist destination (west coast of the US). Under pressure from residents, local City councils are finally imposing lower limits on rental times, e.g. at least 6 months. But this is only part of the problem. Builders only want to put up MacMansions, not low-cost, social housing. Homelessness is out of control. Large chunks of the city are "ghettoised". (I remember I was shocked when my DH first told me, over 20 years ago, that such-and-such was 'a Black middle-class neighbourhood.' A what?) America isn't a melting pot—it's a mosaic. Members of different ethnic groups cling together and don't want to move elsewhere, even when they can afford to.

In Naples, Italy, which we know well, there were already protests back in 2018 with the slogan, 'Naples is a city, not a hotel!'. Frankly, I preferred the place before the cruise ships started berthing there and crowds of other tourists started moving in (and out, and in, and out, and... ), but at least the latter buy provisions, while each morning's cruise-ship tourists, of course, are all gone that same evening.

And before anyone hits back: when we go to Naples, we go for 11-12 months at a time, not a week. When we go away in the US, we sometimes use AirBnbs, but we are always quiet and respectful of our neighbours, and we make sure we contribute to the local economy as well, with plenty of purchases from shops, restaurants, etc. The town we visit depends wholly on tourism now, as its other traditional industry, fishing, is dead in the water. So to say.

I sympathise with you. Edinburgh is suffering with the same thing, here. As, perhaps surprisingly, places like Skye. Friends advertising a nice long term let had some 40 applications for the tenancy in the first week. Key workers are living in caravans. All the flats in Edinburgh that people used to rent when I was young are Airbnb and it's impossible to find anywhere to rent at a reasonable price. I pity the poor people who are in the middle of this. I believe the government is starting to take notice, and making it very expensive to own and maintain these properties, so it's a start - and it doesn't surprise me that there are demonstrations in cities like Barcelona. I'd be demonstrating too. They're not protesting about hotels. They're protesting about the fact that the locals can't find anywhere to live. Meanwhile, do complain to whoever and wherever you can. I hope you can find a solution.

You seem to presume there isn't crime here; not the case.
I'm well aware of rising populations; may I suggest you join 'population matters' to address the issue? David Attenborough is the chairman.
25 years ago most people had one annual holiday, now people go away at half term, for hen weekends, for spa weekends, for city breaks, for restaurant visits, for every damned life event that has ever befallen them.

The population has increased by 10million in the last 25 years. So 'mass tourism' isn't due to Airbnb. It's due to more people living here. Infrastructure is on its knees everywhere. Easier to live with a failing infrastructure in a beautiful place, rather than living with collapsing services in a run down crime ridden city.

Please don't misrepresent my views; at no point did I state that I 'want to keep it all for myself', nor that I own it. Tourism is welcome, and has been for a very long time. I am talking about mass tourism, and airbnbs. Just because you want to visit, doesn't give you the right to spoil it.