Saturday, October 04, 2014

A bit more about Airbnb lifestyle

A bit more about Airbnb lifestyle 

After our long and exhaustive discussion in class about Airbnb, I found this interesting article of Prerna Gupta, who lived exclusively in temporary housing she and her husband found on sites like Airbnb. 

Although our professor has some valid arguments regarding discrimination and peace disturbance of neighbors, Airbnb offers the chance to experience a life without possessions and fancy things, and interestingly (and I agree), she realized that they did not miss a single one of the possessions they had since they left. 

Sharing-economy-driven lifestyle forces you to let go of your possessions and seeing the new trends, it has a decent chance of becoming the dominant mode for younger generations.

Full article link below:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/03/airbnb-lifestyle-the-rise-of-the-hipster-nomad/?ncid=tcdaily

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