Try Googling for "Liverpool". It's a major UK cities with a metropolitan area of 2.2 million. Yet Google only gives you answers about the Liverpool football club.
I completely agree with you. Especially on point 1 and 2. I've had 2 negative experiences with Airbnb, and I can say that it would never have happened at a hotel.
- The first one had a host cancelling a week before my trip. It was a long expected Christmas trip, and I had booked well in advance. Airbnb offered a $30 voucher on their platform, but there was no more availability in the city, so we had to pay a hotel for three times the initial price, the voucher expired before we could use it.
- The second one had a room in very bad conditions. We decided to get a hotel and quickly found something much nicer for half the price. We notified the host that we would not stay, but since we were backpacking abroad it was very hard to contest anything with Airbnb. Ultimately we still payed the full price of our Airbnb booking.
I get angry whenever people tell me they have had cocaine at a festival, club or else. For a supposedly educated upper middle class person, this is the most irresponsible thing you could do when considering the well-being of others.
And I'm all for smoking some weed when it comes from a friend's backyard. But cocaine always has blood and human exploitation on it. The kid who got shot in the bad part of town (happens nearly every day in my city), or Mexican found decapitated at the side of the road.
You finance cocaine, you might as well finance child trafficking!