scrubbedexpat096

Flagged this as Marxist propaganda.


Congratulations is this your first vote as a USC?

zzrmark

Did you have crazy queues to contend with or are you ok because you're in a predominantly white county so the supervisors made sure there were plenty of booths? It was you that said the county has gone from 5 stations to just the one, right?

zzrmark

I popped my USC general election cherry last week, technically mine could be described as a grey gangbang as there were loads of old people all waiting to shove their doodahs in the magic slot...

civilservant

Sworn in last May, so sure is!

Had to queue for about 10 minutes, nothing bad. My county is only 20,000 people but is indeed pretty white.

Lion in Winter

Civilisation needs you in Georgia, it's tight.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...neral/georgia/

I've voted in Illinois, but it won't make nearly as much difference as yours might.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...eral/illinois/

spouse of scouse

I love Airbnbs and have stayed in them in many countries. It's nice to be able to stay somewhere other than the tourist areas, and interacting with local people as you do your grocery shopping and walk the streets is lovely. As long as the accommodation is properly registered with the relevant authorities I don't see the objection?

scrubbedexpat099

AirBnB is a booking system not a type of property. Local Hotel was listed on Airn for a while as well as the others.

Steerpike

I have a personal objection, and a more general objection. The personal objection is based on the experience of friends who have ended up in 'questionable' locations, and 'questionable' accommodations. But my much bigger objection is that they are bringing 'high turnover' visitors into residential areas, and they don't have to abide by the same rules as hotels (which must accommodate the disabled, etc). My development has passed rules against 'short term' visitors specifically to block AirBNB users; you cannot rent a property for less than 30 days; something that is quite hard to enforce.

Steerpike

Technically correct, but would you agree that more than 90% of properties are private dwellings? Probably 99%?

scrubbedexpat096

If Biden can get over the line in Georgia, you have to assume Trump is in for a bit of a kicking.

Some interesting news articles out lately that apply the polling discrepancies of 2016 to this years polling data. So they have applied the percentage amount the polls where out in several states last year to this years data, it shows Trump is still some way behind even allowing for them to be wrong in 2020

spouse of scouse

The local authorities shouldn't licence them if they don't comply with the same rules that govern all short-stay accommodation. I wouldn't consider renting any accommodation that wasn't licenced.

I just did a rough count, we've had stays at 17 Airbnb apartments, every one was fantastic. Still, horses for courses!

spouse of scouse

Savannah Guthrie did a great job with holding Trump accountable, both by insisting he actually answer questions and by fact-checking his ridiculous lies. The pussy grabber didn't much like being grabbed by the town halls.

Lion in Winter

We can but hope, and he can go back to his ghost-written book deal or whatever and deal with his bankruptcy and tax lawyers.

civilservant

It was kind of funny actually, I had a brief conversation with a poll worker while I was there. I commented that I didn't expect it to be so busy on a Thursday afternoon at 2pm, and she said they had been busy every day since early voting opened on Monday.

I said that I hoped that was a good thing, and she agreed that it was and 'hoped for the right outcome'

Since she was a 60/70-something white women, living in rural GA, I assume her definition of 'the right outcome' and mine are somewhat in disagreement

scrubbedexpat099

Well I know my area reasonably well, most are second homes, some owned by an individual, some owned through LLC's. The two nearest me ar owned by an investor, he also has a LTR.

I know 2 people who are min STR management, and 2 who clean them. One of them cleans for a Denver Lady who has a whole host of Tiny Houses. Near the resorts the LTR market has shifted to STR, people certainly buy second homes with the expectation that renting STR will make of free to them.

A friend did a photoshoot of 3 AirBnB's in Breckenridge. 3 houses, ski run proximate, even in the off season they are $1,000's a night. Apparently 3 guys went into together and own them.

Very little mom and pop shared housing, still exists but obviously that would not be enough to justify a fraction of the valuation.