:marsey911roofer: sketchily renting a swanky Airbnb is honestly like illegal immigration :marseychudnotes!:

Found a really cheap deal on Airbnb that seemed too good to be true except it really turned out to be that good and more :marseypikachu2:

While the listing obviously didn't state that it wasn't very legal, you could guess from all the positive :marseywink: :marseywink: reviews

I'll not talk in detail about the whole thing yet in case some fricker snitches and renders me really homeless here but it's literally a serviced apartment in the heart of Thailand for less than $100 (good luck searching) with country club like amenities

But the whole thing felt like some illegal immigrant lived experience I paid for

1. Escorted to our room via the carpark instead of the lobby :marseyxd:

  • felt like arriving via boats and shit

2. Insanely nice room for the price I paid, fully furnished pantry/kitchen, living room, bedroom and a balcony with a view

  • the price I paid to the human traffickers/Airbnb hosts paled in comparison to the first world privileges I received in return

3. It's an open secret except that it's not so enforced but staff and other working locals (property agents etc) seem to give you the “I can tell” look

  • lax immigration policies and frustrated native populace

4. My wife didn't know that the booking was sketchy so she never nooooticed the weird looks from the locals

  • 1st gen vs 2nd/3rd gen migrants in knowing their place? Admittedly it's a bit of :marseymentalgymnastics: :marseymentalgymnastics2:

That device in the photo I posted is where you tap your elevator keys but it constantly scans the faces of people standing in front of the cameras on it and goes “identity not verified” if it doesn't recognise you :marseyxd: most of the time that's the situation with when other “tenants” are with you on the lift and it's a IYKYK type of understanding

I've noooticed that oldstrags tend to stand away from that stupid bot's POV to avoid getting an “identity not verified” so it gets funny when we're all squeezing at the back but there's not enough space so one person's back ends up turned towards the cameras

SMH surveillance state

!chuds am I :marseyschizowave:

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My wife didn't know that the booking was sketchy

:marseyf#oidretard:

Although I'm not one to talk, I got a wonderful airbnb in paris a few years ago that seemed sketch as heck, and even on arriving this was the frontage (the entrance is through the garage door to the left of the shop) and here's some of the airbnb photos used to advertise it:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057600260905392.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1705760026238562.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057600263634243.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/1705760026481619.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057600266236513.webp

Yeah it was exactly what it claimed to be. Shit was cash.

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Lmao how my Paris host trapped me

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057620830224833.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057620833136585.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17057620837353883.webp

Very nice dude with nice bread though

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TBH whenever I see air conditioning listed as a feature of a euro airbnb I'm always sus because it's just so uncommon, and that's the kind of feature only necessary in the third world shitholes the scammers come from

That looks very cosy though

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That looks very cosy though

The walls were thin as frick and I heard every raindrop :marseyxd:

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Renting in the 93 :#marseyxd:. This would be like finding a really nice airbnb on skid row.

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As nice as it was, I definitely should've rented one in the more dramapilled area

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