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What AirBnB has over hotels is locations inside neighborhoods. Take Montreal for example, the hotels are clustered downtown, which is fine if that's what you're looking for. But by staying in an AirBnB you get a local experience, in a local neighborhood. It's like this all over the world.

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As far as I know the locals in most places despise the train of strangers who make noise late near their house/building and hope they aren't people with bad intentions.

Sleeping in an Airbnb is no more local than a hotel except hotels can't get zoning in those neighborhoods and wouldn't get permits for fire safety with those buildings.

This is exactly what’s terrible about Airbnb. A listing in a residential neighborhood creates negative externalities on that community.

That's a failure of urban planning, not Airbnb.

The city probably didn't plan that someone puts a hotel in the middle of a residential area. This is exactly why airbnb hosts tend to get into legal trouble in some countries.

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