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Adali wrote:I don't know about you but I have family in Toronto, Minnesota, Ohio, Dubai, some places in Scandinavia, Nairobi, Cairo etc I can couch serf safely there. Why don't you just visit a family its better for you, of course you will have to deal with 1st, 2nd cousins and your aunts, uncles, but you will have a week or 2 in a different world, and if you plan well you can enjoy your travel to the fullest.

Though staying with relatives is far, far cheaper, I wouldn't bother. Any Somali woman who stays at a random eedo's house is under constant scrutiny. Male visitors can lounge around, but my god, if a female visitor doesn't make haste in volunteering to clean the bathroom or make laxoox, you'll hear nothing but lamentations against her character. "Allah, Hablaayo's daughter's staying with me, and walle she's so useless!" Then there's the fact that you're extra suspicious if you leave the house at night, or spend a day out.

No thank you. I'd rather dish out extra money for a hotel/hostel and live in peace.

Live in peace or live in shameful sin.

grandpakhalif wrote:Live in peace or live in shameful sin.

But then if your relatives KNOW you're in town and that you've chosen a hotel over them, they're going to think that you're a dhilo.

"Why isn't Heblaayo staying with us? Bal yaab, inanta maxay qarinaysaa?"

Women are fucked either way.

how can you trust people you don't know and even if you research it's not safe at all ..that shit is for white people waligaa ha isku doonan.

I don't even trust strangers to give me a ride let alone sleeping at their house

ManD333q wrote:how can you trust people you don't know and even if you research it's not safe at all ..that shit is for white people waligaa ha isku doonan.

I don't even trust strangers to give me a ride let alone sleeping at their house

Would you take a taxi?

You're nuts

Alphanumeric wrote:

ManD333q wrote:how can you trust people you don't know and even if you research it's not safe at all ..that shit is for white people waligaa ha isku doonan.

I don't even trust strangers to give me a ride let alone sleeping at their house

Would you take a taxi?

lol yeah I would..but it's not the same as being picked up by a random person.

ManD333q wrote:

Alphanumeric wrote:

ManD333q wrote:how can you trust people you don't know and even if you research it's not safe at all ..that shit is for white people waligaa ha isku doonan.

I don't even trust strangers to give me a ride let alone sleeping at their house

Would you take a taxi?

lol yeah I would..but it's not the same as being picked up by a random person.

Right. Continued monetary gain is incentive not to kill you. I think BednBreakfasts/couchsurfing is much the same. But reviews are necessary.

Awww, look at how we're being protected by the warm, fluffy blanket of capitalism!

You guys are paranoid, the cons of my original post was a joke. The people on couch surfing websites go through a lot of backround checks. Murders and rapists aren't going to sign up on these websites and deal with that kind of scrutiny. Besides, most of the people offering a spare room are travelers themselves. They just want to help out the traveling community.

alpha you can never trust people you don't know whoever they might be...but people with business are likely less 'dangerous' than some strangers on the internet and as I heard this couch-surfing thing is free. everyone can do advertise on those websites and this must be like a heaven for rapists and all kind of wierdo

Aasli wrote: You guys are paranoid, the cons of my original post was a joke. The people on couch surfing websites go through a lot of backround checks. Murders and rapists aren't going to sign up on these websites and deal with that kind of scrutiny. Besides, most of the people offering a spare room are travelers themselves. They just want to help out the traveling community.

This sounds like the script to every low-budget horror movie...and u sound like the token black chick who always dies in the opening scene

ManD333q wrote:alpha you can never trust people you don't know whoever they might be...but people with business are likely less 'dangerous' than some strangers on the internet and as I heard this couch-surfing thing is free. everyone can do advertise on those websites and this must be like a heaven for rapists and all kind of wierdo

Couch surfing, from what I know, is a service that you pay into. But you must be able to provide a couch as well. What I think the OP was referring was something called air bednbreakfast. That isn't free and usually costs $100/night in major cities, for renting an entire apartment or house. I really don't know what Aasli is referring to exactly.

Money talks more than most things.

yungnfresh wrote:

Aasli wrote: You guys are paranoid, the cons of my original post was a joke. The people on couch surfing websites go through a lot of backround checks. Murders and rapists aren't going to sign up on these websites and deal with that kind of scrutiny. Besides, most of the people offering a spare room are travelers themselves. They just want to help out the traveling community.

This sounds like the script to every low-budget horror movie...and u sound like the token black chick who always dies in the opening scene

I have the feeling you get scared easily.