1. Starting today, I'm living on Airbnb. I’ll be staying in a different town or city every couple weeks
2. This week I'm in Atlanta. I'll be coming back to San Francisco often, but for now my home will be an Airbnb somewhere
3. Why am I doing this? I think the pandemic has created the biggest change to travel since the advent of commercial flying
4. For the first time, millions of people can now live anywhere
5. Remote work has untethered many people (obviously not everyone, but a large chunk) from the need to be in an office every day
6. We’re seeing this in our data. From July to September, 1 in 5 nights booked on Airbnb were for stays of a month or longer, and nearly half of nights booked were for stays of a week or longer
7. In the past year, 100,000 Airbnb guests booked stays of 3 months or longer
8. In 2022, I think the biggest trend in travel will be people spreading out to thousands of towns and cities, staying for weeks, months, or even entire seasons at a time
9. More people will start living abroad, others will travel for the entire summer, and some will even give up their leases and become digital nomads
10. Cities and countries will compete to attract these remote workers, and it will lead to a redistribution of where people travel and live
11. This trend is kind of like a decentralization of living, and it’s changing the identity of travel
12. So that’s why I’m living on Airbnb. It’ll be fun, but more importantly it will help us improve the experience for people who can now live anywhere
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