He pays in local money and then heads to - not the bank, actually, for one thing they'll need time to work and for another he wants a phone charger and toiletries and a backpack. And a change of clothes.

Walmart has all those things.

Success! And then on to bank business - retrieving some more of his money and then replacing foreign bills for the other one. And... he doesn't have a credit card and probably isn't staying here long enough to want one even if there turn out not to be any hoops he can't clear just because of being foreign and homeless... will any bank sell him a prepaid card so he can see about paying for... do they have AirBnB here? Is naming things "air" when they aren't made of air allowed?

You can buy those prepaid cards at, like, the pharmacy, but sure, you can also get them at the bank. AirBnB exists; the etymology does not involve the company itself or the rental properties it lists, themselves, being made of air.

Wonderful. Time to book a week someplace cheap with lots of character where he'll meet people and have enough fridge and freezer space to be remotely efficient about food. Shouldn't be hard because he actively prefers to just rent a single room; entire apartments where you never see anyone else are lonely.

This room is next to the laundry room. I will only use the laundry machines during the night if my kid throws up on his sheets or something else of that magnitude happens but I can't guarantee that won't happen.

You can try to keep the cats out of the room but you will fail.

No smoking, no alcohol, no weed, no pets, no guests, no music, no TV, no sex, no one who sleeps with a noisy CPAP machine

ADU with kitchenette but the shower doesn't work. You can use mine in the main house and I will kick back 5% if you're hot and don't bother with wearing a towel or robe or anything on the way in and out. Just looking, no fooling around.

All of the rooms in this house are rented separately, professionally cleaned between stays, and well soundproofed! We cannot guarantee whether there will or will not be any occupants of other rooms at any given time in advance of your booking.

He can't figure out how to interpret these. Of course the rooms should be well-soundproofed and professionally cleaned, but it sounds very... impersonal and professional... but he's not sure if they're trying to seem that way, or any way, or if that's not a thing they can do. Likewise it's not really clear how much he should treat the person who wants to ogle guests (...does this person state a gender preference?) as being... the way that someone who would say that in the real America would be.

It's a kind of vertiginous feeling. Not that he wants to play complicated games with subtext but that - it's like dissecting people, instead of like letting them show him what they like about themselves.

...Maybe he doesn't want to bump elbows with other people after all. Seeing them on their way to the kitchen or the bathroom, hearing any chance remarks they can't avoid making, actually doesn't feel appealing anymore.

So maybe the ADU.

The ADU is available for a reasonable price even without the 5% discount.

Yay.