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This sounds great! It reminds me of SERVAS, in that it features non-reciprocal homestays. However, SERVAS is only for a couple of days and entire families can stay.
Before I became a parent, I stayed in well over a dozen homes in Western/Central/Northern Europe and it was amazing to see the differences and similarities. Some of my most vivid travel memories are from those stays.
I plan to do it with my family some day, but we haven’t yet. I may just go with my daughter as I’m not sure my husband could handle it. Maybe, though.
If I ever get my house in order, I will definitely look into this. Thanks for posting.
I hope that you get a chance to do it, as the world opens up and it can create a wonderful experience and life long friendships.
I hate to sound like a party pooper, and I do like the idea of this arrangement. However, this screams safety issues to me. The idea of, what is essentially, a stranger babysitting my children is terrifying. And having an unknown person know all about you life and family and then allowing them to move in sounds like a great beginning for a horror movie.
I hate that I’m going to sound like a conspiracy theorist or a nervous nelly but there is a reality here that is not conducive to allowing stranger to live in your house and sleep near your innocent children.
Hi Marissa,
You raise a really good point. This is something that we think about when inviting people in to our environment. But we have always had a lot of people coming and going around our family home and it can require a leap of faith that ultimately people are good. So we often have young people who are just wanting to travel the world and experience life in another culture. It is also important to say that even the Workaway person could be vulnerable, so yes, it requires trust that you will attract the right people in to your environment. If you feel that it wouldn’t work for you then you know best, and for you it probably wouldn’t.