[Amezarak]

> Cities long ago stopped approving small motels to be built,

I wish they had, but that's not true anywhere I've lived.

[lotsofpulp]

I’m in the US, I have not seen a single new hotel in the last few decades that was not minimum 3 stories and indoor. The numbers do not pencil out for anything less than 60 to 80 rooms, and cities do not want the cheap local motels that end up catering to drug users/prostitutes/etc. A motel 6 would be the lowest quality tier I think.

[Amezarak]

I'm in the US and I've see plenty of them built recently, which have exactly all the problems you mention, which is why I'd rather them not.