Comment by pfannkuchen
2 days ago
What makes you think they’re desperate? IME people from Asian cultures sometimes have ways of thinking that strike at least me personally as basically alien. And then my brain interpolates their motives wrong based on biases that are shaped by western versions of politeness etc.
The apartment is small; the missus wants you out of it so that she can clean it; you have a deadline; there's a café nearby; bingo.
Who the eff lugs their desktop machine and printer to Starbucks instead of just use it in their house if that's a workable option? You'd have to be sorely motivated by something. Asians are in fact human dude.