Should more of us be moving to live near friends?

Post by vel0city » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 6:09 AM UTC

lolinder wrote: post #160

vel0city wrote: post #149

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You are kind of missing the point. You can live in a small town that might be 1-2 hours separated by the next town and still not be "rural". You're still living an urban life, not a rural life. It's not like you need your town to be >1M people for it to be "urban". There's small town urban, there's a big city urban, and there's rural. Do you actually live in a place statistically considered urban or rural? If you hav…

You're being needlessly pedantic. The top-level comment is saying that they could only live in a big city for {reasons}—it's very very clear that a small town of 5000 doesn't count for them. In that context, the commenter that started this subthread is clearly using "rural" to describe everything that isn't in a big city—places where there are hour-sized gaps between small towns count as rural when it's used to disti…

Post by bandwidth-bob » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 6:14 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #59

There is a movement called Cohousing that I don’t think gets enough attention. I prefer to call it Tiny Neighborhoods, which is basically what the article describes. If interested, I did a 3,000 word deep dive into the specifics of how tiny neighborhoods have worked over the past 50 years… https://iambateman.com/tiny

Post by vel0city » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 6:26 AM UTC

rascul wrote: post #174

vel0city wrote: post #171

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> In that context, the commenter that started this subthread is clearly using "rural" to describe everything that isn't in a big city That's not the term for rural though. That's small towns and villages, not "rural". These are real words with real meanings. If I started saying the furry 30lb animal in my house that goes "bark" is an elephant it's not the right term to use and I'd welcome you calling out my improper…

Which definition of "rural" are you referring to?

Post by edm0nd » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 6:27 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #73

flawn wrote: post #62

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Hmm, tangentially related, but how would you say SF changed? Where would you get this feeling of SF back then nowadays? Thought about giving SF a visit in summer as an aspiring software engineer & entrepreneur but curious to what you think about it.

Hard to say, and it's highly subjective. It just feels like Silicon Valley is no longer about building cool things and making the world better through technology. It's become about exploitation and extraction, instead of building. It's about capturing and controlling users rather than serving them. It's about "crushing it in the market, bro." It's grindset, hustle culture, performative work. It's about phony tech cho…

Post by everly » Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 6:38 AM UTC

donw wrote: post #161

aylmao wrote: post #143

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> Alain Bertaud, the urbanist, recently said, “the big contribution of cities is randomness.” And he continues: “You don't know what to expect. You don't know who you will meet. And, it's precisely because you meet people who are different from you, who have different ideas. Sometime even it could be obnoxious people. I think obnoxious people — I mean, what I consider obnoxious — are necessary in order to stimulate.”…

This fits with my experience living in SF: people might look different, but if you were to be blindfolded and talk to a group of them, you would struggle mightily to pick out any substantial differences between individuals.