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This rules. I want to do it, but I know I can't personally, because I'm not awake at the hour people normally want coffee. Maybe I can figure out stoop whiskey. Another thing that works for meeting and talking to your neighbors, and has the benefit of attaching you to people who live blocks away from you and not just the people you see getting into the car every morning, is local politics. I've met more people being…
Phil, editor of the Supernuclear Substack here. I wasn't expecting "hanging out on stoops" to boot AI out of the #1 slot on Hacker News :) Glad this resonated for folks A great way of kick-starting stoop culture is having a friend or family member live right next door. We started a company called Live Near Friends ( https://livenearfriends.com ) to help people do this.
pff wish i knew abt this last year!
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I live in an inner-ring suburb of Chicago (Oak Park) and stoop coffee would be much easier to do here than in San Francisco (where I lived many years ago). This is what my suburb looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9014246,-87.791197,3a,75y,17...
If you haven't tried already, you need to try Sen Sushi, if you like sushi. That place is amazing.
(shh don't tell anybody i said that)
During COVID, the block I live on in San Francisco started doing outdoor happy hours every Saturday afternoon. People weren't traveling much then, so we had near 100% attendance of every person on the block for almost a year. I went from knowing none of my neighbors to knowing all of them quite well, and it has surprised me how much it has improved my day-to-day happiness. Since then, we've hosted a "progressive" Tha…
i think there's a really valuable app/site to be made that involves discovering people or handling communications literally on your block (i.e hyper local neighborhood). nextdoor is the 1.0 of this that introduced the concept but poorly, and i'm still waiting for a 2.0 i guess it doesn't have to be an app, since whatsapp can handle most of this, but there's a discovery piece that would be missing that this app can so…
It seems so obvious now that social media as an entire concept is rotten and that the best way to connect with your community is to actually go outside and talk to people face to face.
Not that it would ever be enforced against these people (and not like I agree with the ordinance existing at all) but the “typical weekend stoop hang” seems like it would definitely be illegal by a strict reading of San Francisco Police Code §168 a.k.a the “sit/lie law”: https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s... ======= > Present laws that prohibit the intentional, willful or malicious obstructi…
Classic example of the hidden costs of well intentioned regulation.
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Suburbs can also be hostile to pedestrians. In many designs, neighbors only see each other when one or both is inside of a car.
Suburbs are not hostile to pedestrians. They are hostile to getting anyplace on foot so cars are common. However they are great places to walk for exercise and many people who live there do that. (see the sibling comment about walking the dog)
Many homes are designed such that the inhabitants rarely use the front door, using only the garage.
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This still happens in my experience, I've picked up keys from friends and Airbnb hosts via a local business in the past few years.
But there is usually a code with some app and all of the social aspects have been removed. It’s not much different than being a higher scale realtor key box.
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If you haven't tried already, you need to try Sen Sushi, if you like sushi. That place is amazing.
Sen was a lifeline during the pandemic when going into the city for Japanese stopped being an option. One of the better Oak Park restaurants, in a suburb that is not exactly known for great restaurants. (shh don't tell anybody i said that)
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If you think “garage coffeeshop” is a fast track to wealth, boy do I have news!
Am I not going to make it in the next YC class with that pitch? Guess it's time to start from square 1