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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 28
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    I’m amused by how this idea keeps cropping up. I’ve concluded it’s unworkable because these communities don’t actually exist as the clean sets people imagine. They’re leaky fuzzy small world groupings which lack sufficient consensus. You can get to n=10 at most without going culthttps://twitter.com/leepnet/status/1299219203111620608 …

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    Tommy Leep @leepnet
    Has anyone figured out the move with all your friends to a small city and live on the same street thing?
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      2. Rachael Meager‏ @economeager Aug 28
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        also this is WAY too much commitment to a single set of friends

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      3. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv Aug 28
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        IME, 95-98% of the people who say this, at some subconscious level they know that truth is that they would end up hating their friends. 😂 or that it's not worth the trouble most people don't really care about wanting to do this, they just want to say it to feel nice

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      1. Hannah‏ @h_thoreson Aug 28
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        This is just called a condo organized as a co-op, and they tend to be not quite a democratic society and more like an aristocracy in practice

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      2. Agustin Lebron‏ @AgustinLebron3 Aug 28
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        It's the significant-other problem. Your spouse has his/her friends too...

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 28
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        I don’t think even singles could pull it off

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      2. Gilead Williams‏ @GileadWilliams Aug 28
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        You say this like cults are bad

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        🤣

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      2. Ben Reinhardt‏ @Ben_Reinhardt Aug 28
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        I suspect what people actually want is to live in a medium-big city that has a few good third spaces where you can consistently run into people and good transportation so the overhead to visit is not too high.

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      3. Andy Matuschak‏Verified account @andy_matuschak Aug 28
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        That's definitely what I want!!

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      1. Vivek Ponnaiyan‏ @viveksworld Aug 28
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        I think it would work if there was a well formed antagonistic force/situation. Eg: entrepreneurs/writers/tiktok content producers/people just beginnig their careers who needed to share resources. Once there’s no need to share resources we get a great new reality show.

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