Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by mahathu on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:56PM
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> where everyone on the block put out bags of candy for neighborhood kids to go house to house and pick up.
Is this usual in the region, or perhaps did I misunderstand you? Don't the kids usually walk up to the doors and ring, and then you personally hand out candy to them?
Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
by bcrosby95 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:01PM
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During covid lots of people didn't want to do a normal trick-or-treat.
So we arranged something in our immediate neighborhood - about 20 houses - to create a bag of candy for each kid in those houses. We left them on the lawn and each family with kids took their turn going around to each house to get their bag of candy.
So it was less "go to random people's houses" and more "let's get together and make sure halloween isn't cancelled".
Among other things that have resulted from it:
One of our neighbors invites everyone over for 4th of July every year. We have a block party where we block off the street once or twice per year. Neighbors have been over for backyard parties, my wife goes to birthday lunches with the wives on the street, and there's a giant text thread where people ask for help/etc for things.
During the first year of covid, we did a special neighborhood Halloween, where everyone on the block put out bags of candy for neighborhood kids to go house to house and pick up.