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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? by OJFord on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:16AM (#36136219)
It's funny, in a lot of mainland Europe (i.e. not UK, also not non-rural France IME) that's completely normal. People would rather sit at the front (even if they don't have a garden/balcony/anything at the front, just sit on the doorstep or chair in the street) with a coffee/smoke and chat to neighbours or nearest shopkeeper.

In the UK I think it's probably more common not even to use your private back garden with your own family, because the neighbours are using theirs this evening!

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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? by martopix on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:33AM (#36136338)
In my experience actually Americans are a lot more up for smalltalk with strangers than we are here in Europe.
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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? by poslathian on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:18AM (#36136236)
Reddit.com/r/fuckcars Reddit.com/r/suburbanhell

It’s not the sad isolating culture leading to cars it’s the reverse. Who wants to sit outside with cars driving nearby?

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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? by achileas on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:26AM (#36196601)
I'm in Boston, which is very walkable but have lived on major arteries and busy neighborhood roads. We still hang out on our porch with our neighbors all the time, as do lots of people here. It has nothing to do with vehicular traffic.
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Re:Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work? by jvidalv on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @10:34AM (#36138886)
In small towns in Spain is very common, when the weather is good people just sit outside their houses with a chair, and im talking about houses without garden whatsoever, they just sit on the street, of-course its secondary streets where there are almost no cars. Normally people stops to chat, and the more closer neighbors also come to sit.
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