Live Near Friends in the news - Culture Study, Architectural Digest and more...
Live Near Friends (and living near friends) has been in the news a lot recently. Sharing some of the highlights
I did a Q&A with the wonderful Anne Helen Petersen in her newsletter, Culture Study. It's one Substack newsletter that I very gladly pay for every month.
Here’s an excerpt where we talk about how the (often unrealistic) “tiny home on a plot of land” fantasy can distract from more practical, commonplace ways to build community with friends or family:
Anne wrote one of the more inspiring pieces on living closer to friends and as chronicled the gaps in community and how we fill them,
Even more exciting: She's busy writing a book called "Friend Group: A Survival Guide for the Loneliest Century" which we can't wait to read.
Charlotte Collins from Architectural Digest wrote a thoughtful piece on the “living near friends” movement.
She starts with a the story of Toby Rush who I spoke to a year ago. Toby has built a strong faith-based community by moving a group of families to his street (and near their church) outside of Kansas City. He was motivated by church elder mentors who told him that the real treasure in life is the people and relationships you collect.
She and I also talk about Live Near Friends and life at our home – Radish in Oakland.
The story of Stoop Coffee (from our sister publication Supernuclear) really made the rounds. It spent 2 days as the #1 article on Hacker News (beating out every AI story). There seems to be a deep need for connection to your neighbors. And you know who is great to share a stoop with ... your friends or fam.
I quickly hurried to see if the domain name StoopWithFriends.com was available.
Those in the real estate world probably know Brad Hargreaves and his newsletter Thesis driven.
Brad did a piece on co-ownership and talked about Live Near Friends and also Katrina Romatowski who runs reSpace and is a partner of ours in Seattle (Katrina can help you purchase or develop a property with friends). It's paid, but very much worth a subscription if you do anything in the housing world.
Lastly, my favorite exchange on the internet recently.
There are real costs to community. But, as Ezra Klein once said on his podcast, he prefers the problems of community to the problems of isolation. And we wholeheartedly agree.
