This is a huge one for me, especially when you factor in cascading costs that aren't directly from the thing or the space. Even if the activity is free, if it takes up 90 minutes of my evening with a 45-minute commute either way (because I live in NYC so even with good transit things are often that far apart) that's three hours and now I…
This is a huge one for me, especially when you factor in cascading costs that aren't directly from the thing or the space. Even if the activity is free, if it takes up 90 minutes of my evening with a 45-minute commute either way (because I live in NYC so even with good transit things are often that far apart) that's three hours and now I'm buying dinner and how many nights a week can I do that before I also have to pay someone to clean my apartment because I can't keep up with it and so on and so forth.
*ding ding ding*. I’m right there with you. $2.90 either way on the bus or train, & all the time that includes. Cascading costs everywhere. And what are the other options: only making friends in your borough/ keeping any community you create exclusively to your neighborhood within walking distance? I don’t know if that’s the right answer.
The cascading costs especially I think come for single people -- if I don't wash the dishes, they're not getting washed, no one else is going to vacuum unless I pay someone for it -- and it's SUCH a barrier to me getting more involved with things. Sorry, I can't come to your meetup, I scheduled laundry for that night 😂
I don't want creating only neighborhood-centric community to be the answer, though I would also love it to be easier to find hyper-local communities to get involved with that don't involve spending a lot of money or having kids/dogs.
This is a huge one for me, especially when you factor in cascading costs that aren't directly from the thing or the space. Even if the activity is free, if it takes up 90 minutes of my evening with a 45-minute commute either way (because I live in NYC so even with good transit things are often that far apart) that's three hours and now I'm buying dinner and how many nights a week can I do that before I also have to pay someone to clean my apartment because I can't keep up with it and so on and so forth.
*ding ding ding*. I’m right there with you. $2.90 either way on the bus or train, & all the time that includes. Cascading costs everywhere. And what are the other options: only making friends in your borough/ keeping any community you create exclusively to your neighborhood within walking distance? I don’t know if that’s the right answer.
The cascading costs especially I think come for single people -- if I don't wash the dishes, they're not getting washed, no one else is going to vacuum unless I pay someone for it -- and it's SUCH a barrier to me getting more involved with things. Sorry, I can't come to your meetup, I scheduled laundry for that night 😂
I don't want creating only neighborhood-centric community to be the answer, though I would also love it to be easier to find hyper-local communities to get involved with that don't involve spending a lot of money or having kids/dogs.