Park Slope

For several years I lived in northern Park Slope, Brooklyn. I've since moved to the East Bay, but I'm leaving this here because the belief underneath it hasn't changed at all: wherever you live you should commit pretty hard to the area. There is lifelong payoff to putting down roots. I loved where I lived for a couple reasons:

• It was near to 10+ train lines, and the vast majority of NYC was within an hour of my front door. It was easy for me to get places, but more importantly it was easeful for people to come to our home. Friends almost never declined an invitation due to inconvenience, friends that were visiting were extremely hype to stay with us, and this minimized the activation energy required to see all the many many wondrous things in NYC.
• It was dense but neighborly. Dense enough that there were plenty of people nearby to befriend, but not so dense as to seem anonymous.
• It was near parks and a climbing gym. I live in my physical body, I want it to be easy to move it in the ways it wants to be moved.

None of that is a fact about Park Slope specifically — it's a description of what you get when you pick somewhere and actually commit. I'm now doing the same thing in the East Bay from a standing start.

I always want to meet neighbors, so if you live near me and you think we might like each other please ask me on a walk:

[insert app that has a map of the area that goes blurry at the boundaries I select and shows other markers of people who I have met. the idea is I want a map that people can move around that only shows the parts that I say are nearby, then people can click on the map which will then direct them to a form that sends me an email with the date time and activity they want to do, this form also includes their location, the idea here is if we actually meet up then the given coordinates they selected will show up on the map and that way it can grow over time to show all the places with friendly people.]