Right, exactly! The one thing Nextdoor taught me is that people are truly just as awful as you could imagine. I have lived in nice neighborhoods -- as I imagine

Right, exactly! The one thing Nextdoor taught me is that people are truly just as awful as you could imagine. I have lived in nice neighborhoods -- as I imagine a fair amount of HN readers do -- and the blase of outright totally racist posts just... Well, it was just shocking, and I have to say that I'm not shocked by very many things. That some people know that they're posting to their physical neighbors and still saying the things they say... It's almost like they live on another planet altogether. Now, another very weird thing is that I've moved into a new neighborhood literally down the street from my old one, and I was equally shocked to learn that this particular neighborhood is totally reasonable, and I haven't even seen a single racist hate-post. Nextdoor definitely exposed me to the racist, backwards reality of living among old, wealthy, scared, white people.