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I don't consider any internet forums I visit to be actual communities. I'm glad you got to experience this idyllic small-town community. That wasn't an option

I don't consider any internet forums I visit to be actual communities. I'm glad you got to experience this idyllic small-town community. That wasn't an option for me. My town was the poorest in my state, so I went to the best possible college elsewhere, and have since lived in other places for work. Incredibly, moving out of my shitty hometown has not prevented me from experiencing community. In fact I'd say I experienced more community in my few years living and working abroad than I ever have in America, where I now live. Frankly I'm finding it very hard to find community in a country full of people who have never left their hometowns and have no concept of people or ways of life that differ from their own. At least I still have group chats with the real friends I made from going to new places and doing new things.

znpy 4y ago
> My town was the poorest in my state, so I went to the best possible college elsewhere, and have since lived in other places for work. Same for me, i grew up in rural south Italy. > At least I still have group chats with the real friends I made from going to new places and doing new things. That’s a nice thing you got there, I’m glad for you. But we’re talking town level community here and not, again, internet forums and online chat rooms (slack/discord/whatever). At a town level, communities form over decades and over shared struggles (mostly).