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How can it not be, where you want to build an enclave of 'like' people (alike in friend connections, education, outlook, not only race, which is what you seem t

How can it not be, where you want to build an enclave of 'like' people (alike in friend connections, education, outlook, not only race, which is what you seem to assume). It's a stage of life where you should be branching out and meeting 'other' people, not just surrounding yourself with college buddies, and further cloistering yourself in that bubble.

neighman 1y ago
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- yorpinn 1y ago
  Escalating from a really trivial disagreement to personal and insulting remarks is a far more concerning in the social skills department.
  - neighman2 1y ago
    There's no trivial disagreement, just willful ignorance and strawmanning. (Nice alt account btw, I have created one too!)
    - yorpinn 1y ago
      You're taking this other person to task for making too many assumptions, and now you're assuming I'm their alt account. Maybe take some time to cool off or move on to a different conversation, you're not making a case here.
mgfist 1y ago
> How can it not be, where you want to build an enclave of 'like' people (alike in friend connections, education, outlook, not only race, which is what you seem to assume). There's a strong implicit assumption here that stranger neighbors are not 'like' people. For the most part, this is not correct. If you buy a $2m home, your neighbor likely also has a $2m home, is also well educated, also has a high-paying job (probably in a similar field to you) and more likely to be the same race as you. Same if you buy a $100,000 home.
- jacknews 1y ago
  The point is that all kinds of people have the option to live in the same area. Sure, people gravitate to some extent to their own 'class' of people, but making that an actual goal, and exclusive, seems wrong.
  - mgfist 1y ago
    > The point is that all kinds of people have the option to live in the same area Well not really. Very few people have the option of buying a $2m home. But I get your point. > Sure, people gravitate to some extent to their own 'class' of people, but making that an actual goal, and exclusive, seems wrong. It's a big stretch to go from "I want my friends and I to all live close to each other" to "I want to create an exclusive community for my class of people".
    - jacknews 1y ago
      But this is the stretch being made - 'how to build a friend compound' not just 'how to live close to friends'.
neighman2 1y ago
You're doing way too much assuming on who with, when, and why folks are doing this.
- jacknews 1y ago
  I'm not really assuming anything, but simply taking the 'friends' part at face value. Perhaps I should be assuming more.

neighman 1y ago

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yorpinn 1y ago
Escalating from a really trivial disagreement to personal and insulting remarks is a far more concerning in the social skills department.
- neighman2 1y ago
  There's no trivial disagreement, just willful ignorance and strawmanning. (Nice alt account btw, I have created one too!)
  - yorpinn 1y ago
    You're taking this other person to task for making too many assumptions, and now you're assuming I'm their alt account. Maybe take some time to cool off or move on to a different conversation, you're not making a case here.

mgfist 1y ago

> How can it not be, where you want to build an enclave of 'like' people (alike in friend connections, education, outlook, not only race, which is what you seem to assume). There's a strong implicit assumption here that stranger neighbors are not 'like' people. For the most part, this is not correct. If you buy a $2m home, your neighbor likely also has a $2m home, is also well educated, also has a high-paying job (probably in a similar field to you) and more likely to be the same race as you. Same if you buy a $100,000 home.

jacknews 1y ago
The point is that all kinds of people have the option to live in the same area. Sure, people gravitate to some extent to their own 'class' of people, but making that an actual goal, and exclusive, seems wrong.
- mgfist 1y ago
  > The point is that all kinds of people have the option to live in the same area Well not really. Very few people have the option of buying a $2m home. But I get your point. > Sure, people gravitate to some extent to their own 'class' of people, but making that an actual goal, and exclusive, seems wrong. It's a big stretch to go from "I want my friends and I to all live close to each other" to "I want to create an exclusive community for my class of people".
  - jacknews 1y ago
    But this is the stretch being made - 'how to build a friend compound' not just 'how to live close to friends'.

neighman2 1y ago

You're doing way too much assuming on who with, when, and why folks are doing this.

jacknews 1y ago
I'm not really assuming anything, but simply taking the 'friends' part at face value. Perhaps I should be assuming more.