[HN Gopher] Traveling Neighborhoods
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Traveling Neighborhoods
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 7 points
Date : 2025-11-30 15:04 UTC (6 days ago)
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| skyberrys wrote:
| This sounds like a fun format for travel! I'll suggest it to my
| extended group of family members. What's the size of your
| original invite group vs the number of people who end up joining?
| Why not let unknowns tag along? It seems low commitment enough
| that if the unknown is a bore they could just be ignored.
| pilingual wrote:
| I think this targets an extremely esoteric group. (Sort of like
| an article titled "How to Invest Your $1 Billion.") But it is a
| cool idea.
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| Since Esmeralda was mentioned: I hadn't heard of it and am glad
| to see the emergence of cities/neighborhoods starting from
| scratch. We need more experiments to jump start strong culture as
| existing cities and towns decay. Hopefully these places offer a
| very human experience.
| jauntywundrkind wrote:
| Not super related, but for whatever reason I've had a flare up in
| thinking about sci-fi moving cities/neighborhoods again. Kim
| Stanley Robinson's _2312_ with a Mars city going around the
| terminator (not super well described tbh but fun), Hannu
| Rajaniemi 's Fractal Prince (book #2 of Jean le Flambeur's
| series) with a reconfiguring Mars city wandering around on stilts
| (iirc). We live in an age with so many new malleable systems, but
| so much of the world about us is fixed and rooted, and these sci-
| fi realms where not just people but places too move about is an
| interesting idea. That what I thought of, seeing the _traveling
| neighborhood_ title.
|
| I dig this idea a lot. I hope we can expand more on remote work,
| make great use of new freedoms for such excellent purposes.
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