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I didn’t like having to give them my real address or phone number. I hope the Google version of this is a little more lenient, but I doubt it will be.

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Would you prefer all users be allowed access to any neighborhood group they choose?

No, I would prefer that they just use my geo-location.

I wouldn’t even mind if they asked me every couple of months or so to verify my location.

And how would they verify it?

Spoofing geolocation is possible too.

Big deal. How many people are actually going to go to the trouble to do that to talk to people in my neighborhood where they don’t even live?

I could have easily tricked Nextdoor into doing whatever I wanted to. But shouldn’t have to waste my time.

Yes. Otherwise you end up with carve outs like happened to a friend in Bellaire, TX. The City of Bellaire uses Nextdoor to send out emergency alerts and other useful information, but the citizens and not the city decide the Nextdoor boundaries for "City of Bellaire".

So my friend who lives in a neghborhood of condos that the snobs in million dollar homes intentionally left out can't get the alerts from his own municipality.

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