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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.

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.

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I think there’s a decent number of remote-working, highly social people with substantial disposable income, who have friends living elsewhere that they’d like to spend quality time with. Especially in the tech crowd. This would appeal to a lot of people I know.

I think as people start to have kids it would be less appealing, but people seem to be doing that later these days (or not at all).

No doubt 25-35 y.o. or so could pull it off. Probably don't even have to be fully remote, just tell your laid back boss you want to work remotely for a couple weeks.

According to the article the quality of the pool matters. If you want a neighborhood feel, the challenge is to come up with 8-40 people who are going to jive. Devon noted that (at least one) FoaF experience didn't work out. I think it is great if you have the social sense to select such a chill group but I'd be surprised if many people could accomplish organizing a successful large group.

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