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In a big city there are enough people to form a kind of apt circle of friends, perhaps around the uni. At least that happen for me, I still talk with some after 5 years but it's not the same as before...

Talking in person with tea or coffee, decide to go out for a common dinner it's a thing, having a call just for acculturate discussion is another... Let's say I feel a bit of lack of "groups stimulus", while I have more time to think myself, draw new ideas, potential projects etc, it's not a net loss but still a certain loss, well compensated by other aspects of the sparse life in the nature. A thing still to be considered depending of age, career, family etc at personal level and another thing to be considered in general social terms to draw a new distributed society, we still need aggregation points, only perhaps not big nor generic as cities, like small poles who will be abandoned/redone from scratch at a certain point in time, but small enough and centered enough to been able to redo and abandon them at sustainable time and costs.

So far I here exactly ZERO serious talks about a future society where WFH became mainstream for eligible jobs even on HN, just to say.



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