Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Nextdoor.com

[Nancy Baughman Csuti (nancycsuti]

I belong to my Denver neighborhood Nextdoor.com group. (I am not in
cohousing.) anyone can sign up and the resident status is verified by
providing a phone number and address. The web site manager (I guess)
verifies it. I can follow my neighborhood and a few adjoining neighborhoods
as well. The "neighborhood" boundaries are the same ones that are followed
by the municipality and are found in any neighborhood level map of Denver.

The group of neighborhoods that are part of my catchment area range from
very high income $1million+ homes to apartments primarily of low income
immigrants from Africa - and everything in between. It's very ethnically,
racially, and economically diverse. However, the racial profiling is pretty
intense, in my opinion. There are daily postings of "suspicious men in
neighborhood", particularly where there are alleys and strangers walk
through them. Sometime people post photos of car license plates of cars
they don't recognize. When the racial slurs get to be too much, someone
will remind everyone of the NExtdoor.com guidelines (i.e., be nice to each
other), and then people will end that conversation.

Lots of stuff for sale, looking for dog/baby sitters, notices of garage
sales, restaurant reviews, etc. It's just the crime section gets out of
hand at times, as if often deteriorates quickly.

Nancy in Denver.


On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Chris Rowe <chr [at] rowe.com> wrote:

>
> https://demo.nextdoor.com/news_feed/ is an example site. Similar to Yahoo
> groups maybe. Just a way to communicate and share information. The main
> feature essentially being an email list I think.
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:03 PM Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
> sharonvillines.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Linda H <linda [at] hobbeton.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > My neighborhood uses Nextdoor and I haven't seen any of the vigilantism
> > or racial profiling mentioned, perhaps because this is a neighborhood
> with
> > a lot of diversity.
> > >
> > > It has been used to organize neighborhood yard sales, cleanup
> Saturdays,
> > locate lost pets,  give invitations to a Biblical study group, etc. When
> I
> > fell and tore my rotator cuff and needed a ride to a doctor's
> appointment I
> > posted a request and had three offers within two hours. It is good for
> > communicating about local things.
> >
> > How large are the neighborhoods? Is this a range the group can set? Who
> > checks addresses?
> >
> > Sharon
> > ----
> > Sharon Villines
> > Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> > http://www.takomavillage.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
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