Comment by phil21

Ah, I was talking about Blockclub Chicago.

I am on the fence with Meta. I recognize that I am missing out - and I rely on my wife far too much to keep me in the loop on things, but she has her own interests so I miss 90% of the stuff I would likely care about to be engaged with. Or I find out too late.

After 20 years of avoiding a Facebook account though, it's a large ask. I'd also love to use Marketplace to give away a bunch of stuff that is fairly esoteric (too unique for the scrappers to know what to do with) but not worth my time to sell on eBay.

Either way it's something I need to get around to doing. I went to my first neighborhood association meeting the other month to start to get my face known, and it was Community (the TV show) levels of insanity. The amount of anti-development people I never knew existed are crazy. Stuff like do not build a 5 story apartment building 2 blocks from an El stop (currently a strip mall) because it might ruin the view of the downtown skyline from a bike path bridge.