What do you consider your community, who is in it and how large is it?

[BarryLiverstone]

Throw it back 100 years and most people considered their community to be within a neighborhood or town. With the internet it seems like the world is closer together than ever.


Definition of Community:

a
: the people with common interests living in a particular area
broadly : the area itself
the problems of a large community
b
: a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society
a community of retired persons
a monastic community
c
: a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society
the academic community
the scientific community

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Mainly my closest real-life friends. My cover picture shows a sample of them from our friend reunion several years ago. All of us have now been friends for at least 16 years and we'll almost certainly remain deep friends for the rest of our lives. I met my wife through them (friend of a friend at a picnic).

They aren't all living close to me anymore though. I met all of them in Tokyo but we've all married and moved to a variety of places in Japan and some even other parts of the world. Yet we try to see each other at least once a year and stay in touch for the rest.

In total there are around 110 of them now. When we were in Tokyo, we used to rent out entire nightclubs and restaurants to ourselves every weekend, splitting the costs of it since we had enough to easily afford it when the costs were split evenly.

It started out very small though, just a small group of 8 friends. Yet we kept inviting new, really nice people we met into the group and it just expanded and kept getting bigger. There are about an equal number of men and women in the group. Also all of our friends' husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends became part of the group as well.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

One of the things that unites our group even though most are Japanese is that we all speak English. That's how I made my very first friend (the girl of Indian descent in the picture) in the group and expanded from there. So we have members that are from quite a wide variety of parts of the world like Canada, the US, Germany, France, Thailand, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico, Colombia, and I think at least a couple of others that are currently slipping my mind. We also all love to travel and socialize and go hiking and camping together.

Our friend group quickly exploded in size as a result since we're all fairly outgoing and just kept introducing any new person we met who seemed nice into the group.

[BarryLiverstone]

Seems like organic growth. Good example

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Cheers! 🤝

[NathanDavis]

anyone, anywhere... that speaks or understand Spanish, I can consider them a community

[WhitneySnow]

My school, my summer camp (though I’m not sure how long that will last now that camp is over and I’m going off to college next year) and the friends I made online. And I guess my family counts too.

[IslaTheWitch]

In Poland - a few places with a group of people I have known since I was born, mostly not family...

outside of Poland... any Polish-speaking community I can consider mine :D

[Robertjo16]

My community is my town. We're tight knit on a regular day, but lord help the someone or something that tries to hurt someone within my town. That's a day of reckoning

[Malwi93]

probably people within vicinity of 2 to 3 km from my house

[mandyfire98]

I'd honestly say my friends and family

[exitseven]

I do not have a community.,

[BarryLiverstone]

Why not? You don’t even have an online community and feel part of it?

[exitseven]

Maybe GaG.