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Arnold Kling's avatar

Orthodox Jews have a solution. Since they go to synagogue on the Sabbath and cannot use any machine to get there, they cluster around synagogues. A side effect is the sort of get-togethers and mutual support that you wish for.

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Brian Albrecht's avatar

This is definitely something I'm thinking about as I move right next to my brother/sister-in-law but not right next to my friends. I wish we would all just live right next to each other! C'mon people! But the externality point makes a lot of sense. Maybe it's even like a common pool resource. My moving away takes away from your resources.

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