The take-away about Seamless I overheard in real time in a frightening way. Sitting in the smoking area, waiting for a coworker to come grab me for work, two of my neighbors were talking about how they actively avoided becoming friends with other neighbors, they just didn't want that kind of connection and preferred that neighbors just stayed in their lane as people who ostensibly share a dwelling in the same high-rise.

And it wasn't the first time I'd heard people expressing that viewpoint. In a completely different part of town when I rented an apartment I hard that same conversation.

Maybe I'm overly sentimental or looking at the idea of 'neighborhoods' and 'communities' with rose-tinted glasses but that shook me, it bothered me to my core-deeply. I've always looked at neighborhoods as the bedrock of citizenry, the most basic form of what it means to be among people who shared your at least some of your interests of home and hearth because of said proximity.

People now actively avoid those kinds of relationships. I still think about it to this day, despite having walked to pubs with the very people I heard talking about this. Maybe I'm thinking too much about it.