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it is almost certainly some variation on co-living

"Why have 3 roommates in a house when you could have 300 roommates and live in a recently, cheaply converted commercial building designed to be a clone of the Googleplex?"

That actually sounds pretty cool! If that's _not_ what Flow is, I hope somebody does roll with that idea.

Already exists all over the world, just Google “co-living”!

I think the one in US are just furnished rooms with some amenities like cleaning. These seem to be aimed at young people < 25 yrs.

I am looking for ones where all age groups live together. People with kids, young ppl , grandparents ect.

Co-living is actually pretty great when done properly: it’s not a solution to the housing crisis, and suffers from the same economic problems as WeWork did with office space, but as a resident, it’s great — assuming you want to live with other people.

Most co-living spaces end up going broke (including the one I’ve lived in) so I don’t have much faith in Flow’s viability if it is co-living… but it’d probably be great to live there on VC’s dime (just like WeWork was great when subsidised by VCs).

"Done properly" is probably highly correlated with a high degree of control and ownership (if not in a financial sense, in a sense of ownership and responsibility), both of which are extremely ill-suited to a large company running things nation-wide.

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