Location independent community. Plan for the wrong day.

Ask most people how they'll handle the social side of going location independent and the answer is a place: a coworking space, a coliving house, a festival where everyone's friendly by Wednesday.

That plan works for about four months, then it doesn't, because it produces company, not cover. This post separates the two: company is people around you, produced by proximity, available within a week almost anywhere.

Cover is the people who'd notice you'd gone quiet, produced by time and reciprocity, and you can't buy the years back. It covers why a rotating cast of fellow leavers isn't a network, why the fix costs on both sides once the relationship layer was never built, and why community belongs in the first phase of the work, before a location is chosen, not after arrival when you actually need it.

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