[randomanybody]

It's interesting how different neighborhoods can be in the same city. In Seattle, my old neighborhood's board (First Hill) was vastly different than that of Ballard, to the point where I wasn't sure my friends who lived there were talking about the same site. The latter sounded like it was filled entirely with militant, yet simultaneously skittish NIMBYers, while mine was filled with park get-togethers and lost puppies. And since you could only see one neighborhood, the other experience was invisible to me.

[techsupporter]

I live in the Central District of Seattle and a friend, who made an account and lets me log in so I can read, lives in Wallingford. The differences are appalling. The CD has its share of minor crime but reports of suspicious activity are accompanied by descriptions beyond race or, sometimes, security camera output. This is mixed in with posts about giveaways, contractor recommendations, and Metro bus reroutes due to construction.

Meanwhile, my friend's account showed lots of posts like described here. Oh, and the slagging on the homeless was just vile. I have screenshots of several examples but I don't want Nextdoor to go all Erica Barnett on me and ban accounts so I leave them out. But the police department had a lot more "community forums" on the Wallingford part of Nextdoor than the CD's...