Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?
My neighborhood.  When we moved in we sat out front every evening, and made small talk with every single person who walked by.  Some were caught off guard, some kinda just waved and moved on, but most stopped to talk.<p>What's interesting is that people who had lived in that neighborhood nearly 20 years together had never talked, and met for the first time as both stopped to chat at nearly the same time.<p>Then we started with small gifts, usually food because my wife cooks exotic things for people to try.  Now we get random gifts, usually food or fruits or some flower or plant.<p>Now we have little get togethers inviting each other, text to ask if need anything from the store, etc.  And all it took was being willing to sit outside for a couple hours each night and say hi.