Ask HN: How do I find a hacker roommate in NYC?

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by zackattack • 17 years ago

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Moving to NYC to take a job, and would like to find a hacker roommate. I have a whole email written out describing myself in case anyone here is interested, but can anyone else recommend a way to find a nice, compatible, like-minded roommate?

spitfire• 17 years ago

Why not find a normal one? You can expand your horizons and make new friends.

zackattack2• 17 years ago

I really want to be around positive people who can serve as social reinforcement for my values.

evandavid• 17 years ago

I think this is valid. Some of us are in the position where all of our friends are non-hackers, and we are the odd ones out. For us, meeting hacker friends is expanding our social horizons.

Personally, I enjoy working with other hackers, but I prefer to socialize/live with mostly artists, musicians or people from some profession that I don't know a lot about so that I can learn from them (living with 2 treasury economists right now). That said, living with another hacker would be awesome!

camccann2• 17 years ago

What really matters is being around people who are active and creative. The specifics of what they work on, a minor detail.

brown9-2• 17 years ago

These aren't necessarily mutually exclusive qualities.

crsmith• 17 years ago

You can expand your horizons by making new hacker friends. Good luck!

bhousel• 17 years ago

You could try to contact meetup organizers or user groups in NYC for whatever it is that you do..

dzlobin• 17 years ago

http://groups.google.com/group/nyyc

This is the group for our NYC HN meetups. Send a group email out and if you have a chance the meets are every last Thursday of the month. Good luck!

blackguardx• 17 years ago

Craigslist. Create an ad or browse a bunch of them. I found a cool roommate with similar interests that way.

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