[peterbell_nyc]

I think the underlying challenge is that mobility, work connections and the internet have shown us that there are lots of people with deep similarities to us in the world.

I moved from NYC to Boulder and then more recently to Westchester (just north of NYC). There are some really nice people in the town I live in, and we connect through having kids in the same schools. However, it's not nearly the same as my conference friends from the devrel world. We used to geek out over everything from carpentry to compilers, we had a shared community and interests, and because I got to present a lot and hang out with the other speakers, my "tribe" were geeky enough to be interesting, social enough to be an easy hang, and opinionated enough (they thought they were worth listening to on stage or they wouldn't have been presenters) that they usually had a hot take that was entertaining, enlightening or both.

I'm still looking for the small town where they all live so I can move nearer to them, but best as I can tell they are a nomadic people to be found only in airport lounges, hotel rooms, and occasionally on the side of the stage after their talk concluded :(