Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

I’m pretty sure I would move to a city anywhere in the world based primarily on the availability of high quality 24 hour third places.

I question how many people would want to hang in 24-hour third spaces beyond spaces that are open to some reasonably late evening hour.

Not many. But the existence of them in a place points towards a certain culture.

You see them not necessarily in places like wall street, but more in places with strong intellectual culture like universities and artsy neighborhoods.

I can use the existence of a country club as a useful signal about a place without being a member, or having any interest in it.