you’ll have the benefit of being around a couple cool people who think like you (to a first approximation), but you don’t have many opportunities to make new rationalist connections like you would in a larger hub.
Does “think like you” mean “rationalist”, here? I would assume that finding “people who think like you” would be relatively straightforward in e.g. any large city with a major university. That’s been my experience in Helsinki (1.23 M inhabitants in the general urban area and a couple of universities) at least. Though it’s true that most of those people aren’t very familiar with Less Wrong or the rationalist scene (even if some are).
Does “think like you” mean “rationalist”, here? I would assume that finding “people who think like you” would be relatively straightforward in e.g. any large city with a major university. That’s been my experience in Helsinki (1.23 M inhabitants in the general urban area and a couple of universities) at least. Though it’s true that most of those people aren’t very familiar with Less Wrong or the rationalist scene (even if some are).