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Streetlife/ Nextdoor

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Craftycat Fri 09-Jun-17 09:53:30

I notice a reference to Streetlife & Nextdoor on another thread & I wondered if Streetlife still exists anywhere in the country?

I found Streetlife really helpful & useful. I found someone to trim the garden hedges & clean gutters from it & got a lot of support when my cat went missing (thankfully briefly - he came home).
Then all of a sudden we were forced to change to Nextdoor- which published your address online which I did not like at all. After 2 weeks that too disappeared & nothing else has come along.

I would very much like to see Streetlife back but I think the other lot- an American Co.- bought them out. Now it looks as if they have gone too.
Does anyone know anything about it??

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devongirl Fri 09-Jun-17 09:56:05

streetlife has also gone here, taken over by nextdoor, to the disappointment of all the streetlife members I know..

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Sparklefizz Fri 09-Jun-17 10:08:21

Streetlife has also gone from here (Bristol) and changed to Nextdoor which no one liked because of publishing full addresses online. Crazy!

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Liz46 Fri 09-Jun-17 10:12:10

I found Streetlife very useful but didn't change to Nextdoor because I didn't want my address to be public. I do miss it. I found a really good plumber on Streetlife but stupidly did not make a note of his phone number.

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judypark Fri 09-Jun-17 10:33:35

There is an option to delete your address but it was a right palaver to do. In the end my OH and I unsubscribed, that was a couple of months ago and we are still getting notifications daily. We really miss Streetlife too.

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ninathenana Fri 09-Jun-17 13:28:28

I'm in S.E. I'm sure Streetlife has been replaced nationwide by Nextdoor, much to my disapointment.
I haven't joined Nextdoor as had read warnings about it.

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Pittcity Fri 09-Jun-17 15:59:54

Try Kahuti. Much more friendly and anonymous than Next door. Of course there is always Gransnet Local.

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yggdrasil Fri 09-Jun-17 16:07:42

I was joined to Next door, but it isn't anywhere near as useful as Streetlife was. I think I will leave it too

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BlueBelle Sat 10-Jun-17 06:43:01

Streetlife went nationally and was taken over by Nextdoor which is American owned and run. It might be ok over the pond but hasn't worked at all well here The security was very suspect and the concept of only covering a small area is silly as a) not needed if you can knock on a door and b) makes you much more vulnerable if you're not in such a good area
I ve not heard of Kahuti is that national?

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