I did something similar with friends but via renting: https://prigoose.substack.com/p/how-to-live-near-your-friends

Lots of similarities:
- We have a shared cleaner
- We take care of each other's plants and pets
- We spontaneously hang out often (in our case for food, skating, co-working, music-making etc.)
- We effortlessly learn new skills from each other. E.g. when one apartment refurbished their unit, many ppl in the community got to learn construction and use power tools for the first time. This spurred other friends to do construction too -- they built lofted beds.
- Many of us do daily standup together, where we meet in the mornings at 9:30, journal for 2 minutes, then share for 1 minute. We often end up unblocking each other.

Re: "That’s my bar. In our previous neighborhood we had friends-of-friends move in, some of whom were great, and others I found myself bumping into more than I’d want to."
One thing I like about starting this experiment via renting is that it's inherently impermanent. I intend to co-buy at some point, and by then we'll have learned exactly where the bar is.