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I love spreadsheets, especially for crowdsourced information. One of my side project[1] is to gather informations from experiences expats to help new comers that set up in a new country/city. They are questions/answer you wished had known instead spending months/years figuring it out. The collaboration happens in google spreadsheet and it works wonderfully. We have 14+ cities now

If you have any experience in your city, feel free to fill the spreadsheet[2]

[1] https://travelhustlers.co/cityfaq/

[2] http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1n...

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Really smart idea. Sometimes people think that there are no “standard questions”, but really we’re all human and need to /want to do a lot of the same stuff no matter where we are.

definitely! when we live in a city for 5+ years, we assume lot of basic questions are common knowledge.

but as someone who change country or city every few years, it would save me so much time, money and hassle to know all those "basics"

Very cool! I'd be happy to help with the NYC one (moved here from Canada about 5 years ago) but can't tell exactly where to edit the spreadsheet?

Thank you, I've added the NewYork sheet. if there is enough answer I'll publish the page in few hours ️

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Lut4zmeDw9z-ikRJPH1...

What did you use for building front end? Looks really neat.

appreciate! I'm not a front end guy so I take the compliment. I use plain HTML and bulma.io for the css

for the baackend it's just few lines of python (flask) reading the spreadsheet api and displaying it