Why not just start it here in Lemmy? I did for my City and a few people have already started to trickle in without any sort of advertising. The memes have already started to flow!

For sure. My small city sub was hilarious. Always people asking "anyone know why there's a helicopter flying over our city?!"

Same. It was also very nice to know when stuff happened, like events or ask if anyone had heard anything about x. Some used it to ask question to know if they wanted to move here or not too which also gave me some insight in other parts of the city

I was just trying to think of what I'd miss the most when I saw this. Yep, hands down it'll be my local sub. We're one of the smaller cities in my country which meant the sub reflected the quirks and experience of day to day life quite accurately.

Yeah, local subreddit and former college subreddit. Fun community, I'm sure something will be formed on Lemmy as well.

Sounds like a good thing to make on this side