Los Angeles
A neighborhood club for Culver City
Its own city on the Westside, with a walkable downtown and a Metro station. $49 a month, and everything inside at a 10% mark-up.
Culver City is a separate municipality surrounded by Los Angeles, and it behaves like one, with its own police, its own city hall and its own downtown. Studios and tech offices have pushed rents up considerably. The E Line stops downtown. A neighborhood club here would sit in one of the few Westside grids where walking between places is normal.
What going out in Culver City costs
Downtown Culver City packs a lot into a few blocks around Culver and Washington, and the expense-account lunch crowd set the prices years ago. Twenty-dollar cocktails are standard, entrees run past thirty, and the garages fill by seven. Walkable once you are there, a drive and a parking decision to get there. A couple doing dinner and drinks twice a week is spending six hundred dollars a month. Thirty-nine dollars a month and at-cost pricing is the alternative on offer.
| Per week | In Los Angeles | At IRL | Saved / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekday coffee (5 a week) | $7 | $3 | $87 |
| Lunch out (2 a week) | $20 | $6 | $121 |
| Drinks (4 a week) | $18 | $4 | $242 |
| Dinner out (1 a week) | $30 | $8 | $95 |
| Monthly total | $766 | $270* | $497 |
*Includes the $49 monthly membership. Menu prices only, before tax and tip in the Los Angeles column, which is where the real gap gets wider. Annual difference: $5,959.
Nothing on that list is extravagant. Five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner is a quiet week. At Los Angeles prices it still comes to $766 a month, which is $5,959 a year more than the same week costs at cost plus ten percent.
Join the waitlist
Get a club in Culver City
Join the waitlist. We open a neighborhood once enough people nearby are on the list, and memberships open in pairs or groups, so bring someone.
One quick thing —
You are on the list.
Memberships open in pairs (or more). People referred together join together, and bigger groups move up the list.
$49/month when we open. No card now. Leaving the waitlist is one click.
Making friends in Culver City
A lot of people here moved for a job, work long hours on a lot or in an office park, and have a social life organized entirely around coworkers. When the job ends the friends tend to go with it. The residential streets are quiet and well kept and nobody is outside on them. A membership club with regular hours gives you a second set of people who have nothing to do with work, which is the specific thing missing on this side of town.
The mechanism matters more than the intention. A club has opening hours, a membership list, and a monthly volunteer shift, which means you end up in the same room as the same people on purpose and without scheduling anything. More on that in how to make friends in Los Angeles.
Where a Culver City club would sit
We draw a walking radius, not a city boundary. A club only works if getting there is a short enough walk that you go without deciding to go. The first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. Culver City opens when enough people here are on the list, which is the only thing that decides the order.
Landmarks inside or bordering the radius: Culver City Hall, Washington Boulevard, Ballona Creek Bike Path, Culver City Metro E Line Station, Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook.
The short version
- $49 a month. That is the whole membership. No initiation, no minimum spend.
- Everything at a 10% mark-up. $2 drip coffee, $3 latte, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner.
- A 3-hour shift a month, if you want to. Plus one park day. Not mandatory, and it is the fastest way to actually meet the other members.
- Memberships open in pairs or groups. Anyone who joins through your link is in your group, and bigger groups move up the Culver City list together.
Near Culver City
Other Los Angeles neighborhoods
Questions
- Is there an IRL club in Culver City yet?
- Not yet. Every neighborhood starts as a waitlist, and the first Los Angeles club is planned for Atwater Village. We open a neighborhood once enough people who live nearby have signed up, so the Culver City list is what decides whether and when a club opens here.
- How much does the Culver City club cost?
- $49 a month, the same in every neighborhood. Inside, the menu runs at cost plus a 10% mark-up: $2 drip coffee, $3 lattes, $4 cocktails, $6 lunch, $8 dinner. There is no initiation fee, no minimum spend and no card required to sit on the waitlist.
- How much would a Culver City member actually save?
- On a normal week of five coffees, two lunches, four drinks and one dinner, Los Angeles menu prices come to about $766 a month. The same week at IRL is about $270 including the membership, a difference of roughly $5,959 a year before tax and tip.
- Do I have to live in Culver City to join?
- No, but it helps your position. Clubs are built around a walking radius, so we weight the list toward people who actually live close enough to drop in without planning it. You can join the Culver City list from anywhere and tell us whether you live locally.
- What is the volunteer shift?
- Members are asked to work one three-hour shift a month, and to join one park clean-up day a month. Neither is mandatory. Both exist because they keep the cost base low enough to sell a cocktail for $4, and because working a shift next to someone is a faster way to meet them than standing near them at a bar.