E.g., by city (San Francisco), or area (Bay Area) for discussions about local happenings'n'stuff?

Maybe under "Special Interest", e.g. Special Interests > Local Shite > San Francisco

Why stop at city? Lets let each person have a subsection for each home address?/j

eh I feel like those threads wouldn't get much activity because it seems like there wouldn't be enough users to keep them going.

perhaps when the site gets more users, sure. But I think right now we probably need less subforums, not more.

i was thinking about adding a "random thread" button to encourage more posting, that being said