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[quote=Anonymous]Stick it out.  You'll meet some like-minded folks eventually; they just may not be your close-by neighbors.

I feel the same way, and used to feel more so, but once DC was in preschool, and we started meeting other preschool parents, we found some families that we really get along with.

I realize we're part of the problem--we're a two-worker family, both pretty intense jobs, so we haven't made the time to meet all our neighbors either.  Some of them might think we're unfriendly.  We're not; we're just swamped.  I don't think we're materialistic or self-important, though.

If neighborhood is specifically important to you--i.e., you want your kids to be able to walk and bike to their friends' houses, you want to have block parties and potlucks, join the neighborhood pool, etc.--then you may want to change neighborhoods.  Look for an older neighborhood that's not all McMansions.  But realize that those are slowly changing too--lot by lot, year by year, the McMansions continue their inexorable march.[/quote]

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