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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In another thread, people were complaining about neighbors who hung around on their porches. I would love to go hang around with my neighbors and drink a beer. Tonight I am going out but I will be driving close to 30 mins. and will fight to find parking to meet some friends who also drove in from 30 mins away etc. I have to accept that this is life in the suburbs though, and not as you said, keep replaying the sitcom in my head. I just feel there has to be more. I really do long for a sense of community. [/quote]

If this kind of small-town feel is what you're after, it doesn't exist in most of Bethesda.  There are pockets that are like this, and you have to search them out--Kensington, Takoma Park, maybe Glen Echo or parts of Cabin John (at least there used to be).  There are some pockets like this in Virginia too--Del Ray is one.  [Can't say about Clarendon--Arlington's changed so far, so fast, and it's been so long since I've lived there I don't know anymore.]

You just have to do your homework to find them, and be willing to accept them with whatever other warts they may have.

BTW, McMansion poster, I apologize for stereotyping you.  I'm sure there are lots of nice neighborly big-house dwellers.  Among the ones in my neighborhood, though, nothing close to the front-porch, back-fence feel that OP is looking for exists, and I don't know those folks well enough to say anything more about them.  I only see their cars; I never see them outdoors or around the 'hood.  I admit, though, most neighbors could say the same about me.  [/quote]

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