Reply to How did your parents treat new neighbors when you were growing up (include where)?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "How did your parents treat new neighbors when you were growing up (include where)?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Arlington. I think our neighborhood was unusually close. A lot of the people moved in around the same time and stayed in those houses for decades (some are still there). Not everyone had kids, or was married, or were the same age, but we were tight. Holiday parties, weekend BBQs, cocktails on Fridays, etc. There was no formal "welcome wagon" but everyone made sure everyone else was welcome. We all had copies of each others' house keys and traded vacation pet sitting for errands and shoveled each others' sidewalks when it snowed. If someone had a family emergency, there was always a neighbor willing to drop everything and drive to the hospital, or pick up a relative from the airport, or let a teenager stay in the basement. There were a few outliers who kept to themselves and weren't very social, but they said hello and no one was rude or anything--well, one guy was/is, but I'm pretty sure there's serious mental illness involved and we always just left him alone like he wanted. I'm in my 40s and some of those people have died over the past 10-15 years. I felt like I'd lost a family member, and I guess in a way, I did.

Our current neighborhood is also in the turnover phase. We moved in right before the pandemic so it's a little different now, but everyone normally brings cookies or wine or just a note when we get new neighbors. Our old neighborhood was okay, but a lot less family friendly. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics