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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, more people live in cities so I'm not sure this is a fair assessment, but I see your point. I have friends who live (what to me is a nightmarish) suburban lifestyle and I think for them a lot of it is not valuing community in the same way I do and taking comfort in material things. I personally don't get it.[/quote]

It’s odd you think cities have more community feel, I find the opposite [/quote]
Really? Well, different experiences I guess. I grew up in Fairfax and my parents never talked to any of the neighbors. None of the neighbors seemed to talk to each other either. It was a very "each man for himself" kind of place. I played at a friend's house in the summer until I was 9 and that was it. There were no block parties, clothing swaps, school events, babysitting swaps, dinner parties, pizza parties, neighborhood holiday events like I have now living in NW DC. We are all looking out for each other. We keep each other abreast of things in the hood, at school, and fun things to do. We watch each others' kids and invite people over all the time. I know shop owners and neighbors and the librarians by name. I know many more community people by sight. Hell, I know my local politicians! I help clean up parks and flag issues for the community to deal with. I regularly see friends just walking down the street and decide to have impromptu fun. We had zero of that in Fairfax. [/quote]

I spent part of my life in DC and later in Rockville.

We had all of that on our street growing up and we have that now where I live in Darnestown. I can’t speak for every street and neighborhood in the suburbs.

We had a neighbor who is a multimillion (he just donated upon death $20M to his hometown to build a community center) who never moved because of the community feel on our street. We were not rich it was not Potomac.

My mom is 94 and lives in an over 55 community and our neighbors still do lunch monthly. My brothers still do golf/fishing trips with neighbors.

My h sometimes is like can we not eat on the deck because it might turn into a party.

We have block parties on Halloween and the 4th. We have other events during the year, we use to do Easter egg hunt for example.

My brothers neighbor does a haunted forest in the fall.

I’m sure there are good and bad neighbors/ neighborhoods everywhere. My friend moved from our type of neighborhood to one with tons of land and moved back because they missed capture the flag night, and the neighborhood feel.
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