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[quote=Anonymous]It's interesting to me some people are very focused on community meaning your immediate neighbors.

To me, community means feeling a part of where you live.  It's the people you see frequently, the businesses you frequent and support, your schools, parks, libraries, and public resources you share with everyone.  It's broader than the block you live on.

Anyway, there are a lot of kids and families who are around after school and on the weekends where I live.  My middle school son hangs out with friends regularly after school and on the weekends and is able to walk to nearly everything his friends do.  He has activities but not anything as intense as a travel sport.  He has (unsolicited) mentioned a couple kids in his grade who are never around due to always going straight home for practice and never being around on weekends.  He says these kids are nice but just not "in the mix".  It's just a different path.  I don't think it's bad for community because community still exists.  These people just aren't doing it, which is fine.[/quote]

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