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<p>I think we all make our choices. And part of my choice to work at a reasonably high powered career involved making the choice that I simply wasn’t going to have / participate in any kind of neighborhood community. I’ve lived in my home for 20 years. I don’t know my neighbors much beyond superficial hellos, I don’t rely on them for much other than perhaps borrowing a ladder or something, I have never been to any of their homes for dinner and vice versa. It’s isolative in one regard, but it’s also protective in another, because I had only so much energy for my family and my job and my other friends (who don’t live in this immediate area) that I made a deliberate choice that I wasn’t going to be part of a neighborhood community. I like my town; it’s pleasant enough and all and the people are pleasant enough, but I just don’t have much to do with them in general. Most of me likes it that way, and a small part of me doesn’t but accepts it as the price I chose to pay.</p>