The "Stay At Home Moms" on our street do not talk to each other, why?
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Yes, this is how it was. They didn't all have to have everything in common, all were welcome. We had a blue collar family next door whose kids we played with, there was a childless couple, some hippies, an old man who grew the best vegetables and shared them with all of us, a well-off retired couple, a family who adopted handicapped kids, a packrat family with a messy house and yard, etc. All these personalities, different religions, ideogies, lifestyles. No one hated each other. They would walk over and chat just for the heck of it. It was so loose that we would invite strangers walking by to our barbeques. Dang, how could it change so much.
We're strangers - yet I'd join your barbecue if you asked me to!!!
Our neighborhood is very close. We have parties, play Bunco, and get together for a glass of wine from time to time. Some of the moms go shopping, have lunch, workout, etc. together. You may not see this if you drove through our neighborhood because we are all at each other's homes, and not out in the street. There is on couple that does not participate, and we stopped inviting them long ago, but other than that, we have a wonderful neighborhood full of friendly, close friends.
Yes, this is how it was. They didn't all have to have everything in common, all were welcome. We had a blue collar family next door whose kids we played with, there was a childless couple, some hippies, an old man who grew the best vegetables and shared them with all of us, a well-off retired couple, a family who adopted handicapped kids, a packrat family with a messy house and yard, etc. All these personalities, different religions, ideogies, lifestyles. No one hated each other. They would walk over and chat just for the heck of it. It was so loose that we would invite strangers walking by to our barbeques. Dang, how could it change so much.
Yeah, it was LIKE that for us too, very different selection of people, some poorer, some richer, we had Vietnamese families in my partiucular neighborhood, and one family was my best friends. We had everyone coming together to socialize. I actually looked up some folks on Facebook and met them after 30 years. Things just arent not like that anymore. Even getting someone to go to lunch seems to be a military exercise.
Our neighborhood is very close. We have parties, play Bunco, and get together for a glass of wine from time to time. Some of the moms go shopping, have lunch, workout, etc. together. You may not see this if you drove through our neighborhood because we are all at each other's homes, and not out in the street. There is on couple that does not participate, and we stopped inviting them long ago, but other than that, we have a wonderful neighborhood full of friendly, close friends.
This is what my former neighborhood was like. Unfortunately, we moved from that lovely place to move to Texas. Fortunately we didn't like Texas and in 9 months were back in CA, but not in the same neighborhood. The good news is that we only live 10 minutes from our old 'hood and we still get together with our old neighbors, like we never left - only now we have to drive over there instead of walking up or down the street and they have to drive over here.
Our new neighbors are nice, but more on the standoffish side, but that's okay.
This is what my former neighborhood was like. Unfortunately, we moved from that lovely place to move to Texas. Fortunately we didn't like Texas and in 9 months were back in CA, but not in the same neighborhood. The good news is that we only live 10 minutes from our old 'hood and we still get together with our old neighbors, like we never left - only now we have to drive over there instead of walking up or down the street and they have to drive over here.
Our new neighbors are nice, but more on the standoffish side, but that's okay.
Twinkle, with your cheery personality I think you wont have any problems getting those new neighbors to change their standoffish ways.
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