I work in a family farm a few weeks a year and if you head into town to pick up some things you gotta budget time for making chitchat with people, and it was the same deal when living in a built up walkable urban neighbourhood in Montreal, and in Vancouver, you see and interact with the same people every day.
Now I live in a neighbourhood with many immigrants from Africa, and they're super tight knit, in terms of their involvement in the community they put anything else I've seen to shame, excepting maybe when I was staying in a small villages in Indonesia and Mexico back in my surfing days.
But, like many, I grew up in a generic cookie cutter suburb and it was pretty dismal as far as community involvement and interaction goes. People get in their cars and drive away.
Now I live in a neighbourhood with many immigrants from Africa, and they're super tight knit, in terms of their involvement in the community they put anything else I've seen to shame, excepting maybe when I was staying in a small villages in Indonesia and Mexico back in my surfing days.
But, like many, I grew up in a generic cookie cutter suburb and it was pretty dismal as far as community involvement and interaction goes. People get in their cars and drive away.