I'd be interested in your New England background. Where, and does it mea an early American family?
Re NYC and neighbors. Ditto for Chicago along the lake. I don't know most people in our building. And don't want to. wc the gym to swim. I've never in my life been in a gym before mid-afternoon. And I've never swum in the Reebok pool. In New York, two people's living in the same neighborhood does not imply they are, in the sense from my childhood in New England, "neighbors". )
