Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unless you've been where she's been, and it's not a pretty place, it would > be hard to understand the mental anguish one goes through when you don't > feel "grounded". It's not easy. In any way shape or form. >
Obviously this comment is pure speculation, but ... It seems like in the 70s when was just a little'un there was "community" in that as a kid you knew all your neighbors and sat on the porch with them in the summers. It wouldn't have been odd to just walk into their house - even if they didn't have kids - and talk to them, grab a coke, etc. People in a neighborhood hung out. Bars were a 4-5pm meeting spot for kids and dads. They gave you those suckers on a string and then everyone went home for dinner. If a kid did something cool, everyone knew and kinda took credit; the whole home-town kid concept. At least that's what I remember. Then in the 80s that changed to more of a "closed garage door" mentality. Life move to inside, people didn't hang out, bars closed and re-opened as "clubs" where kids weren't welcome and generally life in a neighborhood was no longer visible. Neighborhoods went to hell people moved to the suburbs. Farther and farther out, with more and more property, less community. Neighbors gave a tight-lipped smile and forgot who they were smiling at. I think people lost their grounding. I'm seeing that as people my age open new businesses and those businesses are similar to the ones I knew as a kid. Neighborhoods that had gone to hell are being re-developed by hipsters and generally people seem to be grasping for neighbors rather than cars, boats, and vacations. I think we're nationally re-leveling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338725 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
