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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Where did I say flag down cars? When I lived out in the boonies, I knew all my prospective neighbors 2 years before I had the house built.
I would be doing stuff like placing markers, and they'd come over.
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Well you did say to try standing in the middle of the road.
I've personally found rural life is quite a bit different than life in a city. When I only had a few neighbors everyone know everyone.
In that subdivision with hundreds of people around I barely knew of the neighbors. Nobody walked anywhere, most people had a yard service mow their lawn, and if they were outside they were in their backyard on the other size of a (HOA mandatory) 6 foot high wooden fence.
I only really knew the retired couple - then widow - next door and the guy across the street that was always working on a house project like me. Two of my neighbors were NEVER in their front yard. They would drive up to their mailbox, get their mail, drive up the driveway into the garage, and shut the garage door the moment the rear bumper cleared it.
A bit better here in Oregon but the guy across the street from me also drives directly into his garage and shuts the door. He isn't outside of his house unless he is in a vehicle. The only time I've spoken to him was when I put out a futon for free and he came over and asked if I could help him carry it into his house.