Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
How many are in the one you grew up in? What defined the boundary of what houses you considered in your neighborhood? How large was your neighborhood?
For me it was about 13 houses on the dead end street I grew up on. As I kid I knew every family on the street, had been in all of there houses, and was welcomed to play in all there yards. I might add in the parallel dead end street right behind it too, although I didn't know more than 1/3 of the people who lived there. There were enough woods and cow pastures around the edges to kind of seal off that area as a unit (a few chickens and goats too). Here's a google map pic. It's at a slightly wider angle than the area I'd usually walk the dog in, but smaller than the area I'd ride my bike in.
How did you define neighborhood growing up? How has that changed been then and now? 1/22/2011 9:19:02 PM |
SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
Zero 1/22/2011 9:24:13 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
I suppose I should expand the notion to include the number of residences in apartment complexes, condos, and so forth. 1/22/2011 9:26:35 PM |
SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
Zero 1/22/2011 9:27:10 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Also homeless shelters, tree houses, areas under bridges, your car, motor homes, RVs, bio-domes, tents, someone else's car, student residence halls/complexes, and the moon.
[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 9:32 PM. Reason : .] 1/22/2011 9:31:46 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
Zero as well. 1/22/2011 9:35:42 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Don't live near anyone? Constant traveler? Just don't consider anyone your neighbor? Even when you were growing up, and currently? 1/22/2011 9:36:41 PM |
SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
I SAID ZERO GOD DAMMIT. 1/22/2011 9:37:03 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I SAID ZERO GOD DAMMIT. " |
I'll mark you down for 5.1/22/2011 9:37:55 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
Here's the thing: this question is irrelevant, uninteresting, and nerdy as hell.
Therefore, this thread sucks.
BUCKET 1/22/2011 9:38:26 PM |
stowaway All American 11770 Posts user info edit post |
on my street, 50-60. In the subdivision/community/neighborhood? 1500ish. 1/22/2011 9:41:18 PM |
Joie begonias is my boo 22491 Posts user info edit post |
supplanter, i think we may have grown up at the same house 1/22/2011 9:57:03 PM |
Jaybee1200 Suspended 56200 Posts user info edit post |
1/22/2011 10:01:40 PM |
egyeyes All American 6209 Posts user info edit post |
I grew up in the most densely populated city in the country:
1/22/2011 10:02:28 PM |
JesusHChrist All American 4458 Posts user info edit post |
this thread should be, "google maps/google street" the home you grew up in.....
...... 1/22/2011 10:04:14 PM |
aaronburro Sup, B 52883 Posts user info edit post |
you didn't grow up in the stable, jesus 1/22/2011 10:11:10 PM |
JesusHChrist All American 4458 Posts user info edit post |
what a dump. I think you can see Deebo snatchin' people's chains if you look close enough.
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1/22/2011 10:17:38 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "supplanter, i think we may have grown up at the same house" |
cool, I have a sister now!
Quote : | "this thread should be, "google maps/google street" the home you grew up in....." |
It still can be that, in addition to whatever else it is, regardless of name.
To my own question of comparing current to past, its a few hundred residences now. It was probably about the same with the last apartment complex I lived in too. I'm still in short walking distance of nearly 10 residences with people that I actually hang out with some. So I don't find that I know any less or more people even though there are a lot more people in closer proximity to me than growing up. The only exception being that back when I lived in Sullivan/Bragaw/UT/Metcalf are probably the times when I knew more people in close proximity than at any other point in my life so far.
Quote : | "I grew up in the most densely populated city in the country" |
So how much of that overview shot do you consider your neighborhood? Did you pick the zoom level to basically include the whole area you considered your neighborhood, or is it a narrower selection of that region? Any idea how many people lived in that area?
And just to throw some more questions out there, how many people's neighborhoods, regions, or communities had names? Not the entire town/city name of course, but just the local area where you lived? Did you have a neighborhood watch? Did you have a neighborhood association?
[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM. Reason : .]1/22/2011 10:18:46 PM |
wwwebsurfer All American 10217 Posts user info edit post |
Neighborhoods? Pfft. Our house, grandmas house, 2 neighbors (across street, next door.) But each house was over an acre of woods from each other - and the next houses are just over a mile away. 1/22/2011 10:40:44 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
^Reminds of my grandparent's place. The houses weren't quite so spread apart, but there was a lot more land between houses, and many of the ones that were most nearby were family.
Where my mother lives now the neighborhood is basically everyone who lives around the lake. I know for some people its everyone who lives by a park. I suppose voting precincts is another way to define neighborhoods somewhat, I find that I often see people I know at the places I've gone to vote.
[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM. Reason : .] 1/22/2011 10:55:33 PM |
SaabTurbo All American 25459 Posts user info edit post |
Hahaha, METRO LIST SON!
1/22/2011 10:58:54 PM |
NCSUStinger Duh, Winning 62425 Posts user info edit post |
I grew up on a strip of 10 houses on a country road. Growing up, all the kids played with each other, so all the parents knew each other. But as kids grew up, people moved out, etc. now my parents really only know the next door neighbors and no one else.
Now I live in an even less populated part of the wilderness, one neighbor directly across the street, and 1 about a quarter mile in both directions. I talk to them when I see them, we borrow/lend tools/equipment, but I just dont feel the "community" here I did as a child. 1/22/2011 11:05:08 PM |
shmorri2 All American 10003 Posts user info edit post |
Enough to minimize the chances of someone wanting to steal something from me when my "neighbors" are much easier/"rewarding" targets...
[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 11:18 PM. Reason : .] 1/22/2011 11:18:22 PM |
theDuke866 All American 52766 Posts user info edit post |
I didn't grow up in a neighborhood. Hell, I had a rural route mailing address. 1/22/2011 11:19:52 PM |
Chop All American 6271 Posts user info edit post |
i grew up on a country road with a rural route as well, not in a neighborhood. there was a line of about 6 houses in a half mile stretch, if that counts.
[Edited on January 22, 2011 at 11:26 PM. Reason : .] 1/22/2011 11:25:49 PM |
smoothcrim Universal Magnetic! 18958 Posts user info edit post |
^^I used to play basketball at your house. I think you were long gone to college by then though. 1/23/2011 9:47:19 AM |
0EPII1 All American 42535 Posts user info edit post |
I live at
21° 37' 16.21" N 39° 6' 43.47" E
Neighborhood is all the 160 residences inside the walled compound. 1/23/2011 5:03:23 PM |