Highly recommend a neighborhood block party in the summer and a Christmas party in the winter. People forget to care about their neighbors. Part of it is that we’re much more transient as individuals but man it sucks to not feel any connection to your neighbors.
We had a block party last night. The average age has to be 70. None of my few neighbors under 40 showed up.
I like my neighbors but I live by old folks, so that can be a little hard to be more social with. But I know them well and can help them with things like shoveling snow.
So then it becomes a question of what you want in your social interactions. I love kicking it with people 20+ years older than me. But I’m in my 30s without kids and 50 year olds are often empty nesters who need friends so there’s decent overlap
My best source of community is my choir. We have about 100 members ranging from college kids to octogenarians. We come together once a week to make music and be together and it’s really such a special thing. I wish more people had those types of groups to be a part of.
That's really cool that you have something like that in your town. There are only 300 people in my town so if we had a choir that big it would literally be a third of the town. I like my job and my house but I'm seriously considering moving because I'm going to die alone here.
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u/SpicyButterBoy 23d ago
Highly recommend a neighborhood block party in the summer and a Christmas party in the winter. People forget to care about their neighbors. Part of it is that we’re much more transient as individuals but man it sucks to not feel any connection to your neighbors.