Affluent Owner Family Suburbs
Suburbs where every household has what it needs, and nobody has needed a neighbor in years.
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
These are the suburbs that worked out, and they look it from the road. About four out of five of the homes are detached houses with their own driveways and their own lawns.
The work here is salaried and it keeps office hours: managers, office and administrative workers, sales workers, teachers, accountants and financial workers, and a number of nurses and doctors.
To be asked for something rather than offered something, because a household nobody has needed in a decade has quietly concluded it has nothing a neighbor could want.
Forty-two, a few years into the house, with two children in middle school. She and her husband both work full time, and the week is planned to the hour because it has to be.
You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
the guide
What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.
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Older family streets where one adult is raising the children in a house built for two.
Denser blocks where the youngest household and the oldest live within sight of each other and have never had a reason to speak.
Spread-out roads where owning outright is common, everything is a drive, and nobody arrives anywhere without meaning to.