Crowded Extended-Family Homeowners
Old houses that fill and empty and fill again, on streets almost nobody moves away from.
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
These are old houses that do not change hands often: about three out of four were built before 1980.
Work here is spread wide rather than gathered into one trade, and construction and extraction workers and production workers are both well represented.
For somebody to ask the person rather than the household how things are going.
Four years on the street, two school-age children, and both parents working full time.
You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
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Small households in older buildings, settled for years, and regularly mistaken for people who have only just arrived.
Houses set well apart, held for decades, and no new arrival coming to make the introductions for anybody.
Detached houses, long marriages, and a street where everybody has quietly concluded that nobody else wants anything.