Dense Gateway Families
Large households on dense blocks, in homes built for fewer people than now live in them, where company is easy to find and a door you can close is not.
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
The buildings on these blocks don't match each other. Detached houses sit next to apartment buildings and rows of attached homes, and about two-thirds of it all went up before 1980.
Most of the people who live here work in offices, sales, construction, kitchens and warehouses.
To be asked about something specific, rather than asked in general how they're doing.
Late thirties, renting with two children in middle school. Four years in the same place, working days in a warehouse and picking up weekend hours whenever they come up.
You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
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On these roads most of the work within reach is the same kind of work, so neighbors already know what each other do for a living without ever having asked.
Homeowners on old blocks who earned good money without a degree, with the first person in the house to try college studying upstairs.
Neighbors whose jobs nearly all have to be done standing up, in one particular place, at one particular hour.