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L1.1-C

Dense Professional and Solo Households

Denser blocks where the youngest household and the oldest live within sight of each other and have never had a reason to speak.

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In this guide
IDo now
IIWho lives here
IIIWhere it is cracking
IVWhat to say
VA story to share
VIFor you
IIWho lives here

Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.

Setting

A block like this holds two kinds of home at once.

Work

Professional work sets the tone near these blocks: managers, office and administrative workers, sales workers, accountants and financial workers, teachers and library workers, and software, computer and data workers.

What they are hungry for

A peer. Somebody at the same stage of life, near enough to see without arranging it, which is the one thing a block sorted this way does not supply.

A neighbor you might meetInvented, so no one is a case study
Devin

Thirty-five, four years into an apartment he likes more than he expected to. He lives alone, is not unhappy about it, and nobody within sight of his door knows his name.

IIIWhere it is crackingSigns, not proof of anything

You cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.

The car that stays put
Deliveries nobody has taken in
The yard somebody else started keeping
The rest of
the guide

What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.

The full guide carries the four first actions, three real conversation scenarios with the notes underneath each line, a story worth telling here, and the Gospel written into what this street is actually carrying. It is free, and it opens in the browser.

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