Comments on: I miss my old neighbourhood http://www.knitnut.net/2006/12/i-miss-my-old-neighbourhood/ Watch my life unravel... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:45:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TechWood http://www.knitnut.net/2006/12/i-miss-my-old-neighbourhood/#comment-2166 TechWood Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:17:29 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=261#comment-2166 Couple thoughts. Your new neighbourhood isn't filled with lots of things nearby, so it's likely more people will drive or take the bus and walk less. Also there are more houses in your new neighbourhood. House dwellers go out less and/or spend more time doing things in their backyards. Apartment dwellers go out and check things out outside of the home more - especially those in dense but not high buildings. Highrises have less people activity. While living in Los Angeles neighbourhoods I always found there were more "social people" there than there were in Anaheim or while in the highrise in Gloucester. Now if you want to hang out with neighbours - trailer parks are the place to be. Here's an idea for the summer. Hire some local kids that are friendly and outgoing (there are some there!) to partake in a social experiment. Your cost will be 24 hot dogs & buns, chips, 24 water bottles, and the use of a hibachi or bar-b-q. Have the kids knock on doors and deliver flyers to all your neighbours stating them that their neighbourhood has been assessed as anti-social. Notification is hereby served to all inhabitants that would like to appeal the assessment. Heck, use a scare tactic - anti-social neighbourhoods become park-and-ride facilities. To make your opinion known, show up on Saturday, May XX, 2006 for a pot-luck/bar-b-q neighbourhood picnic at the dog part. All inhabitants including humans/dogs welcome. The food is so you can feed the kids for their delivery efforts - hopefully your neighbours get a kick out of the effort taken and the cool ones come together to meet one another and the person that came up with the idea. This method will likely take less than 98 months. Cheers, Tw Couple thoughts.

Your new neighbourhood isn’t filled with lots of things nearby, so it’s likely more people will drive or take the bus and walk less. Also there are more houses in your new neighbourhood. House dwellers go out less and/or spend more time doing things in their backyards. Apartment dwellers go out and check things out outside of the home more – especially those in dense but not high buildings.
Highrises have less people activity. While living in Los Angeles neighbourhoods I always found there were more “social people” there than there were in Anaheim or while in the highrise in Gloucester. Now if you want to hang out with neighbours – trailer parks are the place to be.

Here’s an idea for the summer. Hire some local kids that are friendly and outgoing (there are some there!) to partake in a social experiment. Your cost will be 24 hot dogs & buns, chips, 24 water bottles, and the use of a hibachi or bar-b-q. Have the kids knock on doors and deliver flyers to all your neighbours stating them that their neighbourhood has been assessed as anti-social. Notification is hereby served to all inhabitants that would like to appeal the assessment. Heck, use a scare tactic – anti-social neighbourhoods become park-and-ride facilities. To make your opinion known, show up on Saturday, May XX, 2006 for a pot-luck/bar-b-q neighbourhood picnic at the dog part. All inhabitants including humans/dogs welcome.

The food is so you can feed the kids for their delivery efforts – hopefully your neighbours get a kick out of the effort taken and the cool ones come together to meet one another and the person that came up with the idea.

This method will likely take less than 98 months.

Cheers,
Tw

]]> By: Zoom! http://www.knitnut.net/2006/12/i-miss-my-old-neighbourhood/#comment-2151 Zoom! Sun, 10 Dec 2006 05:17:45 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=261#comment-2151 Robin, I will make a point of venturing out to get some photos of the little WWII houses ...I did take a few pictures, but felt I didn't capture the spirit of them, so I'll try again. Robin, I will make a point of venturing out to get some photos of the little WWII houses …I did take a few pictures, but felt I didn’t capture the spirit of them, so I’ll try again.

]]> By: Robin http://www.knitnut.net/2006/12/i-miss-my-old-neighbourhood/#comment-2134 Robin Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:31:32 +0000 http://knitnut.net/?p=261#comment-2134 It's very funny to picture you on the bus knitting with your bag of poop :) Good to see you starting to blog your new neighbourhood, even if it is only to say that you don't like it. Can we see some pictures of the little WWII houses? It’s very funny to picture you on the bus knitting with your bag of poop :)

Good to see you starting to blog your new neighbourhood, even if it is only to say that you don’t like it. Can we see some pictures of the little WWII houses?

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