Comments on: Are Wealthy Neighborhoods Less Neighborly? http://frontporchforum.com/blog/2008/03/04/are-wealthy-neighborhoods-less-neighborly/ ... about community within neighborhoods and Front Porch Forum. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:10:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan http://frontporchforum.com/blog/2008/03/04/are-wealthy-neighborhoods-less-neighborly/#comment-168814 Dan Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:49:39 +0000 http://frontporchforum.com/blog/2008/03/04/are-wealthy-neighborhoods-less-neighborly/#comment-168814 I've noticed a similar phenomenon in the UK. There are some villages that have become commute homes for wealthy city workers; all local amenities have closed. One place I'm thinking of had a local pub, that was it. Food could only be bought by driving to the nearest town 20 miles away. (I recall this because I was backpacking at the time and wanted something to eat - there was nothing!) Interesting: no social capital, but also such areas don't draw attention to themselves through any particular social ill. They're just... eerily dead. I’ve noticed a similar phenomenon in the UK. There are some villages that have become commute homes for wealthy city workers; all local amenities have closed. One place I’m thinking of had a local pub, that was it. Food could only be bought by driving to the nearest town 20 miles away. (I recall this because I was backpacking at the time and wanted something to eat - there was nothing!)

Interesting: no social capital, but also such areas don’t draw attention to themselves through any particular social ill. They’re just… eerily dead.

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