{"id":37718,"date":"2019-06-29T00:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37718"},"modified":"2019-06-29T00:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:50:02","slug":"happy-trails-part-161-meeting-the-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37718","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 161: Meeting the neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am living, breathing, talking proof that rear-entry driveways have helped damage neighborly relations among folks.<\/p>\n

How do I know this? We sold our house in Amarillo more than a year ago after living in it for more than two decades. We had it built from the ground up. It had a rear-entry garage that allowed us to drive our vehicle from an alley that ran along the rear of our homes.<\/p>\n

We had infrequent<\/em> exchanges with our neighbors. Why? We hardly ever saw them.<\/p>\n

It’s different these days. Our retirement journey has taken us to Princeton. Our new home has a driveway that faces onto the street.<\/p>\n

Here’s the benefit we have accrued from this new arrangement: We have gotten acquainted early with several our neighbors on our side of the street and also across the street.<\/p>\n

My wife and I know the names of folks living in two residences across the street; we know the names of both our next-door neighbors, as well as the neighbors two and three doors to our east.<\/p>\n

I have concluded that with front-entry driveways we have returned to a more neighborly environment than what we experienced for 22 years living in our Amarillo home.<\/p>\n

It’s not that our neighbors in Princeton are friendlier<\/em> than they were in Amarillo. Indeed, we became good friends with several of the families living on our street in Amarillo. It took some time, given the rear-entry garages that prevented a lot of regular face-to-face interaction with them.<\/p>\n

Make no mistake that Panhandle residents pride themselves on their friendliness, their sense of community. We would hear about it regularly as we went through our day over many years.<\/p>\n

Now, though, our daily routine as we go about our day in the home with our front-entry driveway includes a lot more frequent interaction with our neighbors along our street.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to know the folks with whom we share this neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n

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I am living, breathing, talking proof that rear-entry driveways have helped damage neighborly relations among folks. How do I know this? We sold our house in Amarillo more than a year ago after living in it for more than two decades. We had it built from the ground up. It had a rear-entry garage that … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 161: Meeting the neighbors<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7493,3920,4668],"class_list":["post-37718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-north-texas","tag-retirement","tag-texas-panhandle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37719,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37718\/revisions\/37719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}