What does your ideal community look like?
How is it organized, and how is community life structured? What values does the
community share?
It’s small,
but within an hour’s dive of the bigger cities. It looks like an All American
city with sports fields alive at night, community parks and greenbelt areas
with plenty of walking and bike riding trails to enjoy, and an active Parks and
Recreation department providing all sorts of fun small town and family events
like movies at the golf course in the summer and holiday tree lighting
ceremonies. It’s not far from either the ocean or the mountains so that
weekends can easily be spent exploring during day trips without having to stay
overnight and pay food and hotel bills.
The community shares the values of family time spent together around the
dinner table, providing natural spaces for children to explore within their
suburban neighborhoods, socializing with each other through block parties and
neighborhood get togethers, and all the traits of being good citizens within
the community (taking responsibility for their own actions, standing up for
what’s right, teaching their children to use good manners and making them
accountable for knowing and following the rules, etc…).
Really, my
ideal community is a combination of the places I have lived in since becoming a
parent and having a family to raise.
Kwajalein had many of the traits described above, but not all, and WA
has those that Kwajalein was lacking. I
wonder what the next place I live will have to add to my ideal community? J
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