Reply #54: We are on the same page

[handmade34]

my job causes me to move around the United States to a different county within a different state every three weeks. I have been doing this for 6 years and have seen most everything there is to see in the way of neighborhood development and you are correct in your theories. I am sure you have seen "Searching for Whitopia" by Rich Benjamin, and if you haven't he talks a lot about the disconnect and peoples' ideas.

The proplem is that we have all (well for the most part) become disconnected from each other as a country and we have lost any "empathy" we had and this is what we need so desperately now. It is true; the people in their suburban gated communities cannot relate to the urbanites (and most of the time don't want to -even if they could) and too often people in the city don't have a clue what it is like to live in a rural area. Good post and good topic to think on