Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!homxa!carson From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: Neighborhood relationships Message-ID: <513@homxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 08:57:03 EST Article-I.D.: homxa.513 Posted: Mon Dec 3 08:57:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:26:40 EST References: <506@homxa.UUCP>, <1770@ucf-cs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 Actually some folks out of close-knit communities can cope very well outside them--off, hand, I'd say there are about three basic types: The ones that marry a MOTAS from the neighborhood, buy a place next to their parents, and work at pretty much the things their parents did. The ones that feel they have to try every "sin" in the book (the so-called black sheep), either because they were always expected to be saints (Ministers' kids, for example) or because they were never expected to be any good anyhow, so end up with wild, flakey, and dissolute lives (and are a LOT of fun..:-)...And a few that, being secure about where they come from, turn out to be fascinating, integrated individuals... Patty