Reply #2: I grew up the son of a mechanic for the dept of sanitation in NYC. [View All]

[Javaman]

I grew up in Nassau County, Long Island. No, not in Levittown.

We fixed our own cars. Our neighbors, business men, asked my dad for help. My dad would ask them about investing. Two of my friends dads were the local cops. They looked out for us and we gave them hot coffee on the cold nights. Another neighbor was a plumber. He helped us out one winter and my dad helped him out with a problem with his car. People helping people.

How many here know their neighbors? How many help them out in the same fashion as I state above.

when we lose middle class/working class neighborhoods, we lose so much more.

We lose a part of who we are as humans.