Before & after bike ghettos

On Oct 21, 5:50 pm, Tom Sherman °_°
wrote:
On 10/20/2010 9:49 AM, Peter Cole wrote:

[...]
As for "friendliness", I don't know how to measure that directly, but it
seems that people who choose to live among lots of other people must
like people more than those who choose the prairie.[...]

Yet, in the real world, people are the most rude and stand-offish in
large cites.

While you do get people that want to be "left the hell alone" in remote
rural areas, these people almost never bother those who do not intrude
upon them.


I refer to my hometown as "Mayberry" all the time here, and it's
remarkably apt. Remarkably. (Sometimes I think Frank must live in
"Pleasantville", but that's another issue.) But anyway, yeah - here
in "Mayberry" everyone looks each other in the eye and says, "Hi", as
they walk past on the street, whereas in the city I ride to work in,
almost *nobody* will make eye contact (I do have a pretty good rapport
with those apparently formerly instituionalized folks that I mentioned
before - whatever that means :-)