The Neighborhood
My wife and I had just moved into our new house. Having just moved to Portland from the West Coast we knew no one, and were anxious to meet our neighbors. The neighborhood we chose was in a suburb just west of the city. It was a small, tight group of houses with only one way in and out. There was a main entry which went in a loop and then eight cul-de-sacs that had a total of 60 houses. The cul-de-sacs backed up to each other so this meant the every house had houses behind and to both...