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Daniel Wigton | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I worry about this a lot. I think the size of the circle is dictated by who else you can expect to be in that circle with them. With the automobile it could be anyone.

Cul-de-sacs suck but are desirable because they remove a variable. I want to put roads under ground so kids can have the run of the neighborhood again.
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Michael J | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It can also be expanded by who you expect to be in the circle.  If kids are meeting up with friends at a park a mile away, and you know a few of the neighbors in between, that's going to be a quite safe radius.
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Daniel Wigton | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yes. My kids have a very small radius because My wife and I are introverts. In nearly 8 years of living in this town we have made 0 close friends. We don't know the people in the next house much less whoever lives by the park.

In my defense all the neighbors that I did know recently moved away. But they were all retired. We accidentally moved to a neighborhood with nearly no kids.