Don’t know how I missed this. Lot’s of good info and tough questions.
We live in what used to be country, then urban and now it has grown and still growing so fast, we are becoming our own little town. Traffic is really bad. Bumper to bumper at certain times of the day.
We have a lot of new neighbors, all younger ones. They moved in with no children and now have at least 3 or more kids. That’s great, but these younger neighbors will not so much as speak much to the older folks that are still here. We have lost a great many of older neighbors to either illness or nursing homes and the houses are going up on market. So many now that we need to get to know a great many new neighbors if we can get them to be social. I don’t think I could trust anyone in our neighborhood enough to talk about prepping. Though we will be having one neighbor that rented their house as he is military and getting out in June. They are moving back at that time. Those would be the only ones we could trust talking about our preps. We even showed them how to start a garden before he got transferred to CA. So he has already said when he gets back he will be borrowing our tiller to get things going again. I taught him how to make pickles and can them a couple months before they moved. So with all that has been going on in this neighborhood, it will be great to have them back here again. Seems the older folks here just stick together and just a hello, how are you to the younger ones with not much response.