Friday morning while we puttered around the house one of our neighbor's house caught fire. We didn't know anything about it until we heard the fire engines, and it wasn't until a couple hours later we heard on the news that there was a fatality.
In a strange twist later that afternoon a man was arrested after being treated for burns himself. Police suspect he murdered the man found dead in the fire. The Rocky story is here. Police haven't yet speculated on a motive.
I try to get to know my neighbors, which runs against some stereotype of libertarians, I suppose. This unfortunate fellow was a renter, however, and I don't believe I had met him.
TO: Walter
RE: Megopolis Syndrome
"I try to get to know my neighbors..." -- Walter
It's a big problem in large cities. Few people know their next door neighbors.
Doesn't seem to be so pernicious in smaller towns of, say, only 100K.
Within a week of moving in, I'd had longer chats with all of my neighbors, and a few down the street or around the corner, than I'd had with all of my neighbors in Denver in a years time.
Funny thing that....
Regards,
Chuck(le)