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    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Wellington is communal, but mostly because the whole city is one gigantic clusterfuck. I hate it, and I love it. more »
    HereComesMyBaby: Tel Aviv feels communal all the goddamn time. There is a holiday every other day. Everyone gives you unsolicited advice on the streets. I run into peo... more »
    msAnthrope: communal, or more closeness with neighbors, never sounds appealing to me. it's just an excuse for other people to put their nose in your business, giv... more »
    mbot says Spock yeah!: Awww, Iowa City! Growing up 45 minutes away in a far less awesome town, Iowa City was THE place to go and taste a little bit of college cool. Even f... more »
    ae: I love, LOVE Iowa City more than I can even say. I spent three and half years there while I was in school, and I'll still argue that it's one of the g... more »
    stevienixxx: i live in one of the best places ever. even though we are not that small of a place, there is still a crazy sense of community. we are a college town ... more »
    MockMyWorld: This post was a veritable emotional rollercoaster for me. To wit: Drew Barrymore as symbol of the apocalypse: Huh?Peak oil: Gah!Community: Yay (?)Iowa... more »
    mechanizedmeghan: My fiance (hate that word) is Israeli, and we went to Israel this past summer to visit family, etc. I was amazed at how different it is in this regar... more »
    baraqiel: When does Pittsburgh feel communal? Try every single Sunday that the Steelers play. But especially the playoffs, and the entire city goes insane whe... more »
    westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago): I was watching this Nova episode about the invention of refrigeration and air conditioning, and it was really interesting because they showed how AC k... more »
    ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: The neighborhood I grew up in has block parties every year - parks, families - it was pretty awesome. Now I live in a gentrified, *trendy* neighborho... more »
    Treeless: Election Night '08 in Seattle had a drag queen on the roof of "Neighbours" nightclub leading a crowd of thousands in "America the Beautiful" and then ... more »
    saintbernadette: In the interest of neighborliness, I'm thinking of doing the May Day thing this year. more »
    Sleuthy Sleuthstein: Why does my May 2009 Elle cover look different than yours? Mine shows Drew underwater. more »
    Evie Havok: I don't really think anyone would call Los Angeles communal. Perhaps the ethnic enclaves are a community that helps each other out. Those are the only... more »
    chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfish: I'm a New Yorker, so I have the same three as Ms. Chase, with a couple more. The Yankees-Mets World Series in 2000 seemed to bring a good chunk of th... more »
    TheUptightMidwesterner: In the suburb I live in, it was 9-11, Election Day and the 3rd one is kind of wierd. Every year in my community when the school year begins, people po... more »
    Shamrockette: The only times my town felt 'communal' was for one: 9/11. Everyone had american flags on their front lawns and they were just quite pleasant. The seco... more »
    undomesticgoddess doesn't sleep a wink: There were some fires really close to home last year. I remember meeting a complete stranger in 711 and she offered to let my family follow her out of... more »
    katie.scarlett.o'hara: The only occasions I can think of a communal spirit in Miami were in the aftermath of hurricanes. Everybody kinda hangs out with their neighbors and ... more »
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    Will The Apocalypse Bring Us Closer? Or, Why I Love My Town

    Will the end of cheap oil bring us closer to our communities? An article in this month's Elle got me thinking about that, and about my community, which happens to be Iowa City. More »