Monday night sidewalk party →[More:]We came home around 8:30 from drinking beer at a happy-hour party at my wife's office tonight and all our neighbors were out on the sidewalk two doors down drinking beer and wine. So then we ended up drinking wine for two hours with the neighbors. They do this every couple of weeks without warning, there'll be a street party with a 10 to 15 people drinking wine and eating cheese until 11 or so. Most of these folks are at least twenty years older than we are and can drink way more than we can (which isn't really saying much).

We lived in a townhouse condo in the suburbs for six years and didn't know any of our neighbors and within a month of moving to the city, we had met everyone on our block. City life is great but I need to be up by 6:30 tomorrow.