Small town? Large town? Hard to say
Our apartment is only about 4 miles from (not) our house, but I shop at different stores (except Wegmans), go to different gas stations, different Starbucks, different Panera, take a completely different way to work…sometimes it feels like we moved much further away. I don’t see the people I used to see around, which makes perfect sense – they’re not our neighbors anymore.
I do still occasionally run into people we know, though. I went for a run after work yesterday and ran into a woman from our boxing class. I guess she lives in THIS part of town, and now that I do, too, it makes perfect sense to see her out and about. But it’s still not that far from where we lived before, so it seems insane to think we never crossed paths before. Outside of boxing.
Probably a whole third of the people I work with live in this town – how is it that I never see any of them around? Because really – I NEVER see anyone from work, and we’re all practically next door neighbors. Where are they all hiding? Maybe I’m oblivious to it. They see me coming and duck behind the nearest bush. It’s what I would do if I saw them first, so I can’t blame them if that’s what’s happening. People from work should stay at work (with very few exceptions).
Or I should hurry up and move away. Like, actually move away. Four miles is a tease.