What you said about your new neighbors... they may just be very caught up in their invisible, electronic lives. It reminded me of here in Houston, after Hurricane Harvey, when we were out of power for days and days, then community spirit starts to return and people have time and interest in just chatting. I’m really thinking finding a few trustworthy people and banding together and having a plan if the SHTF, e.g. ruffians in the neighborhood causing disturbances or worse.
Well, I think you are correct about banding together. But I also don’t know any of them well enough to trust them. Ha.