Well, as you just attested, you got to know your neighbor, therefore you would have noticed the distress. I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that nobody in the “neighborhood” tried to figure out what was going on.
My son up and joined the Army. I didn’t put out a big sign or anything. Well, word spread fast. Everyday my neighbors ask how he is doing, can they send him anything, etc.
Its easy to figure. when I lived in the country I knew my neighbors and we did things as a community, yet when I lived in the subdivision (for 18months) my wife walked about 3 times a week with my boys and she knew more people on other streets than she did on our street, and when we were moving out my neighbor across the street came over to welcome us... We spent time outside and out of probably 30 houses we knew 2 families and one more by sight.