College-Educated Homeowner Streets
Settled owner streets of families, working couples and retirees, where being home often doesn't mean being free.
Who lives here
Read on the street, not on a spreadsheet.
Detached houses on their own lots make up most of this street, with a few townhouses and only a handful of apartments. A good share of the houses went up before 1980, and fewer are new.
Managers outnumber every other kind of worker on these streets.
An hour that nobody else gets a say in. For the working households, nearly every other hour this week is already spoken for.
A neighbor you might meet
Invented, so no one is a case studyEarly forties, six years in the house, both working full time, with two kids in school. Curtis works from the room over the garage most days, so he's home all day and on the clock for most of it.
Where it is cracking
Signs, not proof of anythingYou cannot know the reason from the sidewalk.
A sample from the guide
Three pieces of the full textThe rest comes with the guide.
What you'll hear at the door
I'm around. Just swamped right now.
I'm around, just swamped
Believe both halves. Ask when his workday ends, and come back then.
What tends to backfire
Dropping in because the car is there
When you see a car in the driveway at two in the afternoon, it usually means somebody is working without an office door to close. Text first, or knock after the workday. The retired couple across the street may be the exception, and you'll only know by asking.
Learn what the week next door looks like, then offer one hour that fits inside it.
the guide
What to do this week, what to say, and why the news is good on this particular street.
The full guide carries the four first actions, three real conversation scenarios with the notes underneath each line, a story worth telling here, and the Gospel written into what this street is actually carrying. It is free, and it opens in the browser.
Where to next
Retired owners, working families, single parents and young renters on older suburban streets, many of them getting by with little to spare.
Settled homeowners at every stage of life, from busy working families to retired couples and older women on their own, who mostly handle things themselves.
Renters in shared buildings, owners in older houses and families of every kind who have lived near each other for years and mostly never learned each other's names.