I've found that as a general rule, people don't just "drop by because we're in the neighborhood" much anymore. However, if you invite folk over, it shouldn't be a problem.
I live in the SF Bay Area, and none of my friends lives within less than 20 minutes drive, and most of them substantially more. That said, if we ask folk over for dinner, or we want to go to the movies with friends, etc., as long as we make plans, it works out fine.
I think some of it is a shift in general in Americans and how they interact with people. For example, how well do you know your next door neighbors? I know that we've been in our place for over a year, and sort of know the people to one side of us (we know them by name, but we don't actually get together with them for anything), and don't know anyone else. I seem to recall that once upon a time people knew everyone in the neighborhood ...
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I live in the SF Bay Area, and none of my friends lives within less than 20 minutes drive, and most of them substantially more. That said, if we ask folk over for dinner, or we want to go to the movies with friends, etc., as long as we make plans, it works out fine.
I think some of it is a shift in general in Americans and how they interact with people. For example, how well do you know your next door neighbors? I know that we've been in our place for over a year, and sort of know the people to one side of us (we know them by name, but we don't actually get together with them for anything), and don't know anyone else. I seem to recall that once upon a time people knew everyone in the neighborhood ...