I think this is a very rare situation in the US and depends heavily on either luck or targeted buying to land the right neighborhood at the right time. I grew

I think this is a very rare situation in the US and depends heavily on either luck or targeted buying to land the right neighborhood at the right time. I grew up in a wonderful neighborhood in a nice suburban area, but I was the youngest kid by about four years so I never walked to a friend’s house. I also never realized I was missing anything until I moved to a non-US city in my twenties and found out how different life could be in a human-scale environment.