What modern conveniences are the least we need?

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124. Grim, but clearly a possibility. And maybe that's not a bad thing.

As an aside, a lot of people replied to my post about apartment living with pronouncements of how awful apartments are. The notion even seems to anger some of posters, which is quite weird.

But I've just now been reminded of the benefits of apartment living. Maybe people in other parts of the country suck more than they do here, but I love my neighbors. My building is a close knit community of people who watch out for each other.

We're having a bad storm here. A ton of rain has fallen in a few hours. We've had 5 "hundred year storms" in the last few years that put water in our garage.

I just went down to check the garage, found 4 of my neighbors down there. We discussed whether to move our cars out of the garage, decided we would, helped each other park, shared umbrellas for the walk back inside. One guy is a night owl and he offered to check for water in the garage in a few hours and call those who haven't moved their cars if they need to.

Our apartments are big and beautiful and quiet. We have access to acres of park and a lake just across the street, and a walking village where we can get most of what we need.

I understand that apartment living is not for everyone, but it's a shame that people feel the need to denigrate it the way they do every time the subject comes up here. It would never occur to me to say such things about houses to people who live in them.

And it really IS great for the environment.