Very true. I believe the reason I could integrate so well with this community is due to one specific situation and a couple attributes of the community that I've not seen elsewhere:

- I moved to the neighborhood when the community was just beginning

- It is not based around typical cultural or ethnic norms (there are Haitian, Asian, European, Hispanic immigrants involved: this is not an affluent-white-urban group, though caucasian transplants to the city tend to be the majority)

- It is not based around our job description or industry, though creative-types are definitely in the majority

- It's not whether you're deemed cool by the American Apparel masses

We're just neighbors. Awesome neighbors.

(before this, I lived in northern Astoria - whose community was rather insular and comprised of primarily Greek individuals; there were yuppies there, but they weren't a part of nor 'invited' in to the community)