Agree. Real communities of people you actually know are so important. There is a survivor of the hyperinflation in Venezuela who writes of how he lived in a suburban subdivision. He didn't really know his neighbors and then many moved away so the community became a target for crime with vacant properties and no communal response. They grew their food indoors and left their house looking like it wasn't maintained to blend in:

https://www.survivalistboards.com/threads/venezuela-coming-apart.504289/page-23