I will say, when my kids were little our neighborhood was very much like these people. Many of us wives were very close, especially the ones who were not native N.C.'ers, and had husbands who did some traveling on occasion for their jobs. We had to have each other to depend upon for help if we needed it. In fact, we used to tease that my husband was an expert on breaking & entering, having broken into almost every home on our street at one time or another for various reasons, all legit, I might add. Women locking themsselves out, neighbors accidentally leaving on vacation and forgetting to leave a key behind for petsitting, etc. But I don't know of anyone having any affairs with anyone else in the neighborhood. Heck, most of the husbands were AWOL, that's why we women/mom's needed each other so much.