Exclusive Estates Rise: Community Living Left In The Past

I remember my childhood vividly, the whole community raised the child. If you were moving with the wrong crew as a child, trust that Mama Bolu has found a way to tell your mother before you even step foot into your house, or how on Saturdays you can go and play with all your friends on the street, or how you kept greeting every adult till you get back to your house or else get reported to your parents that you did not greet your elders, ha! no one wanted that “disrespectful child” stigma so you will just greet jejely. In the bid to get privacy and serenity, the term community vanished, the close-knit community in which we grew up vanished but we have to say that a community has lots of benefits, I mean we experienced it, didn’t we? and of course, I am not saying that there are no bad sides because everything that has an advantage also has a disadvantage.

Should the close knit community be brought back orrr we like the new privacy thing?

The close-knit community had nice advantages like;

• A Support System: When my parents were not available to pick me up from school, guess whose house I stayed in till they got back, yeppp, you guessed right, Mama Bolu. Also, the community celebrated together; Christmas, New Year, Eid, during those seasons all you see being shared is Jollof, Ram, and Chicken. It truly had a nice feeling to it.
• Safety and Security: Best believe that in a close-knit community, they watch your house like it is their house and neighbors look out for one another, it is not that they are just concerned about their houses alone.
• Efficient Communication: Communication came with ease because most people understood each other so there were rarely ever conflicts but just imagine my surprise in one of these private estates, where everyone kept to themselves and what I could see was that they always had conflicting views.

But then again, there were disadvantages to these close-knit communities like limited privacy, and everybody was literally sticking their nose in your business, which of course inevitably led to gossip and rumor peddling.

So this leads me to my final question, do you think that the close knit communities we grew up in is better than these modern serene estates? or you are for the modern serene estates all the way?