Back in TN

Just returned from San Fran, CA. I have to periodically travel to the Northeast or West Coast to get a refreshed sense of sanity. I have given much thought since living in  mid-Tn why I have to travel out of this area to find some semblance of what I consider "normal" circumstances. I just don't get how I cannot find a community or place of belonging here. I mention this to Kevin, and typical of Kevin, there is insight. Community, where I'm from and where I go for sanity, is defined by an address, a neighborhood, a town. With that in common, there may be other shared interests: the way I worship, my political views, my hobbies. Kev suggested that community in mid-Tn is actually built on the interests: the church attended, the political view. Address and neighborhood just does not seem to matter. I wonder if it matters with kids in school. Does the school create a community or are there divisions there based on special intersts as well. Most curious...