The closest that people from other cultures that have urbanised to the next stage and for which the 'mi pueblo' phenomenon no longer exists is a campsite with regular visitors, I think. If you go to the same place, for the same weeks, you get a kind of temporary, artificial 'pueblo', with no locked doors, familiar neighbours, but without being locked into it for good. Once the kids outgrow that environment, you just consign it to memory, or the odd friendship may endure.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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