History Main / CloseKnitCommunity

QuirkyTown is always one; even ones that aren't quirky often have a high tolerance for eccentrics, town drunks, and other unusual and/or dysfunctional -- but mostly harmless -- characters. {{Arcadia}} is also always a Close-Knit Community, if the matter comes up; it is more likely to come up when Arcadia is contrasted to a ViceCity rather than a DeadlyDecadentCourt. The WrongSideOfTheTracks can also be close-knit, in which case it is not the WretchedHive, and even holds down the crime rate by their quick action against it. This can even be true in a ViceCity, though it is not common, and the community tends to be poorer and have more crime than other close knit communities, because they can only contain the city to a certain extent; on other hand, they will often need each other's support after crimes. CrystalSpiresAndTogas and other ideal cities are more likely to contain neighborhoods of them, than be them, since the characters have to know each other. Common in the towns of TheWestern.

* The town of Stoneybrook, Connecticuit in ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub''. For example, three of the four original members grew up together as neighbors, SixthRanger Mallory used to be their babysitting charge, and Mary Anne's father and Dawn's mother were HighSchoolSweethearts.

* Overton, the famring village '"Series/{{Glue}}'' is set in, is very small, with all the inhabitants knowing each other.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePJs'', Thurgood's building is another "dysfunctional yet functional" example, mainly because it's located inside an economically struggling ViceCity.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Elwood City. The parents in Arthur's class have exchanged contact information.

* In ''Toys/{{Lalaloopsy}}'' (the TV series) all of the characters know each other well enough that they can walk in to each others' houses (after they knock first) and stay over for the night without a second thought. Food is made or delivered, without payment of any kind, and people are frequently invited for meals. Everyone seems to have an interest in the performance or meeting of the day, as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Boxwood Terrace, WA is a small, semi-mythical, science-based QuirkyTown where all the residents are close to each other, and they're made even closer when Jet arrives. You can find almost all of the characters at town events like kart races, cooking contests, pumpkin growing competitions, Christmas pageants, Earth Day shows, watching the solar eclipse, going to the Open House at the DSA, mini-golf tournaments, and more.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4331 for the duration of a panel.]]

* ''Westernnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Boxwood Terrace, WA is a small, semi-mythical, science-based QuirkyTown where all the residents are close to each other, and they're made even closer when Jet arrives. You can find almost all of the characters at town events like kart races, cooking contests, pumpkin growing competitions, Christmas pageants, Earth Day shows, watching the solar eclipse, going to the Open House at the DSA, mini-golf tournaments, and more.

* In ''Lalaloopsy'' (the TV series) all of the characters know each other well enough that they can walk in to each others' houses (after they knock first) and stay over for the night without a second thought. Food is made or delivered, without payment of any kind, and people are frequently invited for meals. Everyone seems to have an interest in the performance or meeting of the day, as well.

* The towns in all ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games are this on top of being very [[QuirkyTown quirky.]]

%%* The Greek community in ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''
%%* Bedford Falls in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.
* The QuirkyTown in ''Film/DesertHeat'' shows you just how close knit when [[spoiler: ''everyone'' shoots the final bad guy, then argues about who shot first.]]

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# As a waystation for TheQuest, in which case it will only be an interlude

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]], the New York Hooverville. ''De facto'' leader Solomon intentionally invokes it, reminding the residents that they have to stick together if they want to survive.

HiddenElfVillage can also be one. Characters in this community do not have to be welcoming.

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* In ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'', the unnamed community the Kusakabes are moving to at the opening of the film proves to be this. Hardly surprising, since it's located not far from the border of {{Arcadia}} and the GhibliHills.

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* Haven, from ''Film/{{Serenity}}''.
* The Hassidic diamond sellers district in the Literature/CrimeAndPunishment film ''A Stranger Among Us''.
* The Greek community in ''Film/MyBigFatGreekWedding''
* Bedford Falls in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''.

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* Haven from ''Protector of the Small'', by Tamora Pierce.
* District 12 from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' - before Katniss [[spoiler: volunteers to take her sister's place in the Games]], the community deliberately overlooks the fact that Katniss breaks a major rule (imposed by the government nobody likes) every day to poach from the forest because she brings them meat. Despite that Katniss is a little girl, she gets an even trade from the members where possible and nobody exploits her. Her mom, an Apothecary, cares for the sick and injured villagers for no pay. Generally every citizen of District 12 is pretty altruistic and selfless.

* Literature/MissMarple comes from one, St. Mary Meade, and is occasionally set to work in one of these
* On Literature/{{Discworld}}, the Chalk. Tiffany Aching at one point describes how everyone did so because they knew her grandmother was watching them.

* The Prelapsarians in Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos''; they will not move against Olympus while Phaetheusa is hostage, because of their respect for her father, even though he holds no formal position.
* In Creator/LMMontgomery's ''Literature/JaneOfLanternHill'', Jane is struck by the friendliness of PEI. The narrator comments that she didn't realize that she had changed, no longer having her spirit crushed out of her by her grandmother.

* In Creator/RobinMcKinley's ''Literature/{{Sunshine}}'', the coffee house.

* In Creator/PatriciaCWrede's Literature/FrontierMagic novel ''Literature/ThirteenthChild'', two women are waiting to welcome the family to Mill City, because the mother might have difficulty getting them all fed, given how late their arrival is; the man telling them this assures them that they look out for each other in Mill City.
* ''Literature/DandelionWine'': The fictional town of Green Town, IL is the embodiment of this trope. The book features a series of vignettes that show the Spaulding boys' interactions with the town residents.

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* In "Series/{{Justified}}" the residents of Harlan County are an insular community. Everyone knows everyone and can tell you what you and your family have been up to all the way back to your great great grandpappy. For the most part, the residents are politely passive aggressive towards each other (The Bennetts vs. The Givenses, The Crowders vs The Bennetts, etc.), as each family represents a major (or aspiring) crime family, but they will always circle the wagons together against outsiders.
--> '''Trooper Tom Bergen''': Art, I've been in Harlan 18 years. People still look at me like I'm some kinda Yankee come down to burn their crops."
* Although ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' was primarily an ensemble show, the entire population of the space station may count as this.
%%* ''Series/TerraNova'', though larger than most such communities, probably counts.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
** Maple Street was like this before the monsters were due.
** In "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Shadow Valley of the Shadow]]", a quirky town is close-knit. Turns out they have advanced science and don't want their secrets leaking out, pushing it toward TownWithADarkSecret.
* The Hooverville in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episodes [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan "Daleks in Manhattan"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks "Evolution of the Daleks"]].
%%* ''Series/TheWaltons''

%%* Series/MonarchOfTheGlen
* Little Tall Island from Creator/StephenKing's ''Series/StormOfTheCentury''. In fact, the villain says that the reason he chose to come to Little Tall was because he knew that they were a close-knit community who could pull together and "do what needs to be done." After the storm, Little Tall arguably moves from this into a TownWithADarkSecret.

* Stars Hollow from Series/GilmoreGirls. Hilariously Lampshaded when Paris barges in, trying to write an article for Chilton's school newspaper about the "[[TownWithADarkSecret dark secret]]" of the town.
* Series/CoronationStreet despite the high divorce and disaster rate is this. The shows more idealistic tone means the street is still a community where "folk look out for each other and come together in crisis" even though disaster is a bit more common than some of the other examples.

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* "A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep. Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale." Unlike an UncannyVillage, the inhabitants of Night Vale aren't hiding the various conspiracies, mysteries, and dangers in the town.

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* Harmonica Town in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon Animal Parade'' is this, probably because it's a very rural setting and the only town on the island.

** Really, quite a few ''Harvest Moon'' games could qualify. Mineral Town is a shining example, where the townsfolks' relationships with each other are built upon fairly early on. Zephyr Town from ''Grand Bazaar'' serves as another example, being extremely tiny, and practically the WHOLE ENTIRE VILLAGE shows up for EVERY festival, as well as pitching in for the town bazaar every week (and attending the results).

* In {{FanFic/Nosflutteratu}} we learn that Fluttershy is a vampire and has been for years. So how does a vampire survive, even thrive, for years without killing anypony? Ponyville�s blood drives are ''very'' successful.

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* The ''Literature/VillageTales'' series is set in one, right down to the FreeRangeChildren. And sometimes overbearing "looking after one another" (people tend to hide coughs lest, for example, Lady Crispin should turn up with a hamper and a thermos of beef-tea, or, worse, the Duke descend on them with more assistance than they want).