Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: Childcare, child education, grocery stores, shopping, parks (lots of parks, with playgrounds and a variety of activity from park to park), public transportation, transportation infrastructure, public education centers (like museums, planetarium, botanical gardens, etc.)

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: Education as a cultural background - more highly educated than not. Transplants, not locals.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: University, research park. Air quality, clean environment in general is a huge concern when you have to take children out to play every day.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: Must have clean environment, otherwise I'm leaving my husband (non-portable job) and moving my children out of here to Michigan or Vermont. Primarily, the air quality is my biggest concern, but I'm not crazy about the transportation infrastructure around here. Entirely too much traffic in neighborhoods, not enough trees and green areas interspersed. Also, not enough shopping/services interspersed in neighborhoods. More little shops and services should be interspersed inside neighborhoods to make the areas more walkable and more friendly.