They got street lights just last year. Maruca and Fota represent Rosemary Gardens residents who grew up in the neighborhood and returned as adults. Fota and his wife, Cindy, bought a home not far from where he grew up. Maruca is living in the same house in which she grew up. An IBM employee, Maruca lived in apartments for 12 years and didn't really feel connected to neighbors.
Neighbors take neighbors to the doctor.
Yet even this enclave can't escape Silicon Valley's pace and pressures. Yet she and others describe a closeness. They watch the homes of vacationing neighbors and haul their garbage cans to the curb on collection day, and visit the sick. In a few minutes, a neighbor called. Tracey Ulery, her husband, Todd, and their son, Joshua, moved into Rosemary Gardens in June, but they met several of their neighbors before that.