Sociability among women is not equally distributed throughout the city. Depending on whether or not women live by themselves or with someone else, whether or not they have children, and where they were born, women live in, and feel different in, various locations. Women's sociability and solidarity appear in particular spaces; geographical and affective proximity overlap and reinforce each other. In the urban environment, women's sociability and solidarity is concentrated in neighbourhoods where certain family types predominate; for example, single-parent families in the downtown area, and particularily in housing coops. To find such social networks one often has to consider specific locations: streets or a block of houses. One often finds, either in the downtown or suburban areas, a circle of neighbours who exchange myriad services, and who become, over the years, friends. One could approach still doser the level of the home to see how this space, traditionally associated with women, is not a hidden sanctuary, but a space where all kinds of exchanges occur, and open to the community.