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Based on interviews and observations, the article questions the relationship of senior citizens over 80 years with their vast urban neighborhood of detached houses. Elderly people, living for the most part for a long time in their neighborhood, consider it as a living space where it is possible to anchor one’s personal and social identity. But the approach developed here underlines the plurality and the nuances necessary to understand the plural relationship that attaches the “elderly” to their neighborhood and its inhabitants. The article shows how the district becomes strange as it grows larger and how at the same time it looks like a village where one can enjoy life in the historic center. In this sense, the article shows how the neighborhood supports everyday life, particularly through multiple informal sociability types, which in turn compensate for a lack of neighborhood solidarity. The neighborhood provides a feeling of existence to people often experiencing solitude by offering them a familiar social and territorial frame. In other words, the neighborhood benefits from the social and spatial capital of the elderly people who live there, whilst ensuring them a place in the world.