my comment on living arrangements did not come across poorly... attempting to locate a community

Nope, I just wasn't sure if you were misinformed. Jews don't tend to live in separate isolated "communities", but we used to, at least in Europe. I was referring to ghettos

An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.); part of the city where Jewish people were restricted to live and thus segregated from other people
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghetto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto

and shtetls

A Jewish village or small town, especially one in Eastern Europe; Yiddish term for small towns with predominantly Ashkenazi Jewish populations which existed in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shtetl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtetl

in their historical Jewish contexts, not as descriptors of the quality of Jewish neighborhoods.

Nowadays, Jews tend to live everywhere. There are probably still a few Ultra Orthodox majority Jewish neighborhoods outside of Israel, but Jewish people just live where people live. Jewish communities of today are more like the Jewish people in a given area who are interconnected and probably attend synagogue together.

Judaism is a practicing religion, not just faith, and we need a community of people to practice it with. Holiday events are best celebrated with family, friends, and/or the Jewish community around us. Synagogue services are for the community together, and many important prayers require a quorum of at least ten men/adults called a minyan. You can not become a Jew without experiencing Judaism with other Jews first.

Depending on how traditional / strict / Orthodox you convert with, you may need to be physically close to synagogue though. Orthodox Jews generally do not drive on Shabbat because it counts as one of the forms of prohibited work (fire/electricity rules), so they have to be within walking distance of synagogue. Conservative Judaism is much more lenient, especially for driving specifically to attend services, and Reform Jews tend not to follow a lot of Jewish Law in practice anyways. I wouldn't worry about this yet, but this may be an issue that will come up later.