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what if you truly don't care to know your neighbors? personally, i could care less and would most rather live miles away from everyone.
Ugh, seems like another article that derives causation from correlation. Specifically: "We have evolved for it, to the extent that those surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends who regularly gather to eat—and, crucially, gossip—live an average of 15 years longer than loners." Perhaps the reason that people with a large group of friends live much longer is that people who are in better health tend to have more act…
what if you truly don't care to know your neighbors? personally, i could care less and would most rather live miles away from everyone.
I'd argue that if one _does_ have neighbors it's in your best interests to at least be on a first-name basis with them.
Of course theoretically it would benefit me to know my neighbors, I don't. And I won't, I'm reluctant talking to people when it's possible to avoid.
And given that none of my neighbors ever wanted to know anything about me - it seems they don't want it too.
Nieghbors have caused so many problems that people don't want them. Google "HOA hell" for more info.
I realize there are differences between living next to a drug dealer and living next to a person who likes to put 50 plastic pink flamingos in their front yard, but I suspect most of the "HOA hell" stories involve the latter circumstance rather than the former.
Communities, rife as they were with gossip, ostracism and superstitious cruelty, were always based on mutual need , not on acting out some supposedly gene-based pantomime. I daresay when the next drought or plague comes along I will get to know my neighbours and we'll pull together for mutual support.
I am working on an open-source hyperlocal Craigslist-style solution to the neighborhood dilemma with JoatU : http://github.com/joatuapp
Nieghbors have caused so many problems that people don't want them. Google "HOA hell" for more info.