If you were to see your neighbor in a coffee shop or grocery store, could you say with 100 percent certainty that you’d know their name? Do you think they’d be able to recognize you, let alone know your first name if you met in the wild?
A recent report by City Observatory stated that one third of Americans have never interacted with their neighbors. When compared to the 1970s, in which the same study said that 30 percent of Americans actively spent time with their neighbors, it’s clear that people aren’t hanging out anymore. Why are so many of us actively avoiding the people next door?
For one thing, consider the vast changes that have come about in the last 40 years. With the invention of the internet, getting to know new people (as opposed to the readily-available ones in front of your screen) is just more effort than most people want to put forth. Read more...
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