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Yeah, the decline in neighbourlyness would be an even more interesting phenomenon to study. My person hunch is back in the day there was a more "we're all in t
by nly 3y ago
Yeah, the decline in neighbourlyness would be an even more interesting phenomenon to study.
My person hunch is back in the day there was a more "we're all in the same boat" feeling at the street level, where everyone had similar socioeconomic backgrounds whereas now that's not true at all.
In the past, in the UK, everyone living in a road may have had the same landlord (the local council) but now you can have multi-millionaire with a £50K car living next door to someone in an identical house who is renting privately, on housing benefit, taking the bus to their minimum wage job, and struggling to feed their kids.
People are much more willing to give and receive help from their "peers"
- trealira 3y agoI don't think that's the only factor. I think it's also just culture. I grew up on a street (in the US) where many of my neighbors did have the same landlord as my family, but none of us spoke to each other; they were basically strangers like any other. I was born in 2003, so this is more recent than the 1980s.