Why don’t more people live close to friends?
Isn’t being friends with your neighbors a far more obvious answer to this? I thought that’s where this was going.<p>&gt; Sometime during the pandemic lockdowns, I began to nurture a fantasy,” Adrienne Matei writes. “What if I were neighbors with all of my friends? Every day, as I took long walks through North Vancouver that were still nowhere near long enough to land me at a single pal’s doorstep, I would reflect on the potential joys of a physically closer network.<p>My family was close friends with our neighbors, because they were neighbors. Many of my friends were close with their neighbors. I imagine it was far more true in the 50s and 60s. It certainly was based off personal anecdotes I’ve heard from the let friends and relatives.<p>It was a city block in a small&#x2F;medium sized city. Neighborhood picnics, barbecues, kids running around. Perhaps this breaks down with more urbanization.