sashamd“Studies show that good connections with our neighbours have an outsized impact on our health, safety and happiness. People who spend more time socializing with their neighbours live longer, have higher life satisfaction, and are more optimistic than those who spend less time with neighbours or none at all. People who spend time with their neighbours are more trusting of people overall. Neighbourliness has proven to be the glue that holds our society together.” #neighbour https://thewalrus.ca/cramped-condos-and-the-rise-of-unfriendly-neighbours/
“In a world where our social lives are increasingly bifurcated between the known quantities of our immediate households and the special-interest echo chambers of the internet, talking to our neighbours is one of the only ways to develop tolerance, understanding, even appreciation for people whose politics, religion, or world views may, at first, seem utterly incompatible with our own.” By Jessica Barrett in The Walrus.