{"id":7301,"date":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/how-neighborly-are-americans-not-very\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"how-neighborly-are-americans-not-very","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/how-neighborly-are-americans-not-very\/","title":{"rendered":"How Neighborly Are Americans? Not Very"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly 30 percent of Americans admit\u00a0they don\u2019t know their neighbor\u2019s first name. But at least 90 percent have smiled or spoken to their neighbors\u2014at least once, according to a new survey of more than 1,000 Americans released by Safehome.org, a home security<\/a> systems review resource.<\/p>\n

Fifty-three percent of Americans say they\u2019ve introduced themselves when a new neighbor initially moved in, but they won\u2019t likely\u00a0become best buddies. Only a fraction of Americans\u201434 percent\u2014say they\u2019ve been in their neighbor\u2019s home or vice versa, and only 16 percent have hung out with neighbors outside of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Baby boomers tend to be the most neighborly generation, according to the survey. Sixty-seven percent of baby boomers said they\u2019ve spoken to their next-door neighbor frequently, while only 36 percent of millennials have said they\u2019ve done the same.<\/p>\n

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In a look at neighborly behavior across ethnic lines, Asian-Americans were found to participate the least among in neighborly reactions at 39 percent, followed by Hispanic participants at 40 percent. Caucasians and African-Americans performed more neighborly reactions\u2014such as smiling and chatting\u2014at 49 percent and 46 percent, respectively. Sixty-three percent of all respondents reported not often speaking to neighbors of a different race.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing your neighbors doesn\u2019t just extend your social circle\u2014it can also have a good effect on your mental and physical health and increase the security of your home,\u201d according to the Safehome.org report. \u201cYou may even have a friend, partner, confidante, or baby sitter living next door that you never even knew existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: \u201cA Nation of Neighbors,\u201d Safehome.org (November 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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