A third of Americans say they’ve never interacted with the people living next door. Few Americans today say they know their neighbors’ names, and far fewer report interacting with them on a daily basis.

There used to be this necessity to reach out and build bonds with people who lived nearby, That was particularly true in the 1920s through the 1960s, when social tension ran high due to their threat level and impact on them as a collective (ex. Great Depression, Cuban Missile Crisis.) People were more inclined to find security in their own neighborhoods. They depended on one another much more.

…What happened?

Gabe Andersen of Community Ripple talks about our sociological changes and whether we need depend on or even know our neighbors any longer.