“邻里关系冷漠症”是随着城市发展而出现的一种“城市病”。伴随着一栋栋楼房拔地而起，不同职业、不同年龄、不同地区的人住在了一栋楼上，而大杂院、小胡同里邻里间颇具亲和力的交流却无形中被阻断了。

Cold neighborhood has become a common phenomenon as cities develop. Building in the cities rise from the ground, people of different careers, different ages live in the same building, while the communication like in warrens is cut off.

居住环境的改变，令很多居民对身边的邻居抱着提防之心，不少人都在心里上了一把“锁”，总有种不安全感。而都市生活节奏的加快，生活和工作压力的加大，渐渐挤掉了人们交流与沟通的时间，与邻居的交流和沟通更成了一种奢望。久而久之，抬头不见低头见的邻居变成了陌生人，冷漠成了邻里间的一堵高墙。

The change of our living environment makes people always feel on their guard against others. The tempo of life become faster, and more and more press and living press covers the time of communication, and the communication between neighbors also is beyond our reach. As time pass by, good neighbors become strangers.

俗话说“远亲不如近邻”，有个好邻居是件幸运的事。你会主动和新邻居打招呼吗？你遇到过让你觉得窝心的邻居吗？你遇到让你心怀温暖和感激的好邻居吗？你认为怎样才算是和谐的邻里关系？请大家讨论下。

An old saying goes that a near neighbor is better than a distant cousin. Having a good neighbor is lucky. Will you say hello to your neighbor? Have you met a warm-hearted neighbor? Have you met a thankful neighbor? In your opinion, what’s the harmonious neighborhood? Just put forward your ideas?

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Yes, not only one .Whenever I live in where i will say hello to all my neighbors.The end we all become friends.Sometimes we will talk about thd things ofrecently happenedof play with their children~~Because they my life just colorful

i have lots ofneighbors {:soso_e144:}

DOyou have this exprience? when you live in a hotel . you meet a froeign in the elvo , they always say hello to you ,even you never know them .do you really thought they are kinder than us ? i donot think so , maybe some persons are actually kind. or cause they found they were living in the stranger city, so they needmore polite to protect themself.do you agree with me ?

回复楼上朋友：generaly speaking, westerners especially americanstend to be more extroverted than us chinese.( perhaps the englishmen are an exception who appear a little reserved.) so it is common that an amrican will say hello to you when meeting you in a lift. many times, some chinese show a little embarrassed in this case, because we chinese usually do not greet each other if we meet someone that we have never seen before.

i think this is just a problem of customs and habits, only having a little to do with whether the person greetingyou is kind or friendly or not. a japanese may bow to you , but are you sure that he or she is friendly or easy to get along with?

i recall a old British proverb:"fences make good neighborhood". it reflects the importance of privacy in western cities. however, comes to chinese proverb:"a good neighborhood is better

than a distance cousin",comparing to the former saying, it means oppsitely.hormoniousness had been advocated in Chinese since the ancient time, and which propagated from generation to generation.

addmitely, neighborhood communication becomes less in morden time.but interpersonal communication doesnt come down.we, as citizen, most live in community, where we could share the Public infrastructure, get basic service such as shoping. sporting.

i remember that i lived in a four-storey building with big public balconies when i was a small child. every family did not lock their doors, and we small children could go in and come out freely, as if we shared a common family. at that time, we needn't worry about thieves because we were aspoor as one another.

now as the living conditions improve, many people move into mordern apartment buildings. each family has its own private life and dosen't want to share everything with others. and because of different habits, many people seldom meet their neighbors in the lift or on the stairway. thus comunications between neighbours become less and less.

as the saying goes: distant relatives are not so good as near neighbours. i really miss my childhood when we shared one big family. but i know that the society is advancing. we may need different lifestyles at different times. as long as we are living happily in a harmonious environment, we are satisfactory.