Some of the most trying cases are brought to my constituency surgery by people who complain about bad neighbourliness, particularly noise pollution.
These were reflected in their accounts of ' neighbourliness' - both the mutual support offered in adversity and the routine, reciprocal exchanges that were part of daily life.
What this meant was a community within which the gospel was correctly preached, and where it encouraged observance of traditional virtues of neighbourliness, fairness, peace, and the common good.
Another decried the decrease in neighbourliness.
Rather than simply examining issues of density, they explored ideas of quality, urbanity, neighbourliness, the relation of inside and outside, and privacy, as well as practical matters such as day-lighting.
In another, it embodies all that is selfish, vindictive, and anti-social within human communities, epitomizing treachery and disharmony in societies that strive for unity and neighbourliness.
This could be due, in part, to a high level of neighbourliness and tolerance for a certain level of ambient background noise.
If neighbourliness was a national preoccupation, that may have been because it was more honoured in the aspiration than in the realisation.
