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These days, the
conflicts between neighbors in the apartment become more and more severe social
problem such as noises. Therefore it is not surprising that the statement that
recent citizens are more independent on their neighbors than those in the past
is becoming one of the hottest issues. Some people might refute it with some
reasons such as active community internet site. However, I strongly agree with
this idea with two reasons that firstly, there is no time for people to be
friendly with the neighbors and secondly, people frequently move.
First of all, for
modern people there is no enough time to have a close relationships with the
neighbors. What I mean is that, nowadays most of people are much busier to go
to the office and work hard from early morning to the midnight. Thus, a
majority of people just come back to home and take a sleep and do not have any
energy to communicate with others. To be specific, according to the research of
Harvard University, 70% of whole people who live in New York are at home only
for less than 6 hours, including the bedtime.
Secondly, people
in these days tend to move a lot which gives them no chance for getting closed
with their neighborhoods. To elaborate, there is the research from the Stanford
University that the average per person of the number of moving in Washington
D.C. is about 0.8 in a year. Also in my case, I moved for six times in three
years because of my father's job condition when I was young and I cannot
remember all of my neighbors.
In conclusion, more and more modern people are not depending on their
neighbors, compared to the individuals living in the past with the reasons mentioned
above.