▶ Your Answer : People may have different tastes about who will be the best neighbor depending upon their disposition or character. We can have no absolutely objective answer to this question. However, in my personal opinion, I prefer to have neighbors who are similar to me. It is good that there are a lot of common things to share with each other. Also, when we are different from our neighbors, we should have many things to adapt ourselves to one another, which may be some burden to us. First of all, it is a lot easier to be able to share many common things with our neighbors who are similar to us. We can do some activities together and even talk about our common interests more comfortably, which makes us connected more closely. For example, when I lived in an apartment, I met a neighbor who had the same job as me. I was a science teacher in high school and she was a math teacher. We became naturally close to each other because we understood what we were saying. We could sympathize with the difficulties and troubles we experienced at school as a teacher. Sometimes we encouraged each other by sending text messages or having dinner at a cafe near our house together. Later, we joined the same tennis club and played tennis every Saturday morning. My neighbor became one of my best friends. Next, it is much more comfortable at home when we have similar neighbors. When we have different neighbors, we are likely to be patient with one another, which deprives us of much energy. For instance, my family members tend to be introvert. We like to be quiet at home. However, if our neighbors are very active and noisy, they would like to be more friendly to us. They may want to invite us to their house or to be invited to our house. They are eager to have active relationship with our family. Yet, we do not want to have interaction with our neighbors because we are very tired after work. We just need to take a rest and be relaxed at home in the evening and on weekends. We do not want our privacy not to be disturbed. So when they ask us to do something together, we may feel uncomfortable and somewhat embarrassed.
To sum up, people who are similar to us can make us share more things than people who are different from us and make us much more comfortable at home. In this regard, I hold that the best neighbor is the one who is similar to us.
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