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the person who sees your worst self in pajamas and waves anyway
means a person who lives near you, especially in an adjacent or nearby home.
from From Old English nēahgebūr, a tidy compound of nēah, "near" (the same root that gives us "nigh"), and gebūr, "dweller" or "farmer" — so a neighbor was literally a "near-dweller." That gebūr is a cousin of "boor" (originally just a peasant or rustic, before it soured into rudeness) and survives in "husband" via "bondi." The word came up the Germanic line; Dutch keeps it nearly intact as buur, and German as Nachbar.
- good fences
- Robert Frost's famous line was actually mocking the saying
- legal duty
- some countries can fine you for ignoring a stranger's emergency
- proximity bias
- you befriend whoever lives nearest, not whoever fits best
- loud truth
- shared walls reveal more about people than conversations do
canada and united states — 5,525 mile shared border, longest in the world
israel and palestine — contested 2,400 sq km territory with ongoing disputes since 1948
france and germany — rhine river border, 451 km shared frontier, historical rivals turned eu partners