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a few square blocks that decide your accent, your odds, and who waves back
means the area immediately surrounding where you live, along with the people who inhabit it.
from From 'neighbor' plus '-hood,' that old English suffix marking a condition or state (as in 'childhood' or 'brotherhood'). 'Neighbor' itself comes from Old English 'neahgebur' — literally 'near-dweller,' from 'neah' (nigh, near) plus 'gebur' (dweller, farmer). So a neighborhood is, at root, the condition of being near-dwellers together: the state of sharing the same patch of ground.
- zip code destiny
- Your neighborhood predicts lifespan more than your DNA
- the 150 rule
- Humans can only truly know about 150 neighbors
- redlined history
- 1930s maps still shape U.S. wealth gaps today
- watch culture
- Neighborhood Watch began after a 1972 New York murder
- price of belonging
- Walkable neighborhoods command measurable home-value premiums