This article in the Daily Mail this morning caught our eye.

Love thy neighbour no more: Disappearance of community spirit as 70% admit they don’t know who lives next door

• Only 6% say community spirit is strong in their area
• 51% wouldn’t ask neighbour for help
• Main reason given for decline is lack of time to meet those in the community

read the full article here.

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Our sense is that first step to helping people (re)connect with the people, events & information around them (if they want to!) is making it really easy to do so.

What do you think ? Should we collectively be concerned about this ? Should we be ‘trying’ to do more to meet local neighbours ? Do you know your neighbours ? What tools do you use to stay connected with local people and information ?