Neighbors

When did neighbors change to people who live next door?

Neighbors.  We had neighbors growing up in Corntassel and Hopewell.   In fact our next door neighbors had a key to our house and vice versa, in case of an emergency.   The word neighbor implies a certain amount of intimacy and closeness. Friend.  Family.

Nowadays many people do not know those living around them.  Those do not say neighbor. They say "people who live down the street" or "people who live next door" or "people who live across the street" and so on.

My.  How times are a changing.  Ronald McDonald has ran away with the neighbor...