Some counterpoint though I don’t totally disagree.

- had a guy playing loud music outside our building in the middle of the night, called police regularly and they would come and address it, mostly useless but at least they cared. - another guy did the same thing, I asked him to stop and he did, no trouble - my current landlord is about as good or slightly better than other landlords I’ve had over the last 15 years - other people on my block (Brooklyn NY) are mostly very friendly, neighbors help each other out, say hello, etc. - I have approximately 1 bad encounter with someone per year in transit, which is about what I had when I lived in another major metropolitan area in a “friendlier” country 15 years ago