Gone are the evenings when neighbors would sit on their porches and talk into the night, he said.

Suddenly, their neighbors were talking about holding a baby shower.

Another neighbor, amused by the deep British feeling for dogs, talked him out of it - but only just.

"Why doesn't the neighbor just come and talk to me?"

They have three kids already and their neighbours aren't talking to them.

He said he decided to work for the Government after a neighbor had talked to him about the importance of public service.

The neighbors hang out in front of their houses and actually talk to one another.

In his last years he kept to himself, though neighbors talked of seeing him walking a dog or sitting on a park bench.

Our neighbour has been talking, but it is quite true.

My neighbors and I have talked about how long they could last.