How to Be a Good Neighbor

Whether you’re just meeting or have lived next door for years

Anna Goldfarb
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2019

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A woman holding a bouquet and a wine bottle in their neighbor’s doorway.
Photo: Luis Alvarez/DigitalVision/Getty

II was thrilled when new neighbors moved in across the hall a few months ago. In all the years I’d spent living in my building, I’d never really gotten to know any of the other residents, and I’d always regretted never making the effort. Here was a perfect opportunity to start fresh.

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Anna Goldfarb
Forge
Writer for

Writes about relationships and pop psychology for The New York Times, Vice, and more. Author of “Clearly, I Didn’t Think This Through.” Lives in Philly.