I met a lovely old lady the other day who has lived on the next road to mine for 92 years. She said that she didnt know her nieghbours now, and her neighbours didnt know her. She said that she has never felt so lonely and isolated.

Why do people not know their neighbours? I know a few, but so many people like to keep them selves to themselves. It seems that tv and the internet keeps us away from real life.

What has happened to the community feeling? Is everyone too selfish these days to make time for others?

I live on Taplin Road in Hilsborough, and while it seems there is a sense of community among the families in the area there is nothing to draw the childless couples together. My partner and I know and get on with our neighbours on both sides, but beyond that there is nothing that really links us further than putting the bins out on a Wednesday night!

Another possible factor is that I refuse to go out drinking in Hilsborough for fear of my life!

whilst I was brought up in a very friendly tight knit community in Heeley,in the 50s,60s,and early 70s.The council then decided to oblitarate the area,in 75,thus putting everyone in this community all over Sheffield.After years of living in each others homes we all moved ,and were left to make a new life,only knowing your neighbors if you cared to be interested to get to know them!As I stated in other threads,the land has not been used,and row upon row of terraces went,to make way for what?People have no time for each other now,I find it a shame,as we have the same time in a day,although I have heard it said,we havent the time nowadays.Try to make the effort to say hello to your neighbor,one day you might need them.

I lived on Kelvin for 8 years and yes, I know many people think it was a dump, but the sense of community on there was the best I have ever experienced anywhere. The vast majority of people were decent, law abiding folk who just got on with life. You looked out for each other, had a laugh and stuck together.

I moved to Wisewood and hated every minute. To them, I was Kelvin scum, a single mum who didn't deserve a house on 'their' estate. I was never made to fit in.

I now live back in Hillsborough, where I grew up and although I know many many people, I would hesitate to say there was a good community here. I know my immediate neighbours and we get on great but people, say, 4 or 5 doors away, don't have the time of day for you. I have lived in this house for almost 10 years now and don't know hardly anyone to speak to on our road. I'm the kind of person who will speak to anyone but folks just don't seem to want it these days. The old ones say hello and stop for a chat but it seems as if people are too wrapped up in their own lives to bother.

What I do miss is belonging to a residents association. I was always involved on Kelvin and it really did bring people together. Getting people together over local issues and what matters to them as a community is a good way of building a community. Myabe it's just that people don't care anymore?

i shared a taxi tonight with 4 other people at my bus stop.

We had a really nice chat all the way home then it hit me. Had their not been a strike i would have sat next to these people on the bus, but i would have never had a chat.

Why do we not talk with each other on buses?

I often talk to people on the buses when I catch it which isn't very often I admit. However, I tend to be happier to speak to people who are older than myself, then people the same age as myself or late teens. I think this is because of how I assume they'll react. Wrong of me I know, but that's how it is.

As for community, I know both next door neighbours, next but one neighbours & a few people across the road from us. That's it really. I didn't even go the senior school near me, so I don't know people that way.