A neighbourhood (in Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (in American English) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. The residents of a given neighbourhood are called neighbours (or neighbors), although this term may also be used across much larger distances in rural areas.
Traditionally, a neighbourhood is small enough that the neighbours are all able to know each other. However in practice, neighbours may not know one another very well at all. Villages aren't divided into neighbourhoods, because they are already small enough that the villagers can all know each other.
In Canada and the United States, neighbourhoods are often given official or semi-official status through neighbourhood associations, or block watches. These may regulate such matters as lawn care and fence height, and they may provide such services as block parties, neighbourhood parks, and community security. In some other places the equivalent organisation is the parish, though a parish may have several neighbourhoods within it depending on the area.
In the People's Republic of China, the term is generally used for the urban administrative unit usually found immediately below the district level, although an intermediate, subdistrict level exists in some cities. They are also called streets (administrative terminology varies from city to city). Neighbourhoods encompass 2,000 to 10,000 families. Within neighbourhoods, families are grouped into smaller residential units of 100 to 600 families and supervised by a residents' committee; these are subdivided into residents' small groups of fifteen to forty families. (See Political divisions of China)
Neighbours is a weekday soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in Erinsborough.
Neighbours is shot in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, Australia by Grundy Television and is shown in fifty-seven countries around the...
Neighbours has already hit the 5000th episode mark and looks set to continue serving up the laughter, tears and drama that has taken the world by storm.', 'Neighbours is a weekday soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in Erinsborough.
These include Neighbours' focus on the everyday, the domestic and the suburban; its portrayal of women as doers; its reliance on teen sex appeal and unrebellious youth; its "feelgood" characters and wholesome neighbourliness.
Neighbours was the first television program in Britain to be screened twice daily and stripped across all five week days by the BBC, recently commanded into greater economic accountability by the Thatcher government of the 1980s.
While Neighbours was winning U.K. audiences of 20 million by the end of 1988 and has consistently challenged the two English soaps for the position of highest rating drama on British television, it has also been criticised for its bland representation of life in a sunny, relatively trouble-free, seemingly egalitarian Australian suburb.
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