Top 10 most neighborly cities in the U.S. in 2022

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2. Link to the Neighbor.com page with the full list of 25 cities that

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the article in the OP lists only the top 10 from, plus a long section on their methodology:

https://www.neighbor.com/storage-blog/most-neighborly-cities-2022/

FWIW, I've lived in 2 of the top 25 cities, and though they were nice enough places to live, I didn't find them any more neighborly in particular than other places I've lived.

Personally, I found NYC, Manhattan, when I lived there in the early 1970s to be a very friendly place, very welcoming. Which was not what I'd been told to expect. But most of the people I met there were, like me, people who'd been born and raised elsewhere, who'd moved to NY as adults, so in a way we were all outsiders. My impression is that small towns with almost no outsiders tend to be less friendly to newcomers, even if there are close social ties among oldtimers.

There are features of infrastructure that I believe make some cities friendlier. Lots of green space and parks, for instance. Features that make a city more walkable (or bikeable). Good, reliable, well-maintained public transportation (neither traffic jams nor dirty, unreliable public transportation you hate to use are conducive to neighborliness).