Where to hear 'Hi, neighbor!'

By ROY RIVENBURG
LA Times Staff Writer

Filed 11.27.06

Still no word on whether a stitch in time really does save nine, but a UC Irvine professor has uncovered evidence to support another famous proverb, "Good fences make good neighbors."

In a study of 15,000 Americans, economist Jan Brueckner found that suburban living is better for people's social life than city dwelling.

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Photo Captions & Credits: "A farmhouse sits abandoned in Divide County, N.D. While the nation as a whole grew by about 13 percent in the 1990s, nearly 60 percent of the counties on the Great Plains lost population, according to a U.S. News & World Report analysis of the new census data."