The suburb of South Manchester (UK), in which I live, has always had a villagey atmosphere but, with huge rises in house prices in recent years, it has become a bit more 'gentrified', with a consequent reduction in neighbourliness. Still, I'm sure that there are a lot worse places to live and on a routine walk to the shops I usually meet someone I know and we stop for a chat. My Mum and Dad both died recently but when they were still alive they loved coming up here because they reckoned that people were friendlier than where they lived.
My immediate neighbours are great - although we're not in and out of each others houses, as people used to do in the old days. A couple of years ago some people moved in up the road who never seem to speak to anyone - in fact I have often said "good morning/afternoon/evening etc." to them and they deliberately look away and ignore me! Personally, I can't understand people like this.