I've lived in apartments in cities, in a condo, in houses within walking distance of major shopping centers, and I am very reluctant to give up our current rural setting. In pretty much every setting, we had at least one really bad neighbor. We still do, but now they are about 1000 feet away over a hill and we almost never see them!

Of course the neighbors we like (all the rest of them) are also 1000 feet away. We see some of them every day, because we want to.