Small towns might be known for their friendly citizens living next door, but what about bigger cities? While some people barely speak to the people living next door, there are some cities in the U.S. where community and neighborliness prevail.
If you live in Orlando, you’re likely to have neighbors who look out for you, whether they do you a favor now and again or they volunteer in the community. So how did the City Beautiful rank?
In fact, Orlando ranks ninth for community neighborliness. And it’s not the only Florida city to make the top 10 list – Miami somehow ranked 7th.
In StorageCafe’s most recent report, they surveyed close to 11,000 people from across the US to find out the cities that best embody the neighborly spirit. The survey was based on four essential factors that pretty much epitomize a good neighborhood: satisfaction with neighbors, sense of community, involvement in community activities and willingness to recommend their neighborhood to others.
Some interesting the City Beautiful stats from the survey:
- About 74% of residents report being happy with their neighbors.
- The cities’ spirit of civic engagement is also high, with 63% of Orlandoans choosing to volunteer, donate to charity or clean up public spaces.
- Almost 59% of Orlando locals would recommend their neighborhood to other people too. For our survey respondents, location wins hands down as the thing they most love about their neighborhood. A quiet environment comes second after location on the list of best neighborhood features.
- Additionally, neighborhoods seem to be united by a desire among their residents to be involved and help out others in need, as 40% of Orlando residents claim they enjoy a strong sense of community.
You can read the full report together with expert commentary on neighborly communities here.
Downtown Orlando is one of the most cutthroat unfriendly investment driven financially greedy areas in the country. I’m not really sure what part of Orlando is neighborly. downtown all they want to know is if somebody is about to go to a nursing home or get divorced so they can look to scoop the property up. It’s not a safe place to raise children because of the dense population and the variety of sexual predators renting all over the place in different areas. Anybody downtown should sign up for crime spotter put their address in and they will get notified weekly of how much crime is reported around their home. When Orlando is used I’m not really sure what part of Orlando they’re talking about but it is not downtown.