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/^t/Neighborhood. It is very much connected with the lack of entertainment and unemployment in small towns. People who have nowhere to go and nothing special to do concentrate their attention on themselves, that seems very natural but... No move of yours is unnoticed, no visitor of your house is overlooked, no decission of yours is left without comment. You are observed and followed as well as you are interested in others' lives and bussineses. Names, facts, gossip, opinions. So you live your life together with the lives of the neighbors of the other side of the hedge, being aware of the fact that they might know the number of your personal account better than you do yourself. Privacy? What is it?