Vitamin N (neighbourhood) Deficiency?

Answer these questions to find out if you're getting your recommended daily allowance (RDA) of Vitamin N. In each question, the term "local" means within 15 minutes walk from your home.

1. How many households locally do you feel you could drop in on without advanced notice for a chat or a meal?

2. How many local people care about your goals in life and actively support you in trying to achieve them?

3. Roughly how many local people (including shopkeepers, neighbours, hairdressers, etc) have you chatted with or greeted in the last week?

4. Roughly how many others have you nodded to or greeted whilst, for instance, passing them on the street?

5. Last week, how often did you engage in the equivalent of a neighbourhood ritual - like a church service, meal with local friends or co-workers, or a drink with other locals at a nearby coffe shop?

6. How many local people (apart from your spouse and immediate nuclear family) would be likely to notice and regret your death, if you were to die now (only include those whose deaths you would also notice and regret)?

7. If you were seriously ill, roughly how many local people (apart from paid care'ers, your spouse and immediate nuclear family) could you count on to visit you, to do your shopping for you, etc?

8. How many local people are there (apart from your spouse and immediate nuclear family) whom you tend to treat as confidantes, people you can discuss and share your innermost fears and worries with?

9. In general, to what extent do you feel that you are part of a local neighbourhood who care for each other? (Nicholas Albury)