But the former neighbors hugged and greeted one another by their old nicknames.
While the other neighbors greet him warmly, the father gets fired the next day and finds his house spray painted with graffiti.
In the neighborhood, a poor close-knit community where neighbors greet one another on the street, there was shock and sadness.
A former neighbor greets him: "Welcome back to your own place."
When we came here, our neighbors greeted us and welcomed us.
"Now neighbors we've known for years don't greet us anymore," she said.
"And a good day to you, too, neighbors," he greeted them cheerily.
When a neighbor greeted her, the older woman spoke as if she had been on an expedition.
"There once was a place where neighbors greeted neighbors in the quiet of summer twilight," the Disney pitch ran.