abstract:The People Next Door was a 1968 teleplay as part of the CBS Playhouse series. A drama about a family dealing with the drug addiction of their daughter, it was written by J.
Warwick Town councillor John Holland said the main reason Warwick District Council turned down the proposal was because it would be "pretty awful for thepeople living nextdoor".
For many centuries, even millennia, the world got by without translation: thepeople of different nations simply learned enough of thenextdoor language to communicate adequately.
Such disparities are accepted as a fact of life in America but in Britain people are upset when they hear that the council nextdoor provides better public services.