
What's Trending: Can your neighbour become family? One emotional goodbye after 23 years says yes
Published on 27 Aug 2026
What happens when the people living next door become part of your family? After 23 years as neighbours, two women in Singapore had an emotional farewell when one family moved away. From lending each other household ingredients and helping with the kids, to being there for weddings and other major milestones, their relationship went far beyond a simple “hello” in the lift.
On What's Trending, Hongbin Jeong, Nadiah Koh and Nazirul Asrar discuss whether we are losing that sense of neighbourly connection today, and whether we each have neighbours who we treat like family.
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