We don't see much of our neighbours except to say "Hello" if we or they happen to be outside when the other comes past, we just about know each others' names for three or four doors around, but there is a lovely helpful "feel" in the road, and we do each other favours if it seems appropriate. I like living here.
The absolutely full freezer and fridge went wrong just as my husband was leaving for a four-day work trip last year, having shorted out the whole house, and I was slightly in despair because I was afraid all the food would go off. I knocked on the neighbours' door next door -- and they sorted out space for all my food in their freezer and the neighbour's one on the other side of me, for as long as it took me to get a new one installed (which turned out to be ten days because we couldn't get the old one out through the door!)
And last time it snowed, I was outside clearing our sloping front drive so I would be able to get out and walk carefully to the shops and not break my ankle sliding down it when I was getting back in when the man opposite, who was clearing the snow to get his car out, told me to stop that and let him do it with his proper snow-shovel.
I just wish there were things I could easily do in return! But they are all younger and fitter and more competent and better cooks than I am, so it is difficult to think of ways to help them. I am mostly in the house, so I can always take in parcels for them, but that's about it.
The other thing is that our road is off a road that is quite a steep hill, and in the winter that road gets quite dangerous with snow and ice sometimes. There is a farm right up at the top of it and the man from the farm comes down in his tractor with a snowplough attachment and clears not just that road, which leads to his own house, but the three side-roads so that we can all get out. We have a collection for him in the local at the bottom of the hill to pay him for his time and fuel, but I get the feeling he would do it anyway just because he is a good neighbour to all of us.