Where I live, most houses have a six-foot fence around most of the property, including along the street. The first thing that seems to happen when you 'do-up' a house, is build a solid fence along the street-frontage.
How do we begin to recognise our neighbours by sight, let alone make eye contact and start a conversation when we can't see them?
What if we tore down our 6-foot front fence. Or at least ran a skillsaw through it.
*I've taken some creative license here, they're technically 1.8m high, which isn't quite 6 feet.