How we turned our apartment block into a community
ABCWhen I first met my neighbour Kevin, neither of us should really have been in the gin bar across the road. Meet the families going up, not out Photo shows Anabel Pandiella's family lives in a three-bedroom apartment in Sydney Anabel Pandiella lives in a "a two-and-a-half bedder" with her husband and two kids, but she wouldn't change it even though all their friends live in houses. Getting the building together Flip and "social partner in crime" Kevin have made life in our building feel a little less disconnected and lonely. "Let's start a social committee and convince the neighbours to come to an event so we can all get to know each other … let's try to make our apartment less of a building full of strangers and more of a friendly home," I said. "I enjoy other people's company and getting people together — I'm not lonely, I have a good group of friends and neighbours I get along with — but this is something I can contribute to make this a better place for everybody to live, including me."
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