Depends where you are living: the pictures look like a new build development where I would expect things to be as you describe (although not necessarily); other parts are much more vibrant! Harrow Road in London or Narborough Road in Leicester (among others), I challenge you to stop anyone talking to you in Liverpool 😂, and there's Yorkshire as @keithtaylor says. When I walk out with Mr P along Acklam Road in Notting Hill, London, it'll take us an hour to get to Ladbroke Grove (ten minutes by distance) for every person that has to be greeted, chatted to, commiserated with.

I understand, though: it can be lonely.