"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
"it is a rugged locality"
"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
"I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

"it is a friendly neighborhood"
"my neighborhood voted for Bush"

"it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"
"the price is in the neighborhood of $100"

"an ethnic neighborhood"