In the United States The Good Life was retitled Good Neighbors to avoid confusion with a short - lived American sitcom of the same name .
In the United States The Good Life was was shown by most PBS stations across the country starting in the early 1980s .
In the United States The Good Life was retitled Good Neighbors to avoid confusion with a short - lived American sitcom of the same name , and was shown by most PBS stations across the country starting in the early 1980s .