No certain answer can be given, but those best qualified to judge the matter, the biologists, seem to think that life would in fact arise wherever conditions were able to support it. Accepting this, we can proceed with greater assurance. The extremely powerful process of natural selection would come into operation and would shape the evolution of life on each of these distant planets. The distinguished biologist, C.D. Darlington, suggests that this is by no means unlikely. I am sorry to give an unpopular answer, but I believe this to be an uncompromising, no.
Communication is a different matter.
If living creatures at a high technological level exist on planets belonging to any of the nearest thousand stars it would be feasible to establish communication. A two-way interchange of information would take many centuries to develop. Galactic Civilizations Type I civilizations have a technological level close to the level presently attained on Earth. They may construct large Dyson Spheres to capture the energy from their primary star. The narrower the band-width of a transmitted signal is of fixed total power, the greater the range of successful transmission.