neighbours (nbr)

Pleione

Just bought our first house and we have actual neighbours for the first time. I was wondering:

- Do you go introduce yourself to the neighbours or do they come over to see you? Or is it just an organic thing where you meet outside and say hi?
- What does/ will LO call your neighbours? Mr and Mrs/ Ms so and so? Steve and Marigold?

Thanks!

lewispm

I think it is more common that people that already live their welcome their new neighbors by bringing something over. We usually just bring over a plate of cookies or something when we get new neighbors, and had several people do so for us when we moved in (I live in the south)

However, it is completely appropriate for you to introduce yourself! It is great having neighbors, so I would definitely recommend getting to know them. You could just stop by and introduce yourself, invite them over for dinner or drinks, or even just catch them on their way to the mailbox and say hi.

 ETA: Also, our neighbors are mostly young families/couples or elderly. MH and I refer to all the elderly as Mrs. or Mr. followed by their first name and K will do the same. The couples closer to our age, we call by first name but LO will still call them Mr. or Mrs. first name. It's probably a cultural thing for us in the south though.

zyas

well we don't live in a subdivision or where the houses are really close together so our situation might be different. We have just over an acre so we're not super super close to our neighbors and we also live on a semi busy street and have long driveways. We've met our neighbors on either side of us, one set came over the day we moved in to say hi. The others came over a few weeks later. We were sitting in our backyard with our dogs and pig and they saw the pig. So they came over to say hi and to visit with the pig, lol. 

I haven't even thought about what Ava will call them all, but honestly I doubt we will still be in this house when she is old enough to know who they are. 

We still haven't met any of our other neighbors including the ones right across the street and we've been here almost 2 years now! 

tiredmomsclub

We live in a (unusual for me) friendly neighborhood. Like really friendly. There are four houses, ours included, that are at the end of the street, and we talk almost daily, hang out on weekends.

We just moved here the spring before Z was born. We kind of organically met them, but I think they would have seeked us out eventually if we hadnt met them when we did.

The teenage kids come hang out all the time. They play basketball with H play with Zayne etc. I am good friends with one of the other moms now. It's really nice especially with all of our family not near by. We kind of have a little family here now.

bcbuzzafsu

I just met my across-the-street neighbor yesterday.  I've lived here for 4 years.

We met one neighbor when we moved in, she came to say hi when we were on a walk.  The rest we met because Dmitri is cute and people like to coo at him.

We refer to all adults around him as Mr/Miss Firstname except real close family friends who are Uncle/Aunt Firstname.

StokedWifey

You could do like I did.  I went to the gyno for my annual and first baby appointment.  After the nurse saw me in all my glory and I had gotten dressed, she said "Hey, do you live in *insert neighborhood*?"  Yeah, she lives right across the street from me.

In all seriousness, we've just met in the yard.  When B is in the front yard, people randomly stop and say hi to him.  We have over 400 houses in our neighborhood and probably half have stopped to encourage him in walking. Ha.  

I'm also in the South and was raised to call elders Mr. and Mrs., so that's how B will be raised as well.  We already call @lewispm Mrs. FirstName around him because he will never get their last name.