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What are your neighbors like??
The post about parents helping out got me wondering. I've been in my neighborhood a year and am the 6th of 7 women to have a baby in the past few months. We're just now getting to know each other so I've done something small for a couple of them when their babies were born but now that I know them better I can definitely see some of them bringing meals or otherwise trying to help me out in the beginning.
I feel pretty lucky to be on a street full of young families and particularly a lot of really nice women whom I get along with well.
Do you think you'll get help from your neighbors? Or am I just in the lucky minority?
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Re: What are your neighbors like??
Our current neighbors all keep to themselves, except for one of them who thinks he owns the neighborhod. We think he may be a drug dealer; he's very odd and has lots of random people coming and going all hours of the day.
But we're moving soon (yay!) and our new neighborhood is much friendlier, though I don't know that we'll get any help from them.
I don't know my neighbors to talk to them...on one side there is a family and the other side there is a delicious man...just sayin.
In my 'hood in Boston, we had an awesome community. I miss it, but not living in Boston. We had monthly pot lucks, play dates with our dogs, we'd go on walks together, we all knew our dogs' names, quirks, who they got along with and who they didn't, we accommodated eachother in the park, we threw baby showers for each other. All around awesome little community.
We rent in another state now and we don't know our neighbors. It's weird, because we're in SC now, but none of our neighbors say hi or introduce themselves or anything. I will walk past people on my morning walk and have 2 or 3 other walkers not even so much as look at me.In Boston, we saw a new neighbor and we were all over them, what's your dog's name, where do you live, you have to come to our potluck on this date, we all walk the 3 mile loop at 535 and meet here, etc.
The people on either side of us might drop over and bring a dinner, but I'd doubt it.
The people behind us leave their dog outside and let the poor dog bark for HOURS. I can see them in their house just hanging out while this dog is at the door wanting to get inside. They also pretend to beat the dog to get a neighbors reactions. I'm not even a dog person, and I feel so bad for this dog.
The people on either side of us might drop over and bring a dinner, but I'd doubt it.
The people behind us leave their dog outside and let the poor dog bark for HOURS. I can see them in their house just hanging out while this dog is at the door wanting to get inside. They also pretend to beat the dog to get a neighbors reactions. I'm not even a dog person, and I feel so bad for this dog.
You're lucky! We kind of keep to ourselves with our neighbors.
The people behind us have 2 young kids but they are about 10 years older than we are and, quite frankly, her husband's "kid voice" is enough to push a sane person over the edge. I like the wife well enough, though
The people to our left totally suck a fat one. They are such WT. They always have a camper and like 5 cars on the street. Their yard looks like a junk sale threw up on it. They turn around in our driveway every. single. time. they. go. out. and it makes H nuts. lol
The people across the street are really nice but super nosey. They have 2 dogs that bark non-stop.
The people to our right are pretty much the same as us. Work on their house and try to keep to themselves.
We have another neighbor that is friendly 2 doors down but he never. shuts. up. We see him coming and try to get in the house before he sees us because otherwise we are out there for 2 hours.
We joke that we are the mean neighbors from Christmas Vacation. LOL
Meanwhile, the outside of our house looks like crap right now. I have just been so busy trying to get the inside ready that it just really looks horrible out there. Oh well. Can't be everything to everyone. ::shrug::
Ours are a mix of older families and young, and everyone helps each other out. The people behind us have a 4 month old boy and across the street they just had a boy too... so there will be two buddies for Alex right form the start.
Next door is a recent widow and her teenagers (one of which used to babysit our previous owner's daughter all the time), and behind her (next to the people with the 4 month old) is a lady who lives alone and has already babysat for their son.
I think we're set.
We live in an amazing neighborhood of mostly young families. I know that two of my friends are planning to bring us food and another from across the street asked me last night if I'm allergic to anything. The neighbor across the street from her is throwing me a shower next week.
There is a group of us that hangs out on a regular basis, even does Thanksgiving together since we are all from so far away. We lucked out BIG TIME in that we've become more of an extended family than just neighbors. If anyone ever has a problem there is someone to help. I know that if I need to get to the hospital before DH can get home I just have to make a phone call and there will be at least three people to help. We couldn't ask for a better place to raise our little one!
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Everyone in our neighborhood is significantly older than us. DH and I are both 29, and everyone on our street seems to be 50+. We're currently renting and plan to buy a house next year, hopefully in a neighborhood with younger families.
So, no, I don't expect to hear a peep from our neighbors. None of them came over to say hello when we moved in last year.
Our neighbors that lived to the left of us were super annoying (in the warm months). They had many kids, and the dad would always have them working on the yard (dirt, rocks, weeds) moving rocks from one side to the other and he would yell at them all the time. I could be inside and hear him yelling at them. Since we have dogs, the kids would bang on the fence to make them bark...so that is one reason why my mom's dog can't stand kids. They would throw rocks at them all the time too. This year they threw one of those smoke bomb firecrackers in the yard, and my dog almost ate it while it was lit. I wasn't home at the time, but my mom got after them. Stupid kids.
But...they moved and we have no idea who moved in. The people seem nice, and I think they have a dog as well. I also think that they are actually going to do something with the yard.
The neighbors to the right of us are quiet people. They have a little pomeranian too, and he'll stick his nose underneath the fence and whine. He just wants to play, and we wish they would let him come over, but we know they wouldn't. They have a son that is pretty young (4-5 ish) and my mom caught him hitting her dog with a stick through the hole in the fence. He also jabbed my dog in the face with it. So when he is outside we have to be careful and watch.
When DH and I lived in our apartment we got to know our neighbors pretty well. The other couple that lived upstairs next to us moved 4 houses down from where we are now. We used to go over there all the time, but since being pregnant and her saying constantly, "She's going to be born in September"...we haven't been over there in months. Long story behind the month thing. Then the other day she asked if I was having any contractions yet. Ugh...I know she does it because she's curious, but I also feel like she says those things just to be funny.
Sometimes the neighborhood will have a bbq, but we never go.
My grandma and cousin live just up the hill from us...so we're always seeing family and stuff.
We have an older couple next door to us that I know will be offering as much help as they can give. They are a very sweet couple and we have gotten to know them pretty well. They always have their grandkids over, so that makes me very happy to know that they put a lot of time and effort in making sure they have a relationship with them. They have already offered to watch LO if we ever want to go out as just the two of us and I think we will eventually take them up on their offer.
It was cute.... the other day they told us that they are so excited, because it feels like they have another grandchild on the way. It put a smile on my face.
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Our neighborhood is pretty much younger couples, and a few houses have kids. There are 3 of us on the block that are expecting though. The neighbors to our right are a middle aged lesbian couple, and they are pretty quiet and generally keep to themselves, we get along with them though and stop to chat whenever we are all outside. To our left, we have a single mom with 2 little boys, and again we will chat if we are all outside, but generally don't have much to do with her otherwise. The couple right across the street are probably our closest friends on the block, and they just had their first baby a week and a half ago, so I know that we will definitely trade babysitting duties as the girls get older. Everyone else is pretty much a wave as we drive by, but don't really talk to.
Our neighbors directly around us are all younger than us and we think they are weirdo's. It's go to be the generation. They have no concept that anyone else exists and think they own the block. They have parked in our driveway, put trash in our trash can, raked their leaves into our yard, and parked in front of our driveway so no one could get in or out. Each time we have said something, the response is a dumbfounded look of not understanding why it was improper.
The next generation has a huge sense of entitlement and DH and I are doing everything we can to prevent our kids from being part of it. They will say yes sir and yes ma'am and they will have manners.
Oh boy, that turned into a vent and UO Thursday!