how well do you know your neighbors?

jenerally · January 2009

are you good friends with the people who live around you? Do you know their first and last names? Have their telephone number? A key to their place?

Or do you recognize them, maybe give a friendly wave, but don't really chat?

And ... do you live in a house, an apartment, a townhouse ... what?

Ritza · January 2009

jenerally:

Or do you recognize them, maybe give a friendly wave, but don't really chat?

This one.

House.

I know 6 of my neighbors first names, of those 6 I know 2 pairs of last names, of these two pairs, one of them is my parents.

KathlovesTim · January 2009

Just to wave and sometimes chat for about 2 minutes.

Then Tuesday night, my neighbor randomly stopped by with "labor inducing" meatballs (obviously THAT was successful), which I thought was nice.

But she's about 55 and has kids in their teens and twenties.

They also have parties and randomly throw beer cans in our yard (the kids, not the parents), which I find annoying.

Oh and we live in a house.

eminbmore · January 2009

We moved in October (live in a neighborhood, but people have big lots - about an acre each) and haven't met many people. I've spoken to a couple of them, met a few during trick or treating on Halloween - but really don't know a lot of people at all. We're hoping that we'll meet more people in the spring/summer when everyone comes out of their houses again

jfenyes · January 2009

We own our home at the end of a court. All of our neighbors have been there for years. We know who everyone is, but we don't talk to them on a daily basis. We are closest to our neighbors on the right. They are actually closest to everyone in the court. They have a huge backyard and pool, so they just let everyone come over and swim whenever they want. We really should get to know everyone better, we just haven't made it a priority. And we only know them by first names.

Brandiebabe · January 2009

We are really close to our neighbors. We have keys to each others homes and often will borrow food if we need from each other even if the other is gone. But they are the only neighbors we know, the rest are kinda far so we don't know them, other than the friendly wave as they drive down the road and we are outside.

jenella17 · January 2009

We recently bought our first house and going from a renter to a owner made a huge difference in the way our neighbors treated us (both places are single family homes)

Renters-they never gave us the time of day and we lived there 4 years

Owners-they brought us cookies, came over and introduced themselves, we were not used to this and felt so welcome.

We know their first and last names but no phone numbers or keys.

britti<3 · January 2009

We live in a house.

Neighbors on our left: friendly and we talk when we see eachother but that's it.

Neighbors on the right: Just moved in a few months ago. Hate our dog because they are afraid of dogs and they like to torment him through the fence so in turn he will growl at them.

Neighbors across the street. WHITE TRASH. moving to kentucky and I can't wait. They live in one of the cutest houses on the block and turned it to crap. I guess they used to steal water from us to water their lawn when their landlord said they needed to keep the lawn looking nice lol. Always drunk. Always eating. Always yelling.

2 houses down on the left is a little old couple who DH helps out around the house when they need it. We have a key to their house and she likes to bring me cookies on a weekly basis.

DH knows everything about our neighbors since he's a cop.

TexasLadyBug · January 2009

We just moved her not to long ago and I have no idea who our neighbors are and dont care to either. We are in a house but we are renting and the people next to us I think are also renting but have like 6 kids and two adults living in a three bedroom house. There kids are always outside with no one watching them etc. I dont want to get roped into watching their kids one day.?

On the other side is an old couple. I have said Hi a few times, but nothing more then that.

Where Dh and I grew up we know all the neighbors, some had keys to our home. We would always share food and go over to their house to play etc...?

Lilo06 · January 2009

We know one set of our neighbors and hang out with them occasionally. The other ones, we just wave to. I don't even know their names. (Granted, we've lived here for a relatively short time.)

We live in a house.

houndbaby · January 2009

We live in a house and get along really well with our neighbors, we all get together on the weekends in the summer and have bonfires/cookouts etc. I would have no problem giving a key to one of them if I needed to the dog let out etc while on vacation. My next door neighbors are even on standby to take me to the hospital if dh can't make it in time when I go into labor.

sevans1975 · January 2009

jenerally:

Or do you recognize them, maybe give a friendly wave, but don't really chat?

This, I don't know any of their names, but I'll say hi to the people on both sides of us...actually, now that I think about it, I've only really seen the husbands. Both of the wives must hide in the house because I've seen one of them maybe twice and the other one not once at all! Weird.

We live in a house.

rachi · January 2009

The neighbors to our left are CRAZY! I refuse to even make eye contact with them. The neighbors that were to our right were super nice. They were an older couple and the husband would always come over and talk to DH when we were outside. He also took our garbage cans out and brought them in every Thursday. So sweet. The recently moved though.

There are some other people in our neighborhood that we wave to and sometimes make small talk but no close relationships.

We live in a house in a new sub-division.

EMMB · January 2009

We love our neighbors, they are like a big extended family. We live in a new neighborhood so we were all building our homes at/around the same time. We get together pretty regularly. Two of our neighbors have keys to our house, they will check on things while we are at the hospital.

KimnCurt · January 2009

We moved into our house in August. We know the most of the first names and some of thier last names of the people who live on either side of us and across the street and behind us. We also know a few peoples names who live a few houses down. We have the numbers of our "snow bird" neighbors just in case something happens while they are gone. No one has a key of ours and we don't have a key of thiers. We chat with most of them but some of them are just wavers. It is a pretty close knit street. We didn't realize this until after we moved in. It is in the middle of the city and you wouldn't think it would be like it is. It's kinda nice though. We can leave and know the whole neighborhood is looking out for our house. :-)

misplacedjersygirl · January 2009

We just moved here in October, so we really don't know anyone and actually never even see them. In our old house, I was good friends with my neighbor and even went on vacations with her. We were very friendly with some of our other neighbors too, had their #'s and spent time with them as well. It's kind of depressing not knowing anyone.

Marle · January 2009

We had an open house to meet them about a year after we moved in. We are suppossed to know many of their names and last names but... well we forget but at least say hi. We are kind of close with one of the next door neighbors and talk to a few more.

Edit: Oh yeah we live in a house

laura&dan05 · January 2009

We have lived in our current house for 2.5 years. We know our neighbors really well. We are god parents to our 1.5 year old neighbor across the street and obviously very good friends with her parents. We hang out with them and talk to them all the time and have been on vacation with them several times. They have a key to our house and take care of our place when we are out of town. Our dogs are also best friends and play together all of the time.

The neighbors that live on either side of us are great and we talk with them as well (more in the summer since we are all outside and less in the winter months). We have their phone numbers and look out for each other. My next door neighbor cleared and salted the driveway for me yesterday, took out the trash and brought in the mail. He knew my DH was out of town and didn't want me walking on the snow and ice since I'm pg.

Our neighbors behind us are in their mid-late 60's but we chat with them all of the time and sit out on their patio with them a lot in the summer. They have come and let our dog out for us many times when we've been gone all day (they love her). Our other neighbor that lives behind us is pg and due 3 weeks after me. We have dinner with them every couple of months and she came to my baby shower last weekend.

KatGapp · January 2009

One set we know really well, had a key and everything. But they are moving

. Others we know first names and wave. That's about it. I wish it was more, but i think we will get to know more once our son is born. A lot of people in our neighborhood kind of didn't want to know anything more about us because we didn't ahve kids and couldn't participate in play dates and what not. Kind of sad...but looking forward to it.

Sxia · January 2009

The neighbors on either side of us we know really well. I think it has something to do with the fact that on one side, they can see into our kitchen window (and asked us over to use their pool the first hot summer day after we moved in) and the other neighbors have their patio right outside our bedroom.

One brought brownies the day we moved in and the other brought a bottle of wine. We didn't have kids when we moved into the house, but were just getting married. The ones were closest to have kids our age -- they're 50 and have 30 and 32 y/o daughters, who are always over and we hang out a lot. And between us and their daughters, our kids are: 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, and now I have another due soon, so they love to play together.

The other neighbor also has kids slightly younger than us, but they're slightly more "working class". The Dad's never had a steady job, the daughters work at WalMart and various restaurants. The only thing that bothers me is they have garbage filling their backyard, which our yard can see into. (We're growing a tall hedge so we can't see it.) The other neighbors, we wave to occasionally.

jtimestwo · January 2009

We live in a townhouse in a city, so we have lots of neighbors in very close proximity. Most are in the smile and wave category, but we know our immediate neighbors a bit better. We've exchanged keys and phone numbers with one couple.

A few of them have very young children, so I suspect I'll be getting to know them better once the weather warms up.

LukyNLuv · January 2009

jenerally:

are you good friends with the people who live around you? Yes

Do you know their first and last names? Yes

Have their telephone number? A key to their place? Yes

Or do you recognize them, maybe give a friendly wave, but don't really chat? Some of them we know in this way

And ... do you live in a house, an apartment, a townhouse ... what? We live in a SFH built very close together, with alleys that run in the back.
The younger families often get together in the Spring and Summer on Friday night for the "Ralley in the Alley" aka Happy Hour. the kids run free and we all BYOB and often bring chips and dips or apps to share. Always good times!
In the winter everyone who hangs in the summer has at least one party jjust to keep us from hibernating too much!
Oh and themed parties are always going on too...I did Cinco de Mayo last year.

oliviasprettymommy · January 2009

we live in a duplex, and i don't like me neighbor she is loud and she has friends over and they throw cigarette butts into our yard.

superdeejayanna · January 2009

I live in a townshouse in a cute San Diego neighborhood, all single family homes except for our 5 units on the end of the cul-de-sac. I know a lot of people, mostly because of our dog, who we walk twice a day. Zoe has many friends on the block and I'm pretty social so I stop and talk to people. and Now people have started offering to help with the baby, and families with kids are talking to us, it's pretty sweet.

My immediate neighbors have keys and we feed their cat and vice versa. The retired couple across the street also has keys in case of emergency.

jimmie48fan · January 2009

I would say we are good neighbours to one side but the other side they are older and grumpy farts. Well he is she is nice but I don;t think she is allowed to chat with us. The neighbours that are nice we aren't close to them or anything but we dog sit for eachother and we plow there driveway for them. Good people but we don't have their number or anything we just come a knockin when need be. We have a house.

Toodaloos

Robin

Gramyson · January 2009

we live in a townhouse. the neighbors across the street are on a first name basis with me...and are better friends with DH. he goes over there to play xbox and of course the guy is a small time weed dealer and he doesn't realize that DH used to be a cop. it's a level of irony that keeps it interesting for us:)

jacobs32 · January 2009

We live in a house in a suburban neighborhood and have lived here 1.5 years. We knew more of our neighbors here in the first month than we did after 5 years in our old house. Our neighborhood is a mix of families that have been here from 1 to 25 years and are all different ages. The neighborhood association puts on ladies nights out, haloween parties, neghborhood BBQs etc. and tons of people show up. The neighborhood social organizer lives next door, and has a pool, see everyone always ends up at her house. I can't say enough about how helpful everyone is- looked outside yesterday and next door neighbor on right had cleared a foot of snow frrm my driveway and my neighbor on the left's (both our hubby's happen to be out of town). A bunch of men came over when our huge tree fell in a storm and cut it up for us. And when our dog ran away our first month there word traveled so fast she was home in no time. I am so glad we chose to raise our family here.

Meg41208 · January 2009

We bought our house in July. Our neighbors on both sides have lived there for about 10 years, since the houses were built. They are older than we are by probably 15-20 years and have kids that are college aged or older, but they are glad to see us move in- our house has had 4 owners since it was built- and are glad that we are having a baby, since no one that has ever lived in our house has had children. We know them on a first name basis, and they are pretty nice, letting us borrow yard equipment and even snow-blowing our driveway yesterday after we got 4-5 inches of snow.

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