Do you talk to your neighbors?

[jlee]

Yep. Couldn't really ask for better neighbors.

 

[RossMAN]

Other than seeing each other when we leave/arrive? Nope.

 

[skyking]

We did OK here. We've done many projects on our places and the community in general.

 

[RedCOMET]

i got to talking to my neighbors but they are in the process of moving out.

oh well, i guess i have to meet my other neighbors.

 

[FoBoT]

no, we moved to the country to minimize the need to interact with other peoples

 

[0roo0roo]

http://www.boston.com/news/glo...downside_of_diversity/
"The downside of diversity
A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?"

..."In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings...."


our oldest neighbors yes...we do. the newer ones? no.

 

[Squisher]

Yes, but not much. We've lived here two years and it seems all the neighbors pretty much stick to themselves. I can't say I've been in any of their houses nor have they been in my house when I was there. The wife has gone over to one of the neighbors a couple of times when we've had the granddaughter because they have a kid of the same age. The same neighbor has come over a couple of times to ask about what I'm doing. I wouldn't call myself a handyman, but I can't say I've ever seen one of the neighbors working on their own cars or houses. They hire everything out. Sorry, I'm too cheap for that.

The wife calls me "mister friendly guy" because I've told her that it's just creepy that we don't seem to interact with our neighbors and because I've attended a half dozen HOA meetings. btw-she usually refers to the HOA as The Cult.

They all seem like nice people. It'll probably just take more time.

 

[potato28]

My neighbors are bat shit crazy, they won't even let the kids walk along the lawn. The ones across the street aren't so bad.

 

[dug777]

Nup. I'm a good ol' country boy, and they're very meek Asians, which means they seem to think I'll bite their heads off if they pass the time of day with me, or dare to harass my missus

EDIT: while I do sound like a real country boy, I'm quite progressive, really

 

[JulesMaximus]

My neighbors are very cool. In fact, the guy across the street gave me an extra lawnmower he had yesterday after mine crapped out. There are 16 homes on my street and I know everyone who lives on this street. Some of them I'd even call good friends.

 

[waggy]

yeap i do all the time

in fact the family kinda across the street we are good friends with. we also talk to a few other families in town (considering there are maybe 300 people in town its hard nto to heh).

 

[erub]

I live in a condo building, so I regularly see people on the elevators and stuff, we make quick exchanges..my direct neighbors, the ones next to me on one side are great, they move the newspapers out of my doorway so it doesnt look like i'm out of town from down the hall (w/o telling them in advance), and I've walked to a football game with them. The guy on the other guy is an arsehole though, and threatened to call the cops on me for subwoofer volume (not even that loud).

At my house in Dallas, my mom regularly socializes with the neighbors (and my grandparents happen to live next door), there's a neighboorhood dog park where a lot of them go each day. My dad doesnt like them all that much, he gets enough neighborhly contact from his inlaws, haha.

 

[LLCOOLJ]

I'm laying the wood to my neighbors wife, does that count?

 

[slpaulson]

I've only talked to my neighbor a couple times.

 

[MagicConch]

I live on a street with lots of snobs and they talk amongst themselves about things I care nothing about. Every once in a while I get roped into a conversation and it is invariably about something dumb and I feel precious moments slipping by as we talk about the poor quality of ground cover in the common area, etc.

 

[BoomerD]

I get along great with MOST of my immediate neighbors...except the house-full of "illegal immigrants" who live next door...

We have a pretty adversarial relationship.

There are usually 3 or 4 families living in a 4 bedroom house. Parking in the sub-division is pretty tight, and with so many in one house, they have 6 or more vehicles there.

There have been 3-4 occasions when they've parked in front of my driveway. The first time, I told them to move it...when they didn't, I called the cops and they towed it.

Now, I don't even bother telling them to move it...I just make the call. Sometimes the cop just gives them a ticket for blocking part of the driveway,(if I can still get both cars out without having to move one to get the other out) other times, they call a tow-truck.

The neighbors are finally understanding that parking in front of my driveway isn't acceptable.

We still do battle over their loud "flea-market" music, but the city has given me a new tool for the fight.

Nowadays, IF I'm willing to sign a complaint, the cops are REQUIRED to issue them a ticket that requires a court appearance. One neighbor down the street got one of these tickets, (because of her son's overly loud music) and it cost her $500 and 6 months probation and a suspended 60 day jail sentence...


Haven't gone that far...yet...2 other neighbors HAVE called the cops over that, and they've been ticketed once that I know of...but they still do it.

I don't give a shit what kind of music you listen to...as long as I don't have to listen to it in my house. (they have some mega-boom-box in their garage that they crank up to max loudness, then go in the house for hours...)

Otherwise, ALMOST everyone in the sub-division gets along pretty well. We have 4th of July block parties, several of us have X-Mas parties, group BBQ's, etc.

Oddly enough, the neighbors I mentioned above don't get invited to ANY of them...not even by any of the Hispanic families...

 

[T9D]

My Neibors are hella cool. Half of them are old people. Old people are quiet and nice. Gotta say I hope no lame younger people move in.

We talk a lot. But I wish a lot less! I like talking to them at times but not ALL the time. No one has fences here. And my house is right in the center of a bunch of houses. So I'm constantly having to talk to all of them. That makes for way to much interaction. If I'm on one side of my house I have to talk to a few over there. Then I go to the front and have to talk to the few others over there. Then I go to the back and have to talk to the old guy back there. Then the other side and have to talk to the two old ladies over there. I just want some privacy!

The people in the front are cool but they are really loud talkers. They have one volume. If I'm out front they ALWAYS have to yell some funny one liner over. And then carry on a conversation from the across the street. Just come over and talk please! I hate yelling across the street all the time.

I just have little desire to be social. I'm always kind and courteous though. But I just dont have that need. I just want solitude, peace, and serentity when I'm at my house. Nothing makes me happier than sitting in my yard and enjoying it, relaxing and being alone to enjoy the nature around. It's just how I am.

I put up a short fence on one side now though. And planted a bunch of trees. It will be a couple years though before they fill in. The back neighbor already had planted a huge row of hedge trees but they are still small.

Overall they are all great neighbors though. And I'll always give a smile and shoot the breeze once in a while.

At my other place I had cool neighbors too. But then one day when I got back from vaction they had all moved. Litterally 4 niehgbors around me had moved in a short period of time. And 3 total retards moved in. Made it suck so bad living there.

One was a car repair shop. The ones there before were hella cool. The new ones were white trash and parked broken cars everywhere! They even rean into my fence and broke a post once.

The new neigbor on the other side had mental problems and was unstable. And dumb as a rock. He ended up going to jail again. But it was stressful having that laimo next to me.

Behind me the rentere moved out and the owner moved in. That guy was nuts too. He started hoarding pallets and litterally had them stacked 8 feet high covering his entire front yard. He's also do work on the place but never actually do anything. Just go in circles. Something was totally off on him.

It's amazing how fast your nieghbor hood can change and be ruined. If I had more fences up there too and more trees it wouldn't have been so bad. I moved and things were better. The odd thing is I moved into a condo for a bit and even though people were around and all over I felt more secluded and private than I ever did living in a house. Everyone just does their thing. They are either in their condo or in their car.

 

[DrPizza]

Some of the neighbors...
Our neighbors from 2 miles up the road stop by all the time. We hired their daughter to help care for our animals while we were away. And, the neighbors across the road, about 1 mile up stop by all the time; she cuts my wife's hair for her. We have some new neighbors down the road in the other direction; they stop by with their kids occasionally, their kids come by all the time though to see the animals. I've helped the neighbor across the road from me a few times, and he's helped me a few times.

 

[Bryophyte]

I live out in the country (houses roughly 1/2 mile-2 miles apart), so it's pretty important for everyone to have a good relationship with neighbors. We're always looking out for one another.

 

[Geekbabe]

The 10 yr boy who lives next door has become my friend simply due to his love and devotion to his cats.The neighborhood cats and I are also friendly.WEhen I take my coffee out to the porch after dinner is isn't unusual for 3 different cats to come running up to see me

 

[Fritzo]

We have socialite neighbors- you know, the ones that are always planing things for the rest of the neighborhood? They keep making parties we have to host or go to, events, blah. They're a nice enough family but they just don't understand that I hate people and all personal contact.

If you're not my wife or one of my kids, leave me the hell alone, k? (On second though, if you're my wife, leave me the hell alone too!)

 

[The Boston Dangler]

hell no.

 

[Canai]

I don't... Most of the people who live around me are the ghetto fab pitbull raising types. There's a crack house across the street and the police are there two to three times a week. Hopefully I'll be moving in the next month though.

 

[CorCentral]

When I'm out cutting or working in the yard I'll wave to a neighbor if I see them, but rarely talk. I once jokingly told an immediate neighbor (elderly couple) that I was thinking of putting up an 8' cedar fence around the property (.25acre) and she says: Yea' right, good luck on that one..... and then just laughed.

I said it in a joking manner but really, I am thinking about it :laugh:
Hey, they have a chain link fence to keep their dog in.

 

[Bibble]

On one side there are the old neighbors who are super nice and talk to us a lot. The husband has an awesome snowblower and will do our driveway for us if there is a lot of snow. Their kids are older and live elsewhere. They have pool which they allowed me to swim in when I was younger.

The neighbors to the other side moved in a few years ago and are white trash. They built a standalone "room" (it has four walls, a roof, and a floor, but no door, just a doorway, and "windows" with no glass) in their backyard for their hot tub without a permit. He smokes pot out there at night. They don't maintain their house or lawn much, though. We rarely speak with them, although we wave. We lent the guy some tools a couple times, but that's it.

Our best neighbor, though, is the old lady across the street. She is in her 90s but is almost totally independent. She does her own landscaping and her lawn looks better than mine. She shovels her walk during the winter (I've done it a few times too). She has a garden and brings us vegetables all the time. I think she still works cleaning houses a few times a week (her daughter drives her around). We talk to her fairly often. She doesn't even keep pets. She rocks.

The lady behind us is divorced and pretty hot for a middle-aged woman. She has two dogs but they are quiet. We hardly ever see her, though.