Nosy, neighborly, or something in between

My husband and I are newly married and he is in the military. I thought that when you lived on a military base that everyone tried to get to know one another. But we only know one set of our neighbors (the houses are duplex's and we know the guys we share a house with). I have thought about making cookies for some of the other neighbors and going to introduce myself but we are the new people. We even had to move ourselves in.. Just us two lifting all the boxes. would think that inviting people over for dinner or making cookies or brownies or something would be a good way to get to know your neighbors. But I haven't tried it because I'm not that great of a cook..

I can see myself in your shoes in a few years.lol We have been living here for 2 years and the neighbors that had lived beside us moved but they were the ones to make the move to introduce themselves, and the ones on the other side are older and never really there as far as i can tell. The only time we see her is when she is out mowing her grass. And we really have no clue what the other surrounding neighbors even look like, to tell you the truth. We also have a set of neighbors a house over that are nosey and not very friendly. I think however the best way to get to know your neighbors is just go for it and introduce yourselves somehow and then when in conversation explain to them why you have secluded yourself from everyone and then you may not seem so insecure. I think this is what we should do anyway. I dont know if i gave you any help, BUT GOOD LUCK