Do you talk with your neighbors?

United States
March 18, 2010 10:56am CST
I was leaving work this morning and getting into my car and I saw one of my neighbors in my apartment complex. We both greeted each other with a good morning while he was walking his dog and then we started talking about the weather getting back the way it should be. When I first moved to Florida and lived in a house next door to us we had some nice neighbors who we became close to. If my mom needed to borrow an egg or some sugar we could go over there. And I know when we had hurricanes after it passed all the neighbors came together grilling together, used generators and it was real nice. So do you talk to your neighbors or perhaps even spy? Do you have a good relationship, do you even know their name?
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17 responses
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
I know them well enough by name but I seldom talk to them unless it is a matter of great importance
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• United States
19 Mar 10
I don't even know my neighbors name. I should look into that in case I need to be a witness on AMerica's Most Wanted or something...LMAO!
@Jennlk84 (4206)
• United States
19 Mar 10
My husband and I aren't real fond of our neighbors. We have 2 and they're both very rude people. Unfortunately most of the talking we've done with them has been asking them to stop being so loud, lol. Hopefully when we move this summer we have some great neighbors. In the past 3 years of apartment living I've never lived next to someone I really became friends with.
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• United States
19 Mar 10
When I was little and lived in New York everyone was kind of friendly. When I moved to Florida to a house everyone was friendly. I mean there was only like 4 houses on the block. Now that I live in my own apartment people are kind of to themselves but I do say "hi" or "good morning" if I see them..
@primeaque86 (8108)
• Philippines
18 Mar 10
I know most of the neighbors next door... So we will exchange chat sometimes when i go out or buy something... But I refrain talking to them specially gossips... I would only exchange thought if I found a conversation helpful... Happy Lotting.. :-)
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• United States
19 Mar 10
But why do you feel that you have to refrain from talking with me? Are they more of a gossip type, not your type of people?
@LadyBoss (253)
• United States
19 Mar 10
I like to get to know my neighbors. But right now we are having a problem. See the ones that we were close to had moved. and the house was empty for a while. Then after a couple of months some people moved in and they are really descreet. They are not even supposed to be there. They took advantage of an empty house. We had our old neighbors phone number. And they said that they still own that house and no one is supposed to be there. But we dont know what we should do. If it really is our buisness to even call the cops.
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• United States
19 Mar 10
Hmm! Wow! Well, how are they living there if they aren't suppose to be there? And if your old neighbor say no one is suppose to be there I would tell them if I was you
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
18 Mar 10
I don't. If we did see each other, it doesn't go beyond a nod or a 'good morning'. Neighbor to the right just moved in, so there is still some feeling out process. Neighbor to the left is a realtor I think, and is just around the house a couple of days a week. So, I'd say I don't have a good relationship with the neighbors.
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• United States
19 Mar 10
That is how it is with my neighbors..On my level there are 4 of us and I really only chat with one and basically it is a "good morning" type of convo.
• United States
19 Mar 10
I like my next door neighbor. She is so sweet and so are her daughters. The other day the oldest daughter (she is 4) came over and asked if she could borrow some snow so she could finish building her snowman. I thought it was the cute. I also remember in the summer when their ball would come into our yard they would come over and ask me if they could get their ball. I always told them yes.
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• United States
19 Mar 10
That is nice. When I start living in a house I want to have a nice relationship with my neighbors. I mean I don't need to have them over every night but it's nice to borrow an egg here or there or if I go out of town I know someone is looking over my place for me.
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
When I was a kid, I usually talk with my neighbors, I don't know why when I grow up, I became so shy to talk to them. I just greet them like good morning or gr I just smile at them.
• United States
19 Mar 10
But why do you feel shy to talk to them? Is it the same neighbors you grew up with?
• Philippines
20 Mar 10
no, it's not the same neighbors I grew up with. We moved to many different places while I'm growing up.
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
I am a friendly neighbor! I talk to my neighbors if I get a chance. Just saying or asking some great news around can make a good start. Everytime we move places, I see to it that I get along with my neighbors because who knows, they'll look after your house when you're away. And you do the same when they are not in their house. Good neighbors ei?
• United States
19 Mar 10
That is a totally good way to think about it. You don't have to become best friend's with them but be on good enough terms where if something happens to your place or their place you guys can communicate.
• United States
18 Mar 10
I think I have the best neighbors in the world. I live in a kind of rural area so they are not extremely close but we all help each other out. We have one couple in that is a neighbor who is retired, so he helps plow and work our garden. His daughter and son-in-law live just behind them and they are the people who we would go to if we needed and egg or if one of the boys wasn't feeling well (she is a nurse). On the other side we have a really nice couple that will help do anything that is needed. Other than that we have trees and nature. So it is really nice to have people close to help you out.
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• United States
18 Mar 10
That is nice. I never lived in a rural area like that but I am sure it would be nice. I can only imagine like having a bbq or something and everyone on the street or area coming and just having a good time.
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
19 Mar 10
When I see my neighbors, I tend to say "hi" and strike up a conversation. Sometimes they beat me to the punch, but there are times where I make it there first. It is just polite behavior. I think I get along fairly well with my neighbors. I respect their privacy and they respect mine. So we get along rather great. My current neighbors anyway, I have had some rather nosy neighbors in the past. I do admit that as of late I have not gotten as many chances to interact with the neighbors. Our schedules just do not match up and when they are around, I am not. When I am around they are not. Still our limited reactions have been rather cordial and polite. I really have no complaints based on what I have experienced with them as of late. And yes, we are on a first name basis.
• United States
19 Mar 10
I don't know my neighbor's name. I think it is good that you can strike up conversation with them. I don't think you have to be best friends with your neighbor but at least for example if you were away and something was going on at your house your neighbor knows you well enough to maybe call you or even call the police and care..
@champan (513)
• Argentina
18 Mar 10
Just a bit with one or two from my building. But not to match. These building has 8 levels with 3 apartments per floor.. I only say hello to the others. Not more
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@phoenix8606 (4942)
18 Mar 10
hell0! no, I don't see the neighbors that often, just because I think they are crazy and by the way now I am going to go to them and tell that they are too loud now, i don't know what's happening up there, but everything shakes from the jumps of the kids there!
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• United States
18 Mar 10
Okay! Well, it seems like you don't get along with your neighbors at all...
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@Iceling (26)
• China
19 Mar 10
I don't talk with my neighbors.I don't remember theirs face.They are living in here 9 years,but we were seeing each other maybe 10 in a year.
• United States
19 Mar 10
Ok! THanks for commenting!
• United States
19 Mar 10
I've been living here for about 10 months and only recently have I started talking to one of my neighbors. I unfortunately don't know his name. My husband grew up here in this house so everyone knows him but we rarely talk to people.
• United States
19 Mar 10
But is it simple conversation or do you really actually talk to him. And why is it that you rarely talk to people?
• United States
19 Mar 10
We are both prior military so we talk about that and normally he plays with my son a bit. We get into pretty good conversations. As for why I rarely talk to the others is that I am a pretty private person. My experiences in the past scare me so I tend to stay indoors unless my husband or someone else is with me.
@myliezl0903 (2726)
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
yes of course ., most of my neighbors are also my friends ., so its ok to talk to them ., but one thing i want to take out of ., to make gossip with someones life. i hate it. so as much as possible i avoiding it.
• United States
19 Mar 10
How did you guys become friends? Was everyone living in that area for a period of time?
• Philippines
19 Mar 10
Seems like you have a very warm neighborhood.Well,in our place, I don't know my neigbors that much. I spend most of the time at home, mylotting.hehe.
• United States
19 Mar 10
I stay in doors a lot too. I don't see too many people outside like I use too.
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
19 Mar 10
I lived in town for 20+ years and barely knew my neighbors. We said "hello" and that was it. I built a new home in the country in 2005. There are about 15 homes in the area. I know every one of my neighbors. Once a month, we get together and have a Full Moon Party, where everyone brings munchies and the host supplies the drinks. We just shoot the bull, so to speak. I've helped my neighbors with their landscaping and gardening and they've helped me by building me a cabinet drawer, fixing my ATV, etc. This is a real neighborhood. Where I lived before -- not.