How often do you talk to your neighbours?
By Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
December 19, 2010 1:07pm CST
Yesterday I talked to my brother and his girlfriend. They have just bought a house, and in the area where they live the neighbours spend a lot of time together. They have a area where they meet during the summer and they have several clubs where they meet and do different things together. Some of the those clubs are for the women for instanse a craft club, but there are activities for the men as well. They also have several parties each year. Some of the neighbours visited my brother and his girlfriend right after moved into, gave them presents and invited them to participate in the activities.
In the area where I live the neighbours don't have the same kinds of clubs or activities. We talk to the others sometimes, but we don't spend much time together.
What is it is like in your neighbourhood? Do you have a close relationship to your neighbours?
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29 responses
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
20 Dec 10
Hello Porcospino,
People behave differently in different environments. People where your brother lives must be a cordial ones and the neighbors are good to each other.
The same thing can not be expected everywhere. The bond of neighborhood is strong in the semi urban areas where people know each other in more better ways than usual.
Well I do not gossip with my neighbor. I talk too less. Unless I have something to say or to invite for a cup of tea I do or to put it in other way, I talk top them. Unnecessary talks I do not like.
With your neighbor it is advisable that you keep a distance and maintain it unless there is a row over something petty matter.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
That is true. There is a big difference between the way that people behave in different neighbourhoods. The place where my brother just bought a house is a village and I think that is one of the reasons why people have a close relationship. I haven't experienced the same thing in the big cities where I have spent most of my life.
@sona22 (1430)
• India
20 Dec 10
I am very different. In live in such a place where the neighbors are very close to each other. We spend lot of time every evening. Almost all of my neighbors come to my house in the evening, we talk on different issues and it is going on day after day. The session lasts for an hour. We have housewife, nurse, school teacher, professor and ex-serviceman. We enjoy it. By this our relation become tighter. In every occasion we invites each other, we exchange dishes. Whenever any of us make a special dish gives us.
We are really happy and proud for the good team.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
22 Dec 10
Your neighbourhood sounds great. It must be nice to meet and talk about different topics. When the group consists of people with different backgrounds you have the chance to exchange views and learn from eachother, and I think that is great. I am going to move soon and I am curios what my new neighbourhood will be like. I hope that I will get some nice neighbours 
@rockydam83 (846)
• Italy
20 Dec 10
I am living in biggest city of my country and life got so busy in big cities. We only say hi to our neighbors if we meet up at any occasion, We dont have strong relations with neighbors some of us even dont know that who is living around us because we dont have much time to interact with each other. On the other hand life in our rural areas, villages and in small cities is quite different, there they meet each other socialize with each other and stay in touch with almost everyone in the community. That kind of life inspires me most and i like to stay in such a place where peoples meet each other and have fun but unfortunately i have my job here. I visit my village once in a year and i feel so happy there while interacting with others.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
In my country it is often the same way, and many people in the big cities don't have much to do with the neighbours. I have lived in big cities most of my life, but now I live in the a village in the countryside and that is a different experience. The neighbours know a lot of about eachother and when we moved here, they asked us lots of questions. In the city people are often very busy with their own lives and they don't have the same kind of relationship to the neighbours.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
20 Dec 10
High Porospino,
Your brother and his girl friend are very lucky. They got such good neighbours. I live in a apartment of our capital city. In city all are busy. Here we are leading mechanized life. We the neighbours do not know each other. This is the cruelty of city life.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
Yes, there is often a big difference between life in the city and life in the countryside. I have experienced both kinds of life as I grew up in a big city and I live in a village in the the countryside now. In the big city I didn't have much contact with the neighbours, but when we moved to the village people were very interested in us and asked us many questions.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
20 Dec 10
I have a good relationship with my neighbors. We talk with each other every day. I don't know what I would do without the neighbors that i have right now. they are the best neighbors and friends I can remember having. My neighbors are a comfort to me.@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
It is a great to hear that you have such a good relationship with your neighbours. It reminds me of a neighbour that I once had. We became very close friends and I was very happy about that because I had just moved to a new town where I didn't know anyone. That neighbour is one of the best friends that I have ever had and I will always remember her.
@clouds0327 (1389)
• Philippines
20 Dec 10
I rarely talk to them. I don't know we don't have clubs like that here in our neighborhood... If we have something as productive as that, I'll definitely participate especially If its a new learning and a business opportunity.. I rarely talk to our neighbors cause I anticipate gossips, assumptions etc... I don't get into things that are non productive like that.. Id rather stay in front of the computer and entertain myself than do something that does not make any sense at all.
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@GloomCookieLex (6073)
• United States
20 Dec 10
I have never talked to any of my neighbors. I don't know anything about them at all, much less do things with them.
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@crazydaisy (3896)
• Canada
19 Dec 10
My neigbours are really nasty they are really mean they don't like the people that come to my house they even f""koff to them for no reason at all I had friends from out of town to visit they were going phone police on them just to be mean!! that's what they are like.my daughter dosen't even like to come around because of them!!with her kids.nice people!!!
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
Your neighbours don't sound like people I would like to meet. We have a couple of neighbours that aren't very friendly, but not as bad as yours. One of the neighbours has been angry at us ever since we moved in. We took his parking space by mistake (we didn't know that he used to park there) and he has never forgiven us for that...
@jugsjugs (12967)
•
19 Dec 10
I get on very well with all the people that live near me and they often pop in to see if i am ok and if there is anything that they are able to do to help me.All the people around me are nice to my children as well, which is great.However i do not go out, so even if there were clubs to go to i would not be going.It is really nice when there are nice people that live around you.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
It sounds like you have some nice neighbours, that is great. In the area where I live at the moment I don't have much contact with the neighbours, but that might change when I move to another part of the country. In February I am going to move to an island, my husband and I have bought a house there, and I am curious to meet the new neighbours.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
20 Dec 10
I live with my boyfriend now for five years and can I tell you I have no clue who lives on our block and or neighborhood. I suppose because when I am home I strictly indoors and when I go out, I go out into the world.
Our neighborhood is so quiet you hardly ever see anyone outside and if I do, I will greet but that is how far it goes. So unless people are closely watching me, I have no idea who they are. 
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
I also live in a quiet neighbourhood. In the summer months we sometimes see the others and many people like to spend time outside, but right now when there is snow outside and the weather is cold we hardly ever see the others. I think that we all prefer to spend the time inside where it is nice and warm 
We greet the neighbours when we meet them, but we don't visit eachother or things like that.
We greet the neighbours when we meet them, but we don't visit eachother or things like that.
@glamgirldoll (313)
• Philippines
20 Dec 10
I know my neighbors but I dont talk to them that much. Some of them are just gossip monger saying everything they heard or see in the neighborhood. I hate people who are like that, thats why I only talk to them when I need to.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
20 Dec 10
Your neighbours sound like some of the people who live in my area, and I understand why you don't want to talk that much to them. I used to live in a big city and people didn't gossip much there. Now I live in a village and people talk a lot about eacheacher in this village. They are very curious and they gossip about the things that they have heard or think that they have heard. Living here is a different experience than living in the city...
@doggydimon (1369)
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
Sadly but now I haven't barely have the time to talk to them as I moved out of our house because of my work. I only go home on weekends. But we do greet each other from time to time if I passed by and there they are in front of their houses. They still share and bring food or stuffs to our house when there is an occasion at their homes. And likewise we do the same. And during new year, we gather at one of our neighbor's house to party. Gone were the days that we have our annual summer outings and fellowship that really bind us together.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
19 Dec 10
It is nice that your neighbours and you share food and other things. I used to have a neighbour from Indonesia, and when she cooked some of the local food from her country, she often gave me some of it. It was very delicious and it was nice to get introduced to food I had never eaten before. I don't have the same kind of contact with my current neighbours, but we greet eachother and sometimes we talk when we meet outside.
@20kg82 (11)
• Australia
20 Dec 10
At the moment we don't have any neighbours as houses are being uilt around us. Although at the first house we had one of the neighbours bought around a hous warming present, but it turned into just saying hi when you were in the garden or waving as one of us drove by. The neighbours on the other side we didn't talk to for while but in the end we became really good friends would go over there for drinks or they would come to our place. The husband even started working for my husband. I can only hope that we end up with more neighbours like that at our new place, time will tell I suppose. By the sounds of it everyone is a little too busy these days
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@Celebitchy (1)
• Indonesia
20 Dec 10
Well, yes i do. Ihave enough close relationship with my neighbours. We are not often talk to each other, but we are often to have a big party. Almost every month there is a party that held by our neighbourhood.
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@miches (81)
• Philippines
20 Dec 10
like you i dont really talk to them most of the time. we also dont have activities like the ones your brother and his girlfriends neighborhood has. we are just fine with our neighbors. i dont really go out that much thats why i dont really see them or talk to them always. i just stay home do what i have to do, watch tv, surf the net, well thats it...
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@youless (112586)
• Guangzhou, China
20 Dec 10
I don't have a close relationship with my neighbors. As we close the door when we are home. We hardly will have a chance to see each other. Even if when we meet occasionally, we will just say hello and that is all. We hardly will talk more. Therefore we won't have a close relationship with our neighbors.
I love China
@JudgeIronFist (2472)
• Singapore
20 Dec 10
Occasionally but at times, I greet them. My family is on quite good terms with the one opposite ours. We send things to each other like food stuff and other things too.
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@kodukodu84 (1569)
• Malaysia
20 Dec 10
Well in my village where my family is living at, the houses are not too close to each other. And our house is a bit further away from others so we don't always get to talk to neighbours often. We do say hello and how are you, and talk about little things whenever we meet each other on the road while going to the farm and so on. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day
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@ngoctruong92 (152)
• Vietnam
20 Dec 10
Hi. I always talk to my neighbours. Everyday i go around my neighbours to visit them. And i have a star fruit tree. So, sometime i give them a star fruit. my neighbours are very friendly. So, i'm really happy when i have neighbours.
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@mabeldaclan (787)
• Philippines
20 Dec 10
I don't even know them.LOL. It's just that I'm not so good with interacting to other people. I love staying inside the house and would rather stay at home though I am given the chance to go out. I would just go out of the house if I have money and head straight to the mall and buy some goodies. Then, I'l go back to our house and that is when I'll realize again that I don't even know the name of our neighbor. XD
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