Do You Have Good Neighbors?

United States
July 8, 2011 5:25pm CST
Do you have good neighbors? I am lucky. I have live in a excellent neighbor hood. I leave in a very peaceful neighborhood and my neighbors are great. It is mostly elderly people. They are always willing to give a helping hand and never ask for anything in return. The ones who are not like that keep to them self's. I have one that is particularly sweet. When we were getting ready to move in she would come over and mow are yard. When we did move in she got to know use and our kids. She treated my kids like they were her own grandchildren. My kids started calling her grandma ann. I went through a spell were I was having health issues and she was there. I know I can call on her for just about anything. She is a real sweet heart. Have a Blessed Day
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Jul 11
For the most part we do have good neighbors. Alot of foreigners. One lady is sure a crab. My grandson went over there one day to play video games with her son and she yelled at him. Told him her son couldn't play and never to come back. I couldn't believe her attitude at all.
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Jul 11
I can relate to that.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Yea, I know what you mean in my old neighborhood there was this one lady that let her kid run the neighborhood but if any kids went to her house she would run them off. Have a Blessed Day.
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@Angelee_27 (3460)
• United States
8 Jul 11
Hi emilyn1997, I live in a decent neighborhood. Most people in our neighborhood keep to themselves, as does me and my family. So, we don't really "know" our neighbors, we only know of them. And from what we can tell, they're not bad people or the type to cause any trouble. I've been living here with the same neighbors for 18 years. That is how we all know that we are beside good neighbors. We never hear much commotion, and there isn't cops being called there all the time.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Thanks for the post. Have a Blessed Day
• United States
9 Jul 11
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• Philippines
9 Jul 11
Just as people are different from each other, there are good neighbors and bad neighbors. Thanks God that the good ones outweigh the bad. I can honestly say that I love living in our neighborhood since it looks like a small community inside a mega city which it is by the way. Everybody knows everybody hence the concern for each other's welfare is there. People come from the provinces and some of them have been living here before the time that I transferred here with my family. I was still single back then. Now after more than a decade and moving on to the next I am still happy living here.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Glad to hear that. It is great when you have a comfortable neighborhood to live in. Have a Blessed Day
• India
9 Jul 11
I have the same feelings for my neighbors. I am very lucky to have such neighbors.When my mom was sick they are the one who gave me huge support. may be they could not lend me any financial support but the mental support they gave was out of any ones imagination. everyday they used to come to me, they used to ask me whether I need some food or anything else. They used to pray for my mom and for me and my father. I have lost my mom in 2007. since then they have not missed me to give a single prasad of different Pujas. They can read my body language and physical condition and I am bound to answer their few questions like what happened to me, why I am looking so dull, whether I have consulted a doctor,am I taking proper medicines etc. Though none can replace a mother but their care makes me happy and feel safe.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Sorry to hear about your mom. I still have my mom but have lost 2 brothers and a sister in the past few years and it is heart breaking. My neighbors were real good to me through all of that. Have a blessed Day
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@bouncybug (614)
• South Africa
9 Jul 11
You are so lucky that you live in such a friendly, helpful neighbourhood. Its great to be surrounded by people who really care about you and are willing to help. My neighbourhood is not all that friendly - in fact, even though I live in a block of flats, I hardly know anyone else who lives in my block. That means that even though there are always people around I feel quite lonely there because I don't know anyone! Oh well, I guess it goes both ways and maybe I should be the one to make the first effort and be a good neighbour myself!
• United States
9 Jul 11
Yes sometimes you have to take the first step. Some people are just shy and backwards. Give it a shot. If it does not work out a least you know you tried. Good Luck
9 Jul 11
Having moved twice in the past year I have not had chance to get to know my neighbors. Where I live now I do have some nice nieghbors they all have kids and the majority of parents keep themselves to the themselves. As I am quite young the kids on the street do ask me a lot of questions, especially when I am working on the car. But it does make it a nice place to live with everyone seeming to get along.
• United States
9 Jul 11
That is nice to hear. Sometimes when you live in a neighborhood that has a lot of kids the parents just let them run and they are out of control. Sounds like you do not have that problem. Have a Blessed Day
• Pamplona, Spain
23 Sep 11
Hiya emi, Oh that is nice to have someone like that as a Neighbour. Ours are not like that I have been here three years now and it is very difficult to be friendly towards them as most of them live their own lives and don´t want to mix with anyone. So it´s not for a want of not trying to make Friends they just want you to leave them alone. The up side is that down the other side of the Village the People are more open and ready to talk with everyone. I know far more People down that side than in this upper part. A lot of those People from down the other side move out and go to other Villages to live but you can still have People to associate with on a daily basis. xxx
@Althafk (172)
• India
9 Jul 11
I live in a small village.There is no need to say that in villages,we will be having decent neighbours. So I am having well helping handfull of neighbours :-) When there is a problem,the first ones who we can get is the neighbours.Thus it is very necessory to keep this in mind. In cities however,this kind of neighbours are very hard to get.Everyone will be busy in their jobs.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Thanks for the post. Have a Blessed Day
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
9 Jul 11
Yes, most of them are great. But we do have one old lady as a neighbour, who likes to complain about a lot of weird things. She is the only one that annoys me slightly.
• United States
9 Jul 11
Thanks for the post. Have a Blessed Day
• India
10 Jul 11
my neighbors are also good.. but sometime specific people in my neighborhood do mean things.. i help them everytime but when their turn to help me they behave like that they are busy. n just dont answer clearly.. huh .. i dont like that.. at that moment i think that i would not help them again .. but when they come to me for help again .. i cant deny them .. huh why i cant deny them when i know they are mean..huh .. huh.. huh..
@Mzee2tu (30)
• Kenya
15 Jul 11
Count yourself blessed to have such as your neighbors. You would do well to respect and treat them as parents. It have been you receiving their assistance from them, when they will be in need I trust you will be the first to assist them, we call it maintaining reciprocity. Blessed time
@moneywinner (1864)
• Brazil
10 Jul 11
To be honest, I pretty much don't know who are my neighbors. I know that they are my neighbors, but I never really talked to them, only the basic: good morning and good night (when we meet on the elevador or in other place of the building). Maybe I should make an effort to get to know them.
• Mexico
9 Jul 11
I am very fortunate to have some amazing neighbors. Some of them are really great friends of mine and very lucky to have them. If I need help with something they will be sure to offer it asap. Once I didn't have a way of getting to school so one of them offered to even take me! Imagine that! that's a really nice gesture to make. So after consideration even though I don't chat with them a lot we are on very good terms with each other.
• United States
9 Jul 11
That's great. Now a days there are so many people that are not neighborly. Seems most only think of them self's and have no consideration for others. Have a Blessed Day
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@kry893 (222)
• Canada
27 Aug 11
Yea I do have pretty good neighbours. We always greet each other, we'd talk with each other whenever we see other. Whenever we have problems, we'd just ask the other for opinions. Sometimes, our letters get sent to the wrong addresses like a couple doors down, then one of them would always ring our bell and personally hand us the letters because he said the letters could be important and he didn't want to leave them out by the door and instead wanted to deliver it to us personally. So, yes, I'm indeed fortunate to live in such a nice neighbourhood !
• United States
9 Jul 11
I also live in a good neighborhood where we look out for one another and help each other out when the other one need it. We had a bad blizzard this last year and most of the neighbors help each other out and shoveled there driveways out and even worked on the street so we could get out. I have had a few neighbors who help me out with yard work and other things.
@kiran8 (15348)
• Mangalore, India
9 Jul 11
Hi emilyn, It is good that you have such wonderful neighbor/s because it is very essential to have friendly people around you .I have reasonably good neighbors. Most of them have lived in the same place for decades like we have, so ,we are comfortable with each other.We do meet, chit chat,gossip lol and borrow stuff , mainly gardening tools, ladders and stuff like that ...I really have no complaints at all...all the est and enjoy your sunday
@eileenleyva (27560)
• Philippines
9 Jul 11
I am not lucky in that area. My neighbors are snubs... They don't want to be disturbed, nor do they want to be neighborly. Sadly, they make me feel as if I am the one uncongenial. Our subdivision is like many others in my country, houses are enclosed by tall fences. We seldom see our neighbors. Ijust get reports every now and then from some soul that so and so thinks I am like this or that.
@erncom11 (46)
• Philippines
9 Jul 11
yes, i also do have good neighbors.most of them are friends of my mother. the whole neighborhood, well... almost, help each other whenever one of us have a problem.i think it's a blessing that we should be thankful about.the good people around us.
@febrigas (362)
• Indonesia
9 Jul 11
A wise saying goes: "your neighbors is the nearest brothers/sisters/kin that you have" So, it is very nice if we could do a good things to our neighbors each other. My family lived next door to different ethnic and religious. But we respect and appreciate one another. Life is beautiful if a sense of harmony and tolerance is maintained in our environment. :D Happy My Lotting to all !