Do you really like your neighbours?

I like our neighbors just fine. My Mom goes to church with the lady of the house and the kids and I chat it up with the man of the house. We really don't know the neighbors to the right of us, but we're civil and we know the man's first name. They are just young kids but they all seem nice enough. We help the neighbors and they help us whenever it's needed.

I like them just fine now that they've moved out.

no i do not

We have several neighbors that I really do get along well with. However, nnone of these neighbors are the people that live right next door to us anymore. The renters that moved in at the house on the end of the street are just strange people. They are constantly yelling at the children for riding their bikes on the street too close to their vehicles (the street is public property and if you don't want anyone close to your car, park it in the driveway). The neighbors on the other side are decent, the husband is very nice and actually cut our grass for us last year when my husband was going through chemotherapy. However, his wife can be a bit of a witch in that she loves to knock on my door to inform me that my dogs are barking and it is keeping her awake. I don't leave my dogs outside unless it is during the day.

She talks a lot about nonsense things? Maybe she gossips a lot which is not good for a neighbour to do that. Gossip for me is a negative. It might harm other people because gossip might be true. Some gossip is false. That is why I don't talk too much on my neighbours. Every time they see me walking alone, they ask me that would lead to chatting, but I don't talk too much. They ask me and I answered them once, but I would not easily talk to them. I would go home and do my own thing.

Sometimes it is best to keep a bit of a distance with close neighbors and to just be polite. When my kids were pre-school age, my next door neighbor, who had kids about the same age as mine, would always ask me to babysit her kids. She knew when I was home with my kids, so she just thought - why not have her kids come over and play with mine. Most times, she never asked ahead, she would just knock on the door with her kids and just expected me to babysit her kids. She then said, that she would babysit my kids anytime and that we could just exchange babysitting hours, instead of paying each other. I didn't want her to babysit my kids as I didn't think she was a very good mother and she really didn't have the patience with children. I was afraid she would yell and scream at my kids like she does to her own. Finally, I had to say NO and had to say it several times. My husband had to tell her NO. We were not going to babysit her kids, nor are we going to have her babysit our kids. We weren't rude to her, we just had to explain that she was taking advantage of me. She never saw it that way, but I didn't feel comfortable about the situation. And that is good enough of a reason. She always wanted to go grocery shopping and run errands by herself and so, just expected me to babysit her kids. I would rather take my kids with me when grocery shopping than let her babysit my kids. Most neighbors have been polite and considerate. Thank goodness.

We live in a semidetached house and we our neighbours are a couple with two children. They are not our close friends, but we talk to them when we meet and we also help eachother sometimes. The walls between our houses is very thin and we can hear almost any noise from the neighbour house like their conversations or their music. They have a teenage daughter and she argues a lot with her parents. We often hear them slam the doors and scream at eachother Maybe they forget that we can hear every word or maybe they just don't care about that.

I don’t really mind my neighbors private life, although they are civil such as greeting “hi’s and hellos” while bumping with them along the neighborhood, I liked to keep a private life amongst them and they do the same as well.