Do you live in a Friendly Neighborhood?
By MsJessi
@MsJessi (423)
United States
April 9, 2007 12:34am CST
We just recently moved from the West valley of Phoenix to the East (far east) and I LOVE IT! I have never in my life ever lived in a neighborhood where the neighbors actually introduce themselves to you! They'll be walkin on the sidewalk and wave to you and actually cross the street to introduce themselves! I can take my kids to the park and the other parents/grandparents will actually smile and talk to you. Everytime I leave the house, going to the grocery store, or restaurant, people will have a conversation with you!
And the best part....It's racially MIXED!!! I love that. I hate living in neighborhoods where there's too much of a majority.
Every other neighborhood I've lived in, nobody talked to anybody...and if you did, they looked at you funny!!
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28 responses
@tjaytiu09 (139)
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9 Apr 07
Yeah! we live in a friendly neighbors......I love here in our village cause every people here can be trusted..And i think they all know us!!And every year here we celebrate a christmas party!! And it is really fun.
@zengguoxing (773)
• China
9 Apr 07
I'm so sad to tell that I'm not so lucky as you are.My neighbors seem to envy my famliy so much for my family is richer than theirs.They often laugh at me even i act good enough.
@tonyxxx (693)
• India
9 Apr 07
I would say that our neighbours are too much friendly.They are always willing to know who has visited our house.Who is leaving our house.Where are we going or from where are we coming.When we left our house and things like that.They will remember all the dates associated with us.Sometimes I feel that they have no other work to do except keeping a watch on our house.Similarly other neighbours are also not friendly they are always ready to fight on small things and never are ready to do anything for the wellfare of the place.
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@cloud_kicker_32 (4635)
• United States
9 Apr 07
Awww! that is so awesome! Im very happy for you! its great that you found such a wonderful neighborhood hun,its too bad that all neighborhoods arent like that..i live in a wonderful town..and a very caring neighborhood..I am disabled..i have a very bad back and a 4 yr old son,,and i have diff getting around..and my back goes out and sometimes i am laid up..well last winter i was getting out of my car and i slipped on ice and i couldnt get up..i was face down in ice and snow..my son went and got help..they came and helped me up..and in the house and for the whole week everyone took turns cooking dinners for us and bringing them to us..and some cleaned my house..and small errands,,shoveled me..the works..and they still help do errends for me..but i tell you..to God everyday for my little neighborhood family..they are the best and dont know what i would do without them,,
@msbawangada (710)
• India
9 Apr 07
Yes , I live friendly with my neighbor ,My neighbor is
so friendly we share all the problem of our home.
He tell me about herself and I tell to him about my self .
We have excellent communication between us .
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@wladnsf (28)
• China
9 Apr 07
After the looking I admire you have so friendly neighbors.The people lived around me seldom speak to me and even I spoke to them they alway had little words.Forturenately I will move not too long.Hoping I cuold live in the friendly neighborhood as you.
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@minki_malink (83)
• New Zealand
9 Apr 07
I've only lived in two different neighbourhoods in my life. The first one was a pretty rich area, and the second is the poorest part of a rich area, so its not too bad. All my neighbourhoods have been great. Our neighbours across the road with kids don't seem too friendly, and we have a weird neighbour next door who we once saw attack his wife, but otherwise they're pretty cool folk.
@sensesfail (2251)
• India
9 Apr 07
I live in an appartment and if there's one good thing that i'd wanna do that'll be moving over to a new place.Its sucks.The whole place is loaded with uncool people but for us. :P lol.
There's one girl though who's really hot and she's the only one besides us who's got a nice attitude.She smiles at me every time I see her and she's really cute.I've even gotta thing for her. *blushes*.
Too bad she's moving out already and i'm gonna be stuck in that old misery house again.
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@skydancer (2101)
• United States
9 Apr 07
Yes, we do. I have lived here since I was four years old, and a lot of our neighbors have lived here pretty much all their lives as well. Even the new neighbors are just as nice and supportive, and it's a great community where everyone looks after each other, and everyone will go out of their way to smile and say hello to you even if they don't know you. I will be very sad to leave when I do. And when the time comes, the people in my new area will have extremely big shoes to fill.
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@ldybgsgma99 (798)
• United States
9 Apr 07
I live in a small town that is very friendly. It is a great place to raise children. You don't have to lock your doors and everyone watches out for everyone. Very nice little town.
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@Gemmygirl1 (2867)
• Australia
9 Apr 07
We live in a nice little country town & everyone here is friendly, they all say good morning, wave when you drive by & when we first moved in we had a couple of people come by & welcome us to the town - which was nice.
The last town we lived in (about 15 minutes from here) was HELL, the neighbours stole our dogs while we were moving to here, they complained about everything we did & they always gave us filthy looks whenever we walked past.
Definitel glad we moved & bought here coz it's nice to have friendly people around you, makes you feel safer!
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@agrigsby (224)
• United States
9 Apr 07
I moved to a nice neighborhood late last year and it's MUCH MUCH nicer than my previous residence. It was very hood!
It was people robbing and killing each other and all the unwanted likes.
The new neighborhood now is far more friendly and quiet. It's good to walk outside and see these people walking their little dogs to where we had to do the same and get our own little dog to walk to. It's pretty cool and now. I love it.
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@Rabi0322 (188)
• Pakistan
9 Apr 07
i dont have a friendly neighbourhood them family that lives on our right always have problems to fight and the family that lives on our left dont try to be friendly woth us too much so i dont think they are friendly neighbours infact the people who live infront of our house are better then both they have a huge family with lots of people they are nice and we have good relations with them
@SameOldStory (74)
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9 Apr 07
No. I live in a horrible place. People rip up my plants and flowers in the garden, throw things at the windows, keyed my dads car and bashed the wing mirror off when it was brand new. Oh yeah and I have a neighbour who is not right in the head. If I have something new then they will have to have it whether it be clothes, plants whatever.
Children from the area are abusive and are let out running the neighbourhodd when they are toddlers with no supervision. I hate where I live. i wish I could move far way, maybe I will win the lottery one day.
You should count yourself very very lucky indeed.
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@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
9 Apr 07
I used to live in a friendly neighbourhood where everyone knew eachother, but now I live in a really anti-social apartment where no one knows eachother, and every now and then my neighbours try to murder eachother. No kidding on that last point. I prevented that from happening, once. I think I'll go back to Arizona!
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@pramodthakur (2365)
• India
9 Apr 07
Yes my neighbours are also good, supportive, friendly. We share our views each others whenever we find time, we sit together. Celebrate various functions during festive season or birthday parties. Sometime we prefer to go on picnic jointly. No castism, no age bar, no poor and rich culture. Any problem faced by someone, we jointly make efforts to get rid off the problem. This helping nature makes even the tough thing easy. I am lucky to have such good and friendly neighbours. God bless to others also.
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@erminiasanjose (1588)
• Philippines
9 Apr 07
It's good you finally found the neighborhood you've wanted. It's really difficult to live in an indifferent neighborhood. In the Philippines, we usually have good neighbors and we talk to each other even if we are not as yet familiar with each other. We are happy people.
@domesticengineer (576)
• Philippines
10 Apr 07
It's really nice to be in a friendly neighborhood. I've been living here in our town since birth and the whole town is like an extension of my family. When I go outside to buy something everybody whom I'll see are people whom I've known since I was old enough to remember. The hard part of this is when I was in high school I cannot go out on dates without my mom knowing it because if I went to a certain restaurant I'll got to meet a lot of my mom's or dad's friends there. But still it is psychologically healthy to live in a friendly neighborhood.
@dlkuku (1935)
• United States
10 Apr 07
The neighborhood I moved from wasn't very friendly, but mostly because people there are afraid due to the high crime that has hit the city in the last five years or so. People there have a tendency to keep to themselves.
We have now moved to a small town in the south, and yes, the people in my new neighborhood are friendly, they come right over, introduce themselves, and are even helpful. People wave to you all the time, it is refreshing compared to my home town.
@Suze05 (480)
• United States
10 Apr 07
I live in a friendly neighborhood right now, but I will have to move soon, so no telling where I'll end up then. I hope it will be somewhere friendly though. I grew up in a very close-knit and friendly neighborhood where everyone would visit everyone else and all of the kids in the neighborhood hung out at each other's houses, everyone knew everyone's family and their business. When I moved out of there and starting living other places, most of the places I lived my neighbors would never even wave or smile or say hello. Nobody knew anyone else for the most part.. this one is different. Everyone waves and smiles when they go by, they say hello. They stop and ask me about the dogs if they see me in the yard with them. I like it.. I hope I can find a good one when I move.