Your Neighbors......

House - Cape Cod style house on a nice street.
United States
April 10, 2007 3:44pm CST
Do you socialize with your neighbors? Or do you just give them a friendly wave and go on about your way? Do you have the kind of neighbors that you wish would just move away!The neighbors on both sides of my house are nice. We wave hello and we chat from time to time. Everyone is friendly. But we do have neighbors down at the end of the block that I wish would just move away! LOL.
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33 responses
@emisle (3822)
• Ireland
11 Apr 07
I don't really know my neighbours at all really. There's not many kids at all in my neighbourhood so I wouldn't have interacted with many of them when I was younger. And now that I'm in college it's not helping!
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@arkentos (213)
• India
11 Apr 07
I am so sorry.but I am not at all friendly with the neighbours.Once i was but not now.I have my reasons for that.Once we and one of my neighbour some 3 yrs ago were friends but there happen to occur an incident which made us not to rely on them.When we were out of our home for some 7 days for a vacation for our village.when we came back someone broke into your my home and all of my precious objects,money everything there went.we were so wrecked.Our neighbours were standing there,might be enjoying.everyone enjoys on others pain.why not they?after the police enquiry it came to light that our neighbours planned it all out.this was so terrible.now u know why would i socialise with them.who knows i get someone like them again.you tell if i am right or not..
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• United States
12 Apr 07
Yes that would definetly make me not want to be friends with them. That is such a shame that they planned such a terrible thing against you. I hope you were able to press charges against them.
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@vanities (11395)
• Davao, Philippines
6 Jul 07
not really socalize or something..just say hi and how are you..since im too busy with my sked...i do have good neighbors..no comment whatsoever..
@kuting (885)
• Philippines
6 Jul 07
my neighborhood is okay. we live in an apartment with a couple of other occupants nearby. we are the youngest leasees and the elder neighbors tend to check out if everything is okay with us. they are very considerate and would let us know if there is an event that they would have to celebrate with loud music and would also ask us if its okay until a certain time. we also chitchat sometimes but usually its just a friendly wave or a hello because we all have work and other things to attend to.
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@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
6 Jul 07
I personally do not really socialize with my neighbours. I will give a friendly wave when I see them on the road, but that is about as far as I go. It is not that I do not like them, it is just that I do not have a lot of spare time. In life everything is all about priorities. cheers,
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• Pakistan
6 Jul 07
well mine both neighbors are really nice , but i like the ones that are at my left side cause they are more politer and friendly, well as for the daily routine when i go out and see that my neighbors are out of their house we just wave each other and if i m not in a hurry i just go down and chat with them.
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@mgmagana (3618)
• United States
20 Jun 07
my neighbors to the right we talk whenever we see them, they're good people, but the people to the left, we just wave whenever it's convenient.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
20 Jun 07
The neighbors on both sides of me are strange. One set is all do it yourself and no chemicals on the lawn and the other side is a total fanatic about his yard and garden and house. I wouldn't be surprised to see him spraying green paint on the lawn to make it greener. I refuse to go mow the lawn until the cicadas are gone and his lawn is perfectly manicured at all times.
@ravinskye (8237)
• United States
6 Jul 07
We talk with our neighbors. on one side of us is an older couple, we talk to them a good bit. on the other side is a nice couple with 3 kids. we don't talk to them as much, but their youngest and our oldest are the same age so they play together alot. they are moving away when they sell their house, so we'll see what the new neighbors are like.
@LCecelia (1124)
• United States
20 Jun 07
My neighbors and I don't socialize. There is one neighbor who I went to Church with once and when I was out of town last year I asked her to take care of my inside plants. I talk to neighbor to the south of me, their second son used to mow my yard. He's moved away now the older one does it as he's started a tree servicing and lawn care business. I live in an older neighborhood and the only complaint I really have is that I wish the neighbors or whoever would keep their dogs out of my yard. I don't have animals but I'm constantly having to clean up after them. :-( I used to have problems with chickens, but that got straightened out...thankfully. They kept digging up my flower beds.
• United States
19 Jun 07
I've lived in one apartment or another for quite a while now, and I rarely socialize with my neighbors. My old roommate got to know our old neighbors, and even hung out with them occasionally, but that's about it. She's also a lot more social than I am. We've only met two people in our new building, and they were cordial, but we haven't really sought them out to hang out. It's more just a nod or a hello when we pass in the hall or on the parking lot.
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
20 Jun 07
We live on kind of a busy street. Over the winter we did meet some people on the street. Due to the big snowstorms we had. We know of each other, but thats about it. We live in a three story house, and get along very well with the other tenents. Sometimes we all hang out on the front porch, and just shoot the breeze. We look out for each other as well.
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@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
6 Jul 07
On one side of me lives my cousin and his 3 boys. I do his house cleaning, laundry, dishes, and sweep and mop floors for him. And I like my neighbor on the other side of me as well. Though we don't always see each other, we will at least wave hi, when we do see each other. I don't tend to see much of either one of them with my work schedule. The other neighbors around, I don't know too well.
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@shan_ab (377)
• India
20 Jun 07
During my childhood, I was living with my parents in my village, and we had great relationships with the neighbours. Later we shifted to the city with my parents.. There also it was OK. After marriage, for the sake of job, me and my husband are living in a different city where the local language is also different. Here there is not much of a socializing with the neighbours. Life is also very hectic here
• United States
19 Jun 07
Our subdivision is very small, maybe three streets and so the neighbors all wave at each other, I have never believed in being too chumy with neighbors, just too close to home for my comfort, so for now we are the quiet couple down the end of the street with all those dogs.
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@katisaurus (1038)
• Canada
11 Apr 07
I hardly talk to the neighbours in my apartment(there's three other apartments besides my own). Mostly because they're all older than me and the one guy who lives upstairs is deaf. (can't talk to a deaf person unless you're fluent in sign language).. I do talk to my neighbours on either side of my house and across/down the street though. Some aren't bad. :P
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
11 Apr 07
Yes my husband amd I both socialize with some of our neighbors. And some of our neighbors are not very friendly at all so we just dont talk to them.I also wish they would move away .
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• United States
11 Apr 07
We've been fortunate to have really good neighbours so far. We live in a military town so people come and go all the time. It's hard cos' you become good friends and before you know it, they have to move. But I'm really happy with the people staying near us now. We look out for one another. We talk almost everyday. And we have frequent get togethers. When the weather gets nicer, we're going to have cookouts!!
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• United States
11 Apr 07
I've been fortunate to have great neighbours so far. We live in a military town so people come and go all the time. It's hard sometimes cos' you become really good friends with your neighbours and they move :(
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@juskoday (183)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
A lot of the people who originally lived in my block moved away, and now these replacement neighbors feel like strangers. I know them by name and face but we've never gotten around to idle chitchats.
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