Do you know your neighbours?

[Pam]

Since Harry has arrived, taking him for walks everyday has meant that I've met a lot of lovely friendly people in our neighbourhood. We have great neighbours opposite us, we'll often sit out the front of our home and they'll come over for a chat. We know both neighbours either side of us, mainly just a friendly wave, generally keeping to themselves.

It reminded me of when we lived in a home in another suburb here on the Gold Coast, where every house was surrounded by very high brick fences. We lived there for a year and never saw our neighbours! We might hear their car pull up to their electric gates, but that would be it. I'd have to be out on the foot path to actually see them LOL. The walls were so high they were impossible to see over. Certainly had a cold hard feel to the suburb.

Do you have nice neighbours?

[ritzmoon]

As Ive lived here for 32 years I know my neighours well, in fact Id say I know every one in the street.
We dont live in each others pockets which is good and if any one is going away every one keeps a good eye on your house for you.

[MissieK]

I know the neighbours on one side - we met one day when we'd forgotten our keys! :blush:

The neighbours on the other side aren't very nice - they complain about everything!

Melissa

[Monty]

We share this house with our neighbours (basically 2 x 1 bedroom units) and we only recently talked to them because we had a fair bit of damage after the storm the other night,... well wish we had spoken to them sooner!! They are lovely - they even left a message in our letter box to say how nice it was to meet us!

[Jewly]

I have lived here for 5 years and I know about 6 lots of neighbours (live in a townhouse). We aren't in each others pockets but we do stop and have a chat now and then and we keep an eye on each other's place and feed the cats, if we know they are going to be away.

[linxss]

hmmmm wish i didn't know my neighbours. they are psycho, one tried to beat my brother up after we'd had a car accident just outside my house.... and at my shack, my neighbour is this old guy that threatened me with a chainsaw when i was 14. we had music going and he wanted me to come down and "sort it out with him", instead of nicely asking me to turn it down. :roll: the other neighbours are all right......

:P

[Michelle]

My husband and i have now lived in 3 different houses in the last 3 years and never really got to kknow our neighbours because we were so busy working or sleeping!! Our last 2 places were kinda snobby area's anyway (Rose Bay) so when ever we did say hello we'd just get a grunt or a little 'hi' as they rushed off.
Now at our new place we're surrounded by flats with underground carparks so i guess there's no need for them to even go outside! I don't mind that much anyway as i'm too busy with Isabella and work!

[Chrystal]

We know quite a few of our neigbours, as well as a few more in our estate. My husband waves to everyone that drives past. For one old bat up the road, it must of been a good 18 months before she waved back, but she did! We don't know the new neighbours over the road. We've been here for 4 years, and have seen 4 different families sell and buy that place. I've been meaning to do something nice like baking some muffins or biscuits to take over, but these days I'm just so busy.

[Pam]

my neighbour is this old guy that threatened me with a chainsaw when i was 14.


OMG that would be enough to make me move!

[linxss]

LOL LMAO
pam, he was just a moron. It was only our shack as well, so we aren't always there. we just ignore each other now (except when he puts in a noice complaint to the council - We aren't even noisy late at night, he gets angry when we have music playing in the middle of the day.)

:eww: :roll:

[Naomi]

linxss, that's just scary, what a nutter.

We know who our neighbours on one side are to say hello to, but we don't socialise with them. The ones on the other side are SO annoying with their late night poker games, children who never seem to go to bed, loud music, palm trees that shed in our yard ... and yesterday one of the kids came into our yard to 'steal' the free newspaper. Not that I wanted it, I'd just through it straight into the recycle bin, but the fact that she was bold enough to try it bothers me (you should have seen her jump out of her skin when she realised I was standing there).

Oh, and there is a lovely lady across the road who brings our bins in for us, which I think is a lovely neighbourly thing to do, we always say Hi to her.

[Patricia]

Living out of town and on acerage, we don't have any next door neighbours as such. One side of the house we live in is just bush and the other side is a block that we own and are hoping to build on later this year when Adam's residency is all final. We have other people who live in the road but most keep to themselves, I make it my lifes work to wave and wave until finally people get sick of me and wave back when they go past. The people in the nearest little town all seem really friendly, I guess that is usually the way in a small place. I love it out here but I have to admit sometimes I do miss having a natter over the fence.

[PinkDot]

A lot of the time our neighbours arent home. We havent gotten to know them, only had a chat once before.

[mel35]

When I was a kid growing up in Dee Why in Sydney everyone in our street knew everyone there was about 30 kids of varying ages and we all plaayed together out in the street. Our neighbours often dropped in to each others houses for a bbq, a chat and a cuppa or to borrow sugar or milk. I still see some of these people occassionally, my next door neighbour was like a sister to me and her house was my second home and her mum was my other mum- Iwas absolutely shattered when she died 2 years ago- my friend and I still see each other about 4 or 5 times a year 20 years on.

2 of my closest friends now were previous neighbours.

And my neighbours now are the best neighbours you could have I know most of the people in the street at least to say hello to. When I went into labour at 4am with my last baby hubby got our neighbour to come over and look after the other kids while we were at the hospital. Everyone always helps each other out just like when I was a kid.

And no you can't have them they are all mine, I'm not moving anywhere and they are not allowed to move either :P

[linxss]

im jealous mel35, it would be cool to have such nice neighbours. can i have them

[mel35]

linxss im jealous mel35, it would be cool to have such nice neighbours. can i have them

You can't have them coz I'm not moving lol but every now and then a house goes up for sale in our street and there is 1 or 2 rental properties LMAO