Do you know your neighbours?

Spliced

My FI and I have lived in our house for 2.5 years and have never met our neighbours. We see them and do the nod but couldn't tell you their names or even describe them really. Is this normal? Does anyone else just go about their own business and not bother with neighbours?

 

RhymeReason

I've lived in my house for 3 years and I have never met my neighbors across the street. My next door neighbor I met once when he came by to ask if my husband could help him put his dead dog into his car. I've never met the wife & I've never seen her. My husband met her once so I know she does exist.

akcrrr

I know the neighbors on either side of us. One because he walked into the house the day we moved in and the other b/c we had to help him put out a fire on his grill. 

We do not hang out though and I don't know their last names.  

jnjmommy0609

I frequently talk to about 3 adults in my neighborhood. My son plays with all their kids. That type of thing. But if it wasn't for our kids I highly doubt we would talk that much 

sunnytrin62

We've moved recently but we used to know one of our neighbors. She would keep an eye on our house when we went out of town. You should introduce yourselves! I mean...as long as they aren't creepers lol

srgw

I live in a 4plex apt. I know the neighbor in the unit next to me. He apologies for his kids and any other noise he may have made. I don't know the other three except by sight.

When we get a house some day I hope to know my immediate neighbors (on each side). 

alynne1113

I moved to my new house within the past three months, I live on an acreage and my closest neighbour is really far away, but I have met him while I was walking my dogs. The guy across from us we have seen when our dogs got into a fight but never spoken to him other than to apologize. When I lived in the city, I never knew any of my neighbours.

bostongirl1983

Yeah, we're not super close but we shovel snow for each other and chit chat every now and then.  We've been in the house 2 years.

catmiss9

We know our neighbors very well, have dinner with them, have parties with them and their kids watch our LO.  I always feel like they watch out for us, too.  

ootmother2

I live in a huge apartment building (850 units) and I know almost everyone on my floor and probably two dozen others

gatorwife

We do not really know our neighbors.  The ones across the street, we've hung out with and are facebook friends with.  The ones next to us, we've never met.  I've seen some of the neighbors who we border with, and we've talked, but that's it. 

AprilFools1990

Our neighbors are my husband's family.. All aunts and uncles or cousins, or a mix of everything..

DawnMarie11

We do the "hey, how's it going?" and that's pretty much it.

ohioloveyou

Our neighbors are pretty quiet.  We say "hi" and comment on the weather but that's about it.

julieandjojo

We have only been in our house 10 months, but so far we have had only a "nod and wave" relationship as well. Neighbors on one side moved in after us so they are even newer to the neighborhood than we are. They introduced themselves one day about a month ago and we have had a few pleasant exchanges but no hanging out. Then, the neighbors on the other side are soooooooo loud and annoying. Before we moved into our house we noticed their garbage cans on our side and some of their many cars on our side of the grass. Needless to say we put up a fence enclosing the backyard once we actually moved in which we had to do anyway since we wanted it for our dog. The fence was expensive but INVALUABLE since it keeps them out of our yard lol. I do hope to build more relationships as we continue to settle in though...except maybe not with those particular neighbors lol.

HoneyBee973

jnicole922:

Our neighbors are pretty quiet.  We say "hi" and comment on the weather but that's about it.

Same here.  Which makes me pretty sad.  Growing up we knew all the neighbors. 

paigemichelle3

Right now we live in an apartment building. We don't know our neighbours names but we are friendly when we see them, they are mostly a lot older than us though. I really hope to be friends with our neighbours when we move into our house. I'm terrible at meeting people though.

crash2729

We've lived in our house for about 2 months. We live in a cul-de-sac and we know every neighbor in the circle.  They have all been there for about 20 years on average so they like to know the neighbors and came out to meet us about a week after we moved in.

ridesbuttons

This always astonishes me when I read stuff like this.

We know our neighbours.  We moved to this house just over a year and a half ago and we have met all of our nearest neighbours and many of the families in the neighbourhood at large.

 

Aloyssa2003

Yeah, for the most part.  I know 1 of the neighbors cause he's my landlord's son who hang out with my husband sometimes.  Otherwise I kinda know 1 other family out of our little trailer-court with 10 families within 30 yards of us.  That's about it though.

sam0412

We have been here 2 years.  I can say I've met 4 of my neighbors, plus 2 that live behind us.  I too am sad that we're not super close, but I think that will change the longer I am here.  Just had 2 of our neighbors join us for our daughter's first birthday party.  I do feel like I am the one always inviting, but I have been invited in return as well.  It's not what I grew up with, but then again, I was a lot older than my kids are now.  Maybe once they are school aged, I can have them run a few houses down to play, but not when my kids are 5, 2, and 1.   

I'd encourage you to invite them over for a neighbor BBQ.  It's awkward at first, but usually they will show up and talk for a bit. 

Kimbus22

We've been in our house for 4 years.

We met the people next door the day we moved in because they came over to ask us if we wanted them to move their trees, which they had accidentally planted on our property.

We met the people across the street twice because they are volunteer fire fighters and the vacant land next to our house had a couple fires and they needed to bring the trucks in through our property.

I don't remember any of their names and we've just waved since those random meetings.

joneka

Ive bought my home 5 years ago..being a girl with manly outdoors things to do with a home..my neighbors on both side became very friendly quickly. Both are families..on one side they give me a small edible gift for thanksgiving and christmas..I know a majority of the other families in our subdivison..since my dogs are escape artist..lol...and mine arent the only ones..so when someones dog gets out..we know where to take him/her back to..no biggie...the neighborhood is mostly older people and families..so really friendly and nosey..teehhee..so my FI's lease was up 2 weeks before our wedding..he fit right in with the neighbors..they would talk when he went out to cut the grass or let the dogs out...I love my neighbors..they even came to our wedding!!