Poll: neighbors

ae2409 · December 2008

do you talk to your neighbors? are you just friendly or do you hang out and do things together?

ae2409 · December 2008

my neighbors are all really friendly. we chat at times when we see each other outside. we have sat out on the deck with drinks over the summer a couple times with one neighbor, but that is the extent of it.

Christina617 · December 2008

We waive hello, say hello, a little more conversation with others but we don't really hang out. One a few doors down asked us to dinner a few times. We went once but none of the other times worked for our schedule.

PennyLane06 · December 2008

Not really no. We wave and say hi to a few neighbors but nothing more than that. It bums me out bc I think it would be nice to get to know someone close by but all of our neighbors are either fairly old or really strange.

TheLinkBride · December 2008

Some of our neighbors are very friendly, others not at all. The nice ones we stop and talk to when we're outside and we help each other out. One neighbor has started organizing some little get togethers like Halloween, a progressive happy hour, picnics, and those have been very nice. We don't really seem the individually though, just as a passing by most times.

Some of our neighbors we don't talk to you at all though.

ntnylizard · December 2008

We've only met three of them, and we all kind of keep to ourselves. I like it that way. We did exchange numbers with the neighbors across the street, for emergencies, and we say hi to them when we're out gardening. But no neighbor parties or get-togethers. Then again, most of our neighbors are our parents and grandparents' ages.

RaeAnt · December 2008

I've become ore friendly with my neighbors as of late. The older couple that used to live next door,I would always talk to before they moved (she was nosey, so i always got the scoop on everything else). My other next door neighbor, i use to talk to when i saw her, which i never do anymore. And quite frankly she's currently on my Sh*t list for somethings she's been doing and has said. Anyway, halloween night allowed be to really chat with a couple more of them. We were all outside with our candy and just kinda started chatting. my newest neighbor i kinda introduced myself to when i was afraid she'd damage her car with how she was parking. (there is a metal strip by the spot she parks and previously it had punctured the wall of my one tire when i bumped it when parking ) i know most of their names and some of their background and family. We say hello to each other when we see each other, but we aren't overly friendly as in inviting each other over. i kinda hope when we build, our neighbors will become friends.

pookielove · December 2008

In the past year we've gotten friendly with a few neighbors. One couple likes to have parties and invites everyone over and we'll probably invite the neighbors we know over for our New Year's Eve party. We don't ever go anywhere together though.

futuremrscohick · December 2008

No, we hate our neighbors on both sides! The girl to the left of us screams at our dogs all the time and is a real b**ch! The old couple to the right of us turns their tv and radio on at all hours of the day and night blasting -- so loud our pictures vibrate on the wall! I actually just had to report them to the landlord (who took care of it!). Just another reason I'm ready to get the he!! out of here!!!!!

summerbridesara · December 2008

The neighbors on one side of us are friendly. We hang out with them occasionally. In the summer, we have "wine nights" with them out on our patio. The neighbors on the other side of us are an old couple with a live-in weirdo son. We don't talk to them at all. Their granddaughter let our dogs out of our GATED backyard a few times two summers ago. I let the old man know that I wasn't happy about it at all and we haven't talked to them since. The people right across the street from us seem nice, but we only say a casual "hi" when we see them. They have two teen-aged sons.

Charlene&Steven · December 2008

We are friendly with most people on our street, we wave or say hi when we see them, occasionally we'll chat for a few minutes. We're the youngest on our whole block, most are way past retirement age so we don't really have much in common with them. DH helps a lot of our neighbors with snow removal in the winter or weed-whacking in the Summer, but otherwise we all kind of keep to ourselves.

Me&Mr.T · December 2008

Nope... we have neighbors two houses down that we wave to, and there is a nestie who lives on our street that I email and our puppies have had a play date together, but otherwise we don't talk to our neighbors really at all. We never see the ones directly on either side of us. It makes me sad. I was hoping we'd have neighbors to talk to and hang out with but we don't. Apparently our end of the street is not very social.

bridz2be · December 2008

We have 3-4 couples that we know a little, wave to, have hung out over drinks during the summer a few times, and had dinner with one couple twice. That really is the extent of it though. There are a decent amount of young families with babies (so much that one summer day when I was out with Sadie we had to move over for the 9 --some with two babies each!-strollers that were parading down the road for their daily walk!) and a large amount of middle aged couples with kids in high school.

Legend has it that our part of the street used to be very social and would have block parties with 50-100 people coming. I guess this was back in the late 90's. In fact, our basement used to have a built in bar (they took it with them) and this was the hub, so they say. Our deck has panels that slide out with steps that lead to the basement. They used to open this up and people would come down for their drinks. They had a TV hooked up in the stairs and a neon OPEN sign...that is still hanging there today! It's like a mini cellar that we never open except for storage.

We live on a lake and some of our neighbors have boats, that they said they used to take out during these parties. While I want to know my neighbors a little better, that sounds a bit crazy and am glad it has died down!

nj67ws56qa21 · December 2008

We have great neighbors on either side of us, although the neighbors on one side are in their 80's and on the other, in their 60's. They are both very, very sweet - giving special presents to my daughters, watching our house when we are away, raking the leaves for us when we were really busy with the baby, etc. There are other couples in our neighborhood who are our age, but we only chat occasionally. It's so hard to find friendly neighbors anymore. When I was growing up, it seemed like everyone on the street was friends. We held block parties and everything back then.

fxz109 · December 2008

We live on a cul-de-sac and have met about half our neighbors. We wave to them. DH hung out and had a few beers with our one next door neighbor after they cut down the nasty cherry tree on our property line, but that's the extend of any hanging out we've done.

jjenkins · December 2008

Our one neighbor is a single woman in her 50's and she's fantastic. We refer to her as one of Byron's Aunt's. DH will help her with stuff around the house and she actually came to our wedding. On the other side is a young couple who are very friendly people but we don't socialize with them. Across the street behind our house though, we have good friends of ours who were in our wedding.

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