Getting to know your neighbors is important

I moved at the start of the month. I shouldnt have to move again for a good 14 or 15 months...hopefully..but i feel good about this place.

I think its important to know your neighbors. I'm not saying you should know them to the point of what they are doing all week. Just enough to where its no problem waving if you pass them by. You can call their house and its no big deal. Hopefully if you both have dogs, you can understand how the dogs might interact with each other.

The road i live on is no longer than a half a mile with less than 10 houses.
The first day in my new place i took the dog for a walk. I saw one guy in his yard watering his plants. I walked through a piece of property that has not been built on so its all tall grass. I didn't mean to sneak up on him but thats what happened and i startled him just a little.

We talked for about 10 minutes and during that i told him that i believe when you move to a new area you need to know who you live around. His response was "yes its good to know your neighbors in case the shit hits the fan" i was like hell yeah! The guy is retired and in his late 50s it looks.

His answer was perfect! Its the exact reason i wanted to get to know the neighbors in the first place.

I have now met all the residents of 4 houses. All is well and everyone is nice. Got a few more to go...but everyone is getting weirder and weirder...lol..but im still making an effort.

It took me a while to care to get to know the neighbors tell i realized one my family members knows everyone on the road he lives on and it has done nothing but help him in the years he has been their.

Not knowing who is next door is more uncomfurtable than knowing.

And yes if shit does hit the fan and society goes on lock down you want the closest people next to you as allies.

 

I'm buying my grandmother's house...which was also my father's house for many years.

I am good friends with one of the neighbors...they have been a family friend for years. I am also close enough to my other neighbors that we help each other out when needed...my husband went to the farm across the street the other day to help the old man fix his tractor. That same old man always acts as the neighborhood watch...whenever something strange is going on, he calls us immediately.

Its nice being cordial with your neighbors...knowing you can trust if something happened to your house or belongings, they'd be there for ya.

 

Hello,

to make it short: I hate neighbours. I would be the luckiest person if I would not have to see or to hear my neighbours. But I have to see and in particular I have to hear them. That is why I hate them.

Regards
Gyro

 

I agree it is important to get to know your neighbors. Since we have lived here, I havent really gotten to know mine all that well, I tried but I live in a really small town and the people here are kind of strange. They act like they dont want to be friendly or neighborly and they look at me as different and threatening, at least thats the impression I get. It was much nicer when I had neighbors that I could interact with and we could help each other out.

 

Yea i don't like having neighbors either. I can't afford a piece of property thats over $400,000 because i need to drop at least that if i want to be somewhat remote. Thats just property...now i need to build a house?? Can't happen anytime soon...

The older i get the farther i live from people. Ive moved over 24 times and i am farther from people now than when i first moved out of the house.

 

Hi,

my next neighbour lives 5 meters away from where I'm sitting now. I hate that bastard. Most other neighbours are burried 1.5 meters deep in the ground. They are quite OK and don't say anything or watching TV all day. Then the next neighbours are a few 100 meters away. Mostly I don't care about them, because I can't see them.

Regards
Gyro

 

Ive had bad luck with neighbours

so now I try my best to avoid them as much as possible..all the ones Ive had were always wanting to borrow my stuff and get me to do work for free...f-that

 

Getting to know your neighbors is not easy. Sometimes it can be down right a pain in the ass....

 

I've had horrible neighbors in the past. That's why I love living out here in the sticks where I only have 2 immediate neighbors and the rest are far enough away that I can happily walk through my yard naked without them seeing me...which I did yesterday

 

That is the only part I will miss about living where I do. My neighbors arent close enough to see me and if they drive by and see me I dont really care because they havent put forth much effort to get to know me as anyone other than the streaker next door, lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWhYBTYi-5E"]Neighbours Opening titles 1985-1999 - YouTube

 

I like to keep to my self and be unknown by my neighbors

 

are you sure it's not you? in my experience small town people are excessively friendly and all up in everyone else's business.

and tells you to quit acting strange?

 

my landlord lives next door to us..we are always watching and giggling cause he has affairs with ugly fat women all the time and gives them the grand tour..or we like when he is drunk and rottotilling his yard and slapping the back of it yelling "yaahhh"..every time he sees me, he asks me "Would you like a cocktail?"

 

I wish my neighbor would ask me for a cocktail...

 

I have seen what he drinks...store brand Rum and Sunny delight in a glass jar and his kitchen looks like a grease bomb was let off at some point in the last 5 years..roaches and ants aren't so good either..

 

It would be nice to know my neighbors if I felt they were worth knowing, but the people worth knowing seems to be less than 1% of the population, and I doubt my neighbors are in that 1%. Heh, I am such a misanthrope.

 

I know most of my neighbors to some extent. Directly across from me are friendly, above me, they freak me out and I'm confused as to how many people live there. I would recognize most of my neighbors but it has taken a lot of time to get to that point. Most people here don't seem to go outside except maybe to get in their cars. If I cross the street I know a lot more of the neighbors there because they go to the pool and actually socialize with me.

One weekend the power kept going out and everyone was in the streets. It was interesting to say the least. I like to know my neighbors because I'm paranoid that if something did go wrong if I didn't know anything about the people around me I could be in harm's way. There is one set of neighbors I try to be somewhat nosy about because they freak me out. I can hear a lot of what happens in their house because they live above me.

I also want to know if there are registered sex offenders and violent people around me.

 

as acoustically invisible as my walls are, i know way more about my neighbors then i will ever have any wish too. your cognative kin, that is people who share your interests, are on the other paw, your REAL "kin" and absolutely worth getting to know on that level.

 

So you haven't even given them a chance?