Who loves/likes their neighbors?

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What is your opinion of your neighbors?

I LOVE my neighbors!!!!
We just did a garage sale together last week, and even though it was alot of work, we had alot of laughs.
We've had cookouts together, hung out together, and the kids have had a great time playing.

We trust each other with our children.
We trust each other with our homes (we have keys to each others houses for emergency, and when something doesn't seem right we always call each other to check).

I'm so grateful for them!!!!




There are so many threads about bad neighbors, that I thought it would be refreshing to talk about good neighbors

 

[RadioNate]

I love the ones across the street. The ones next door, not so much.

 

[GoldieSaysMeep]

The people in my building (3 units) - love em. My best friend lives downstairs from me.

The rest of the neighborhood, yikes. I don't feel safe walking alone at night.

 

[cristit14]

I love most of them. One of them next door not so much.
Can't wait for the block party next month!

 

[shellybaxter]

Dh and I both had the same best friend in high school. We've stayed friends since then - going on 24 years. He and his second wife (who we love - not the first wife who we didn't love - LOL) bought the house next door to us about 3 years ago. We LOVE having them so near by. The animals and the kids just wander back and forth between the two houses. We are good at sharing too. Its like having extended family right next door

 

[threecrazykids]

We have 7 families in our cul-de-sac...(it's about 2 miles out of town) and we absolutely LOVE IT! We each have about a 2 acre lot and we share 40 acres of common ground for quad riding, snowmobiling, walking trails etc.

There aren't any neighbors that don't get along...we watch each others kids, help out when babies are born etc.

We spend lots of weekends together doing bonfires in the summer...and in the winter when there is a bad snowstorm someone calls up everyone and we all go hang out at one house for the night until the storm passes...adults having a few beverages and playing games while the kids run wild in the basement.

LOVE our neighbors!

 

[mjkacmom]

I love our neighbors! We live in a town of 27,000, and everyone knows everyone, and I have plenty of neighbors to borrow sugar from - not a bad seed on the whole street.

 

[Disney Doll]

I have a weird situation because I live on a corner with a church and cemetery across the street in the front of my house, so I only have 5 immediate neighbors...2 across the road on the side of my house, one directly behind, 2 diagonally behind.

One across the side road is a nice enough neighbor. She buzzes back and forth to her 2nd home in Maine, so she's not around a lot. The one directly behind is a good friend. The one next door is nice enough and would help out etc. but she has younger kids so is running around a lot with them, so we sort of have different lives. But we do help each other out when necessary.

One diagonally behind is an idiot that I stay as far away from as possible. The other diagonally behind is OK. We don't have a lot in common, but will wave and say hello.

All in all, it's an OK spot.

 

[BCV513]

I am so lucky with my neighbors. They are all wonderful. We're close friends with our next-door neighbors on either side, two across the street, and one two houses down. By close, I mean we go to each other's birthday and graduation parties, exchange holiday gifts. One day driving home from work I hit a huge pothole and blew out two tires. I panicked and called my dad, forgetting he was out of town. I called 911 and before the police showed up, not one but two neighbors happened to drive by! One loaded me up in his car and drove me home and the other stayed with my car and handled the new tires. We are truly blessed.

 

[disykat]

My first house, our neighborhood was terrific! We had sidewalks, people walking in the evenings, neighbors visiting, etc.

This house, everyone pretty much disappears into their homes when they come home from work and you never see anyone. Over the years, I've known a few neighbors, but then they move. Currently we don't even have enough of a relationship with most of our neighbors to pick up each other's mail. It's sad.

In our old neighborhood, people brought cookies when you moved in. Here, 20miles away, everytime I've done that I got confused stammers and fear in their eyes that I was going to be a pest.

 

[Angelhalo]

We don't know our neighbors and I like it that way.

We don't have kids so thats probably a big factor. We are the only non kid people on our entire street so we don't have that bond.

 

[Momvic5]

We also love our neighbors. Our immediate neighbors are all retired, and they all love children. One is a sweet couple from China, and they always include the neighborhood children in their Chinese New Year celebrations, and because I homeschool, she teaches my children Chinese as a foreign language. They are a terrific couple. Just love them! Our neighbors on the other side bring us desserts almost weekly. Just love them too! Then our neighbors across the street, they are just a lot of fun. The wife is more subdued and quiet, but the husband is very hyperactive. He loves for the children to come over and talk to him. He plays jokes and teases them. He pays the kids a quarter and a coke to walk his dogs up and down the street. He has built them unique bicycles, helped my oldest recycle steel and create a sword, welded life size garden characters of each neighborhood child, and provides the kids with sparklers and smoke bombs all year long. He has a huge garden that he buys earthworms for and always has a supply of "extra" worms for the older kids to fish with in the creek that runs through our neighborhood. He also has a beautiful corvette that he loves to "cruise" the kids around the block in. Just have to love him too!

 

[kelleigh1]

We're in a 4 unit building. Two of the apartments are single women. No problems with them. Then there is the other apartment downstairs. A young couple who have a 1 year old. Over the weekend, they were away (we celebrate when they go away) and there was a piece of mail in front of their door all weekend. We didn't snoop, but everytime you walk downstairs, you can see it. It was something from a moving company. (It was written all over the envelope. We never touched it but could see it clearly.) So now we're crossing our fingers that they are moving.

 

[HunnyPots]

Next door to the north: a retired couple and they are just the neatest people ever! All neighbors should be just like them!

The hillbillies to the south: ugh, not so much. Yard full of junk, trucks parked everywhere, and OMG they are loud!!!!

 

[Northstar]

When I count my blessings, my neighbours are definitely on the list.

Like, sometimes, when we drag our sorry butts out of bed to shovel yet another couple feet of snow out of the driveway... somebody has already run their snowblower down it. We don't know who. Most everybody else has a snowblower.

And there's the lady down the street who lifeguards the kids on our cul de sac to swim in the lake... she has a swimming float out there. She actually invites them... I make sure, every time, that they haven't invited themselves. I go down and sit on her dock with her if I can, but I wouldn't be much use as a lifesaver, I'm afraid... I always say NO when the kids want to swim till she shames me into helping her watch them.

And the people who share from their gardens. And the vigilant eyes who phone you if there's been a car they don't recognize in your driveway (and apologize profusely for nosiness if it turns out it was just visitors).

And even the lady who didn't say hello or even make eye contact for the first 10 years we lived here has warmed up to us. Apparently she is shy, not unfriendly. I like her too.

Here's to good, good neighbours!

 

[LoraJ]

I like most of my neighbors in my building just fine. But there is a new one in the building who is very difficult. I am the treasurer for the condo association and when he is late he gets nasty at me for not reminding him like I am his mother or something. I do not have to remind anyone else, or if I do they don't make a stink about it.

I am the point person for the state for our building inspection. He's been very difficult about letting them in to inspect the unit and I told him it would be a $5000 fine for refusal of entry and he sent me a nasty email that I need to mind my own business and that should be between him and the state and I need to be removed from the situation. Gladly. I hope he gets fined!!!!!!

 

[PghLybrt]

One set we love the other...... Lets put it this way (for the people on hear that thought I went overboard with camera security in my house), last night came home, they had friends over. I guess they had a bbq. They were all discussing how it is funny that their one 12 year old wants to literally kill his aunt because he saw her kissing her girlfriend. They went onto say how that was acceptable( the killing part). (We just had Gay Pride in the city). They went onto say how that should have just been bombed and " those people" should just be shot.