With The Neighbor Threads: How Are Your Neighbors?

[aprilgail]

Yup. This is our MO with neighbors. We've lived here 18 months and have yet to introduce ourselves lol.

oh that would make me so sad if I lived with neighbors like that! I have great neighbors on both sides of me- and across the street from me. They have my alarm code and house keys and I have theirs. We take in each others mail when any of us are away, water the plants etc. Today my daughters car died half in the driveway and half in the street- I was at work so my neighbor came over, pushed her out into the street and helped her with tow truck and getting her car to the shop. We all help each other out.

 

[sonnyjane]

oh that would make me so sad if I lived with neighbors like that! I have great neighbors on both sides of me- and across the street from me. They have my alarm code and house keys and I have theirs. We take in each others mail when any of us are away, water the plants etc. Today my daughters car died half in the driveway and half in the street- I was at work so my neighbor came over, pushed her out into the street and helped her with tow truck and getting her car to the shop. We all help each other out.

I wonder if it's a generational thing? If you have a daughter driving, you're older than me by about 10-15 years. A lot of my friends are not super involved with our neighbors. In fact often we sympathize with each other about waiting until it gets dark to sneak out and get the mail, etc. bc we don't want contact.

 

[mjkacmom]

I really like all of our neighbors, all different ages, from those with little new, to our 90 neighborhood watch captain. I know all of their names (up to at least 6 homes in either direction), and there are no bad ones. You can always get help if you need it. We tend to bond after natural disasters and power outages! Lots of us exchange Christmas cards.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Aside from the one neighbor already mentioned in the other threads the other 4 houses in my curve of the cul-de-sac are great and the rest of my comments are regarding those other 4 houses.

There are two retired couples and then families with kids on either side of my house. Aside from the initial kid issues already spoken about in the other thread which didn't impact our neighborly relationship whatsoever there hasn't been any issues.

When my husband was away for 13 1/2 months (coming home every two weeks for 1 1/2 to 2 days) from 2015-2016 all the neighbors kept an eye out for us since I would be the only one at the house, and the husband of one of the retired couples offered to do any sort of repair work if needed while my husband was away and we would have great chats when I was out and about cutting and watering the grass, we also stop and chat for a few when we run into each other getting the mail and we still do that now that my husband has been back.

One of the retired couples, the husband unfortunately has alzheimer's disease so on the really bad days he forgets he already met us (we've lived here though for nearly 2 1/2 years). When we first met him he said "Hi my name is dip**** and this is deb"

The neighbor we seem to have the closest relationship with we've gone and done a few winery tastings with them, gone to a few of their adults-only parties, etc.

All of us neighbors pass along suggestions for things like yard work, gutter cleaning, getting rid of the dang moles that plague our area and copperhead snake sitings and discuss things that are going on in our lives such as vacations and whatnot.

 

[Mokat76]

Nope! I got the winner..
"Norfolk 12 year employee" the basics? She was suspended from work for threatening a coworker, search of her car yielded a box cutter.
When the city realized they terminated her. She had the nerve to request unemployment!
While this mess was going on. Her daughter in law "lived with her" told 12year I said the FBI was coming to raid. Smh! Dunno where she got that.
We live in a circle. And there are always cars parked in it. 2 times she's called the cops! One of those times she got a ticket too!
That not the half of it

Good times in the 757! We have our share, eh?

 

[Mokat76]

Oh yea! We had to hide from Andy Fox! Lol
Crap still goes down with her!

My sympathies. Dealing with Andy might be worse than the neighbor!!!

 

[aprilgail]

I wonder if it's a generational thing? If you have a daughter driving, you're older than me by about 10-15 years. A lot of my friends are not super involved with our neighbors. In fact often we sympathize with each other about waiting until it gets dark to sneak out and get the mail, etc. bc we don't want contact.

Funny thing is all my neighbors are different ages- across the street are in their 70's, my neighbor on one side are 60, I am 50 and the people on my other side are 30- yet we all get together for New Years eve and also to exchange gifts at Christmas and for bbq's in the summer. No one much younger than 30 buys houses here so we wouldn't have neighbors that were in their 20's

 

[hereyago]

My sympathies. Dealing with Andy might be worse than the neighbor!!!

Can you imagine Andy going to a couple of these posters houses with the parking issues,lol. And getting to the bottom of it,lol.

 

[Pooh2]

Love my neighbors!
The 8 year old boy seems to sense when I am baking cookies and follows the smell to my backdoor!

 

[sonnyjane]

Funny thing is all my neighbors are different ages- across the street are in their 70's, my neighbor on one side are 60, I am 50 and the people on my other side are 30- yet we all get together for New Years eve and also to exchange gifts at Christmas and for bbq's in the summer. No one much younger than 30 buys houses here so we wouldn't have neighbors that were in their 20's

Yeah DH and I are mid-30's. Just reading about all the activities you share with your neighbors gives me anxiety haha! Just goes to show that everyone is different. If anyone is looking for quiet, non-involved neighbors, we're your guys! We purposefully moved into a quiet community of mostly retirees and snowbirds. Of 7 houses on our cul de sac, only 3 are occupied year-round.

 

[DisTXMom]

We have amazing neighbors. They are very social, and group dinners and fire pit nights are the norm. DH and I work a lot, so sometimes we just want/need to crash at home. They are happy to hang with us, but don't get mad when we are antisocial and tired on Friday nights (like tonight!). We help each other with everything from childcare/carpool to grocery shopping to yard work to kids haircuts to sharing art supplies for last minute school projects. If you have yards of mulch delivered to your driveway, five people with shovels will show up to help without even asking. A really special group of people. We'd like to move, but know we'd miss the sense of community we have here. I'm not the sort to seek out social relationships with neighbors, but ours are a huge blessing

 

[here757]

Can you imagine Andy going to a couple of these posters houses with the parking issues,lol. And getting to the bottom of it,lol.

I'll be honest.. I loved loved loved road rebels!
He did a street in our neighborhood. It was an exit ramp for 64. End of ramp has stop sign.. lol people's reactions
Then he got that DUI,canceled
My husband has drank with Burfoot. At hooters lol
Meanwhile I'm textin tell him I said thanks for getting rid of McCabe

 

[jevs]

We live on property, we have neighbours but only one is close by - across 2 paddocks. So in general my neighbours are tops.

 

[Mokat76]

Can you imagine Andy going to a couple of these posters houses with the parking issues,lol. And getting to the bottom of it,lol.

LOLOL. I can imagine him getting throat-punched doing it. Frankly I'm amazed hasn't happen already. What a goob. We laugh about his hurricane coverage all the time. So needlessly dramatic.

 

[hereyago]

LOLOL. I can imagine him getting throat-punched doing it. Frankly I'm amazed hasn't happen already. What a goob. We laugh about his hurricane coverage all the time. So needlessly dramatic.

It's like we have our own Jim Cantore.

 

[Mokat76]

It's like we have our own Jim Cantore.

Without discernible weather skills. :-D

 

[Darcy03231]

We moved into our community two years ago. We have great neighbors. Everyone knows each other and we're all pretty friendly. We do dinners, BBQs, etc. together. DH had a heart attack a couple of weeks ago and we had a major snowstorm while we were at the hospital. I was dreading coming home and wrestling with the snowblower, shoveling, etc. (that's off DH's list for the rest of the winter). I came home to find that all of our neighbors pitched in and completely cleared us out. They even shoveled off the deck! We've had a couple of other big storms since then and they've done the same thing. They all told us not to worry about it, they'd take care of it for the rest of the winter.

 

[Mokat76]

We moved into our community two years ago. We have great neighbors. Everyone knows each other and we're all pretty friendly. We do dinners, BBQs, etc. together. DH had a heart attack a couple of weeks ago and we had a major snowstorm while we were at the hospital. I was dreading coming home and wrestling with the snowblower, shoveling, etc. (that's off DH's list for the rest of the winter). I came home to find that all of our neighbors pitched in and completely cleared us out. They even shoveled off the deck! We've had a couple of other big storms since then and they've done the same thing. They all told us not to worry about it, they'd take care of it for the rest of the winter.

Awesome neighbors! That must really ease your minds.

 

[Runnergal]

I live in a coop. My downstairs neighbors are saints because I have 4 boys and they have never once complained about noise. We have outgrown our apartment but I don't want to move because everyone in our building is so nice (plus the fact that our super is our next door neighbor and he is awesome). Difficult neighbors in the city can really make life unpleasant.

 

[Boardwalk Jedi]

We only have two. To the side, we have empty nesters who are absolutely wonderful and spend most of the winter down south.

In front of us, we have neighbors with three kids whose oldest is the same age as my third. We help each other out in snowstorms or when short on ingredients - my hubby actually does most of the snow removal but there are some things you just have to let go. What's worked is that we've mastered the perfect combo of hanging out once in a while and also minding on our businesses.