9/10 QOTD: Neighbors

How do you feel about your neighbors?

Well...I'm embarresed to say...I don't know them...other than one family.  They are nice with a hello or a chit chat...but thats about it.  Our other neighbors don't have anything in common with us.  We are a young busy family with lots of kids, that probably annoy them!  lol  They are mostly older, without kids.  Guess thats just the way it is.  I remember as a kid my Mom knew everyone...guess times have changed.

Kristene

We're friendly with our neighbors, but we don't get together.  It seems many of the neighbors have parties, but we don't get invited which is fine with me because most of them are fake and two-faced.  I prefer to be with my family then with people like that.

Lisa

We know our neighbors that have lived near us for the same length of time that we have been here, but that is only about 3.  We also live in a rural area (somewhat) so we are not side by side.   There are about 15 new families on our road so I have not had a chance to meet many of them.  We did bond a bit when our road was completely flooded, and no one could get out at all!!

We've lived in our same house for 27 years.  The neighbors on one side have been there even longer.  They are older than we are, but they never had children of their own, and they kind of adopted our youngest daughter.  They have a pool, and we have always been welcomed to use it whenever we like.  The folks on the other side have lived there less than a year.  We are friendly with them as well.  It's a talk-over-the-fence kind of relationship.  We're friendly with all of our other neighbors.  We don't really do stuff together, but we are very social when we see each other outside. 

I live on a lake so most of the neighbors are weekend people. We have an association but I don't involve myself in that at all. Bill does - he knows everyone. I more or less keep to myself. I find that I am so busy working and with my own family and I try to keep in contact with some old friends back in MA it really doesn't leave much time to get to know other people.

I've lived in places where we knew no one and now we have some very excellent neighbors.  Some have been an incredible help to us during my previous surgeries.  I've tried to be a helpful neighbor in return.  I don't like to feel I have to be close with all my neighbors so I try to make my interactions light and easy.  But I do enjoy civility and I often enjoy the over-the-fence chats tremendously. 

This is my second house to own....I wish I could pick it up and move it onto the land of our old house!  I LOVED my next door neighbor, actually we are still very, very good friends.

I know the neighbor on one side.  Nice guy.  Met him when our tree fell on his garage and truck.  Howdy neighbor.  He is a single older guy (might be gay, I think....).  He often will snow blow my drive in the winter or run his riding mover over my front lawn.  LOVE THAT.

Then we have a neighbor with a new puppy that chased my 12 yr old.  Well, he is a puppy but he is a yellow lab and quite a barker.  I jumpstarted her car once.  They are nice enough but we don't have any kind of friendship or anything.....don't even know their names.

Then there is the woman across the street I have never met----and her adult daughter who is simply strange.  She was drunk one night and came and asked my comany to move their car that was parked in front of my house on the street because, "I usually park there".  Sigh.

Then my other side....never met them.

When we moved in, my husband was going through chemo and then died the next summer...so we didn't really care about making friends at that point----and the longer you go without doing it, the stranger it becomes.

Michelle

Our neighborhood has some flooding issues, so we've all met and helped each other out at some point or another.  Two of my neighbors babysit for me once in a while.  We get together once a month of so for informal block parties - I put an invite in everyone' mailbox and we meet at the cul de sac to chit chat (and eat, drink, and be merry.)

We are hoping to have the government buy our houses out and then level our part of the neighborhood, so we're excited about the prospect (as slim a chance as it may be) but it will be really sad to leave our neighbors.