QOTD 2/9

[sugarkissed]

We live in a newer subdivision and we were the first house built on the street, so we know most of the people in houses nearby. We are friends with a couple that live on our block and occasionally invite our next door neighbour over for dinner. It's one of those "borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbour" places, and I love it... although there aren't many families with young children that we talk to.

[RedDDD]

Im not a very neighborly person. In fact I am uncomfortable interacting with neighbors...I just like my privacy and really don't like inviting people in my home. Funny because my husband is the opposite. I am a CA native and he is a MN native. I blame the CA girl in me

Having said that our neighbors love us but that is because we took an eye sore of a house and turned it into the best thing on the block. I also just donated all my baby gear, clothes, toys etc to our neighbor across the street whose daughter just had a baby and they were thrilled. Everyone around us is cool except for the people across the street who like to stare at us demo-ing each room of our house and then come over and remind us that the city will fine you for parking in your front yard. Ok well we are demo-ing so its temporary.....so go eff yourself.

[annarose]

We just moved into our neighboorhood less then a year ago. We know a few people around us but only on a wave hello and sometimes have friendly conversations in the street. A younger couple moved into the house next door to us right after but they don't seem very social. The one time we talked I could tell the girl (they aren't married) seemed painfully shy. There is a couple across the street who are around our age that seem really nice but they do not have children yet - we really like them and hope to know them better as time goes on. There is also a couple down the block with a girl a few months older then DD - we've talked a few times but thats it. I hope the longer we live there, the more we will get to know people. I would love to have a few neighboors that we could get together with for football games and such.

[mommabakes]

I have one set of neighbors. I know their names, and well occasionally wave if I see them outside, but that's it. I'm not a social person at all.

[lilqt3929]

We are friendly with one side neighbor, an older couple who turned most of their backyard into their garden. They love to share their crops, which is awesome (they also made me a bouquet of flowers they grow when DD was born, so sweet)! Most of the other neighbors we can recognize and will wave but nothing more. The house across from us just sold in the fall so we're not too sure about him just yet. The house behind us (we live on a corner so they are like a side and behind neighbor) are just straight up jerks! They are just so awful and have threatened DH to get into a fight, feel the need to park their vehicles on our side lawn, and appear to just be trashy people with trashy mouths. Needless to say, we are very thankful for our nice neighbors and that this has just been our starter home. We're planning on moving this spring/summer if all goes according to plan and hope we don't end up with any awful neighbors at our new house!

[legitsince86]

Not really. No one is really out in the front yard. We have an empty lot on one side and a house on the other. We met our next door neighbors when DH accidentally blew up our trash can and they threw a bucket of water over the fire. After that, we exchange waves. My ILs got to know them when they worked on taking out the bushes that lined that side of our property for the fence.

Now with everything that is going on, I'll be getting in touch with our neighborhood watch.

[carli]

I don't know my neighbors well at all. I wish I did but I at least recognize them and we're friendly when we see each other out.

[zoly1103]

We just moved in last July, but my husband has met the neighbors on both sides of us and I have only met the husband on one side. We just don't see people out to talk to them.

[salemkitty]

We are friendly with our neighbors. On one side we have new neighbors with 3 small kids. The kids play together some. They are very nice I am glad they moved in. The rest if our neighbors are older or without kids

[krose]

We live very far set back off the road, and share a driveway with our one neighbor ( it is a long Y shape and splits into 2 driveways at the end). Our neighbor is a 28 year old guy who lives there alone, though his girlfriend is there often. He's quiet and keeps to himself, and so do we. He plows for us sometimes and DH reciprocates by mowing our shared yardspace in the summer. Our dogs run around together sometimes. I don't think I've talked to the guy more than 3 times in the 3 years we've lived in our house. Overall, I think it works out well for both of us.

[joi922]

We live in an apartment complex and for the most part I have no idea who my neighbors are. DS likes to walk the halls and around outside, so we say hi if we happen to pass someone, but we haven't formed friendships with any other people in the building. I assume it will be different when we finally move into a house in a nieghborhood. We aren't antisocial, but it seems the norm to not really socialize with apartment neighbors (at least in the six or so places we've lived over the past 13 years).

[fiveohfive]

We moved into our house in September 2013 and I've met the neighbors to the left, the right and the front of us. All are 50+ and very nice. The couple to the left of us have 3 children that around my age and because of that I think they have taken us under their wing a bit. The husband always snow blows our driveway and they always say hello and tell us to holler if we need anything. They are very sweet people.

The neighbors at our duplex scarred me for life... Old nosey people with too much time on their hands and not enough brains in their head. I cannot wait to sell that place this summer and never see them again!

[happymama]

We live in a condo, but it is fairly quiet which is nice. We smile and say hi to our neighbors, and occasionally have a conversation but we aren't friends with any of them. Our neighbor below us is always nice to our face, but she turns us in to the HOA whenever she gets the chance. We are pretty quiet and don't party but she still complains. Once it was because I did a load of laundry at 11pm because DD was throwing up non-stop and there was a pile of vomit covered bedding and pj's, once it was because I showered at 3:30 am (I was working weird shifts so would be coming and going in the middle of the night.) We haven't gotten in trouble since we always have a legitinate excuse (plus the HOA told her we can shower whenever the heck we want). But I do have to admit that all those nights where DD was waking up every 1-2 hours crying, I did NOT feel guilty knowing we were probably waking the neighbor up too ;-)

[redfraggle]

We know most of our neighbors on our block. We're friendly, but we don't really hang out, moreso chat if we're outside and buy each others' kids' fundraisers. Speaking of which, shouldn't someone be asking me to buy Girl Scout cookies soon? Now I want some Tagalongs and Thin Mints.

[ajaan113]

We really don't know the neighbors too well. We say hello and talk when we see each other but that's it. I am talk to the neighbors more than DH. I know the kids because they love our dog. A couple of times the little bot across the street would ask if I could bring the dog outside to play. There is a really nice man that clears our sidewalk (a few other others, too) with the snow blower when it snows. He also gives us some tomatoes from his garden.

[fiveohfive]

Feb 9, 2015 19:02:23 GMT -5 redfraggle said:

We know most of our neighbors on our block. We're friendly, but we don't really hang out, moreso chat if we're outside and buy each others' kids' fundraisers. Speaking of which, shouldn't someone be asking me to buy Girl Scout cookies soon? Now I want some Tagalongs and Thin Mints.

I thought it was online now??

[marley629]

We live in a high-crime urban area ( we have to for residency requirements for SO's job) we do have a very nice family across the street from us that we are close with. We said when we can move (in a year) we want them to come with us - best neighbors I could ever ask for. Other than them, we don't really speak to any of our other neighbors. I don't even take LO for walks around here..we get in the car and drive 20 mins to SO's parents house and go to the park and take walks up there regularly.

[smilingeyes]

We live above a restaurant on a Main Street. There's two other apartments up here and we just moved here last August. I really feel like we were placed here for a reason. It's temporary (we're moving to the states this year) but our neighbours are absolutely wonderful. Our one neighbour is a 55yr old woman and she is just great. We frequently have tea and she absolutely adores DD and frequently buys her things she lives (even mangos, her fav fruit right now). She's the sweetest. Our other neighbour is my landlords sister in law and she is great as well. Although I could live without her smoking weed all the time, lol.