So, we have moved five times in almost seven years of being married. We have had to get bigger places as our nest has gotten bigger.
Every place we have lived, we have been very close with those we live near. A few places we have even made life long friends with people:)
When we moved into my sisters house, the neighbors knew of us, but we had never met any of them. My sister and I were always close, but I rarely went to her house.
I felt as if we were in a fish bowl. Everyone in the neighbor hood was just watching us. Waiting for the moment they could meet us.
Now, almost a year later I cant believe how close our next door neighbors are with us. I love it. while we had our house split this week between the hospital and home..my neighbor made sure we had things covered..Like dinners for my hubby and kids...she brought me her daughters Lap top because the Hospital computers were horrible. She also came and visited my kiddo. Rory, the dad helped teach my oldest how to ride his bike. Every night during the summer(last year and so far this year is proving to be the same)we will all meet out front and play basket ball or watch the kids play...We adults will just shoot the breeze.
I count myself very lucky that I have neighbors like we do. It is nice to know we can look out for one another if one of us leaves town too.
Are you close with your neighbors? Or could you really use a break from them??
Angie S...That is where I got to thinking about my post!! I feel very blessed living next to my neighbors now...We did have one crazy lady...The cops were there almost every weekend..She drank alot and had some mental issues..her daughter would come and start hell..It was entertaining to say the least:)
I get along with my neighbors. They couple down in the middle of the cul-de-sac are awesome and have 1 girl my daughter's age and twin boys that are 2 yrs older. I don't really know any of the others besides saying hi. My next door neighbors are renters and the tenants right now are very keep to themselves and inside or gone. What you described sounds like an awesome neighbor set up.
we have WONDERFUL neighbors!!! I texted my one neighbor directly next door to me last night at 1145 asking how her son was (we had a HUGE Thunderstorm and he gets VERY nervous with them) and she didn't mind!!
I go walking in the AM with my other neighbor!!
I have "girls night out" with two others!!!
We are close to some of our neighbors. its nice to have somebody you can walk over and have a chat with sometimes.
i know they would help me in an emergency, which is comforting.
My neighborhood was like that originally. Fast forward 36 years, kids grown
people move away. New neighbors are not very friendly. I would always
go over and welcome them with cookies etc. However, I find that the
folks moving in today just keep to themselves. Kids never outside playing,
even in driveways! So sad, I really miss it. Even if there is an age difference, you can still be good neighbors. Consider yourself blessed. I
hope as the years go on, it continues.
Close? Nope. We *know* them, for the most part....but we're only one of 3 families with young kids in our neighborhood - everyone else is 50+. They're all nice people, just not much common ground there except, well...the 'common ground'! hahaha
I wish we lived in the kind of neighborhood where there were kids everywhere and people out and about. Oh well, it's quiet and safe - and that was important when we bought here.
No unfortunately we are not close with ours, in fact I just wrote a post b*tching about their kids lol. I envy you :)
Nope, not close at all which is weird. We lived a half mile from here when we first moved to Florida and LOVED our neighbors! I'm not sure why there is a difference between the two neighborhoods but there is . . .
Our closest neighbor cannot be seen or heard :) but we are friends and occasionally borrow a cup of sugar or an egg. You just have to get in your car and go get it! We do have an annual clean-up of our road (a lot of people dump garbage along our road b/c it is off the beaten path) and everyone (which is not many) along our road gets together and picks up all the trash and then gets together for a cook out.
The last neighborhood we lived in was like that. I really miss it.
It took a few years to learn the names of the neighbors on one side of us, we just say hello in passing. On the other side we are on our third set in 7 years. Don't care for the new people because the woman threw a hissy fit when my handyman accidentally parked in her spot (we live in a townhouse community), didn't matter that the week before her parents parked in our spot and we didn't say a word. We try to avoid them.
Our neighbors are great, we were even invited to their daughters wedding. And the couple that live across from us are awesome. I hope our new neighbors are as good as the ones we have now.
I love my neighbors. And, then there are some I'm not so sure about...
I have a close-ish relationship with all 4 of the neighbors that surround me. Our kids play together. I know I can count on them if I need anything. For instance, I broke my arm. One of the ladies offered to go to Walgreens and pick up my prescriptions and one of them offered to come over and help around the house. I didn't take either up on it, but I was so touched that they were willing. When I bake, I always take them some. I offer to help when one of them is sick. We don't get too puchy into each others private lives. No drop ins or whatever. But, if we need each other, we are there. I'm blessed
We are close to our next door neighbor. Now he is a single guy but is so funny to talk to, sometimes talks too much when we have things to do but he is a great guy. The poeple on the other side of him do not like him, they completely got off on the wrong foot.
it is awesome to live in a neighborhood and actually get to know and like your neighbors. Thats how my kids grew up, a real tight neighborhood, we were all the same age pretty much and all had kids around the same ages, it was so perfect. You have to be a good neighbor too, it starts with us.
Im in an apartment now, but I get along with all my neighbors, we all bring food and desserts to each other quite often during the week. It's nice.
When we lived in Colorado...our group of friends all bought houses in the same neighborhood if not the same street. We were on the "other end" of the same street as our best friends...Didn't know our neighbors at all but we knew all of our BFs neighbors...still good friends with all of them and we live two states away now.
Our current neighbors are the hermit couple (we only see him mowing and I've seen her once since we moved in a year ago)...the couple to our left have a teenager, they seem nice...not my cup of tea though. And then the couple to our right/back of house are a young couple no kids...they are fun and I like to talk with them. But really don't have anything in common.
I miss my old neighborhood!
We say Hi now and then, somtimes have a conversation, but not very close. We are also in different points/phases of our lives as well so that may have something to do with it too.
