Do you know your neighbours?

[Z]

Something on the TV just now about people in the UK not knowing their neighbours... do you know yours? We live at a house at the end of our street so we've only got one proper neighbour next door; and then on the other side we have the backs of houses and their gardens facing the side of our house, separated by a fence. We used to know the elderly woman who lived in one of those houses but she was moved into a nursing home, and our proper neighbours next door are really anti social, you're lucky if you get a hello out of them, so we don't speak to them very much.

Used to speak to people who lived on the street who were my age but they all moved away when we were quite young and now it's quite an elderly street, lots of old couples... always wished we had cool next door neighbours with kids my age.

[reece(:]

Just on a "I'd speak to you in the street" level

[jackc1806]

We still visit our old next door neighbours, and speak to our new ones in the street ect

[Jake.]

Not really, one set is a woman and her kid, nice lady, the others seem alright but constantly smoke weed/start random bonfires with their furniture

[Livia]

My nearest neighbours, not counting the horses and the sheep, are my parents. So yeah, I know them!

[Marsh.]

Yes. It helps I grew up on the street so know a few families from playing with their children.

[jackc1806]

Not really, one set is a woman and her kid, nice lady, the others seem alright but constantly smoke weed/start random bonfires with their furniture

Christ!

[Black Dagger]

We live on a main road so we don't really communicate, well we do with the ones on the left, the ones on the right just moved in though and we've only spoken really when they are out and parcels get left here.

[Jordan.]

Yeah, most people down my street have lived there for a long time so everyone knows each other.

[Marc]

Yes I do. Do you know my neighbours Greg?

[Chuck]

I know most of them I'd say, some for a really long time but as this is World Cup year the ones I didn't know before I'll get to know now because about 2 months before the event takes places some of us go to every single person of our street to collect some money to buy paint and flags to decorate our street somewhat like these:

http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2010/06/07/engenhonovo_copa_efe620.jpg

http://www.noticiasdeurucui.com.br/images/300x248/f09fe7405adba45aa14867c216b8c3b0.jpg

http://festaedecoracao.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/R_copadomundo1.jpg

[swinearefine]

I don't have any, we live in the woods :|

[Marc]

You have owls and badgers

[Marc]

I know most of them I'd say, some for a really long time but as this is World Cup year the ones I didn't know before I'll get to know now because about 2 months before the event takes places some of us go to every single person of our street to collect some money to buy paint and flags to decorate our street somewhat like these:

http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2010/06/07/engenhonovo_copa_efe620.jpg

http://www.noticiasdeurucui.com.br/images/300x248/f09fe7405adba45aa14867c216b8c3b0.jpg

http://festaedecoracao.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/R_copadomundo1.jpg

What is that they are using in the sky? :shocked:

[Candy Annie Cane]

Yeah I know my neighbours quite well. The guy on one side always comes in to watch the football as they don't have sky sports so he here a lot!!

[smeagol]

they dont know me but they know what music i play as they post enough notes about it lol

[Josy]

Yes we know all our neighbours really well, enough to walk into each others houses without knocking and the closest one is my dads aunt so my second aunt.

[In the Drunk Tank]

Used to have an old couple next door to us we knew really well, nice enough even if they were a bit annoying, but they moved out and another old couple replaced them but they're never to be seen. Occasionally see them do a bit of work in their garden but never talk to them really and they don't get involved in village life at all. The house just along from them though we've known for ages

[Z]

I know most of them I'd say, some for a really long time but as this is World Cup year the ones I didn't know before I'll get to know now because about 2 months before the event takes places some of us go to every single person of our street to collect some money to buy paint and flags to decorate our street somewhat like these:

http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2010/06/07/engenhonovo_copa_efe620.jpg

http://www.noticiasdeurucui.com.br/images/300x248/f09fe7405adba45aa14867c216b8c3b0.jpg

http://festaedecoracao.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/R_copadomundo1.jpg

That's really cool Chuck :amazed:

[In the Drunk Tank]

Wouldn't give Chuck a single penny if he came knocking round my door wanting money for some silly decorations

[Holly Christmas]

Just moved so no, not yet. Prefer not to get too involved with other people's lives, I'd always say hello and exchange small talk but that's enough for me.

[Nemo123]

When I was a child I lived in a cul de sac with 58 houses in it and I knew the surname of all of them and the christian names of most of them. Moved when I was 17 to the house I live in now, and I've known the changing residents of about 4 or 5 households.

[Chuck]

Wouldn't give Chuck a single penny if he came knocking round my door wanting money for some silly decorations

You wouldn't be able to afford living in my street.

[In the Drunk Tank]

I could live like a king in Brazil

[Jessica.]

I don't know much more than their names. Would barely say hi to them.

[Chuck]

I could live like a king in Brazil

We would all throw eggs at your windows then. how about that

[Nemo123]

I could live like a king in Brazil

That's an interesting proposition.

If you owned a house, you could sell it for enough money to go and live like a king in the third world. Brazil isn't even the third world.

[Tom4784]

I have awkward conversations with my left neighbour when we end up signing for each other's missed deliveries. The right neighbour is a family friend, she's a lovely old lady who reminds me of Dot Cotton.

[smeagol]

I have awkward conversations with my left neighbour when we end up signing for each other's missed deliveries. The right neighbour is a family friend, she's a lovely old lady who reminds me of Dot Cotton.


why are they awkward whats in those parcels ? are they blow up dolls or something lol

[Sophiee]

yeah, we know both sides and a few houses down the nearest lane. we don't see them on a regular basis but enough to say hello and have a basic conversation. they're all really nice :).

[Z]

why are they awkward whats in those parcels ? are they blow up dolls or something lol

About three years ago I'd ordered a parcel that got delivered two doors up and it was the first time I'd met those neighbours because they'd moved in while I was away at uni and I hadn't been at home. Couldn't even point the guy out in a line up, he literally opened the door, handed me the parcel and shut it again :laugh:

[Novo]

Didn't like my nextdoor neighbor at all before she moved out, a miserable old twat who hated me ever since i smashed one of her garden gnomes playing cricket in the back garden when i was about 10, we have a Polish couple with 2 kids who live next door now and they are amazing

[smudgie]

Yes we know all our neighbours.
We live in a little cul de sac with 7 houses.
Lived here 20 years gone September..3of the neighbours have lived here that long as well.
My favourite neighbour moved here from York wa a few years ago we spend many an hour giggling, drinking coffee and putting the world to rights.
We are friendly with quite a few from around the corner as well as to the back of us.

[Princess]

My parents have lived here nearly 30 years and so have most of the neighbours, I'd find it a bit strange if we didn't know any of them. I mean we're obviously close to some more than others, some we just say hello to.

[Kizzy]

I know a few to chat to yeah, got a few christmas cards but not really pally with any.

[BigSister]

Years ago yeah as we all used to talk to one another and have parties but since everyones moved we havent really known the new ones on the street but we still get christmas cards off most of them and some we still talk to one another but yeah def different from say 10-15 years ago

[Nicky.]

In the house we moved out of in August we knew the whole street (lived there all 19/20 years)... when I was younger all the kids used to play out together and stuff but now we're all 20 or so everyone just says hi to each other now!

But in our new house, we know next door but that's about it! X

[smeagol]

About three years ago I'd ordered a parcel that got delivered two doors up and it was the first time I'd met those neighbours because they'd moved in while I was away at uni and I hadn't been at home. Couldn't even point the guy out in a line up, he literally opened the door, handed me the parcel and shut it again :laugh:

lol sounds like the neighbours from the burbs movie lol

[anne666]

Yeah I know my neighbours quite well. The guy on one side always comes in to watch the football as they don't have sky sports so he here a lot!!

Need to say I love your cat!

Yes I know my neighbours. Next door on one side think they are above mankind on every level, two retired Doctors. The other side a lovely couple who are the best neighbours we've ever had.

[Z]

We were joking about something that happened when we were kids, my brother was about 4 years old and he needed to pee and we were playing in the park round the other end of our street so he nipped into the bushes and this battleaxe comes charging into the park and calls him a "disgusting little boy" and is shouting at him, meanwhile I'm stood there like :o so my brother goes running home in tears and I'm running after him trying to tell him it's alright (I'd have been 7 or 8) and he's like to my mum "I've been baaaaaad" and he's too hysterical to tell her what happened so I tell her and my dad's immediately like "I'M GOING ROUND TO PUNCH THAT POLICE OFFICER **** IN THE FACE" (her husband's an ex police officer, they're a pair of busybodies, run the local Neighbourhood Watch and generally just poke their noses into business that has nothing to do with them) and my mum's like "NO! I'M GOING." So she goes storming round and I don't know what she said but we stopped getting all of the "community letters" that for ages they'd been saying they didn't want :laugh: so we're officially not on the Christmas card list anymore, they still live there but they go live in Spain for half of the year so we never see them around anymore...

My mum saw the wife at her work (she used to work at a hospital reception desk) coming in for some kind of plastic surgery consultation but she never came back, my mum reckons it's because of her :laugh2:

[Me. I Am Salman]

Our old neighbours were a family of five girls and one boy who'd now between the ages 17/18-late 20s, just like my family, so we were SO close. Even our parents were best friends. Ugh they were so cool :love: they moved out 10 years ago and my mum actually cried when she first found out they were going lmao. No neighbour ever since can compare - just one weird family and bunch of random foreign students ever since :( we still keep contact though and my eldest brother and theirs are still best mates

[Z]

I'm so jealous of all of you who have/had close friendships with your neighbours :( everywhere I've lived I've never even had the opportunity to meet new people; halls don't count because that's the whole point of them, other than that I've just lived in flats where people keep to themselves!