Do you know your neighbours? Do you chat to them?

I'm from the north of England, it's in my genes to know everyone within a mile radius to a cup of sugar borrowing level.
 
Yes. I live in London there are 4 flats in my part of the building. Neighbours below me are tenants and am on the 3rd lot - he seems harmless enough, the first one was completely crazy and reported me to the council for noise pollution :/ the second lot invited their whole family to stay every weekend.

The guy across the hall I barely see, but is nice enough when I do.

The other guy owns his flat and I see him all the time -he actually turned my straightners off for me when I left them and went out at the weekend :(

BB x
 
In London? No we don't know anyone. I've never known any of my neighbours and come to think of it none of my friends and friends of friends knew theirs...

I would be quite shocked/surprised if someone came knocking on the door saying, hi we're from downstairs/upstairs/next door/next door but one and introduced themselves.
 
No. My neighbours are all awkward English types. It's one of the reasons I hate living in the south of England.
 
I talk to my neighbours whenever I see them. The woman next door was there when we were renovating the flat so she knows my whole family and exchanges Christmas cards with my parents.

My parents moved into a new build a couple of years ago and the whole street seems to know each other, it's a really nice atmosphere. My mum has a flat in London for work and at least knows the other person on her floor and will stop to talk to her if they both have time.

I think it's sad when people don't know their neighbours although I can understand it being difficult in blocks of flats full of students or other people who move every year.
 
I only say hello or nod to mine, they all think my name is Paul (It's not Paul) for some reason. I find it funny so have never corrected any of them, I also like to confuse my very gossipy older woman neighbour by constantly changing my accent whenever she talks to me, she must think I'm nuts or really am from Ireland, Scotland, Nigeria, Japan, Newcastle, France, Russia....
 
Yes, some, but not all... wish I did know them though, It's just that I might bore them to death with my boring self when it comes to strangers... lol
 
One of my neighbours is my nan so yeah I know her. The other neighbour I've also known my whole life. Also know the family 2 doors down from me. When I was younger (during the 90s/early 2000's) I used to know all the kids down my street and their families but some moved away, others just drifted out of the group. I don't know many people down my street anymore.
 
I live in a block of six flats and only really know the guy that lives opposite.

Poor bloke lives on his own and has alzheimers so I always do my best to look out for him.

Recently saved him from handing over £300 to some cowboy washing machine engineer trying to take advantage :mad:

Great guy, used to be an actor :)
 
Our neighbours are ignorant and rude. We have both tried to become friends with them when we moved in. But they have refused and have not been interested.

There seems to be no community spirit where I live and they even moan about parking spaces as most ppl have more than one car, and if you ever park outside their house, you end up getting a mouth full off them

:(
 
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I live next to a woman and a man, and they had a dog, but I haven't seen the dog for 5 years. I think the guy is called Trevor but I'm not sure. Not sure the name of the lady either.
 
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I know most of the street, I've grown up 'ere and used to talk to everyone. There were a big group of us young 'uns that would all play out together so everyone knows everyone.

Different know, new people have moved in, people moved away and I don't talk to people as much.

I do always talk to the little lads next door, they're really funny and the couple are nice too, 'rents get on well with them.

Same for t'other side.
 
I know the neighbours in the two houses either side of me, 2 have been there since we moved in 23 years ago, another only about 2 years (but we were friendly with the two previous tenants there as well), the final neighbours have been there about 6 months and we exchanged hellos when they first moved in and are now at the nodding hello stage (the previous tenants had lived there 30 odd years and we knew them very well).
 
Not really if I'm honest. Sometimes see the parents of the family next door in the garden and say hello. On the other side, we've got two flats which are full of people I don't know. The downstairs just moved in and thought it was a good idea to tie clothes-lines all along our fence without asking which is now starting to make it bend. Those above, the less said the better. They're noisey, selfish, dirty eastern-European types who were supposed to have been evicted around a year ago but for some reason still haven't. They also have all manner of strange types coming and going at all hours. The amount of times I've been eyeballed by them walking down the street is becoming a little tedious.

The only neighbour I really speak to regularly is a bit of a cheat as I went to college with him. He got married a year or so ago and moved in a few doors down in a flat. First I realised of it was when he drove up behind me when I was walking in the road because of the snow last winter. He beeped his horn, I moved over to let him pass then he pulled up next to me. I turned, expecting someone to mouth abuse at me and expecting to get into a full-blown confrontation and I was met by the git grinning back at me.

"You're back then?"

The last I'd seen of him was before I toddled off to uni. :p

He also hates the noisey bumlicker's I have next to me.
 
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