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

Not really. Occasionally chat to the young family on one side as they seem quite nice. As it's a new build estate that was quite a good icebreaker (all in the same boat, chat about snagging issues etc).

A work colleague also lives just round the corner so sometimes I will walk back from the pub with her. She's getting divorced and selling her house though so it's a bit awkward.
 
Our neighbours are ace, just turned up one afternoon and helped us out with some gardening - we only moved in a couple of months before. :)
We're really lucky where we are now, the last place the neighbours had a Police drugs raid... :eek:
 
LOAM said:
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.
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this pretty much

not best mates with any of them but any of them would help us out if we needed it and we would do the same. infact i remember a street party when i was younger
 
I'm pretty sure that one of my neighbours is bi-polar as he is a complete idiot. Got on okay with him until his wife left him (he was having an affair) and because my missus still talks to his ex, he alternately ignores us or has a little rant until I tell him to shut up.
 
I know 4 or 5 of my neighbours, either to speak to or to nod in passing - mostly older folks. My nextdoor is an old dear who likes a chat and I'm happy to oblige. First place I've lived where I bothered to get to know people... but I have been here nearly 10 years, so I ought to have got to know a few folk by now hehe.

Have found out some interesting things about other people who live in the street too - mainly through gossip with the people I do know. Apparently the terraced on the corner of the street is a knocking shop - common knowledge round these parts, but I'd never noticed anything unusual... just goes to show :p Plus they guy over the road left because his GF/wife or whatever was a tart, and the ones next to them are always up to no good (as it's a council house) so they won't be there for long...

Some days I feel like I should be wearing nora batty stockings and hanging out washing on the line, there's so much gossip and chatter about lol :D
 
We have 1 house close enough to be "social" in a neighbourly fashion but due to the owners have financial troubles, they ended up converting it into rooms for let. So far we've had a sword and knife collecting mentalist who got removed by the police and now we have a less dangerous but more annoying motorcyclist who insists on revving the crap out of his superbikes engine whilst its parked on the driveway to impress one of the slags he lives with.

Amazingly annoying but what can you do. Apart from my neighbour, its a very good area to live lol.
 
ive got a rabbi living next to us :/ very very very annoying. very rude as well... friend of mine parked outside for just 30 seconds cos i was just getting something for him inside my place and my neighbour comes shouting at him cos "he can smell petrol" and "his car is too noisy".
 
I chat to my direct neighbours, and to several others on the close I live on. Don't know any of their names though.


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The one lady I say hello to but thats about it.
The one bloke does the accounts for my step-dad so I kind of know him, never see him though.
Another bloke I see but not to speak to, when I do it'll be a brief chat about rubbish then on our way.
The woman below me I say hello to but she drives me mad, so noisy, can hear her walking, she walks on her heals, the noise goes right through the flats. And the door are hard wood fire doors that close after you, she always lets them slam.
Then the last flat has had 3 tennats since I've been here, first two were trouble, one had the door smashed in by police, the second had parties. The new one's, polish very nice, spoke to the one and he made a real effort to speak to me, seems nice enough.
 
I used to know the people in my block but allot of them moved on in the last few months.

Only contact ive had with the new ones is a message complaining about the noise coming from my EMPTY flat that got forwarded to me with my mail.

Made me think id been broken into or something but after my mate went round and checked it turns out my new neighbour is just mental.

As i currently live in a service apartment block with about 500 units the only people I know are the doormen.
 
i know all of my neighbour's (8 of them) very well and get along lovely.

all our fences in the back gardens are 4 foot tall so we have a chat and have bbq's together.

lovely community spirit where i live and really make's it feel homely to have such wonderful neighbours.
 
To set the scene I live in a semi. The neighbours in the other half of the semi I know to the smile and nod level ... mainly due to their grasp of English not being great. I got on ok with the neighbour before them for ages to stop and have a chat with but then she went nuts and turned into a neighbour from hell so I was glad she moved out. My neighbour on the other side is all right and I know him enough to say hello and have a quick chat but nothing more than that.
 
When growing up lived in a little road which felt kind of cut off from the surrounding roads, knew pretty much everyone who lived on that road but more so those that lived closer.

Live on a busier road now and only really know the people either side and for the most part thats to just say 'hello'.
 
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