Are you acquaintances/friends with your neighbors?

[Smoke117]

You notice how more and more a neighborhood is just a group of people who live on the same street and not a community? Before, all neighbors used to know each other pretty much and were acquaintances/friends. I can't say I want that back or anything...I don't say hello to a neighbor unless they say hello first or I'm walking up the street to the neighborhood park to ball when all the kids are at school. (i'ts impolite to walk past someone in your neighborhood on the street and not just say hello) I do prefer neighbors who keep to themselves. I'm just curious how it is where you live.

[PistonsFan#21]

Im actually on bad terms with 2 of my closest neighbors. F*ck them assholes.

[ArbitraryWater]

Not really... At least not since a Family below us moved out... Father was Arabic, Mother was German... 2 Kids/Girls. I used to get along really well with them and the Parents with everyone else...

Of course we're older now (They're 20+), but they're back in Germany, and just a few weeks ago we hooked up and ate Breakfast with a couple of other Neighbours too... I really just wanted to see the Girls again lol

Seems they still remember so much of the shit we did back then.. Surprised me. I forgot almost everything and they're cracking up telling me a bunch of stories from years back.

Now to all Neighbours in general, I do usually say Hello and what not..

[El Kabong]

No, but I rent and I get new neighbours every year it seems + I work shifts, so i'm sleeping when everyone is awake and awake when everyone is sleeping.

[KobesFinger]

I've spoken to the old lady next door a few times. She's into gardening so I told her about Jamaica and she told me about how she grew up on a farm in Ireland. The people on the other side, no. I know the family next door in my parents house, and theres new neighbours on the other side but I haven't seen them even though they've been there maybe 2 months now.

[ArbitraryWater]

I've spoken to the old lady next door a few times. She's into gardening so I told her about Jamaica and she told me about how she grew up on a farm in Ireland. The people on the other side, no. I know the family next door in my parents house, and theres new neighbours on the other side but I haven't seen them even though they've been there maybe 2 months now.

Oh yea.. There used to be an old lady (dead now :( ) she always gave me sweets and even money, like, even as I grew older... Guess she liked interacting with younger people.

[knickballer]

Oh yea.. There used to be an old lady (dead now :( ) she always gave me sweets and even money, like, even as I grew older... Guess she liked interacting with younger people.

Just probably the grandmother/motherly instinct kicking in. My mom and grandma are the same exact way and I think it's pretty cool.

As for my neighbors on my street we were pretty close growing up besides for a few who were complete assholes and would call the cops if we played basketball on the street lol. We all separated though and in most places in America neighbors don't know eachother and are hostile to eachother. It's really sad and unfortunate and it helps reinforce the "I can't trust anyone mentality"..

It's completely different when you go other places in the world(probably excluding Western Europe) where everyone in a village/town or neighborhood know each other on a personal level. I'm talking about knowing neighbors knowing each-others cousins, extended family, etc. It's also interesting as people in the neighborhood/village will go to each-others houses on a daily basis uninvited and it's viewed as disrespectful if you don't let them in. I can only imagine the reaction of my neighbor if I would just go in house and started sitting on his couch expecting them to make me coffee. Probably would get the cops called on me.

[DwnShft2Xcelr8]

I miss my childhood neighborhood. Everyone knew each other. :( 1990's FTW? Maybe?

Nowadays, I might wave hello to a neighbor if our eyes meet, but usually my neighbors avoid making eye contact. I only know one neighbor's first name and even he avoids eye contact.

There is an elderly couple, likely retired because I rarely see them leave their house, who seem nice. The husband bellows, "Good morning!" whenever he sees me coming home from work (graveyard shift FTL), but we have never spoken.

I've only seen my next door neighbors twice since moving to this neighborhood earlier this summer. I don't even think they speak English.

And there's a young woman who lives on the same street as me. She appears to be in her early 20's. I have never seen anyone else living with her, but every night when I am headed to work, a random guy will pull up to her house. She always kisses these random guys and they go inside. It's a different guy almost every night. I think she's up to slutty/prostitute-y things, but ... eh... What can you do?

[alenleomessi]

i used to do so much shit to my neighbours i could write a book about it.. which i guess is the case for most balkan people.. its just the way you grow up here.. most of them were cool though, they rarely called cops


my lil brother was f*cking crazy though.. you know the scene in superbad where young jonah hill draws hundreds pictures of a *****?.. well my brother learned about the swastika symbol in school or something and the next thing you know, the whole f*cking neighbourhood has swastika symbols sprayed on cars, trees, doors and shit.. i bet shit like this would make the news in the US but not here my friend

[longhornfan1234]

I don't say one word to my neighbors. I don't want them to know my business.

[KobesFinger]

I miss my childhood neighborhood. Everyone knew each other. :( 1990's FTW? Maybe?

Nowadays, I might wave hello to a neighbor if our eyes meet, but usually my neighbors avoid making eye contact. I only know one neighbor's first name and even he avoids eye contact.

There is an elderly couple, likely retired because I rarely see them leave their house, who seem nice. The husband bellows, "Good morning!" whenever he sees me coming home from work (graveyard shift FTL), but we have never spoken.

I've only seen my next door neighbors twice since moving to this neighborhood earlier this summer. I don't even think they speak English.

And there's a young woman who lives on the same street as me. She appears to be in her early 20's. I have never seen anyone else living with her, but every night when I am headed to work, a random guy will pull up to her house. She always kisses these random guys and they go inside. It's a different guy almost every night. I think she's up to slutty/prostitute-y things, but ... eh... What can you do?

Bring your wallet and investigate

[Random_Guy]

no, i hate my neighbors, but being the polite lad that i am i say hello

[the mesiah]

I don't talk to the Asians that live to the left of me ,I wave hi and bye to the white people to the rite and I wave both of my hands to the white people across the street cuz they invite to the crib and watch the games and I invite them and they kids to swim in my pool and cookout ..that's the only ones I acknowledge .

[embersyc]

My neighborhood is mostly retired people that have lived here since the subdivsion was built in 1977-78.

I bought my house in December 2011 so I am definetely still considered to be new to the neighborhood despite living here basically 3 years now. Since everybody is always home, and universally out gardening. I've pretty much met and spoken to everybody that lives directly around me. I try to keep on friendly terms, mostly saying hi when I see people, or waving from a far, but don't really like to get involved in extended conversations.

[Swaggin916]

Always been on hi and waving terms but that's about the extent of it. I have no interest in talking to them. I would assume it's the same for them
But I bet since we are the young crowd on the street they probably have some interest... but yea overall it's not a particularly friendly street. It's not unfriendly, but everyone pretty much keeps to themselves.

[tomtucker]

Im actually on bad terms with 2 of my closest neighbors. F*ck them assholes.

me too.........one of them is a fat nasty mean slob that often has his car running for 20 min. to "warm up the engine"..........right in front of me

[Draz]

Have the worse neighbors in the world. The neighbor to my right has kicked countless amount of her tenants out on the streets since I was born. Before we bought this house we even knew something was up with that house always have the for rent signs out. She fights with her neighbors every month, raises rent, robs them of heat or ac, goes into their apartment when they aren't home. It got so bad her tenants came to us for help. We bought them a hidden camera to which they never used. She sues many of her tenants to get them to move by framing them. She even hit us with a lawsuit.

The neighbor to our left were in good terms but we know deep down she's a snake. We live in a neighborhood where everyone's in your privacy and is overly jealous.

[DukeDelonte13]

i live in a very quiet neighborhood, in fact the chief of my city's police lives on my street. Everybody seems like good people... EXCEPT

Both, BOTH of my next door neighbors constantly having issues with the police. My one neighbor is an ex-con who did some hard time, i've seen him get arrested twice, police going there multiple times, etc.

my other neighbor i like to call the clown car house, just a multitude of random adults seem to move in and move out, their house has been burglarized twice by a former housemate, cops over there frequently as well.

I don't live in a bad neighborhood at all, i just happen to live smack dab in the middle of the two worst homes to live between in my development.

The ex-con neighbor is allright, we've had some beers, little chit chat here and there. In the 4 years i've lived in the house i've never had any contact with any adult that lives in the clown car house. (BTW clown car house is beat, very unkempt landscaping, busted window for several years, etc.)