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Do you mix with your neighbours much ?
I was shocked today to here that a work colleague of mine as lived in the same street for 20 years and only know's one neighbour in her street. It used to be a time when we used to look out for each other but as the world gotten that bad we don't know who we live by .Can you honestly say you know your neighbours ? Or is it now getting that we keep ourselves to ourselves ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We moved here nearly two years ago and we look out for each others houses when on holiday, (taking in post etc) on one side they are an older couple and are always ready to chat, which I like.
In the winter when you are at work all week you don`t get to speak to anyone for weeks on end ! All in all though my neighbours are lovely.
Our current neighbourhood is brilliant, though. The bloke next door has become a really good friend. We've borrowed each other's cars, drank each other's beer and have keys to each other's house.
Our six houses are in the dead end section of a long road. We're all really neighbourly, all keep an eye on each other, take parcels in etc. It's one of the few places I've lived where I actually feel comfortable going on holiday and leaving the house empty for a fortnight - although I never want to these days.
We are surrounded by houses,but I don't know any of our neighbours that well.In fact if you lined them all up I don't think I'd recognise them!
I only talk to the next door neighbour ,but he's a Wolves fan so we exchange the occasional grunt or gesture!
It's all pretty sad, the street where I grew up we all lived in each others houses,but I suppose today the roads are too busy with traffic for kids to play in,and also everybody steps from their house,into a car and back again.We are all cocooned.
There was an old man who lived downstairs and it got so sometimes we'd say hello when I popped out to get some milk and we passed on the stairs. Once he invited me in for a cup of tea and we watched the football results together.
Come to think of it, I haven't seen him for a while and there's a smell in the hall.
I am actually a student so only living in the street for a year. From what we can make out there from the newsletter that comes through the door there's a pretty sound neighbourhood watch group and our immediate neighbours are very nice - tolerant of our parties at least. It's difficult to get chatting to people and they're often surprised the first few times but a cheery 'afternoon' works wonders in small doses - I even managed to get a smile out of the recluse who lives over the road last week! And we suspect she kidnaps the men who come to read her meter and keep them in her basement - why else buy such a lot of food every day if she lives alone? The mystery continues!
Today, I inhabit one of the "loosest-knit" communities I've ever lived in. I know the first names of my immediate neighbours on either side and that's about it, though I've lived here for twenty years.
As others suggest above, my childhood could scarcely have been more different. Then, everybody knew everybody else within about a half mile radius, which represented a heck of a lot of people. Of course, fathers worked in the same places and mothers all stayed home, so everyone had far more in common.
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