neighbors

how close is everyone to their neighbors?? we're in the process of buying a house and our neighbors have already introduced themselves to us, which was nice. and one neighbor already asked my DH to play on his volleyball team.

i know its good to be friendly, but i dont know if we should become too friendly with our neighbors. what's everyone's take on this??

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Posted by MR1223

how close is everyone to their neighbors?? we're in the process of buying a house and our neighbors have already introduced themselves to us, which was nice. and one neighbor already asked my DH to play on his volleyball team.

i know its good to be friendly, but i dont know if we should become too friendly with our neighbors. what's everyone's take on this??

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I am a big fan of knowing your neighbors. You might need to borrow something...whatever.

But they keep an eye on your house when you are not home/on vacation. If you ever have a problem you can ask them in a friendly way to take care of it.

I like knowing MY neigbors so if I see something fishy I can keep an eye on THEIR house.

Thats all.

we have some that we talk too and some we wave to and some we dont bother with

well we have been in our house for about 3 months now, and our 2 neigbors on each side are old ladies! and soo soo sweet! we have waved to a few others...

my husband talked to one guy that lives in the house across the street and invited him over to our house when we were having a bbq and they showed up...were really nice
but basically stayed all night!!!!!!!! i went to bed at 2 and they stayed with DH everyone else had been long gone! stayed till about 4:30!!!!!

they are really nice people, but i didnt like the fact that they stayed all night! and after i went to bed! its just weird!

Too close. We live in a row of townhouses. I can't wait to sell it and get our own little house, with my own driveway, and no neighbors attached!

Our neighbors are super inconsiderate with their parking and their garbage, so I've about had it after 7 years of it. The only neighbors we are semi friends with are a couple that lives a few doors down, with two little girls. They are nice and funny, and came to our wedding.

We have a good relationship with our neighbors. We've only been 'in' the house for about 7 months. One set of neighbors across the street introduced themselves when we went for our walk-through; the other set across the street stopped by the first night we had possession of the keys and everyone was stopping by to see the house (friends, my mom, etc.)

DH works strange hours so he knows ALL the neighbors. I, on the other hand, just do the wave and smile. We laugh about it all the time how he knows everyone and I know no one.

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Posted by LadyDuda81509

well we have been in our house for about 3 months now, and our 2 neigbors on each side are old ladies! and soo soo sweet! we have waved to a few others...

my husband talked to one guy that lives in the house across the street and invited him over to our house when we were having a bbq and they showed up...were really nice
but basically stayed all night!!!!!!!! i went to bed at 2 and they stayed with DH everyone else had been long gone! stayed till about 4:30!!!!!

they are really nice people, but i didnt like the fact that they stayed all night! and after i went to bed! its just weird!

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oh wow that is weird!

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Posted by geegee827

We have a good relationship with our neighbors. We've only been 'in' the house for about 7 months. One set of neighbors across the street introduced themselves when we went for our walk-through; the other set across the street stopped by the first night we had possession of the keys and everyone was stopping by to see the house (friends, my mom, etc.)

DH works strange hours so he knows ALL the neighbors. I, on the other hand, just do the wave and smile. We laugh about it all the time how he knows everyone and I know no one.

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i think that's how me & my Dh are gonna be - i'm more of the 'wave and smile' type and he'll talk to anyone anytime lol

I never considered us all that friendly but our neighbor just sent DH a letter from jail. Yupp, jail.

When we moved in the neighbor on one side baked us cookies and one gave us a case of beer!

They're both like my parents age though, so we talk to them outside whenever we see them (DH prob more than me) but I wouldn't say we were friends.

I wish we were that friendly. We kind of have 4 neighbors bordering us because of the way our property sits. But they are all older then us. The youngest is in their 50s and George is 96, except one house which is full of renters we never talk to. But they border so little of our house we don't worry about them. I do hate the illegal renting going on though.

One neighbor we are close with considering the HUGE age difference. He loves my DH and wants to get him into the anglers club. DH helps him with his boat and always shows him his projects.

Another neighbor I was friends with their son in High School. Even made out with my HS sweetheart on their diving board and in their house. So thats a little weird. I toilet papered their house in High School which came back to bite me when it was brought up during our closing. I was mortified.

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Posted by StaceyWill

We say hi to our neighbors, but that's pretty much it.

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same here...one time they borrowed our hose to water the lawn...thats about it! lol

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Posted by gina409

we have some that we talk too and some we wave to and some we dont bother with

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SAME here...

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Posted by JenBill61210

we just bought our house and so far no neighbors have introduced themselves. I hope that changes and that they are cool!

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Us Too!!!!!
We have officially been in the house for 1 week and have only met the lady across the street from us.
The neighbors who live to the left of us stood on their porch and watched us as the moving truck unloaded stuff and did not even say hello!!!!!
At first the wife came out stared at us and then went back in and 2 seconds later the husband came out stared at us and then wnet back in!!!
***!!!!! Are you kidding me?
I have not even seen the other neighbors.
DH and I are starting to think we are jinxes!!!

We've been in our house just about a year and we've met the people on both sides of us, and then the people next door to them on both sides, and both houses across the street.

Everyone is much older than us, so we are smile and wavers too. I'd say we are closest with the people directly across because they've been the most friendly, but I think I'm closer to their sons age than theirs!