How often do you interact with your neighbors?

[star-warrior]

When I see her, I chat with the old lady whose garden adjoins to ours. She lost her husband a few years back and I sent a wreath to his funeral. When my mum died, my neighbour attended her funeral and then the post-funeral meal together, so, yeah, we do get on nicely.

 

[Spiff]

Just in passing usually. Just the simple hello. Sometimes a small conversation. I have no grudges against any of my neighbors. But just have never reached that Mr. Rogers neighborly stature.

 

[bendted]

To the widow lady next house over, I wave to her because her husband used to come over and chat, so I was kind of friendly with them at one point years ago. The house on the other side, I've made efforts to be friendly; when he'd be out doing yard work or something, I'd say hi, but he'd just look down and barely acknowledge my presence. His wife always gives me cold stares, so I've long ago written off those fuckers and now make zero effort to be friendly with them. If I'm driving by their house and see them, I don't wave. The couple across the street has been there for about 7 years, but we ignore each other. I have no idea what their names are and frankly don't see the point of trying to get to know them.

 

[birddog7]

Very seldom do I actually talk to my neighbors.

 

[Swellegant]

Less and less as the years go on. When I was a kid, we knew everyone around us, interacted with them, played with their kids or grandkids if they had any, picked up each other's mail during vacations, all that jazz. They were all families who'd lived there for years and years, raising children and grandchildren and dying in their beds.

But now the turnover is so high that I just can't bring myself to keep meeting all these new people. I've met the neighbors on each side of us, but only very briefly (the house to the west has changed hands four times in ten years, and the woman who lives there now is seldom home); I know the people directly across the street, but mostly because the wife can't drive for shit and keeps backing into our guests' cars at the curb. The neighbors up the hill who've lived here next-longest after us, we still talk to frequently; the couple just past them, for whom I used to babysit, I see once in a while.

The rest of the block is a complete mystery, I couldn't pick them out of a lineup. Grandmother and I still refer to those houses by the names of the families who used to live there twenty or so years ago.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Only when we walk our dogs and my cute little innocent jack russell wants to kill the other dogs.

other then that we keep to ourselves.

 

[TheLyingGame]

1 side is cool. I don't really "talk" with them, but my mum does.

The other side.... ughh. Those bitches are evil.

If including the rest of my street... when i was a kid, sure. now? never. I don't even know who the fuck they are anymore.

 

[JOHN B]

Not at all. Wish I did. Sure, I've had a two or three minute conversation with a few. But that is it. Wish I lived in a more open neighborhood. There are a bunch of apartments here on my street, but no one seems to know eachother....:/

 

[Kester]

My neighbours are a friendly, older couple. We always say hi to each other when we cross paths. If one of us is going away we collect each others mail and we bring in each others bins in off the street every week, that's really as far as our interactions go.

They're nice friendly people but we aren't bezzie mates or nothing...

 

[mikey3000]

My neighbours are nice enough i guess, but I feel they just tolerate us. I don't have a Mercedes in the drive, a gardener, a cleaning lady or a cook, so maybe they pity us. Oh, and I actually throw my kids outside to play! You wouldn't even know my neighbour behind me has kids. They are driven to and from school (a 10 minute walk) and spend all their time in front of a screen of some sort. I make my kids walk to school.

 

[Beachguyj]

In my old apartment there were like 20 units. I only said hi to people if they said hi to me, except for the busy body girl that hung outside her door almost 24/7. She was kind of nice, I always said hi to her. Now I am am in a smaller place with 4 units. The crazy girl and then the two other units have been mostly short term or seasonal. Being that they are closer neighbors I feel more comfortable saying hello to them every time. Twice 2 of the wives have been very rude when I've said hi to the husband and them and not said anything back, but they are both gone. What I miss is my old place had very thick walls and I never heard my neighbors. where I am now my headboard is up against the bathroom of another unit and I hear every time she flushes, turns her shower on for an hour, washes her hands or chops pills into powder to snort it.

 

[BFizzle]

The less the better tbh

 

[AlmondMilk]

The annual block party...sometimes

 

[RaKroma]

Nearly never.
This is New York. I've lived in buildings for months without meeting the people across the hall.

It's not much about New York but the neighborhood and the ethnic community you live in. I interact with several neighbors almost daily. They do favors for me like pick up my UPS packages etc.. We celebrate New Years, July 4th and other holidays together. I have elderly neighbors who come knocking on the door weekly to help out with an alarm clock, or TV issues or can't figure out how to use their answering machine. The "coldest" neighbors I had were in Manhattan where everyone is busy with their own lives and their dogs. The only time people there will strike a conversation is if your building is on fire and your forced to communicate.

 

[jackoroe]

All the time. I walk my dog three or four times a day and go past everyone in the neighborhood's home. There's an old lady who needs me to get things for her from the store because she can't get out. Another neighbor's wife recently passed, so I make it a point to hang out and chat with him regularly.

 

[ravenstar]

Nothing at all beyond the awkward "hi how you going" when we both get off the train at the same time of an evening. I'm a huge advocate of "not shitting where you eat" and frankly if you get too caught up in the lives of your neighbours and it goes to shit you're in for a hole mess of trouble you can easily avoid by being polite but keeping you distance.

 

[Illmatic]

Never, more of just a "Hello, good evening" thing.
Not really interested in more.

 

[TickTockMan]

I should have made this a poll.

 

[JC2008]

I live in a council block in the UK (housing provided by the government to low income people). There are 4 units, I own one and the downstairs units still belong to the council. Downstairs neighbours accuse me of making noise and put snotty letters though my door but I work all day and sleep at night and live alone. I think they are jelous because I am an owner and i'm not from around here so I look like a posh type with a lot of money. I bought the place to do up but there isn't a market for selling flats in the UK at the moment.

 

[star-warrior]

We live on a dead end street, so most of the nieghbours from the bungalows further down have to walk past my house to go out. Today I was washing my car, and the old scots lady pass by, and asked how her husband was. Last time we spoke, she said he'd gone into hospital (I assumed he was still there) but she told me he'd passed away due to the cancer he'd had. It was a shock and quite awkward. But like she said, life goes on.