Do you know your neighbours?

So, I've been living in many different areas, and I've had both experiences. When we lived in Calgary, our neighbours were family friends, we'd always have huge ass block parties and stuff, it was alot of fun, but when we moved to Dubai - we didn't know our neighbours at all - only saw them once or twice when we were both outside at the same time (or the time when they tried to kick one of our dogs - I put the fear of god into one of our neighbours (oh how fun it is when you're pissed off at someone, and double thier weight, and have an extra couple feet of height on them).

Anyways, We moved around a couple of times in Dubai, and only really knew our neighbours when we were living on the *outskirts* of the city, in a compound - and then we only knew the kids on one side of us.

Now that I'm in College - I didn't really socialize too much with my nieghbours in residence (us aviation students stuck together), but when we moved in the spring of '04, we met the neighbours to which our new townhouse shared walls. And since moving into an apartment almost a year ago - we still havn't met our neighbours.

So, does GFF know thier neighbours?

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We have the kind of corny relationship with our neighbours that is usually reserved for movies. He has a short white fence dividing our properties and we give him a wave hello every now and then. His wife gives us left over turkey soup every Christmas and Thanksgiving, and we go over to their place for a New Years party every year. Kinda lame really.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Don't know the neighbours to our right since they just moved in a few weeks ago...

As to the neighbours on our left... cool black guy except he doesn't seem to like the concept of shovelling snow.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

When my family and I lived in military base housing about thirteen years ago, we knew most of the neighbors. After moving into a house off base, we weren't familiar with the people around us aside from having the usual small talk. I live away from home while in college now, and I don't know the people around me either.

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I live in suburbia so yeah I have met my neighbours. Our next door neighbours are pretty good friends of my family.

How ya doing, buddy?

I don't know my neighbors, though I think my Mom might. They're all older than me and always at work anyway so I rarely see them if ever.

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The neighbour in front of me is middle-aged, but sometimes I'll see her at school.
The neighbour beside us is older, and we've met a couple of times.
Sometimes we see the usual people from the apartment's floors and they make small talk.

How ya doing, buddy?

I've lived here for ten years, but I've had very limited meetings with my neighbors. I used to play with some kids at the end of my road, but after they moved I've not interacted with any neighbors since. Probably better anyway, I guess the ones to the right have been making meth and stuff. Probably don't want to get to know them.

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I know the neighbours on one side of me by sight, but not really to talk to. We speak when we see each other, mostly just hi, but usually longer conversations in the summer and such when we're all out basking in the sun! The neighbours on the other side of me moved in more reccently, and although we say hi if we meet each other, I wouldn't recognise them in the street or anything! Pretty shocking, but I'm hardly ever in or near my house these days!

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We used to know our neighbors. Every last one of them. When we were younger, there were tons of kids who lived on our block. Slowly but surely they all moved away; none of the same people are here anymore. My godmother happened to live next door; it was a lovely time. Especially when we didn't have any syrup for pancakes. :knock knock:

Now I don't know who is on the block, really, except for next door neighbors and the lady across the street who tries to fine us when we don't cut our grass, etc.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I know my neighbors. On one side is a family with two daughters.. one of them is in my grade. On the other side are newlyweds who moved in last year because the guy who lived there before died.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I hardly know my neighbours, I'll recognize maybe one or two of them. I don't say hello or anything else to them, and they don't either.

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I don't really have any neighbours... At least none that are really close. Oddly enough I live in an apartment building.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I know my neighbors, we've met once. We don't visit each other or anything like that. We might wave to each other every now and then.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I know all of my neighbors. We have a block party once every year, and we hang out a lot, usually once per weekend.

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I've seen my neighbours too - hard not to when you live in an apartment, we've just never actually met, just usually walking past thier door to ours, or to the elevator.

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err, walking past them unlocking thier door

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I don't really know my neighbors that well, I've said hi and everything, but I haven't socialized with them.. ever.

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Mmm one who lives about 20 steps from my place, a townhouse, is in my chem lab! so we bug each other for help sometimes, lol

With the other neighbors, we're not on a name-by-name basis with a number of em, some are though. We do the usual greetings though!

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Ya, I "know" my neighbors. I know that the guy across the street is obssessed with mowing his lawn (2-3 times a week during the summer), watering his grass (4-5 times a week - even when it's raining), yelling at his kids, making babies (since they've moved in they've had roughly one kid a year). I haven't seen the wife in a few months and now I know why - they just had twins in February. That brings them up to a total of 5 children, the oldest one being in her first year of school (which makes her 6?).

The neighbors next door only spoke to us because they wanted to change the fence. The ones behind us only come over to complain about nonsense. The other neighbors across the street never leave their house.

My best friend during childhood was one of my neighbors, but then we kind of just stopped talking.

Damn - my neighbors actually suck.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I know my neighbors. But we don't party or anything. We just look each other in the eye and size us up. Then we wave and retreat back into our gloomy sunshiny suburban homes.

Ah, its the life.

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I actually don't know them. I've seen them when I'm coming home, getting the mail, or out washing my car, but that's about it. It's so damn hot here anyway, so no one is outside to begin with. And the whole idea about knowing your neighbors and they'll be there to protect you or to call the cops if they see someone breaking into your house or something is bullshit. Hell, they're probably at work or something too, and what, like they got nothing better to do all day then sit at their windows watching your house? Just hire a house sitter, who'll probably steal all your shit anyway, yea?

I've thought about getting to know them, maybe baking them some cookies or something and bringing it to their house, but, ahh, fuck it. I've got other things to do.

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Well, I know them fairly well, but not super well. The people across the street are very strange though. They leave and come home in the most unexpected times (like 4am in the morning) or something like that. They also never come outside to talk with anyone - very antisocial.

Kinda suspicious if you ask me. Maybe a drug operation? :X

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I've met both of my neighbors. Know their names and talk occasionally. But do I really know them as I know a friend? I think not. We socialize about this and that, but I don't really know them too well. We help each other watch over our houses, but that's about it.

I think it's good to have distances with your neighbors. You stay out of my business, I stay out of your business. Don't get me wrong, you can be acquaintences or close buddies, but not every neighbors are willing to be one.

FELIPE NO

I've lived here for what, 12 years now? I haven't bothered to socialize with my neighbours based on the fact that my house is surrounded by a block of flats on the right side, and two larger apartments on the other side. People don't generally stay for more than 6 months.

And most are them are indians, so.

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So, I've been living in many different areas, and I've had both experiences. When we lived in Calgary...

Quite interesting, as I've yet to find my community that open. Most of the time it's just drive into your garage, close the door, and in you go. No talking.

There's the occassional person walking the dog, and perhaps smiling hi, but not much.

Actually sometimes during the summer I'm outside with my garage door open and doing some airbrushing from model kits. I guess this is some sort of attraction as usually guys will come stop by and ask what I'm doing. I don't mind talking to them I guess, as long as they don't TOUCH MY FREAKING STUFF. ;_;...

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