Do you talk to your neighbours?

That's the most anxious/millenial/2020 thread you'll see today.

I'm not mad on the bland conversation with people you partially know. An amount is required when you live in a city but I have to say I dread the covid chats with neighbours.

The same conversation over and over. If they haven't spotted me sometimes I just cross the road.

Some lovely neighbours thankfully they would all take in package for you etc as well putting out bins.
We also have spare keys of two sets of neighbours and vice versa.
The two houses on either side I would just say hello too but no animosity
Here about 5 years a really normal Dublin terrace street.

I lived in a big apartment complex for about 7 years barely knew anyone to even say hello too

Depends on my mood.

dont see the point in going out of your way to get on their good side. chances are you will annoy the neighbours by building an extension, having a party, or making noise. like alot of annoying things in the world that we have to put up with, neighbours are just one of them.

Neighbors to my left are extremely sound, young couple early 40’s with 3 young kids, 11-16... Bump into them in the park and out in the garden the odd time and always very natural and easy to talk to, nice, kind, good humored people.

Neighbors to my right are a nice elderly couple in their early 80’s, they will say hello in passing but keep to themselves otherwise.

I live in a small estate with mixture of young and old. All pretty civil and quiet.

Lately we've had a few new additions to the estate and they seem obsessed with organising "events".

Street parties, getting a food van to visit estate and other gatherings.

This is a pretty bland estate, not some hipster area like Stonybatter.

Anyone else seeing this?

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I live in a small estate with mixture of young and old. All pretty civil and quiet.

Lately we've had a few new additions to the estate and they seem obsessed with organising "events".

Street parties, getting a food van to visit estate and other gatherings.

This is a pretty bland estate, not some hipster area like Stonybatter.

Anyone else seeing this?

Similar here... we used to have a residents association but when the people involved got old or passed away it died. A few new young families have now taken up the baton, there is a Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp group for all the goings on...I have to say it’s a good and positive thing.

An example, the county council had really slacked off on things like grass cutting, doing the verges, maintaining the big green, you might see it done twice a year. The odd tree looks like it needs some branches removed or trimmed as they hit cars if they are attempted to be parked under them.

Guys in the group suggested that everyone with a grass verge outside their gate might spend 30 minutes every two weeks cutting the grass and doing the verge / border. They organized for flowerbeds to be planted on the four corners of the big green.. everyone in the group can see the fruits of the labor with loads of pics of the work being done and the finished product. It’s encourages people to get involved as it looks like fun, is fun and creates a really nice inclusive atmosphere regardless of if you are new, an old stager or otherwise...

They organize a summer bbq, Halloween party / trick or treat etc.... good stuff.

We'd be quite neighbourly with the houses close by. It's a pretty quiet estate.

I heard a great story lately, new neighbours (a couple) moved in and they really were keeping to themselves but one day they were walking down the path and saw some neighbours coming their way, they hopped over a wall through briers and bushed to get away from them lol a lot of people have become very unsocial and its sad, to much facebook and phones have people ruined. im surprised people can even become part of a couple these days they are so anti social.

Yes. I've been living here for 10 years and know many of them, to differing degrees and for different reasons.

There are a couple of street parties that the neighbourhood association and community centre arrange every year and I've been helping with Halloween. We make a haunted laneway, do arts and crafts with the children and run a competition for the best decorated (front of) house and garden. We also design and distribute a flyer so who ever wants to take part in giving trick or treats can stick it in their window so that families know they're welcome to knock on the door. It's really fun.

Otherwise, I'm very close to 2 of them in particular on my street and see them at least once per week socially (but borrowing cups of sugar etc every other day ). My first went to stay with one of them when I was having my second. 2 more have children that play with my children so they're in and out of the house a bit. The neighbours on either side of us we're on small chat terms with. Then there's 4 or 5 more that I meet up with walking the dog.

It's been really lovely, especially during lockdown, to know that I have people I can call on, and to know that people feel like they can rely on me. With the first 2 families, we had a kind of self isolated "cell". None of us were at the office and we barely had to leave the house, because we did eachother's grocery shopping. Very handy for us especially, because ours are small and couldn't be left alone, and work days were pretty full on with no childcare. We could pop over to eachother to get a breather from the house or if we didn't feel like cooking one night. I also reached out to my more elderly neighbours to make sure they had everything they wanted and they were fine too, which I think goes to show what a tight knit community we have here.