Do you talk to your neighbours

SimonLynch · 03-03-2014 11:52PM

Specialun wrote: »

Well AH do you?

In my home place in the country we knew all our neighbours well..in the city where i am now there dicks and dont even say hello

Do you speak to your neighbours...

Doesn't sit well with your moderating in the bored thread WUMing?

Legs.Eleven · 03-03-2014 11:55PM

My neighbours are lovely. Fast talkin, salt-o-de-eart inner city Madridlenos who I have trouble understanding sometimes but are always friendly and polite to me.

FizzleSticks · 04-03-2014 12:07AM

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Luicefer the Second · 10-03-2014 04:04PM

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Its AH what do you expect ? One could say the same regarding the majority of threads here.

Aglomerado · 10-03-2014 04:15PM

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

I say hello if i see my neighbours immediately next to me! The family on the right are very nice. The family on the left are miserable, it costs nothing to have manners yet it is like getting blood from a turnip getting a response from either the man or his wife. I once said hello to the man as i was getting in to my car and he was getting something out of his boot, he looked up and obviously heard me and said nothing and continued what he was doing so i said "I SAID HELLO" a bit louder and he grunted something at me! The wife is no better! Dickheads

I live next to a couple like this for 5+ years now. The first time I "met" them was in a similar circumstance to the one above, I waited to say hello and introduce myself. They almost ran in the door rather than exchange pleasantries! I don't even know their kid's name. It's sad!

Paybel · 10-03-2014 04:27PM

One of my neighbours is pretty sound, but I find her 5 year old daughter a bit annoying. She goes around on a bike and stares in to my place. Another neighbour only talks to me when his ex complains to him about not being able to get the visitor spot nearest to his front door (they have a kid together). He comes around asking if I know who owns the car etc...

I try to avoid them most of the time!

Sadderday · 10-03-2014 04:28PM

my neighbours a pure weirdo

Ush1 · 10-03-2014 04:32PM

Neighbours on one side are really nice. Middle edged with sorta early twenties late teens children. Friendly and very welcoming.

Neighbours on other side are a bit different. A good bit older and less polite. When they do talk they then sound a bit mental also but sure they aren't the worst truth be known.

sopretty · 10-03-2014 04:33PM

Nope. Though I'm intimately acquainted with the state of their relationship, given the almost nightly blazing rows that they have!!!! According to 'herself', 'himself' is 'nothing but a fooking scumbag'. And then they must just go to sleep haha.

Bacchus · 10-03-2014 04:38PM

Yes, lovely people too. We never see anybody in the houses on one side of us but the people in the 3 houses on the other side of us are dead sound. They're all a bit older 40-60 and are owners rather than renters like us. We've lived there 4 years now though. Would have chat out the back over the summer with them every now and again. They're even in some of our wedding photos as my wife left the house

Just this morning I was sitting in my car waiting for the ice to thaw from the windshield and along came one of my neighbours with a bucket of water to clear it off

He was just out walking his dog, spotted me and popped back inside to get some water. Never had neighbours like that in all my renting life. It's nice to have

Sadderday · 10-03-2014 04:40PM

Bacchus wrote: »

Yes, lovely people too. We never see anybody in the houses on one side of us but the people in the 3 houses on the other side of us are dead sound. They're all a bit older 40-60 and are owners rather than renters like us. We've lived there 4 years now though. Would have chat out the back over the summer with them every now and again. They're even in some of our wedding photos as my wife left the house

Just this morning I was sitting in my car waiting for the ice to thaw from the windshield and along came one of my neighbours with a bucket of water to clear it off He was just out walking his dog, spotted me and popped back inside to get some water. Never had neighbours like that in all my renting life. It's nice to have

Sounds like he wants to play with your banjo string

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 10-03-2014 04:43PM

Live in an apartment and have said hello to the lad that lives there once. We were both gee eyed and falling our respective doors at 4 in the morning. He gave me some chips. Sound lad.

Dbarry55 · 10-03-2014 04:43PM

Yes im living in a housing estate in the country and i talk to and drink with my neighbours a lot, in the summer, will often text in winter as kids would be in bed and what not, didnt speak as much to my neighbours when i lived in dublin.

knarkypants · 10-03-2014 04:48PM

kneemos wrote: »

One of my neighbours seems to be devoutly religious,every other night I hear her shouting "Oh God" over and over.

LOL sounds similar to my neighbours. On one side is an auld bint that is massively into religion...and then the auld one on the other side has many male visitors throughout the night. I often get woken out of my sleep to men banging on her door and windows, roaring for her to "let me in"! :pac:

:D

I always say I live in the middle of the saint and the sinner!:D

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 10-03-2014 05:35PM

I live in a block of five apartments and we really just say 'hi, nice day' type stuff if we meet on the stairs. It's a fairly new estate and if you don't have kids not that easy to get to know the neighbours. My mother lives just ten minutes drive away, on a much older road and the difference is unbelievable. There's always a neighbour popping in, or stopping to chat to you on the road, or waving to you when you're getting into your car. I wish I could afford to move somewhere like that. Ah well.

11-03-2014 09:18AM

Not much contact with my neighbours when I can help it. There really is only two to speak of.

The first is a completely fundamentalist Christian nutjob. The kind that hisses and curses us in the street for our anti god alternative sexual life style. We have even caught him conducting one man ceremonies in the front of our house or from his back garden. Which normally involves him flicking holy water from some antique bronze flicker thing he has into our gardens. And my meditation group includes a local priest and a local trainee priest whom he feels compelled to accost on the way into and out of our property in an attempt to stop them socialising with us and our evil influence.

The other neighbour is a quiet lonely guy in his mid 40s who seems to develop an interest in telescope star gazzing every summer. Amazingly this interest comes around the same time as my girlfriends start sunbathing in the garden or using the jacuzzi. And amazingly he appears to think he can find most stars during day light. Often with his telescope pointed down rather than up - and with the tip of the telescope poking through closed curtains. Go figure.

Ted_YNWA · 11-03-2014 09:29AM

Rarely see my neighbours. Better off too.

I've got clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

conorhal · 11-03-2014 09:58AM

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Rarely see my neighbours. Better off too.

I've got clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

You should give the case of Kitty Genovese a read.

She was stabbed in her own neighbourhood as 37 of her neighbours that heard the crime occur closed the curtians, and nobody, not one single person called the police. This fact enabled her killer to return to the crime scene 10 minutes after she had been stabbed to finish the job while she pleaded for help in the lobby of her apartment building.
If you think that the reason that nobody called was that this was some neighbourhood with a 'troubled relationship with the police' it wasn't, one sniffy wittness corrected a reporter by informing him that it was an 'upper-middle class' neighbourhood, not a 'middle class one'.
It's a sad indictment of how an atomised society is an uncaring one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese

Strumms · 11-03-2014 10:02AM

On one side we have elderly neighbours who are a bit reserved but will always say hello and vica versa. On the other side we have a couple in their early 40s with one kid. The kid is weird, like something out of the village of the damned. Just stares and never responds to a hello. The father seems a very quiet sort but will always have a wave or an acknowledgement. The mother who is an annoying loudmouth with either say hello or as in at the weekend completely blank you when you say hello from even 10 feet away. It's 50/50. People are ****ing weird.

lukesmom · 11-03-2014 10:20AM

Lithuanian single mother on my right, we wave and say hello, she seems like a nice person. On our left is a couple who are only in the house a month. Haven't had a wave or hello from them yet. As I was parking in my drive with my kids the other day I said hello to the guy and he just blanked me! Even though he definitely heard me. Ah well if that's the way he wants to be that's fine.

Each side of us are renting so you never know when people are gonna leave at the drop of a hat.

BillyMitchel · 11-03-2014 10:21AM

Banjo String wrote: »

Yes.

Big Ron in Cell 4F. I'm his bitch though.

Does he play with your bango string?

Badly Drunk Boy · 19-04-2014 04:56PM

I did a bit of the community-loveliness thing today (so my house wasn't dodgy-looking). I cut the grass, but before I finished, I watched a programme that I had paused earlier.

Hearing neighbourhood strimmers, I didn't go back to my lawn-mowing. When I looked out, my next door neighbour was strimming my garden!

That sounds lovely...but my lawnmower was still there. It's not as if I abandoned the idea a few months ago.

And my neighbour was strimming. Is this normal?

sopretty · 19-04-2014 04:58PM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I did a bit of the community-loveliness thing today (so my house wasn't dodgy-looking). I cut the grass, but before I finished, I watched a programme that I had paused earlier.

Hearing neighbourhood strimmers, I didn't go back to my lawn-mowing. When I looked out, my next door neighbour was strimming my garden!

That sounds lovely...but my lawnmower was still there. It's not as if I abandoned the idea a few months ago.

And my neighbour was strimming. Is this normal?

There there now.... It's perfectly normal pet. Don't you be worrying your head about them neighbours.

GET OFF YER ARSE AND FINISH MOWING THE LAWN YA LUG YA!!!!

orangesoda · 19-04-2014 05:05PM

No it's not 1814 anymore, i'm an unsociable hallion though

maxwell smart · 19-04-2014 05:12PM

Couple next door to me are quite odd.

He is FIXATED on washing his car. He takes the wheels off and washes them individually. He does this 2-3 times a week.

In between this he spends the rest of the time shouting at his wife telling her how stupid she is.

Their son speaks like.a.robot. because his parents speak to him slowly in this tone.

I have never invited them in for a drink!

sopretty · 19-04-2014 05:14PM

maxwell smart wrote: »

Couple next door to me are quite odd.

He is FIXATED on washing his car. He takes the wheels off and washes them individually. He does this 2-3 times a week.

In between this he spends the rest of the time shouting at his wife telling her how stupid she is.

Their son speaks like.a.robot. because his parents speak to him slowly in this tone.

I have never invited them in for a drink!

Are you serious like?

Mint Sauce · 19-04-2014 05:15PM

Will always say hello and a how are ya to the fella and his misses on one side of me, and visa versa. Know each others first names, and occasionally might chat for a minute or so if not rushing off some where.

Other side might just be a nod or hello.

Have neraly always had pleasent enough neighbours, never had any bother from them, and never gave them any problems.

LizzieJones · 19-04-2014 05:16PM

I can hear my neighbours through the walls. No need to talk to them.

maxwell smart · 19-04-2014 05:16PM

sopretty wrote: »

Are you serious like?

Deadly serious, do you think I should have invited them in?? Have I committed a major faux pas?

Also serious about the other stuff.

Daveysil15 · 19-04-2014 05:55PM

I have one nice neighbour that I speak to. The rest are barely out of their teens, popping babies and living on the social.

Do you talk to your neighbours

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