Are you on very friendly terms with neighbors?

Zombies ate my neighbors.

We moved house last week. We were settled where we were but our LL decided to sell up. We were very friendly with the neighbours on either side of us. We had keys to each others houses in case of emergency and would regularly pop over to each other. The small kids on one side would pop in most days to play with our puppy.

Now we live on an estate where we don't know anyone and the other day when the puppy was playing with a neighbours dog, the neighbour came out roaring at my pup, even though I was keeping an eye on them and his dog is a lot bigger. It's amazing how different two places can be in the same town.

I'm surrounded by eldery people mainly.

I would consider myself on friendly terms with them, i help with their shopping or leaving out the bins. Even tech support for most of them. A lot of them got scared after a group of people had moved out of the row and stolen everything from the house they were renting and loads of stuff from the gardens around so I gave them all my phone number if they are ever worried about anything.

There have been other times when i wouldn't have a clue who my neighbours were or anything though but i'll always have a smile and a wave for them

wazky wrote: »

"High hedges make good neighbours"

at home or neighbours complained that the trees at our house were to high and that it blocked the sun, so we thought ok we'll trim the tops. Then the feckers wouldn't let us in to their garden to get better access and make the job safer or to clean up. Then they complained about the mess.

They were dicks though, we had donkeys and they used to dump the grass cuttings in the field with them. We told them to stop (apparently you shouldn't give fresh cut grass to donkeys) and they didn't stop instead they put shards of glass in with the cuttings.

Dublin_Mom wrote: »

I'm not, and I think it is disappointing.
Not that I am entirely blameless, we have had a couple of issues over the years over things like parking, and I am quite a confrontational person, ie not the kind who will just roll over and be walked on.

It's a little off-topic, but usually when I hear someone say, "I'm not one to let people walk all over me", what that actually means is, "I walk all over others so they can't do the same to me", that is, they approach every possible confrontation with the aim of coming out of it victorious, rather than coming out of it with a solution that's beneficial to all involved.
That may not apply to you, but if it does, it's something worth thinking about in terms of how you approach disagreements.

Anyway, on topic, yeah we get on pretty well with our neighbours. Just this morning our next door neighbour knocked on the door cos she couldn't start her car and needed to get it to the NCT. So I went and got my jump leads and got it started. I also told her to leave it running for at least 30 minutes or it's going to fail the NCT

It's mostly down to my wife tbh. If it was down to me, we'd only be on greeting terms with our neighbours, but she's gotten to know a few of them. Having a child and a dog helps, because you bump into other parents and dog/pet owners on a regular basis and get to know them.

danniemcq wrote: »

at home or neighbours complained that the trees at our house were to high and that it blocked the sun, so we thought ok we'll trim the tops. Then the feckers wouldn't let us in to their garden to get better access and make the job safer or to clean up. Then they complained about the mess.

They were dicks though, we had donkeys and they used to dump the grass cuttings in the field with them. We told them to stop (apparently you shouldn't give fresh cut grass to donkeys) and they didn't stop instead they put shards of glass in with the cuttings.

I sincerely hope you spent the next two years gathering donkey sh*t and turned their hous into a mud hut!