Community Chat

[halfpint1]

I have lived here 17 years. Know a few but it took awhile but just to say hello. Not what they do for a living etc. The house in another city we had lived 34 years. I knew the to say hello. I would walk the around the 4 blocks.with the dog. My cat would also follow. Most of them were older and when we left some of them had died already. Here I don't know half of them since there is only one outlet.

[05gage25]

I love my neighbors!!  We are best friends. Both of them are named Pam...lol. One I have been best friends with for 20 years and the other one about 3 years because that's when she moved in. Both are widows and we are all in our 60's. We go shopping together and out to eat several times a month. We also sit on our back decks several nights a week and chat....sometimes with wine, beer or mixed drinks. We have such fun together!! Two of us are retired, and the other works 4 days per week. Best of all, we keep each other young!! I guess I have a thing for friends named Pam. My friend Pam of 20 years and I also had another best friend, named Pam, for many years, and she passed away a few years ago. My only sister-in-law is also named Pam!! All of our other neighbors are very nice, too. No problems with anyone....thank goodness!!  

[homedecor1]

honestly I know I have neighbors but I never see them - they are all much older & I don't think they come out much because of 1) the horrible heat 2) sick or 3) maybe they don't live there anymore!

Then, they are mostly snowbirds.  If the realtor had told us or I had known moving to this part of the community I would never bought here.  I think we are the only one in this complex who are full-time.

I had wonderful friends & neighbors for the important years when my children were growing up.  

[ECBG]

Our neighborhood of twenty-five homes is incorporated.  There are some I haven't met since I retired from teaching and started working in retail which means "Saturday".  I was social chairman for years.

 We had a early summer picnic as well as a holiday dinner in January at a resturant.  It got more and more difficult to find a room for the dinner and they voted just to do the picnic.

[Retiredonthebeach]

Hello, my hubby and I just retired 6 mo ago and up and decided to buy a travel trailer and move to the coast. we live in a RV park next to the beach. we had a 3bdrm rental full of our things we acumulated over the 46 yrs together, and sold It all and left. we love it here, and our neighbors. we're all older, and looking out for each other. 

[DiAnne]

I live in an older neighborhood of custom homes.  We all have pretty small lots as we are stair stepping down to a large lake.  When I moved in here about 25 years ago I was the youngest one in the neighborhood - now I think I am the oldest one!  There are young children everywhere which I love to see.  I don't socialize with my neighbors but we all pull together when there is a problem (like power outage from windstorm, very unusual snow storm, etc).  I loved my old neighbors and also love my newer neighbors.  

[haddon9]

We've been here for more than 25 years and bought the house new.  Several of my neighbors are original owners too.

In the beginning we all had young kids and became somewhat close.  Over the years we've drifted apart a bit but we still get together for various occasions...weddings (now that the kids are grown), graduation parties, etc.

I live on a cul de sac and every Halloween for about 18 years or so several of my neighbors on our street get our lawn chairs, drinks, a rolling cart, candles and our candy stash to give out to trick or treaters while we have our own little party...we just call the kids over and it beats answering the door every few minutes!  I'm sure we'll do it again this year!

While I'm not super close friends (as in socializing often) with the people on my street, as neighbors I have to say they are the best!

[FrostyBabe1]

I live in a 4 unit condo. I have an end unit, and I'm casually friendly with the gal who is in the other end unit. In between, the neighbors are extremely nosy. They also complain about everything. They're related, and I suspect that they don't have much of a circle of friends. They do have health problems, and I try not to be rude, but I did finally have to bluntly tell them to stop monitoring my activites. Didn't work, so I largely ignore them. 

[Lucky Charm]

I love knowing my neighbors and we're pretty friendly with all of them.

We own several homes in different states and we know almost all the neighbors surrounding us.

I like the camaraderie of neighbors and couldn't imagine not speaking to them.

We built a custom home inland about 12 years ago on 4 acres.  There's about 4 acres separating our house and the neighbors on one side.  Huge pond and woods on the other side.  Very pretty property, but it's not even really a neighborhood. 

I didn't like it once the kids were all gone.  My parents stay there now for most of the winter and love it.  We chose to live winters in our tiny beach cottage.  6 feet between our house and our neighbors.  Love it, love them.

[I am still oxox]

Wow I think I have the same neighbor - she is a yenta or what ever the Italian equivalent is.

When my hubby first had his horrible infection last June, she saw in being loaded into an ambulance, she was "yelling" out the window what happened.

I called her later and let her know he had a massive infection and was transported back the hospital in the city where he had his original surgery.

That was the last I heard from her, she didn't bother to call or knock on my door to see how he was. My other half is so annoyed with her over this.

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@FrostyBabe1 wrote:

I live in a 4 unit condo. I have an end unit, and I'm casually friendly with the gal who is in the other end unit. In between, the neighbors are extremely nosy. They also complain about everything. They're related, and I suspect that they don't have much of a circle of friends. They do have health problems, and I try not to be rude, but I did finally have to bluntly tell them to stop monitoring my activites. Didn't work, so I largely ignore them. 

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