Community Chat

[songbird]

I don't know what it is, but there is something with trucks and their owner neighbors.  Why so many.  Oh I know they have the usual plumbers/construction white van.  But they have to have 4 more Ford trucks.  One of them is for show and another to endlessly build and destroy.  They have their garage just for the that along with the battle flag of Northern Virginia. (that's the actual name of the Confederate Flag most folk see but don't know the name like my neighbor.)  My neighbor stuck a basketball net just on the exact edge of the pavement across from our driveway.  So we have to honk the horn because we don't want the 25-30 chldren playing in front of that to be run over.  When we asked him to move it, he says it's not his.  Some guy stuck it there.  What a liar...He's such a swell guy.

[Tinkrbl44]

Familiar, but not overly friendly.   We'll look out for each other, accept boxes if someone isn't home.   I occasionally shop for an eldery lady a few doors down.  

The people I know best are the other "dog people" who I see when we are walking the dogs.    The dogs want to stop and sniff each other, and we chat.  

[CANDLEQUEEN]

On one side, it is a husband and wife, we speak and sometimes chat  outside, we know each other's names and a little bit about our families, so we are friendly enough, but no we do not get together for Dinners, or cookouts,etc......

.On the other side of us live two sisters, older and again we are friendly with them, chat outside from time to time, but do not get together with them...

..I was real friendly years ago with a neighbor when my girls were younger, she had a son the same age as my daughter, so they would play together, and at the time I was working part time and she was a stay at home Mom, and she got so pesty, it was to the point that she would see me pulling into the driveway and come running over, to talk.

It really got to be just too much, well they ended up moving to a larger home, and several years later, so did we, and now we live very close to each other once again, but now our children are grown, and we are grandparents and she and I both work fulltime, so we may see each other every so often on the walking trail, and stop and chitchat for a few minutes, but I prefer to not be that close with neighbors-hard to un-do if they get too pesty......   

[qvcfreak]

@ccassaday, aren’t you glad you left the neighbor with the unkept yard. One of my next door neighbors is awful. She is a single mom with 3 kids. She speaks to no one, doesn’t even wave or smile. Their yard is a mess. The builders put grass in the front only and hers was over taken by weeds. It’s awful. I recently planted oleanders to create a fence between the two yards. 

[jeanlake]

For 24 years we raised our family in a lake community with single family homes. We started out as one of the youngest couples on the block and aged in place. Lots of busy, double income, young families around us when we moved this year. New home is on short cul-de-sac with patio homes, mantenance provided. Back to being one of the youngest couples on the block! Great people around us. Friendly. While we aren't retired yet, majority of our neighbors are and they always have time to chat in the yard. I'm a part of a book club, monthly ladies lunch, social get-togethers in summer and holidays. They have time for landscaping and enjoy it. Good atmosphere here. Close to a creek so deer pass our home daily.        

[michigangirl723]

Our next door neighbors moved in a couple months ago, and we don't have a relationship. But several couples/people in the neighborhood we are very good friends with....football Sundays, game nights, etc. I used to live in an area with no neighbors...nice to have friends so close now!

[Shorty2U]

Friendly to say hello and some words to our next door neighbors who just moved in 2 months ago (This is the 3rd couple we have next door, since I moved here almost 11 years ago when DH and I married. This was my husbands house first, he had it built).

Our other "former next door neighbors" have been friendly like the ones now. However, the other neighbors in this country development, are not friendly here. When we got married and I moved here i tried saying hello, waving, etc. They're well.. snobs. I gave up! lol.

It was very weird to me having been from the city my whole life where everyone was friendly and we all knew each other (still have friends from the city since I was a kid). My daughter says the same about unfriendly people where she lives too now in the suburbs (my kids grew up in the city like me). My brother says the same about where he lives.

Conclusion, I think people in the city are friendlier "from my experience"

[Financialgrl]

I'm new to an over 55 community.   This place has been here 10 years with the ability to still build a new home.  What I love - even though there are lots of activities you can attend, you are left alone to attend as many or few as you want.  I know those on either side of me and a few across the street.  Knowing them means I know their names, do the obligatory hi/bye wave but mostly I stop and talk when I'm out walking each day.  

[TaylorBrown]

I know all the nieghbors on my end of the stret.  Some of them I go visit and chit-chat with in their home or mine.  Others, I speak and wave to but don't go visit.  A few of them I know because their children go to school with mine.  I have one neighbor who watches our street from their garage.  She's a smoker, but doesn't do it in her home.   She reminds me of Pearl from the show 227 that would sit in the windowsill and watch the street.

[bewise]

I GUESS IT TAKES ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE TO BE NEIGHBORS.I HAVE ONE WHO AFTER 19YRS LIVING HERE,STILL KNOWS EVERYONES BUSINESS.AS THE YEARS PASS I TRY TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY,BUT SHE ALWAYS COMES UP.YES,ITS NICE TO HELP AND WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER.THEN WE HAVE E-MAILS THAT JUST SAY TOO MUCH.