Do you know your neighbor’s names?

Do you know your neighbor’s names?

  • Yes

    Votes: 67 57.3%

  • No

    Votes: 50 42.7%
  • Total voters
    117
Cocksman

Cocksman

Member
living in my suburban home for 3 years now. Couldn't tell you my neighbor's names on either side of my house or directly across the street from me.
 
I got the opposite experience.

Lived in a few condos when I started out. Shitloads of people you see all the time. Knew one person's name. Oddly enough she's cool and added each other to FB!

Been living in a house for 10 years. I know the names of way more neighbours around me, I even know some of their parent's names since they visit so often and even went to one of their weddings! No doubt living in a house has way more friendly people.
 
My neighbour mows my hedge as we both share it. Despite having to clean up the mess he leaves behind, we're cool as our families are longtime neighbours.
 
Nope, I don't bother with them.
You don't know who is the crazy person next to you.
Your neighbor could be a serial killer, and you wouldn't know about it.
It's much better to not get involved with them.
 
feynoob said:
Nope, I don't bother with them.
You don't know who is the crazy person next to you.
Your neighbor could be a serial killer, and you wouldn't know about it.
It's much better to not get involved with them.
Click to expand...
My neighbours are great.

Helped me move stuff, mow my lawn and snowplow my driveway, helped me with his van pick up new furniture I bought etc.... Another neighbour gave me tip when I moved to the area (first time living in a house) about tips on weed control, patio stones. He even helped boost my car when the battery died. I knocked on his door for help. Wife said he was half asleep. Next thing you know he's up and says he'll be over in 5 minutes. Done. He probably went back to bed.

I'm single and had the least amount of experience in a house. So in return I get people free shit from work and I'll mow their lawn. I load up boxes of stuff and just hand it out. To me, it's useless to have so much shit I get and it's really just $30-40 worth of stuff. But free is free and people love it. Just like I appreciate a helping hand in return when I cant handle it by myself.
 
Last edited:
What's weird about it to me is that I live much closer to all my neighbors than the neighborhood I grew up in because it's all town houses with shared walls but I don't know ANY of my neighbors except one guy: I don't know his name but he beat on my door with a hammer due to perceived noise but he never introduced himself.

Reddit - Dive into anything

reddit.com reddit.com
 
Last edited:
Yep, I know all the neighbours around me. We have each other's phone numbers/WhatsApp and will visit each other's homes every now and again.

Nothing like bonding with your neighbours like building fences around each other's homes together 😂
 
ahtlas7 said:
House across the street is full of college girls. Sometimes we win in life.
Click to expand...
spying.jpg
 
Only a few, mostly the ones that have been living in my building for XX years. And if I didn't have a dog I wouldn't really meet some of the newer neighbors.
 
I know the names of my neighbours across the street, but the guy to the left of me is "The Dutchman" and to the right we have "The Incel".
 
Yes, ussually better to know your neighbors and have them look out for you and vice versa, assuming they are good people.
 
Cocksman said:
living in my suburban home for 3 years now. Couldn't tell you my neighbor's names on either side of my house or directly across the street from me.
Click to expand...
Yeah, pretty much the same here as well. I do know one, but that's about it. He's diagonally across from us. We met several times years ago when his sons were shooting bee-bees at our garage door, and other lovely pranks. He's a good guy, though. His twins are a-holes (think they both had crushes on my daughter). His oldest is a respectable young man; ended up a state trooper. Good kid.

The folks to our left are nice people, but I've only met them once, don't remember their names. But they're quiet and considerate toward us. Kids to the right hate us. My dog escaped one day out of a hole in our fence and scared their baby. I don't hold it against 'em. I probably would've reacted the same way. He came storming over cursing ultimatums. I think they got over it, though. He now mows a little extra on our side to help out.

There is also one lady who walks everyday. My wife and I always try to wave and smile at her. My wife, though, knows a few other folks around because she also walks the neighborhood each day. She tells me about some of the older folks and dogs she stops to talk to, etc.

I guess, what I initially said isn't totally true, then. We do seem to be at least acquainted with a few folks in our subdivision. But we've been here, I don't know, over 10 years.
 
I have an old lady on one side whose a wee star and 2 guys on the other side who are absolute legends, proper neighbours, always thoughtful, generous and really good craic to boot, they also throw proper "grown up" dinner parties and make incredible food. I'm lucky I live in a really leafy/forestry type area so between us all we have big hedges and trees acting as boundary lines so you can be in your drive or out back and it's totally private so no obligation to chat if you didn't want to.

I love the fact that the wife and I can come back from town on a sat nite, walk past their house and if there is a light is on we'll call in for a few night caps that usually ends with us leaving in the early hours.

I would add it's great to know your neighbours well, makes it handy to borrow things, checking on each others houses when the others away, we each have keys and know alarm codes for the others house, there are many many benefits to being close with your neighbours
 
Last edited:
The two below me, yep. None of us are rentals, which is rare for where I am in NW London. Not so sure on either side, as they are mostly rentals. Everybody seems fairly chill, though. Don't have any issues with noise - other than the natural amount you get in a city. Glad I'm top floor though - especially in this weird September heatwave we're having. My terrace is actually worth having right now!
 
Last edited:
In the five years I've rented this house I can count on one hand the number of times I've interacted with my neighbors.
It's a golfing community, at 46 I'm the "young punk" in the neighborhood.
 
I know any of my immediate neighbors. I find it odd to not know the people surrounding you. If you have children you should have a good bead on the personalities of the people around you.
 
In an apartment building it is not usual to know them. In a small family home area, garden on garden, i'd sqy it is common to know.
 
Yes, we have great neighbors on our cul de sac. We all look out for each other, one guy decorates everyone's house at Christmas. We want a bigger house but know we have been spoiled and won't find a better street.
 
The next two houses on either side and another couple across the street...kid next door basically wants to live here now, which is super annoying but they're all pretty nice. There's one couple across the street who look like they're about our age, but they never wave or say hello or anything, and we're not the only ones to notice so meh.
 
Yes and no because I'm bad at remembering names. And only a handfull+ which I should know lol. At least I have a good relationship with most around my house (flat)
 
I recently bought a house last year, and basically ALL of my neighbors are really nice. Turns out one of them is even the lead singer in a huge rock band. I've made a point to try and remember everyone's names, even though I'm generally awful at remembering such.

I even went out of my way to make fresh squeezed lemonade for one of my neighbors yesterday after seeing him working outside in the heat. But then he left before I could give it to him 😭
 
Last edited:
Yeah, we have great neighbors in our corner of our subdivision. We have two kids, which really gets you to know your neighbors quickly.
We also have several retired folks that are always outside doing yardwork, so you end up talking with them as well.
There are a few houses that are rented out throughout our neighborhood, and they almost all skew weird as hell!
 
The neighbors behind me grow lavender. And my kids do stuff with them.

my neighbors in front of me are retired musicians and toured and sang with the likes of Tina turner and many other musical groups. The wife has Alzheimer's so I only talk to the husband most of the time.
 
Live in an up-down duplex in a big city. The neighbors in the house next door are practically family to us. Our downstairs neighbors we know by name but they don't speak a lot of English so we don't really socialize with them much.

Neighbors on the other side of the house I couldn't pick out of a line up though. Not totally sure I've even seen them.
 
My wife might.

My neighbours have 2.2 children and half a dog.





I really have to get out of this average neighborhood.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

  • Poll
Do you pick your nose?
2
50
762
ForAcademicPurposes replied
  • Poll
How do you like your steak cooked?
2 3
130
1K
gimmmick replied
Are you a good neighbor? Do you have good neighbors?
28
449
Magister replied
Do you day drink on your days off?
2 3
102
4K
Nocty replied
  • Poll
Do you put pennies in your penny loafers?
2
56
2K
Days like these... replied
Top Bottom