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Do you get along with your neighbors?

Asked by Frenchfry (7591points) August 6th, 2010

I get along with the ones to my right. They are nice Haitian family. and to my left well,they don’t speak english . So I don’t know them as well.

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Blackberry's avatar

Yes, we went out to dinner together once, and I work with my other neighbor lol. She is in the national guard, and I’m in the navy and we work in the same office.

Incinerator's avatar

I have wonderful neighbors now, but I’ve had some real ‘Neighbors from HELL’ . I could tell you some stories about mental illness in suburbia !

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

Yes,I do and am still invited to their parties ;))

aprilsimnel's avatar

I get along well enough and greet them when I see them out and about. Many of them are quite old and need home care, while their children/grandchildren circle the apartments like vultures. :/

marinelife's avatar

Right now I do. I have almost no contact with them except to see them coming and going and say hello.

In the past, I have had neighbor issues.

mYcHeMiCaLrOmAnCe's avatar

I don’t know them. I know only some people in the building, but nobody else.
there’s a guy across the street, who leaves the windows open all day, and we have to see him. he’s ugly, and sits on the balcony, only in his underwear. and he used to have a dog, but now he only talks to the dog’s house. and sometimes, when we sit on those chairs on our balcony (talking, eating, etc) he gets out just to watch us. it’s so annoying

Your_Majesty's avatar

We rarely approach and talk to each others but we respect each other. Most people/each family in my country seem to mind their own business. There are some ethnical issue in this country where one race discriminate/intimidate other race.

cookieman's avatar

Absolutely.

I have a very strict “Hey Neighbor” policy. Meaning with the exception of waving from afar and saying, “Hey Neighbor” I have no contact with them. They all seem very nice from a distance.

If I took the time to know them better, they may be wonderful or they may be a nightmare. Since I won’t be moving any time soon, I have no interest in taking that gamble.

Given the amount of empty beer bottles, four-wheelers, race cars and shirtless men interacting with them, I’m betting on “nightmare” – were I a betting man.

Truthfully, I would love to live in a neighborhood where I had a lot in common with my neighbors and they could be actual friends – but I’m pretty sure that’s a fantasy.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

@cprevite I am so with you on this (other than the intent to move part.) I live in a decent neighborhood housing-wise, but some of the things that happen in their yards makes me sometimes wonder what is happening inside of the house.

stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

Wonderfully. We frequently help each other on our farms.

CherrySempai's avatar

We moved while I was at college this year (Lived at the last house for 12 years, and they wait till I’m one month into my freshman year to buy another house…haha.) and I’ve only actually SEEN two of the neighbors. My last neighborhood had 10 houses, all of which the families had built 12 years ago, all had two kids or more, and seven of which had kids that went to the same gradeschool as me…now my family has the only kids on the block. :] I went from being the “queen of the cul-de-sac” to having utterly no idea what to do when I’m home.

So I get along with them, but I miss the old ones to no end. :]

daytonamisticrip's avatar

They dug up my dead cat

cookieman's avatar

@daytonamisticrip: So…that’d be a “no”.

YARNLADY's avatar

I barely know my neighbors. We have no quarrels with any of them, and we only know two of the nearest families by name.

pearls's avatar

I very seldom see my neighbors and when I do, we just exchange pleasantries.

Aster's avatar

It’s easy! No one around here speaks!

Berserker's avatar

@daytonamisticrip That’s some creepy shit.

I mostly get along with mine. The ones in the building are fine. The girl upstairs is friendly, outgoing, kinda annoying, but I like her. She’s nice. She’s really hyper though, she reminds me of a mouse in a labyrinth. She has tattoos, super long hair and a son who was born with just one lung. You don’t smoke in her place.

The ones next door just moved in, I haven’t talked to them much, but we say hi and stuff. They gave me and my roomate their old BBQ. We made steak. It rocked.
I think the guy got dumped by hid girlfriend like three days after moving in though, I never see him anymore, even though he confirmed that he was the new next door tenant. Someone told me that he got dumped anyways, and now this dumb looking bodybuilder guy lives with her. Everytime he looks at me it looks like he wants to slash my throat.

The fourth tenant has been there for ages. She’s afraid of bats, works the night shift and always looks depressed. She got her ass kicked by a cat once. Despite the amount of time she’s been there, she’s not very social, and neither am I. We get along fine.

The people next door are Muslims, with accents, and they’re super social and friendly. They’re constantly waving at me at six in the morn when I leave, big grins on their mouth. They always invite me to BBQ’s and parties. They’re awesome, although half the time I can’t understand what they say because of the accent. They tell me the same about my accent.

The other next doors, I have no idea who they are, seriously. I think they’re a coupla old rich yuppies who go to bed at seven in the evening and consider church picnic parties as ’‘getting wild’’, but I’m not sure. They probably think I’m a heathen goth freak who conspires with Muslims and drug dealers, but eh. They got a nicer house than everyone on the block, so right there I got pwnd served.

daytonamisticrip's avatar

They also stole our lilac bush and stole some bricks of ours to put around it, they constantly spy on us, and their loud. they have like 10 kids living there.

Berserker's avatar

Jesus Christ buddy, where the hell do you live, next to the Hewitt home? :O

perspicacious's avatar

Yes, I have great neighbors.

anartist's avatar

If you call a $10 million dollar lawsuit getting along with your neighbors, I get along just fine.

Ron_C's avatar

I travel a lot and the only neighbor that I see very often is the guy that plows my driveway. We wave and say hello but that’s it. We had a problem with one woman that was married to the guy that does my driveway. She was a drama queen, would steal checks out of neighborhood mail boxes, and call the police when my teenage kids played music too loud.

They’ve been divorced for about 10 years and my neighborhood is a very quiet place.

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