Do you mix with your neighbours much ?

[inej]

I was shocked today to here that a work colleague of mine as lived in the same street for 20 years and only know's one neighbour in her street. It used to be a time when we used to look out for each other but as the world gotten that bad we don't know who we live by .Can you honestly say you know your neighbours ? Or is it now getting that we keep ourselves to ourselves ?

[Sozzie]

We moved here nearly two years ago and we look out for each others houses when on holiday, (taking in post etc) on one side they are an older couple and are always ready to chat, which I like.

In the winter when you are at work all week you don`t get to speak to anyone for weeks on end ! All in all though my neighbours are lovely.

[SaxyJag]

We've been like this in all the houses we've lived in, although it's fair to say we've been on good terms with most and only had real problems with one obnoxious s*d.

Our current neighbourhood is brilliant, though. The bloke next door has become a really good friend. We've borrowed each other's cars, drank each other's beer and have keys to each other's house.

Our six houses are in the dead end section of a long road. We're all really neighbourly, all keep an eye on each other, take parcels in etc. It's one of the few places I've lived where I actually feel comfortable going on holiday and leaving the house empty for a fortnight - although I never want to these days.

[mightyWBA]

We are surrounded by houses,but I don't know any of our neighbours that well.In fact if you lined them all up I don't think I'd recognise them!

I only talk to the next door neighbour ,but he's a Wolves fan so we exchange the occasional grunt or gesture!

It's all pretty sad, the street where I grew up we all lived in each others houses,but I suppose today the roads are too busy with traffic for kids to play in,and also everybody steps from their house,into a car and back again.We are all cocooned.

[dot.hawkes]

I have been here 17 years and apart from 2 people in the street i don't really know anyone, many of the old folk have died or gone into sheltered housing, when the kids were little we were the new family in the street and the only ones whith kids! Now it is the reverse! The kids up the street still play knock and run though, guess it's a new game for every generation.

[JB]

Lived here for almost 7 years and am on good terms with all of the neighbours, without actually being in and out ouf each others houses. We take parcels in for each other, watch houses during holidays etc but we don't socialise or anything.

[laurence2]

Nearly come to blows either side of my house, so its a confident ''NO'' for me

[Lonnie]

Where I live, we have a real community spirit, we have our share of elderly people, but it makes no difference, absolutely magic, we had new neighbours a couple of years ago, and they said they'd lived in the same house for twenty years, and the first day they moved here, they said, after a converstaion, that that was more words than their old neighbours had ever spoken to them, they've become natives of our area, and join in everything. Wonderful.

[electricblue]

My exact neighbours,no way,but others on our row and opposite us then yeah get on fine!!

[feebal]

When I was growing up my family were itinerants so it was a fairly communal atmosphere all the time sitting round a fire. Now I live in a bedsit I can go weeks without seeing another soul.

There was an old man who lived downstairs and it got so sometimes we'd say hello when I popped out to get some milk and we passed on the stairs. Once he invited me in for a cup of tea and we watched the football results together.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen him for a while and there's a smell in the hall.

[PatriciaH]

Know a lot of the neighbours, got mrs "bucket" accross the way from us- candlelit suppers in the front room with the curtains open and the lights on,wouldnt dream of carrying the shopping in herself- she waits in the car for him to come out and take it all in...most of the other neighbours are nice-lol

[Greedyfly]

Lived in my street 5 years and I know not one of my so called neighbours I couldnt even tell you if they lived on my street by indentity parade - its kinda sad that people are so busy with there lives these days that they dont notice these every day things.

[davver]

I suppose in 'days gone by' people who lived next to each other would have worked at the same places too, and there were fewer holidays abroad so time was spent at local sports clubs etc or in the parks. Churches were probably places where one would see one's neighbours.
I am actually a student so only living in the street for a year. From what we can make out there from the newsletter that comes through the door there's a pretty sound neighbourhood watch group and our immediate neighbours are very nice - tolerant of our parties at least. It's difficult to get chatting to people and they're often surprised the first few times but a cheery 'afternoon' works wonders in small doses - I even managed to get a smile out of the recluse who lives over the road last week! And we suspect she kidnaps the men who come to read her meter and keep them in her basement - why else buy such a lot of food every day if she lives alone? The mystery continues!

[robbo82]

I live in a street called Ramsay Street. Here, all the neighbours are here for one another. That, in my opinions is when good neighbours become good friends.

[sense4all]

I am not a "live in each others pocket type of person", b I operate an if the door is unlocked let yourself into the house, and give us a shout arrangement- with the neighbours! If the door is locked - tough I'm doing something and I don't wish to be disturbed -Sorry! We look out for each other, if you want milk sugar etc fine , post , dog-walking, house obs for wrong uns during holidays - not a problem Key holders and alarm codes for each other. All except for one family, well there's always one i'n't there?

[Quizmonster]

I am absolutely confident that I will never be murdered. Why? Because - as you must have noticed on news bulletins - victims of murder seem invariably to live in "close-knit communities".
Today, I inhabit one of the "loosest-knit" communities I've ever lived in. I know the first names of my immediate neighbours on either side and that's about it, though I've lived here for twenty years.
As others suggest above, my childhood could scarcely have been more different. Then, everybody knew everybody else within about a half mile radius, which represented a heck of a lot of people. Of course, fathers worked in the same places and mothers all stayed home, so everyone had far more in common.

[barneyboo]

I was bullied at school and am so scared that I haven't been off the end of our drive (only with mum in car) since I left fifteen years ago. Our neighbours didn't even know I still lived there. A bit sad really !!!.