How do you feel about your next door neighbour ? Are they good people?

Hong Kong
March 9, 2011 6:51am CST
After I moved to the where I am living right now many years ago, I seldom contact with any of my neighbour and we don't even know each other's name anyway.People in this place are so cool and don't feel like to communicate with each other, but it is still okay with me. As long as there won't be any trouble, that's fine with me. what about your experience?
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@sender621 (14894)
• United States
9 Mar 11
I have to say my neighbors are good people. i am related to them. The neighbor next to them is also a good friend of the family so it is like being family with them too. i have had the experience in the past to live near neighbors that were not so kind and generous as the ones i have now. i am fortunate for my neighbors and would not trade them for the world!
• United States
9 Mar 11
I live in a small suburb and most times we do not see my neighbors at all. Even though we are so close from home to home on our small street. Most neighbors all work and are hardly around. I do know their names and they know mine but more like hello how are you if we ever run into them. I kind of like it this way too because I like to be neighborly but do not want to invite into my home. I feel that doing so they can become nosy and gossip is something I don't like. So we all are ammicably friendly but nothing more then this.
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@irene66 (1669)
• Philippines
10 Mar 11
yes, I do have contacts with my neighbors even if they are yards away from our backyard. In my country we have tight knit relationship with our neighbors. This is because we believe in the notion that they are the first to come whenever you need help. Family members do help but seldom they live near you. So neighbors are very important to us.
• Singapore
10 Mar 11
Yes that is the right concept. I totally agree with you.
• Philippines
9 Mar 11
I remember how attached I was with my neighbors when I was younger. I really considered them as my friends at that time. There were really some fun memories and being with them felt like I had more brothers and sisters than I actually have. I also remember some of our neighbors who give us food just so that we can taste something special that they've prepared on particular occasions and we do the same with them. But now, we don't have the same neighbors anymore and some of them are quite reserved in their own homes. I even see my mom missing one of our neighbors and she's still in contact with some of them. In my case though, I don't have their contact numbers anymore.
• Hong Kong
12 Mar 11
You are right , in the old day all negighbours know each other and always want to help each other as well.lthough you can never avoid the gossips among them, but when some needs rise up, they will alwyas help . Frankly speaking, I missed my frineds in my childhood since they are all my neighbours. I don't know where they re right now but the old buiding is still there.All the neighbours are gond now and I don't know where they have moved but still the emotion and memory is still in my mind.
• Slovenia
10 Mar 11
from your post I take it you live in a house, so amount of neighbours is kind of limited, so if they're not really any good or you don't get along with them, well then it's just best to not interact. however, I live in a flat which has about people in total. I could say majority of our neighbours is just pretty laid back, they don't really speak to you other than greeting you while meeting on the stairs, but or three families are kind of okay and we talk to them ocassionally. so even in a flat you may have people who're totally hold for themselves and don't really care about other people living in the same buildin. heck, some here don't even know some neighbours' names when someone asks about them. I for one love to meet new people, so I know everyone in flat, but not the way as I said that I'd interact with the majority other than saying hi when going past them, so that's about it.
• Slovenia
10 Mar 11
up there should be 60 people in a sentence, I just figured my numlock was off. sorry about that xD
@sexyice (873)
• Latvia
9 Mar 11
hello ;) I live in a house with 75 apartments. So I have many neighbors. Half of them are old people, and the most curious are those old people. I do not live in neighboring bad people, but they are curious and love the gossip. But I like the quiet life, without gossip. But I have helpful neighbors, sugar or salt can always borrow
• Hong Kong
8 Apr 11
That's the problem with old people and I hope we won't be like that when we get to their age.They have times but nobody to listen to them, so thy just wnat to talk ,talk and talk. They either loves to talk about their past glorious day ( actually it was nothing to be boost about anyway), or the bad things of other neighbour. I don't think all old people are like that but for those unhappy old people , they will always do that. I still remember when my mom was still alive,she could spent the whole night and complianting on others while washing clothes with her own hands in the kicchen during the night. The wonderful, thing was that, there was nobody listening to her but she still be able to complianting this or that for the whole night by herself. I could hardly undertsnad that.Wow, beside that I think my mom was still a good person anyway.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
11 Mar 11
I have always been lucky with my Neighbours where I have lived as they have all been great and here where I live now, I could not ask for better Neighbours and Friends
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
28 Apr 11
Hi. wildlittlefan. Well, most of my neighbors don't speak or talk to me. I usually see them when they are checking the mailbox, driving into the mobile home park, leaving out of the mobile home park, walking, or riding in my front yard. They also are in their yards doing something too. I do have one neighbor that is a guy that annoys and bugs the heck out of us. He has this strange notion that him and my husband are best buddies, but they are not. He has practically thrown himself over us so that he could be best friends with us. I am just not feeling it. No way. He will speak to me if he sees me in the open. But this guy is weird because he will be putting something in the trash can and it is very loud. By the time that I look out my front window he is watching me. So I am like, if you are busy putting something in the trash can, why are you gazing in my direction? I don't trust this guy and I never will.
@jdyrj777 (6530)
• United States
10 Mar 11
Some of my neighbors are ok others are not. The ones to the right of me we are divided by a fence and i dont know them very well nor do i want to. They are a gay couple and i find that life style disgusting. The ones in front of me are the other grandparents to my grand daughter. They are a household full of nuts. Really. They are all experts at everything without any experience. In other words know-it-alls. My ex daughter-in-law doesnt live there but she isnt quite like them so theres hope for my grand daughter that we share. The nieghbor to the left calls them hillbillies. Hes a pretty cool dude. I talk with the most. Ive given him some items and he has given me some. Trades of stuff each has but didnt use that we see the other could use. Seems we are both packrats. Always has jokes to tell.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
12 Mar 11
We only have neighbors on one side of our house now because the other neighbors had their house foreclosed back in the fall. It really is a shame too because I really liked the neighbors that are now up the street from us. Well, the neighbors that are still next door to us are just a little bit strange and I'm not sure that I care for them. The reason that I am not crazy about them is because they are constantly complaining about noise. Now, we aren't noisy people, but we do have two dogs and an antique vehicle that aren't exactly quiet things.
• United States
10 Mar 11
YES, for the most part all my neighbors are very good hard working, GOD fearing people.
@RobtheRock (2433)
• United States
13 Mar 11
Hi Wildittlefan. I'm late to this conversation because I just moved and had my phone line connected this past Wednesday. I know my new neighbors because my grandmother babysat the men when they were boys and I was a teenager. Now, there's the two men and their mother who live downstairs. When the mailman brought my mail to them, they caled and told me or brought the letter to me. The two men are loud and have all kind of visitors, but they're no trouble. The trouble was that on Thursday and Friday, something was wrong with my toilet and it leaked downstairs to their restroom. My uncle got his buddy to fix it and messed up my bathroom and used my towels. On Friday, after the toilet was supposedly fixed, the neighbor came up and told us that things were worse! So I had to put up with my uncle getting a real plumber who finally fixed the toilet. Now things are fine.
@tessa9 (1085)
• Philippines
9 Mar 11
I actually like my neighbors. Of course their are some that are nicer and whom I like better but overall they are all pretty nice. e Our town has party every now and then all year round so it's a perfect time to know each other. We have a grand party during Christmas. We have criss cringle and games. I love my town. It's like a family. The only bad thing about it is our community is so tight knit that everyone knows the good and the bad in every household. You really can't escape gossip no matter where you live.
• Hong Kong
8 Apr 11
It is good to know that you like your neighbour and many people don't.In a small community , it woule be hard to hear no gossip and as long as human exist, I think so does gossip.I think the world would be a much better place if people can do more and talk less, especailly comment on others who has nothing to do with them. However, I think it ois just a kind of haman nature after the original fall of Adam and Eve. most of the time, people don't like baout themselves but they don't wnat to talk about anything bad of themselves. In stead they prefer to talk about gossip and saying something bad to others, in doing that they just look higher than other people. in fact it is an act to show that they are so insecure in themselves and so low self-esteem to certain extend within themselves. Otherwise , why wuld they loves to share the gossip around in their own community.That's my opinion anyway.
@masang (295)
• Philippines
18 Apr 11
Our neighbors next door are good people. Their kids are also kind and friendly. In fact they are the playmates of my two kids. Although they are Moslems and we are Christians, we respect each other. We've been neighbors for almost 11 years already.
@derek_a (10874)
10 Mar 11
When we lived in the city, we had neighbours who were very noisy and inconsiderate. A few years ago though, we decided it was time to move out of the city altoghter and have come here to this rural villae, where it is so quiet and enjoyable. My next door neighbours are very pleasant people and we often have chats. _Derek
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
10 Mar 11
Hi there Wildlittlefan, Well I live in an apartment complex so I have a lot of neighbors. I am friendly to all of them but also keep to myself and don't get overly involved in their lives. It's cool. We all do watch out for each other even though we don't know each other well at all other than small talk in passing. I had one neighbor call me at work when my daughter's boyfriend was giving her a hard time and she was concerned. Last week the young girl across from me knocked on my door and borrowed my phone when she locked herself out. Another time, one tenent had lost his job and was struggling. A woman that knew the situation took up a collection of food and money to help him through. I would say that most of my neighbors are caring and good people even though I don't know them well.
@anil02 (24688)
• India
10 Mar 11
I am from India and I living in small city. So here is not this sitution as you write that seldom contact with neighbour. I have relation with every neighbour. It may be formal or informal.some are much closed to us and some are not
• Philippines
10 Mar 11
Well you are fortunate to have neighbors like them. My neighbors are very noisy, backbiters, fond of intrigues etc. Most of them don't have a job so their hobbies are backbiting. I am always their victim. I don't even go out to mingle with them, yet I'm the main character of their gossips. I believe they are envious. Envious because most of them are of low level of education, so I just don't mind them because I think that people like them would only demerit your decency.
10 Mar 11
Over about the past year i have not seen that much of my neighbour as he has been having his house fully gutted and so he has been unable to live their. A couple of months ago they finished the major work and now he has started to move things in. He also has moved his girlfriend in, i always got on well with him and i have spoken to her a few times and she seems really nice. I don't see much of him even though he is back living in his home because he works away a lot. I have never had any trouble from him and they are quite quiet so to be honest they are ideal neighbours.
@Jlyn10 (11966)
• Malaysia
10 Mar 11
Yes, my neighbours are good people, I think they are okay so long as they don't give me problems. We do talk once in a while or whenever we bump into each other outside the house. God says "Love thy neighbours", so we should.