Living with neighbors

Friendly neighbors - Neighborhood can be a pleasant experience with good understanding
India
October 28, 2011 12:47am CST
Hi ALL. Every one of us lives with neighbors. Cordiality is such an important requirement in such co habitation. If all is well, then every one enjoys co-existence and it is fun. Neighbors can be friendly, helpful or nasty. If things don't work out, it leads to long term nuisance and uneasy living. If not overly helpful or nasty, the best way could be being neutral. This happens in bigger cities where people don't have enough time to spare and every one is on their own. Yet, potential irritants and fireworks can not be ruled out. We have had neighborhood ranging from moderate friendliness to utter nuisance to uninvolved and finally to warmth & friendliness as we have been places over the years. How is your neighborhood experience? Any special incidents worth sharing?
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8 responses
• Romania
28 Oct 11
I think, if you only be nice with neighbours will be enough.
• India
29 Oct 11
That's a cool thought! Thanks.
• Philippines
28 Oct 11
Hi Pushhyarag. There is no perfect place on earth and familiarity breeds contempt. Good fences make good neighbors, though. We can all do our share to have a decent neighborhood. Let's start by following the golden rule and showing respect for each other. Let's make it a habit to use the magic words: hi or good morning, thank you, please, bless you, have a nice day, etc. Let's avoid loud music or any kind of noise that would disturb the neighbors. Don't spit anywhere. When walking the dog, always put him on a leash and carry a plastic bag so as not to scatter dog pooh on the ground. Let's not ask personal questions and avoid gossip. I hope that you are happy where you are, my friend. Take care and God bless you.
• India
29 Oct 11
Hi banikalipal. The do's & don'ts of managing friendly neighborhood are well stated by you. Showing respect for each other is key. Good point. Thanks.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
28 Oct 11
I am living in a peaceful place. thu sometimes we cannot avoid such nuisance people. like one incident that one neighbor (my beighbors nephew who actually never lives along our palce) visited his uncle and was drunk and blowing his horn at wee hours. that was sooo annoying and he parked his car right infront my gates while blowing his horn.(duh)
• India
29 Oct 11
Those kind of incidents you have mentioned can be really frustrating. Sensible neighbors will take due care in advance to avoid nuisance to others.Hope there are no such incidents happening too often.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
28 Oct 11
We have been living in our neighborhood for so many long years and i can say that we all are in good terms with one another. Though we don't interact with one another , we get to smile or say hello whenever we see each one outside of our fences. When we have some problems like the grasses on our road leading to the main road becomes so thick, mother-in-law would go to each house and talk in contributing to pay a helper to clean the whole area. We contribute whenever there is a need to do so. I can say that we are blessed with good neighbors.
• India
28 Oct 11
Hi SIMPLYD. Interesting. Sustaining good neighborhood from living for long periods is remarkable. The community sharing of common issues also speaks well. That's heartening to note. Thanks for the comment.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
28 Oct 11
You know how you sometimes talk online about things like good community spirit, think about how we our self want to be good neighbours or even if a person believes that we should all treat our neighbours like we would want them to treat us? Those are all good thoughts then you think about the ones next door or five doors down, whatever, and think how you really think those people stink! OUch, when you realize that those people are actually your real neighours. On the whole, I am lucky to live in a reasonable neighbourhood but it has not been without issues. Many people today are friendly, say hello but that is about the extent of it for fear of being involved with a bad incident.
• India
29 Oct 11
Hi Bluedoll. Just stay at saying hello and do not get involved further! LoL. Could be a pragmatic approach. Even if one has reasonable amount of incidence free living in neighborhood, it may be possible to gloss over some rare issues. Thanks for the thoughts.
@vasumathi (436)
• India
28 Oct 11
I think, we are gifted if our neighbours are good enough.
• India
28 Oct 11
That's short, sweet and appropriate. Thanks.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
1 Nov 11
I have lived in many different places and I have had many different kinds of neighbours, some of them have become very good friends and some of them were driving us crazy with their loud music in the middle of the night. One upstairs neighbour was especially noisy and we used to joke about it and say that she probably kept an elephant as a pet and had decided to teach it how to dance. At least it sounded that way In 2002 I lived in an apartment in the north of Denmark and my neighbour was a girl about my age. We became best friends and we spent a lot of time together. She is the best neighbour that I have had.
@megamatt (14292)
• United States
28 Oct 11
Co-existence is rather key to say the very least. Look, you don't really have to like your neighbors all that much a lot of the time but you got to find some kind of common ground. Where you can really get along, where you can peacefully coexist. Where there are not any problems of coexisting either. That can be a huge problem to say the very least and one that many people are going to struggle to figure out. I think that I have had my share of good neighbors. I have had my share of neighbors that were a nuisance as well. Loud music, going home to all hours in the morning, who really knows what else was going to be going on. It just makes me want to shake my head from side to side. It is just one of those things where some people have no respect that people might be sleeping at two in the morning. Fortunately those types of neighbors have long since moved on and things remain peaceful. For now.