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Being friends with neighbors & Neighbor Etiquette


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Anyone have neighbors who are cool, Crazy. or have become friends?

we have some neighbors who are in there 50s, When we built this place they were cool but after a while theyre daughter and her partner moved in with their 2 kids. Apparently to save a deposit to buy a house.

We get along better with the daughter and her husband better than the owners and its getting awkward....

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We get on with our neighbours. I'm going to tell you a story about how our neighbours saved our ass:

It was the day before our wedding, I had loads of stuff to get done on that day, and a few people to meet. I went to the communal toilet and accidentally locked myself out of the flat, without my phone or purse. I knocked on my neighbours door to ask if I could borrow her phone so I could contact the landlady to let me in. She said fine, and then invited me into her flat so I wasn't waiting in the hallway.

I saw my neighbour's boyfriend on the laptop, and asks if I could borrow it so I could email my fiancé to let him know what was happening. They kindly agreed. They asked where he worked, and they offered to drive me to his work place so I could borrow his keys. They did it, I was only 15 minutes late for meeting my brother and we completed all the tasks I needed to do before the wedding. :D

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I have this rule to never get too close with my neighbours. I get along well and a couple of times a year, the whole street have a bbq or some other meeting. But I will never be friends. I know if something happens, they will help me out though. But really close, is not a good idea. When you have a fight, being too close and being a neighbour is not a good combination. Besides they talk to other neighbours and before you know it, you get involved in little neighbourhood fights and all or tell stuff you don't want more people to know.

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I have very nice neighbors who we've known since we moved to Texas. Unfortunately, her husband died last year. He was such a nice man. His wife now has her nieces living with her, which I'm happy for since their son lives far away. We've always been there for each other if we needed it, but otherwise we keep to ourselves. We also have awesome neighbors behind us.

All in all we live in a nice quiet neighborhood where neighbors keep their houses nice and are helpful if we need to be.

Coming originally from NY, when I was a kid most of my neighbors were nice and some were family members, so we were close. Always had tons of friends because we all went to the same school. When you get older and have kids of your own, you become friends with the moms from school again.

I don't have many friends now that I'm older, but the ones I have I love and cherish.

I believe if people show kindness to others, you will get it in return. I wish the world would act that way.

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I believe if people show kindness to others, you will get it in return. I wish the world would act that way.

How can YOU say that with a straight face?

How do you know she wasn't saying it with a smirk knowing it would rile you up because you still obsess over her derogatory comments directed toeards black people so long ago? She's deviously playing you, man, aiming for your rage-induced heart attack in 2015.

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I live in a posh neighbourhood but I do fuck all to my garden out front because it's so much work and I have trouble maintaining it. My partner works so many hours he doesn't have time. For a few years the neighbours on our right were pretty grumpy until they saw me one day out front cutting the grass with a 'whipper snipper'. I've done that periodically and they've been much nicer to me since then but I don't maintain the garden as everyone else in the street does. I do notice from time to time that they've cut the grass on my front nature strip for me, which is really nice. Especially considering how snobby some people here can be. I appreciate that, although I'm not sure whether they're doing it out of kindness or "I can't bare the sight so I'll do it myself". :lol:

The neighbour on the left is a bitter old cunt who is grumpy because he wanted to buy the land we are on when he developed the site next to us and he was rejected. But he did help me get a huge spider off my dashboard one morning, so he redeemed himself by showing a streak of kindness I never knew was there. :)

People are generally pretty cool, I think.

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When living in apartments downtown I really wanted as little to do with my neighbours as possible. I was wary about strangers (I had so many crazy neigbours when living downtown) and knew it was just a temporary home anyway. Now I live in a house with garden in the suburbs with other families around, many with small kids like our own. It's a permanent situation with people in the same demographics and life situation. It makes sense to be friends with them because they can be of help when we are on vacation, baby sit for us, car pool for work, lend out tools, their kids play with our kids etc, and occasionally we want their approval and cooperation (when taking down trees on the property borders, when wanting to build something big, and so on). I won't say we are "friends", but we are definitely "friendly".

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I believe if people show kindness to others, you will get it in return. I wish the world would act that way.

How can YOU say that with a straight face?

How do you know she wasn't saying it with a smirk knowing it would rile you up because you still obsess over her derogatory comments directed toeards black people so long ago? She's deviously playing you, man, aiming for your rage-induced heart attack in 2015.
Rage and obsession....lol. You take this forum way too seriously.

Val isn't smart enough to think ahead like that.

A post or two a week doesnt equate to obsession.

One line doesnt equate to rage.

I guess you didn't educate amd win this time!

But you keep obsessing and raging about my posts, little fella.

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I believe if people show kindness to others, you will get it in return. I wish the world would act that way.

How can YOU say that with a straight face?

How do you know she wasn't saying it with a smirk knowing it would rile you up because you still obsess over her derogatory comments directed toeards black people so long ago? She's deviously playing you, man, aiming for your rage-induced heart attack in 2015.
Rage and obsession....lol. You take this forum way too seriously.

Val isn't smart enough to think ahead like that.

A post or two a week doesnt equate to obsession.

One line doesnt equate to rage.

I guess you didn't educate amd win this time!

But you keep obsessing and raging about my posts, little fella.

Oh well, sometimes one in three is good enough.

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NAW FUCKER BITCH KEEPS CALLING THE POLICE FOR NOISE..MAKING ME GET CALLED TO LANDLORD MEETING N SHITE EVEN KNOCKING ON MY DOOR ON THE WAY BACK FROM WORK TO SAY HOW TIRED SHE IS BECUASE I KEPT HER UP ....FUCKING TYPICAL IN LOVE WITH HERSELF STUCK UP CUNT WHO THINKS THE WORLD OWES HER SOMTHING IV BEEN CLOSE TO EVICTION,,,,,PLOT TWIST IS SHE IS THE LOUDEST LITTLE PSYCHO THERE IS HER SCEAMING AND MANICALL LUAGHTER IS CHILLING AND WHEN SHE DOES PARTY_BOY DOES SHE PARTY FUCKING GANGNAM STYLE N SEXY AND I KNOW IT SLUT MUSIC WITH HER GANG OF SLAGS NO WONDER SHE HATES THE ROCKER DOWNSTAIRS,,,,BUT ID NEVER CALL THE POLICE ON HER BECUASE IM A PRETTY NEAT GUY AND HOW MUCH OF AN OVEREACTION IS THAT ANYWAYS!,,BUT IM NOT GOING TOO STOP HAVING GUESTS AND NOT GOING TOO STOP HAVING MUSIC ON SO THE SKANK WILL PROBLY GET ME KICKED OUT IN THE EDND.....THE GUY ACROSS THE HALL IS OK JUST YOUR STANDARD POOF I ONCE SLEPT IN THE SAME BED WHILE HE FUCKED HIS MAN FRIEND WELL THEY THOT I WAS ASLEEP I HAD NO PROBLEM KEEPING MY EYES CLOSED

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