Neighbours

Gazzaputt

Anyone here good friends with theirs?

My current neighbours we say hello in passing and that is that.

Previous house we got on very well with one side but no so with the other side.

Is not a problem but it would be nice to have a bit more of a friendship could make life easier. The guy has an unhealthy obsession with some online football game which he screams and shouts at in a high pitched scouse accent. They also have a yappy dog that when they are out can yap for hours on end. I have spoken with them about it but after a while it goes back to the same old. I'm sure they find my 2 year old waking at 5.30am annoying! I think if instead of being strangers and we knew each other better it'd be easier to find solution than having to moan every now and then.

natrix

We invite our neighbours , (three or four houses each side), round for mince pies and a drink every year at christmas. It has helped us get to know them and the area. It also helps with finding solutions to those little niggling problems........

daviesee

Who do we getalong with?
One side yes, the other side no.
Across the street, yes to all.

Unfortunately you can't choose your neighbours but getting to know them may help in understanding, from both sides.

Unless they are knobs :evil:

DIESELDOG

My neighbours are brilliant, and funny in a weird kind of way.

Watching them trying to BBQ turkey twizzlers and hot dog sausages (out of a tin), being a particular highlight.

Got to love them. Plus in the summer I get my own outdoor music festival as the son plays guitar, drums, piano, etc very well (not all at once though, bit of a shame).

Love n hugs

DD

drays

Everybody needs good neighbours - with a little understanding!

My next door neighbour just replaced the dividing fence and wouldn't take any money for it!

Big Hairy Wallapers

My neighbour is a legend and one of my best cycling buddies.
We done our first sportive together last weekend and having a shared driveway he collected me and delivered me back to my own door in his van!
We rode local on the mtb's on Wednesday evening from the driveway.
Top neighbour, top bloke, top Stella drinker!!

Couldn't get much better than that!

mattsaw

drays wrote:

Everybody needs good neighbours - with a little understanding!

My next door neighbour just replaced the dividing fence and wouldn't take any money for it!

My neighbour spent a year complaining about a hole in the fence that they had caused themselves by leaning paving slabs up against it. They're quite old and parnoid with bars on their windows and barbed wire on the top of their fence so I didn't kick-up too much fuss about it.

I spent an afternoon fixing it only to be told by the neighbour on the other side that the boundry wasn't mine :roll:

bompington

drays wrote:

Everybody needs good neighbours - with a little understanding!

My next door neighbour just replaced the dividing fence and wouldn't take any money for it!

Are you sure that's a positive message he's sending you?

shedman

Built a new fence with my neighbour and included a gate for beer'o'clock.

bompington

We get along great with our neighbours, it helps that we're a small development of 8 houses so all moved in around the same time.
We have street parties - literally on the street - twice every summer, and even had one to celebrate clearing the street of snow in December:

I think it's partly the country thing (it's funny how after a couple of years you start coming over all "Oooh Edna, there be strange car in the lane") and partly a Celtic thing - my own experience, completely biased and fallible as it is, is that I have eperienced more neighbourliness in Scotland, Ireland and Wales than England.

PS: out of 8 houses we have 5 roadies, not a bad ratio I would say

One Man And His Bike

I want to stab the little idiot who lives on my right to death, with a spoon. Since he moved in early January he's been a noisy, anti social nightmare and I cannot wait till he gets thrown out which is already in the process of happening I believe. Had everything from loud music till 5am in the morning to a steady procession of teenagers coming and going making a racket in a quiet communal type block of apartments, teenagers fighting and causing criminal damage to the security doors and generally making a mess of the communal areas.

Neighbour to my left, get on well when we see each other, always happy to take deliveries in for her as she is a nurse who works nights so more often than not anything the posties can't post they leave with me. I help fix her sons bike if he has an issue with it if it is in my ability range, which to be honest is low but have helped him out a few times.

Stick8267

Get on well with all the neighbours but don't really socialise as only really have a postcode in common. Still nice to have a decent relationship, makes life so much easier.

When we moved in one neighbour managed to bring up very early that our predecessors had failed to fix the boundary fence for some time so I got it sorted in the first month or so and laid a good foundation for the next two years.

brakelever

Lived in the same road for nearly 25 years and we allways have a summer barbie , everyone chips in for food , plus people do pudding , ect , plus we have a barrel of beer , its always been a real blast - even new arrivals say we have heard about the summer party -when is it ? you dont have to live in your neighbours pocket , but we have found it develops a nice feeling amonst residents .

Frank the tank

Get on well with all my neighbours with one exception, and with good reason. I wish nothing but pain and suffering upon them horrible people.