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Are you friends/friendly with your neighbors?

I'm new to my street and because of Covid everyone stays within their own circle, which makes sense. But, other than trading numbers, after I moved in, with the neighbors immediately next door and a few polite conversations with some of the folks on my street, I'm not exactly in any big rush to be friends or get to know anything about them. Does that make me an asshole?

by Anonymousreply 11January 31, 2021 4:29 PM

I'm sure that's not the only thing.

by Anonymousreply 1January 31, 2021 12:42 AM

No, it doesn't.

by Anonymousreply 2January 31, 2021 12:43 AM

No! I live next to Barb.

by Anonymousreply 3January 31, 2021 12:49 AM

I have 3 neighbors, one in the building I live in and two in the building that shares the driveway.

I dislike the guy who lives in my building - just on principle. He's been my neighbor for almost 8? 9? years and actually the best neighbor I have ever had. I just learned his name (first only) this year and I pet his dog when I see him.

The building in the shared drive is a mixed bag. The current people who live there are great, I have never seen the person who lives in the back apartment and the woman who lives in the front is nice, we'll pass pleasantries if we're waiting for the bus or run into each other. I don't know her name though.

The people who lived there before her, it was like living next to the monkey house at the zoo. I was compelled to tell them how much I fucking hated them on a regular basis.

by Anonymousreply 4January 31, 2021 12:58 AM

No my building is full of creeps and angry old women. Some of them have hit on me and asked if they could pay me for sex but nobody I want.

by Anonymousreply 5January 31, 2021 1:03 AM

I like my neighbors, we sit out on the driveway and shoot off fireworks on the 4th but that's about it.

by Anonymousreply 6January 31, 2021 1:10 AM

No

I don't speak to either side of me.

by Anonymousreply 7January 31, 2021 1:37 AM

An occasional "hello" and small chit chat, but I keep to myself. My neighbors are basically nice, but living in a townhouse with attached homes is too close for comfort for me.

by Anonymousreply 8January 31, 2021 12:54 PM

Yes back in LA I was friendly with one college professor who was living next to me before he sold and left. The rest were mainly Russians, Ukrainians and Persians and never spoke English. They said hello but not much else.

Both times I came to Romania, I made friends where I lived. A IT couple last time whose wife was home on maternity and who invited me over for coffee a few times and loved cooking. Here, before COVID, there was a girl who was a clinical psychologist that I got to know because we both had the same walk to work but she sold and moved. There is a couple who I rent the parking space to but I haven't met the husband but, pre-COVID, the girl would come with the money and we would talk. Another couple next door came back from Italy at the height of the pandemic and I see her on the hallway all the time and she is also appalled by the lack of masking and distancing. Underneath is a posh barbershop and the men are absolutely GORGEOUS, blonde and ginger with beards and bodies to die for but all have wives. They are cool and I see them once a week when I go out for groceries and it's embarrassing because I never patronize them.

by Anonymousreply 9January 31, 2021 1:28 PM

I grew up on a cul-de-sac everyone loved my parents, but I decided being good friends with the neighbors isn't a good idea.

by Anonymousreply 10January 31, 2021 4:02 PM

At least three of my neighbors are Trumpers that fly flags constantly and had their houses plastered with Trump signs, so no. One of them has a relative that lived in a van in the guest parking for months. They wouldn’t even let him park in their driveway or come in their house, other than to use the bathroom. Finally someone complained or the HOA found out and he was removed. Then around six months later, he came back. After a while he left again. I think he’s supposed to have mental issues, although I never saw or heard him, just the van. We live in a nice neighborhood and the van was fairly nondescript, but it was always there.

Another neighbor is elderly and an extreme gossip, so I stay away from them.

by Anonymousreply 11January 31, 2021 4:29 PM
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