Your neighbours!

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We generally only get to hear the horror stories connected with neighbourly relations, but does anyone actually genuinely like and get on with their neighbours?

Ours are okay but our house is uniquely positioned askew, so no direct neighbours either side of us, and our drive is opposite green space so no parking wars either.
To be perfectly honest, this was a major deciding factor for us when we bought this house.

Do you have good neighbours and do you think you are a good neighbour?

Get on with all of ours really well. Have parties during the summer, look after each others children, borrow food items and things like toilet roll if we need it. It's really nice.

I have one neighbour on my side and we get on well and on the other side neighbour’s are squirrels, birds, foxes that can be very noisy when calling each other

I get on with my neighbours and am on first name terms with four nearby households. We help each other out with stuff in the garden, take each others parcels, some of the children have playdates etc. Got lucky.

It's pretty good here, one neighbour is a good friend, we help each other out any way we can, and there have been a few emergencies on both sides so we've been through quite a lot. Another is also a friend, a few others are pleasant and we have a chat if we meet and will help out if need be. All in all a good neighbourhood.

Both of my neighbours are ok. The adjoining ones were very noisy when they first moved in, but that all calmed own down within six months. Chat to the man a bit and he's pleasant, but his partner keeps to herself. On the other side I have really lovely neighbours, they're family with two children. Get along really well with the woman and sometimes we'll have a cuppa or share a bottle of wine together. They helped me out when I got locked out and been really supportive since my stbxh moved out.

Yes. I moved from a detached to a terrace and was worried. On one side there's a middle aged couple, no kids, who are not English and travel a lot for work. They are perfectly pleasant and I stop and chat if I see them, particularly the woman.
On my other side are tenants. I've had three lots there in the last two years I've lived here. First were a couple with a toddler who left at 7am returning at 7pm and I rarely heard them . They moved after having their second child. Then a couple who did have annoying barky dogs, but they split up so were only there for six months. Now a South African couple with two young children. They like to entertain in their garden but that's fine. I don't hear them in the morning at all. We chat if I see them - particularly the grandmother who comes and stays for about a month at a time.
There are a few neighbours across the street who came over and introduced themselves when we moved in.
Overall it's a family oriented street (Halloween is something else!) and fairly affluent. There's an active WhatsApp group that is currently trying to plant flowers around the trees in the street. We had a street party for the coronation.

It is fabulous, we are very lucky. We were all sat out on our big pub bench eating takeaways together last night. There’s always someone to chat to with a cuppa after work.

I am rural, my 2 neighbours are about a quarter of a mile away in different directions.
We will stop for a chat if we see them. We do have each other's numbers and will be in touch if there is a power cut, to see if it is just one of us or if we're all off.
Also if we are snowed in, whoever gets out first will ask if we shopping getting.
We also let each other know if there have been ne'er do wells poking round, looking to rob stuff.
I also keep an eye on the livestock as we are placed better to view the fields. I ring them if their has been a birth or if I am worried any of them look sick it sorry.
I love where we live!

Just remembered one "neighbour", isn't really our neighbour as he lives on the road behind us but he can get into our garden going through the back of his garden and along another garden, but he's always doing stuff for us/giving us things. He finds old toys of his (grown up now) children and brings them round for DS, brings us rhubarb he's grown in his garden, cuts birch twigs for us in the summer for the sauna vasta. Once I looked out of the window and he was outside painting our van!

Some of the best neighbours I've had were when I lived on council estates.

Currently we only have one ndn and she's one of those who fake being nice but really is an entitled twonk. We have neighbours out the back who are much nicer but still just chats on WhatsApp.

Moving soon to a street of bungalows and we already met the couple opposite so we're confident that the street will be lovely.

The ideal for me is like pp said, a central area where everyone can get together for street parties or just sit and natter. A community garden.

I like my neighbours! One side is an older couple, they can be a bit noisy in the garden when they have friends over once in a while which is annoying when it happens, but they are nice to our kids, take in parcels and didn’t complain once when we had building work done and there was loads of disruption. The other side are decent too, we don’t have a lot to do with them at all, but they recently let us drive a micro digger through their garden because we couldn’t get it down the side of our house. They didn’t have to say yes or be so bloody understanding and I really appreciated that. They play music in the garden which is a bugbear of mine, but it’s never crazy loud and it never has swear words in so I feel like on balance they’re quite good neighbours!

Our street is a mix of council and ex council and I think some people would look down their nose at our street, but honestly I like it here. I know someone who lives on a super fancy street with her family, apparently all their neighbours get funny about the kids going near their cars etc when they play out and things like that!

We have a very good relationship with our neighbours. They're very kind and we always help each other out. We sometimes go to each other's houses for afternoon tea. We have some lovely chats over the fence. When they has Covid I got their shopping. They feed my cat when we're away etc. We really appreciate each other.
We moved 2 years ago and the relationship was the same with our previous neighbours. We've been lucky!

We are very lucky here. A small close and we all get along. Many of us have keys to other houses so all the cats/chickens/rabbits can be fed easily. There's one elderly woman who never needs to worry about anything. During lockdown when her family couldn't visit she had doorstep visitors from neighbours at least once a day.

We don't really socialise but chat when we see each other, keep an eye out for the children, take in parcels and sort out the bins. We share garden gluts, do shopping if anyone needs it and just generally cooperate.

A few years ago I realised I had left a front bedroom window wide open and it had started to pour with rain. I was a couple of miles away so texted my opposite neighbour asking him to let himself in and close it. He immediately replied "I've already done it."

I always thought I got on with mine until I caught another neighbour stealing and he took an overdose in shame and I got blamed for his demise and ostracized.

One side is a lovely retired man . The other side will be the reason I move . Hopefully they are not talking to us now as we complained about noise again . It’s just ruined living in this house .

Either side are utterly lovely. In contrast,either side of them are complete anti social, selfish,aggressive, bonfire-loving arseholes who make everyone's life a misery.

I was horrified when she first moved in as to call her a foghorn is an understatement!

So we fell out until she had someone close die, I bought her flowers and now we email each other almost daily.