Have I got the best Neighbour? Can anyone beat this!?

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My neighbour noticed I was sitting in the garden throwing the ball for DDog and asked if I’d like a glass of rosé!
Cheers!
Anyone else got a fantastic neighbour?

My next door neighbour twice has fixed or replaced fence panels which blew down in a storm and wouldn't take anything for them. The neighbours across the road give me excess produce from their allotment, have invited me for lunch and generally are lovely. I reciprocate by feeding the street with homemade jam, cinnamon buns and lemon drizzle cake

Awwww, cute thread. Better than some on here - like the rancid, dog-hating thread running right now, full of hate and vitriol, and hateful comments.

I live in a cul de sac with 12 homes, and the neighbours/residents are all pretty nice. (3 families - with 6 kids between them,) one single mum with a toddler, 1 elderly couple, 2 elderly widows, 2 young-ish childfree couples, (30s,) me and DH (just past middle age,) 1 man in his 60s who lives alone, and a female same sex couple in their 40s.

People share stuff like their veg, and fruit they've grown, offer to mow the lawns of several people who can't do it, and we all give each other a Christmas card, and all have the whole cul de sac lit up at Christmas. Currently getting together to discuss what to put up for VE Day (80 years.)

One of the elderly widows gives away plants that she grows from small cuttings. And we swap books and DVDs.

I’ve rented lots of places and never had nice neighbours until I moved to my current home. Next door on one side gave my kids ice lollies when we moved in, take my bins out and cut my side of the hedge when doing theirs. Neighbour on the other side is a kindred soul and we talk all the time, she does reiki and gives me crystals. Never having had good neighbours before makes me appreciate them so much

My neighbours are great, in that they are away a lot on one side yet always happy to take in a parcel, feed the cats, let me pick from their rosemary bush, put extra rubbish in their bins… one lady across the street gave me all her cats new food as hers didn’t like it (the expensive kind you keep in the freezer, unfortunately mine didn’t like it either). We have a road WhatsApp and posts range from ‘have you seen my blue bin’ to ‘can I borrow a visitors permit’ to ‘free plants help yourself’ to ‘suspicious man knocking on doors ( though one lady reported a suspicious disheveled man looking at one particular car trying the door handles only for his wife to say it was his car and laughed at the description). We even had a coronation street party!
Neighbours have yet to offer me free alcohol but then they can’t actually see me out back (though we can hear each other). I think we’d all help each other out if needed.

I have a fantastic neighbour who is a dream and the horrible ones on the other side recently moved out and have been replaced by a nice chap! happy days!

My downstairs neighbour is lovely she invites me over regularly for a cuppa.
I give her dog a treat if I see her in the garden.

My DD (5) decided she wanted to sell some of her things so spent ages making a 'shop' for the doorstep, collected some teddies/toys, made a few 'creations' from her sticking and gluing box and sat on the doorstep shouting 'Shop open, things for sale!' Two of our neighbours came past walking their dogs and stopped to look at the 'shop'- DD explained to them how she was selling things to get money 'to buy new things and to save for the future'. The neighbours didn't want to buy any of our tat have any money but promised to come back later.

The next day DD came out to find £5 and a box of Maltesers next to her 'till'. She was absolutely thrilled. We don't really know the neighbour well who left the money and chocolate but it was such a kind thing to do, so heart-warming that a stranger could be so nice

Nice. Unfortunately, no not here. My neighbours are elderly, both fit but despite them never going out I hardly see them. They never do anything. Same for 75 per cent of the road.

My neighbours are a couple in their 70s. She frequently appears at the door with home made marmalade, jam or cakes or flowers from their beautiful garden. She offers me any books she's read and they also put our bin out if we're away and trim our hedge if they are trimming theirs. They're honestly amazing people and we're so lucky. We often water their garden for them when they're on holiday (rather nervously as we are not gardeners!).

The other side are horrible though. Moan about all and any noise from anyone else and yet have hot tub parties with loud music until 2am. They also appeared at my door with a list of plants that would need to be removed from our garden when their new cat arrived. That didn't happen!

Where I used to live, we would sit in the front garden with the barbecue going and people would pop round with their own food to cook, alcohol etc. we would bring each others washing in if it was raining and buy stuff from the shops for eachother if we were going and anyone needed anything

No chance here. Next door keeps themselves to themselves. Old retired couple.

My neighbour is the best. Like a surrogate granny to our dc. Buys them Easter, Christmas and birthday gifts, stops to chat to them and was on hand many times when they were small when I had random problems like falling down the stairs!

Mine can be slightly nosy.... but its useful at times. Like the day she noticed DDs school uniform had been delivered but we weren't back from holiday and rescued it from our doorstep.

My neighbour writes letters from an elf each Christmas to each child in our street - she finds out beforehand bits of info about the child and personalises the letter- hand written in calligraphy type handwriting on parchment type paper. She melts wax and stamps them with a North Pole stamp and attaches the letter to a little bag of treats. My kids still have theirs from 3 years ago in their memory boxes. Quite simply an angel. We are so lucky.

Mine cat sits and removes house spiders.

I live on a road with lots of lovely people. We have a WhatsApp group, some of us have a book group. We genuinely like each other.

At my last flat we had low garden fences and the 4 houses in the row would regularly have chats. But we all had boundaries and gave each other privacy too.

My dd has autism and went through a phase of being violent and shouting and swearing. Both sides were kind and understanding. One neighbour would pop round when things had calmed down to check I was OK. No judgement or annoyance at being disturbed. I feel quite emotional remembering this.

Prior to this I lived on a rough estate in S London I was tormented by gangs of youths hanging around the stairwells and making noise all night.

Thank god I moved...

I’ve got some great neighbours. One of them is a bit of a party animal so often invites us and other neighbours for drinks/bbq, another is a baker so has been known to drop in baked treats. The old man next door takes in my parcels when I’m not in. It’s one of the reasons we haven’t moved in 25 years 🥰

So lovely to hear other people also have lovely neighbours!
I'm between two lovely households, I really appreciate how lucky I am.

I’m having my kitchen renovated and don’t have an oven/hob, and last night she brought over a beautiful home cooked meal!

My neighbour was up fixing his roof and noticed a few of our skates were missing. He fixed it for us!!

*slates

I have great neighbours, posted about this on another thread recently. I am single parent alway skint, one summer the fella brought garden furniture home for his family, I admired it, top quality. An hour later he comes back with two chairs for me in a different colour. I was beyond grateful and happy. He also has helped by fixing washing machine, his teenager checks my tyre pressure. Woman reminds me it's bin day and brings bins back in if I'm out. Lovely ppl.

I have lovely neighbours like this ON BOTH SIDES! I’ll never move.

One side are lovely, her grown up daughter invited my eldest over for a craft afternoon and they'd gone to so much effort. Lots of other lovely things and generally quite wonderful.

The other side, hmmmm. Violence, swearing, antisocial behaviour. And that's just the husband in his 50s.

Our former neighbours (a couple) socially isolated themselves in 2020 when I was heavily pregnant with my second child, in case I went into labour and needed them to have our eldest! Hard to believe now how strict the rules were back then but I massively appreciated it at the time! In fact, we were a row of three houses and we ended up all in the same ‘bubble’ as the other neighbour had just given birth (literally the day of the first lockdown!) and we all helped each other so much that year. We all moved a couple of years ago but still get on so well! Spent Easter weekend together actually!