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?

You win! 😅

My lovely neighbour told me that before I moved in this was an area and now it’s a community. I had a bit of a cry in quiet. It was lovely.

We usually have bring andshare lunch in summer (part of The Big Lunch). People take part or don’t, as suits them and it’s a fairly laid back affair. But since starting them the area feels a lot friendlier.

When a woman around the corner broke both her knees after falling off a ladder last November, 10 people dropped a meal over so she didn’t have to cook until her husband was back from his contract abroad. It was nice to know we will look after each other.

I've lovely neighbours both sides and all around.
Help each other out all the time.

Our neighbours, who sadly moved a few years ago, were amazing.

When I was heavily pregnant with my daughter, the husband would accompany me shopping in case I needed any help while I was out.

When my daughter was born, the wife would pop round morning and evening when my hubby was at work and sit with the baby whilst I had a shower.

We've used each others bathrooms when work was being done on our houses at different times, also one time when my boiler failed. We had keys to each others houses so if either of us were away, we could do lights and curtains at night.

The list is endless. They really were more like close family than friends.

My neighbours walked my dog 3 times a day for 2 weeks in lockdown.While I had covid , they are both fantastic neighbours.

Oh God, this reminded me that I locked myself out once and my NDN got a ladder and climbed in through my (second-floor) bedroom window so he could let me back in. He had health/injury issues that had forced him to give up work, I don't know the details of them but am sure climbing stupid people's ladders can't be something he'd be advised to do <cringe> I did give him a bottle of fizz to say thank you.
He's moved out since. Lovely guy.
Upstairs neighbours (I live in a conversion, three flats), one lot keep themselves to themselves but are pleasant, take in parcels etc. Other one we're friends and also good neighbours; look after each other's houseplants when on holiday, check each other's flats if there's a power cut etc.
Don't know the ones on either side beyond nodding if we see each other out front or in the garden, but a few lots of neighbours further up and down the road I feed their cat if they're away, we go over for dinner or a cup of tea etc sometimes, they come to my DP's shows (artist) etc.
Others on the street we say hi to if we pass each other and exchange pleasantries.
It's a nice street.

I live out in the countryside and just have one neighbour not too far away but she will come round with fruits and veg from her garden and in exchange I'll sometimes make a cake or pie with some of what she has brought over. Cant beat having a friendly neighbour.

This thread is lovely.

My neighbour are all generally really nice. We aren't over familiar but will say hello and look out for each other

A few in particular really helped me when my partner was dying

Mine saved my life when I was choking...I was unconscious and not breathing.

If they ever move, we're following them!

How lovely!

A neighbour a long time ago got our washing in whilst we were at work as it started to rain. I thought that was quite sweet.

Our previous neighbours used to buy our kids little presents for their birthdays. We moved in pre marriage and kids and thinking back were the awful neighbours (late after pub parties) but they were great and gave me loads of gardening tips.

I once saw mine darting across the lawn faster than I'd ever seen her move, to intercept an amazon van when she knew I was on nights and didn't want me woken.

She also checked on me one day because I hadn't opened my curtains in a couple days and was worried I was unwell. I was unwell, and two hours later I had a little care package. She knew I lived alone and had moved far from family and decided I ought to have some homemade soup. I loved her!

I live in a friendly terrace, with a nice mixture of ages and types of people - it is very family friendly but lots of us don't have children. There's a regular churn of new residents, but they all seem to fit in. There have been parties over the years, and we also now have an active whatsapp group. My immediate neighbours are lovely - we're on a permanent cat feeding swap arrangement on one side, and on the other we chat regularly to each other/take in parcels and exchange occasional gossip. Every now and then I think about moving as my house is slightly too big for me, but I can't risk losing my lovely neighbours!

I had the best neighbour. Spring and summer evenings especially, were wine and chitchat.
Sadly she passed away last summer and I miss her shouting 'Are you coming in for a glass of wine" over the fence. 😢

Mine likes me to listen to them shagging at 10pm most nights and also on bank (bonk) holidays

My neighbours give us produce from their allotment and in return I walk their son’s dog when he is away working. (Tbh I love that bloody dog and would do it anyway!)

I am unbelievably fortunate with the neighbours both sides. One has my keys when I go away and does the post. The other side stopped dishing up toad in the hole, when I knocked on the door when DH fell, and came and helped me get him up.

How lovely!

When we moved in my lovely neighbour (in her 70s) had a tea party and invited all the local mums and babies for me to meet. So kind.

My next door neighbour is one of the local bin men and he puts my bins back for me after emptying! Great guy 👏🏼

Oh all these lovely posts , I remember living in a village, and it was friendly
I didn’t realise that it was still a thing
the rural village I now live in is weird
people aren’t friendly, it’s so sad
I just thought the world had changed
so heartening to hear it hasn’t.
please tell me where these people and places are , I’m about to move !
love some insight

I live in a small cu le sac, everyone is great.
Not in eachothers pockets but get together a couple of times a year and I know if I needed anything any one of them would help me.

My neighbours are a mixed bag. The nice ones next door offered dh some trousers when he left the house in a hurry due to a kitchen fire caused by an electrical issue. They used to take pictures of our cat in their tree and send them to me saying she made them laugh.

The bat shit crazy ones leave us alone now since they tried climbing the fence stark naked and shouting at dh to go out for a fight.

The rest of our neighbours all seem nice enough, they don't impose themselves on us, but are happy to exchange greetings and I wouldn't hesitate to go to any of them in an emergency. It feels like a community.

Our neighbour brings us vegetables (and the occasional flower just for me) that he’s grown in his greenhouse. He’s in his 80s and is very lovely. We water his bedding plants and vegetables when he’s on holiday and says “help yourself to anything you like from the greenhouse”…..so we pick lots of lovely ripe tomatoes

Mine came over when he heard my smoke alarm going off, identified it was past its life and now discontinued. Stopped it beeping, sent me an Amazon link to a new one and then hard wired it back into the mains for me

Ours is pretty good. He takes our rubbish and recycling out as he knows my husband works v long hours and I’m home alone with a preschooler and a newborn, and he also washes our windows and mows our lawn when he does his own! He’s a star.

Well I'm in an extremely derided South London Borough. It's people, not places.