to wonder why people round here don't understand the concept of knocking/door bells?

[StuckInTheMiddleWithYou]

They just walk up to houses and start bellowing their friends name.

Is this wierd? Am I living in some kind of safari park?

Do you live in my street? It does my head in.

SOCIAL HOUSING?

Where I used to live (remote rural island community) they didn't do that - they just walked in ..... no lounging around in jammies there!

oooh, anxious. that post is going to cause a bloody riot!

AnxiousLand keeps doing that - wandering on to threads in manner of Daily Mail pissed person and saying weird stuff.

oh, I see.

And I thought I was bored!

I wish I lived in an area where the kids were even ALLOWED out! My DD is 6 and the only child who s allowed to play in front of our home...I watch by the window...there's another girl the same age over the road who goes to a different school and the 2 of them would LOVE to play tgether...they wave sadly at each other...the other girl is always in her window looking.....I DO try to be friendly with the Mum and she is polite but cautiuous...her kid has never had another child over to play after school...I think she may be a bit paranoid.

I would love to have kids calling ut my daughters name!

Shouting is just bad manners in my opinion.
Even people who shout from one room to another because they are too lazy to haul their fat arse to talk to the person face to face. uuurrgh.

It's just a different way of living isn't it?

Where I grew up you were lucky to see a person actually walking up the street (rather than in a car). Where I live now is a lot busier, but there's still only the polite interaction whilst mowing the lawn type of conversations. Guess is just depends on how well you know people.

Are there lots of extended families living near eachother in your area OP?

Sounds nice and friendly in a way altho prob not if you're living with it all the time.

Can't ever imagine it happening on our street, which is full of elderly, old money types! Bit of a shame for our DCs in a way tho.

Round here we knock/ring. No-one comes and shouts. I didn't even know that people do that. They don't just walk in either because we keep the front door locked.

The woman - yes grown woman with children come3s and stands outside our front door and shouts Maaaaaaaaaa. Maaaaaaaa. To get her Mums attention, her Mum lives accross the close from me. Does my head in. Eventually someone lets her in the close to shut her up - only then it starts outside the flat door. Maaaaaaaaaaa Maaaaaaa

I live in social housing

I do not read the Daily Mail either

So much for jumping to conclusions

wierd eh?