To start a lovely neighbour thread

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It’s the season to be nice - so as an antidote to all the cheeky fucker neighbour threads - thought I’d start a nice neighbour thread instead.

I’ve just moved in around a month ago- neighbour popped by today to both bring me some Christmas cake and also ask to meet the dog as she had seen him in the garden and thought he was sweet so wanted to
Say hello.

Aibu to ask for your nice neighbour stories.?

It's so lovely to hear such nice neighbors stories :)

Mine mind's my cats when I'm away, is happy to lend stuff and take in parcels etc for me, and vice versa

We moved to our street because of the neighbours. Its like being in the 50s. The kids all play out in the street and everyone watches out for them , we have a NYE party together, bbqs in the summer and some have become close friend. I know I could ask anyone for help if needed. We have really outgrown our house but I really don't want to leave and my 7 year old regularly comments that the children who.live on our road are the luckiest children ever.

So many nice neighbours. Am particularly impressed by @Cosyjimjamsforautumn 86 year old,

Our neighbours are all lovely. We have been to weddings, funerals and one particular set we go on holiday with. If I won the lottery I wouldn't move!

I have a neighbour that de-ices my car every morning. No idea who. I get up and go to leave for work at whatever time and it's scraped and ready to go. Even when I worked shifts and left at 6.30am

I hope that in the real world there are more nice neighbours than nasty ones

My NDNs are phenomenal. They never moan about the noise from ours (3 boisterous boys, youngest with ADHD) even from the drum kit , are funny, fun, generous and plain lovely. They pick up youngest DC from school every Tuesday and have his favourite cookies cooking in the oven for him arriving home ( because he doesn't have a gran to do it ) and take his eccentricities in their stride.

We have keys for each other and they pop in to drop off parcels/ sort dodgy alarm going off etc. We've had to use their hoover/ washing machine when ours broke. I nip in for ingredients if I've run out of something and their herb garden is brilliant. When I broke my leg they did shopping/ laundry/ school run/ checked on me every day until DH got home.

At Xmas we get a beautiful box of lots of handmade food ( salted caramel sauce is to die for) and handmade limoncello together with presents for the DC.

They know my entire family and me theirs. We can be found chewing the fat in the garden on a regular basis but it's never intrusive or too much.

We laugh a lot. I could NEVER move.

Ooooh mine! It's a family from Romania with a 6 year old son, living in a one bed maisonette. He would sit alone in his garden so I would tell him to come through our gate into our garden to play with my 4 & 5year old every day. His mum, who hardly speaks English, is constantly bringing me over baked goods and various delicious foods in return. And my kids love their son (Eddie) so much. Our house is shitty and small, a two bed rented, with me and three kids, but when we drove past some massive houses and my son said "wow I'd love to live in that house", my daughter said "but then Eddie wouldn't live next door, and I always want to live next to Eddie".

PS We do our best to be good NDN too- my DH is a tradesman and can also fix anything so it's easy to repay them!

Mine are amazing - I don’t have any

We're very lucky with our neighbours. The ones next door always bring in our bins after they're collected.

Last year I was walking home after picking up some Christmas shopping. It started to snow.. I had a few paper bags, which then quickly started to disintegrate 🙈 A neighbour spotted me struggling and ran out with some bags for life and helped me re-pack everything. A small gesture, but so lovely.

I love our neighbours. One in particular always puts our bins back and takes parcels in for us (and brings them to our door when we get in!). When we had bad snow a couple of years ago and we couldn't get onto our drive he came out without us asking and helped DH to clear it for us because I was inside with our then 6 week old. He's generally just lovely.

We have fantastic neighbours all around us - we regularly socialise with them and do different activities together, walks, parties, nights out. fabulously lucky.

My current neighbour had lived next to us for a few days when she knocked to let us know she was having a little moving in do with her mates and to tell her if it was too loud or anything.

Very sweet of her and I invited her in for a drink. The poor girl was not expecting me to have a seizure (I have epilepsy), have to call an ambulance, come to hospital with me and call my mum and partner using my thumb to open my phone.

Not only did she do all that, I realised later that she added herself to my contacts as her first name, with her last name as "your neighbour". Ridiculously lovely girl and I dread to think what would have happened had she not been there.

She made it back in time for her party and a got a bloody big basket of goodies from me to say thank you!

Opposite pulled me out of a snow heap.
Quiet couple next door.
Loads of little mates for our two around.

@Welshmaenad that's so so lovely 😊

We have a lovely family next to us, 3 generations. Lovely, traditional family who help us and who we help when we can. We’re very lucky!

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Now that's love

I like my neighbours! Our immediate neighbour is a woman and her adult son, always chatty, occasionally pop in to each other for a drink on a Saturday/at Christmas. We have nightmare builders who really did damage to their garden and they were lovely about it.

Other neighbour is a man in his 60s, always pottering in the garden and chatting over the fence.

Don’t know many of the other neighbours well at all but we all take in parcels or say hi when we’re parked outside each other’s houses etc. A nice change from my old neighbours!

My neighbour gives money to my ds (6) all the time. And they are large amounts of money.

He will say to ds "o i didn't get you anything for xmas" and hand him 50euro. Same for birthdays, Easter, when cheltenham is on for us to put money on a horse for ds etc.

Im always with ds when he gives him tbe money and try to say no but he wont listen. He really is very kind.

There are 14 houses on our road and we all know each other well.

We have had street parties and every new year a fair amount of us go to watch a local football match together. It doesn't matter if you don't like football as it's a social rather than sporting thing.
When we moved in, we were invited for drinks and to meet the neighbours on the day we completed.

I live in a maisonette so only have a downstairs neighbour but he's a lovely gent in his 80's . Aways used to put our bins out with his early morning , even before I had met or seen him . He's recently had a hip replacement and still tries to lug them both to the main road , my dp now takes them both early hours of the morning on his return from work to avoid the weekly race to take the bins first 😂

All our neighbours look out for us and each other. Not just next door but over the road, next door but one and down the road

Ours are lovely. When we moved in, we had a gap between giving the keys to our old house and getting the OK to collect the keys to our current house, during which time myself, DH and our dog were sitting outside in a van filled with our furniture for 3 hours. Our new ndns brought us brews and biscuits, and we've got on really well ever since!

Our neighbours are wonderful. I will be sad to move. Bins taken in, parcels taken in, doors left wide open and they closed them for us and let us know when we came back. Sharing Christmas traditions. Looking after the DC in an emergency. Clearing the path of snow. Emergency DIY. Always giving the ball back. We've done our bit to pay it back but I'd rather focus on the amazing neighbours we have.