To start a lovely neighbour thread

[Gobelinoisawitchescat]

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.?

I really wish I knew where you all lived! My neighbours keep to themselves. I wish I had lovely friendly neighbours. I once got to know my next door neighbour after two years of living in a house. She became my best friend. Never had that again.
I wonder if most people with good neighbours live in the country?

This thread is really restoring my faith in human nature.

I live on a lovely road. When we moved in, we were one of the youngest couples on the road, and the only ones with a baby. Both neighbours were lovely - there was annold lady on her own next door, but with boisterous grandkids that stayed over regularly, so understanding about our own children's noise. Her grown up kids were also lovely and one still teaches my kids. When she was ill and before she sadly died, we all looked after her. I had a key and we all had each other's mobiles, in case there was a problem. She was so lovely, I still miss her. We were worried about who would move in, but a lovely family with similar ages kids live there now, and we've been on nights out with them, and help each other out. They've not been living there for 6 months, as have been renovating, and I'm looking forward to them coming back!

On the other side are an elderly couple who will do anything for you. When we'd just moved in, there was a power cut at night and my OH was out. It was just me and my 6 month old. I knocked to borrow matches to light some candles and NDN leant me a big flashlight torch and came round to check we were ok and warm enough (it was snowing). Since then they've held keys, we do each other's bins, leant us all sorts of tools and we check on them, I've got their prescriptions and when he had a fall, we called the ambulance and sat with them both until it came.

Quite a few younger couples have moved in, and we've had a couple of nights out all together. We had great teenage babysitters 2 doors down until they went to uni.

My girls wanted to make lavender bags and the NDN but one has 2 massive lavender plants in her front garden. They timidly knocked and asked if they could pick a bit, she got scissors for them, showed them how to cut it, told them.about the difference in the 2 plants, how to dry it and how to make the bags.

I'm lucky to have loads of lovely neighbours actually. We've had a couple of street parties and it's a fabulous atmosphere.

I really enjoy being part of such a kind community

My neighbours are amazing. When we first moved in they admitted they were nervous as I had a 5 year old at the time and have an older woman one side and a middle aged couple the other. They always reassure me they never hear us at all, take in parcels, loan tools etc, have repainted the top of my wall posts as they were doing theirs, and always offer if we need lifts etc (not that I've ever taken them up but bless them!) More recently when I had my 2nd both side came round to meet the new addition and brought cards and gifts. So so sweet.

Mine are considerate, never noisy at night, for example.

My mum's are those who are very good to her. Mum's back problems mean she cannot lift very much- a neighbour puts her bins out, another gives her a lift to church, another will change light bulbs if needed.

We have lovely neighbours, they are a generation younger than us but we have become good friends. The wife and I often share a bottle of wine, and go for dog walks. My ds babysits for them. Her Dh is very techy and provides tech support whenever we need it. We are really close.

We were worried about our neighbours as the first time they saw us (the day we moved in) they said: your plants need a good water (!) But they've all turned out to be absolutely lovely. Our next door neighbour helps us if we need anything and vice versa.

Our neighbour across the path saw DH cutting the hedge with shears, came out with his electric hedge trimmer and said DH could borrow it any time. He also keeps an eye on the house if he knows we're away and asked after us while my parents were in the house when DH and I were in hospital after the birth of DD.

NDNs one way (couple and grown-up daughter) came round with gifts after we came home with DD and the mum and daughter always coo over her if we catch each other outside. The dad offered to help DH install a gate when he mentioned wanting to do it for when DD starts walking.

I'm very lucky, I have great neighbours and we all look out for each other without being over intrusive. to all of them.

Our neighbour's are lovely, if they ever knocked on the door they would bring a big biscuit for the dog so she thought the world of them, the lady is an amazing knitter and made both kids a cute baby blanket each and various other bits for birthdays and christmases, they like baking and cooking too so we quite often end up with cakes & jams or extra courgettes or beans from their garden.

One day our key broke off in the lock and they invited us in for tea and cake whilst we were waiting for a locksmith.

We try to bake them cakes when we can and will take bits to the tip to help them, when it snows we offer to go get bits for them.

We're so lucky to live next to them.

We’ve been so lucky with awesome neighbours in both places we’ve lived! In our first house, our neighbours were an older couple, and the husband was a keen gardener, so he’d help out loads. We went on holiday once and came back to a fully weeded garden (not just mown lawn) and a new back lock on our fence gate! We all cried when we moved (for DH’s work).

Our neighbours now are also really lovely. One set is a family with two small children who LOVE our animals, so look after them every time we’re away. We help each other out whenever we can (lending things, looking after each other’s pets, giving cake, swapping home grown food). There’s also another keen gardener who I chat to, and trade my chickens’ eggs for his veg.

We’re friendly with other neighbours but these are our more direct and closest friends.

We are lucky with one set of neighbours. They are just nice people.
Not been in the past so I hope they don't move.
Not that keen on the other side though!
Have a few nosy ones around here though.

Our neighbours are lovely. We went away to the other side of the world when a close friend was seriously ill. Came back exhausted after a 24 hour flight, and they had left a big bag with milk, bread, and all the things we needed so we didn't have to go to the supermarket.

I love this thread!! Gives me a ready brek glow! Such a change from the usual “my neighbour coughed at 3am should I report it to 101?”
My neighbours are lovely. Everyone relies and helps each other. I know if I went out now and asked to borrow a screwdriver not only would I get one I would also have at least 3 neighbours asking if I needed help.
In the winter dh goes out and de-ices the car but he also does another 2 neighbours that he know leaves early in the morning.
Another neighbour will put out anyone’s bin if they forget- saved my bacon on more then one occasion!!!
A neighbours washing machine broke last week and flooded the kitchen. 2 neighbours came and helped mop up and brought towels over. I took her washing home and washed, dried and ironed it. She babysat my kids when there was a family emergency. Another neighbour offered Her to park on his driveway the delivery van could park on her drive when delivering the new machine.
Next door but 1 is coming for Christmas lunch, she’s by herself now. A few different neighbours are going round this afternoon to put up her Christmas decorations with her. She’s making mince pies for the occasion another lady is bringing her amazing Christmas spiced biscuits she makes every year which are to die for! I’m bringing mulled wine.

Love this thread op. I love my neighbours they are mainly in the later years of life. I been there when a few of my neighbours have passed on and listened to the crys it feels like more of a family road I live on. My neighbours welcomed my family and been liveing in the same house for 12 years. I will not be moving as i will miss them dearly. I also like to get a few things from shops chemist ect to give back to them as they have given my children the best inviroment to bring them up in.

I think it depends where you live. I do not like living around white British people due to their links with colonisation. (I’m a Caucasian New Zealander) I choose to live around people from the developing world as I prefer their culture.

@Demelzathespud

Well, that rules out an awful lot of people doesn't it? A bit narrow minded really. All white British people ruled out for you on the basis that Britain was once a colonialist Empire? I image many other countries are also blacklisted too. South America due to slavery? France? Italy on the basis that the Romans took over huge areas by force? Egypt? German due to its own activities in taking over other countries? I think you need to educate yourself a little bit.
Developing countries have murky histories of their own you know. India, China, etc etc.
You sound beyond ignorant.

I love my neighbours. The elderly lady next door is lovely and always gets the kids a wee Christmas/Easter gift and we will always help her out when we can.

Our upstairs neighbour is brilliant too, she will watch our kids at a drop of a hat in an emergency and lets them play in her garden as she has play equipment for her grandkids when they visit. She's even driven me and my youngest to the doctors when she was very poorly and we had to get to the Out of Hours clinic 5 miles away.

It was lovely reading all of these, hopefully my post will bump it up and we will get some more.

I have amazing neighbours, and obviously try my best to be a good neighbour too. We do the general taking in of parcels, having keys for each other, looking after houses when someone is away etc. There is so much I could say but trying not to be outing so I'll go with this

We returned from a trip to stay with family and the street was really difficult to drive down as there was so much snow, I made it to near the house but couldn't get near a kerb and my drive was packed with snow.

I left the car sort of in the road and started getting the kids out, before we reached the door a neighbour had turned up with a shovel and said his wife was just getting another. I put the kids inside and got the heating on, another more elderly neighbour popped out and said she would watch the kids while her husband stayed home and kept the kettle on to provide us with hot drinks and even water bottles, after about 5 minutes she said she would take them in to her house while ours warmed up.

That was around the same time that another neighbour appeared with grit, she apologised that she'd only been able to get some that day or she would have done it before we got home

In the end I had 4 households helping me and we got it cleared pretty quickly between us, then they helped unpack the car.

The closer to home I was getting as I was driving that day the worse the snow was and I just had a feeling of dread, but I went in to the house feeling like my heart was going to burst ♥️ I hadn't asked for help, I didn't have to. My neighbours made such a difference on that day and I don't know what I would have done without them.

Ours are excellent. They're always bringing us food. Their son works for a posh restaurant and they often give us leftovers, including two tins of caviar one time.

My neighbours 2 doors down and across the street are now my friends - we regularly have play dates with our kids, nights out, takeaway nights and have keys to each other’s homes for looking after when we go on holiday. The ones across the road are planning to move to another town and we’ll really miss them.

I have lovely neighbours too. When DD and DGS (4 & 2) were here at Christmas, one of my neighbours asked us to go in and see her and her husband. There were presents under the tree for the DGS with crackers, mini bottles of water with paper straws and mini Christmas tree shaped shortbread biscuits. There was also a model Santa Special train track which the DGS loved playing with. DGS had a wonderful time. My neighbour is just the kindest person.

A new neighbour moved in opposite us in our old house. I will fully admit that I judged by appearance and assumed we'd never hit it off. She looked far too glamorous and high maintenance! I was 100% wrong. She is one of the kindest, generous and down to earth people ever and we've been close friends for nearly 6 years.
We live about 8 hours apart now and I miss her so much!

My neighbours next door and two doors away are lovely (actually other few houses are as well but mainly those two). We take each other’s bins out and put them away, sit outside in the summer and socialise over a couple of drinks, kids all get on great and send food and drink between us

NDN and I feed each other’s cats, take in parcels, share rubbish/recycling duties, I occasionally use her driveway as she has no car, I give lifts if convenient - we share a gardener and DP helps her with DIY
We have been neighbours for over 30 years though