You and your neighbours

[Rubyred24]

Since lockdown have you formed a better relationship with your neighbours or are you getting along worse than ever? Or has not much changed??

Just being nosey / bored!!!

I’m so grateful that I love my neighbours. Coffees over the hedge have been such a pleasure.

Lovely neighbours - they messaged offering help if we needed it.

One of the nice things to come out of lockdown has been the great sense of community spirit.

Also, local community groups that have sprung up. I was very happy to offer help to an old acquaintance whose husband was very sick and who has now, thankfully, recovered. Lockdown has brought out the best in communities I think.

Sadly not made any difference here. Zero community spirit and cliquey as ever. When a colleague who had lived in our village previously remarked that it was the sort of place where you could die and nobody would notice or care, I thought she was being a bit harsh- sadly she was spot on, working from home and having a very ill family member has highlighted it. This has just reminded me I need to move at the earliest opportunity!

No I hate them. I hate their dogs. Hot tubs. Music and their faces.

Not much difference - still great relationship but less popping in for a coffee / glass of wine.
We've seen slightly less of them as they are all in their 70's and our conversations now take place through hedges as they are all too high to look over but still looking out for one another and one side brought us some amazing cake the other day - my dippy son answered the door whilst I was on a call and told me "some old man left this on the doorstep" - it was only after I checked my text messages that I realised he hadn't recognised our neighbour!

No, they only moved in last year, I work nights so don't see them much. Only hear then when they play their music, when im trying to sleep. Can't really complain as they probably hear me and my dds arguing.

A lot better. Never really spoke to the neighbours across the road until now and they've lives there for about a year. Lovely couple.

We have a group chat for the street where people have been asking to borrow things (eg cake tins or screwdrivers, random things that aren't important enough to go out and buy) and people always ask on the group chat if anyone wants anything from the shop, either if they're going or if they're getting a delivery.

My kids have also been playing badminton over the fence with next door's kids

We moved in around 2 weeks before the lockdown, we occasionally say hello and that's it.

After living next door to an alcoholic and her drama for 2 years im not keen to get to know the neighbours this time round

Lefthand neighbour - helped with shopping when I was self isolating which was lovely, but we were already on chatting terms anyway so no major change.

Righthand neighbour - have had to endure her DC screaming and crying in the garden constantly, plus her cigarette smoke wafting into my house, for over 2 months, which hasn't improved things.

Neighbours at end of row I don't speak to since the "RSPCA incident" a few years back.

Overall no change.

Worse since a couple of them have taken to sitting on each others drives drinking until the early hours. No distancing going on and they have been reporting others for alleged imagined breaches of the rules.

They are noisy and obnoxious but the slightest noise and they are messaging me whether it's us or not, the most notable being when we were out for a long dog walk and they messaged complaining my dog was barking. She wasn't, she was busy chasing squirrels 3 miles away!

Apparently karma is starting to bite them on the arse though so that's something!

On Thursday evenings everyone waves to each other, even people we don't know. My ndn texts me more frequently and I've provided her with all our telephone numbers in case her DC need anyone when she is at work (16-year old DS gets scared if he hears noises like foxes but DD, 18, is fine alone). We all sang Happy Birthday to a neighbour last week so, yes, I think there has been an improvement in community spirit.

Ours moved in days before the lockdown began and have spent all of that time doing endless DIY and gardening. It’s noisy, so annoying, and they have a very irritating habit of putting notes through our door late at night. Hopefully once they are settled they will be ok. They do like to talk though and don’t abide by the social distancing rules.

Better. We’ve been swapping garden produce and sharing shopping deliveries

The same as usual
We have great neighbours. 6 houses in total in the cul-de-sac.

Nope; never spoken to any of mine. And still the same now.

@Smileyoriley.
Sounds exactly like where I live.
Have learned over the years to only bother with my lovely elderly next door neighbour.
She has lived here over 40 years,her husband died last year and my husband and I were the only neighbours at the funeral.....and the only ones since popping in.

So no difference here re lockdown.

Im part of a community help group and Ive been amazed at how much community spirit has been engendered. People seem to have boundless energy and compassion to try and help the vulnerable in our suburb. It's been a privilege to be part of it.

There were some initial silly FB pages naming and shaming households allegedly breaching rules but these were quickly squashed.

I had a cordial relationship with my immediate neighbours previously and this has continued through the Thursday clap etc.

I'm very proud of our community

Neighbour attached - just the same. His busybody daughter is still,in and out several times a day, as well as his cleaner, window cleaner and his Grandson (all in one day) so I’ve stayed well clear.

Neighbour on the other side has been struggling quite a lot so we’ve been getting bits of shopping in for her with the occasional treat that she’s not asked for, having long chats across the drive and dropping a slice of cake or whatever the dc have baked around. We’re definitely closer than before lockdown.

They are dreadful, so now - they are the Waltons if they went on Jeremy Kyle.

Nothing changed here - terrace street in a very busy town, we’re all used to rubbing along without being in each other’s pockets. No snitching or bitching or shaming or forced community activities. People are generally reasonably tolerant & helpful without being oppressive. Exactly as I like it thank god!

Nah the same bastards are still letting their dog shit at the end of my driveway and stealing my recycling bags.

Not much has changed really. I get on well with my neighbours on either side, but not overly friendly. We have a chat if we see each other, take parcels in etc.

Nothing has changed here.

No difference here. Ours have been cheerfully ignoring lockdown for the last 5 weeks or so, overnight guests, loud parties in the garden, staying away overnight etc

I can’t stand them at the moment, some have been breaking the lockdown for weeks now yet they’re the noisiest out there on a Thursday clanging their pans. Really hard to listening to their kids playing out in the street together when your own DC can’t. Then there’s the BBQ’s on the front gardens until midnight, music playing, dogs yapping. I’ve spent a huge potion of my time on Rightmove. I can’t wait for the winter when I don’t have to see as much as them.