Being a new neighbour?

[marie2020]

We are moving to a new neighbourhood and I wonder how to act?

I am a foreigner and we are moving into our first home and new neighbourhood.

What is expected from me as a new neighbour?

How to introduce our family? What's normal thing to do?

To be honest there isn’t anything expected of you.

Any place I’ve moved to there has never been a formal introduction, usually just a quick hello as people happen to walk to their cars or are in the garden at the same time. In nicer weather then several minutes of pleasantries. If you have children and there are similar ages of children in the street then that could result in more conversation & lead to trips to the park, coffee & play dates or barbecues & parties but it really depends on the area you move to and the individual people.
Maybe I’ve moved to where people are more reserved & it’s different where you are moving to?

Hey thank you for your reply

We are moving from London to a smaller town in England. To be honest here in London we live in a flat and for the last 4 years we barely meet our neighbours, it seems that everyone is busy and we don't even see each other, the other day I meet a lady who lived in the same building for 4 years too and we were surprised that we've never meet before.

Because we will live in a house and the neighbourhood seems quite nice with strong community I don't want to seem not interested to know them or too eager or pushy to meet my neighbours. Maybe I will have the feel once I'm there, but anything nice that I can do will be happy to hear.

Smile, nod say hello. If appropriate introduce yourself. It needs to happen organically.