housewarming party - would you invite the new neighbours?

[carlajean]

I hope that this isn't in the wrong place but ... we've just moved into a small (about 30 houses) private road, and are planning to have a small house warming party. Would it be odd to invite our new neighbours? I thought it might be a good way of introducing ourselves, or perhaps it might seem too pushy?

Not odd , not pushy - absolutely I would .

In fact I think it would look odder if you didn't

But see what others think . My opinion only

TWW

Definitely invite them - not at all pushy.

The neighbours from all 30 houses or the neighbours in your immediate vicinity? Yes, definitely, to the latter; probably not to the former!

Always polite to invite neighbours to a party, well, unless you know you hate the sight of each other and have previous

Not odd at all. I did this last year, invited the neighbours on either side. They declined, but were glad to have been invited.

Absolutely. If only to allow you to be noisy well into the night.

I would. Not all 30 but at least the closest ones.

Yes, I would invite the closest ones. Last time I knocked on the door and introduced myself and then put letters through doors letting them know I'd be having a party, when it was going to finish and said I'd be delighted if they would come. They didn't come but I felt better about my rowdy friends being over!

We did this when we moved into our street. It set the tone for a nice friendly relationship and most of them popped in just for a little while.

If you don't want to look too pushy, you could always knock on the door and explain you're having a party, it's not something you'll be doing on a regular basis and that they are welcome to join you or just pop in for a drink.

Most immediate neighbours - sounds lovely idea. They don't have to come if they don't want and you're only inviting them not pushing them to come, so it can only set a pleasant tone for the rest of your neighbourhood-ship)))

It's normal to invite your new immediate neighbours.
We moved in 11months ago and invited all our immediate neighbours (we live in a group of 5 houses) round for drinks soon after we moved in. It was a great way to say hi, hear all the local gossip & find out a bit more about the house (they've all lived here 15yrs +)

In our village the custom is that the immediate neighbours of the new household host informal welcome drinks for them and invite the 6 or so closest families - we were very touched by this -- but had to remember our obligation to do the same when a new family moved in next door.

For me, it depends on the sort of house warming party you will have as to whether you invite the neighbours along or not. If I had a house warming with all my raver mates it would be very awkward/inappropriate to invite the retired couples next door -- but if we were having a low key drinks buffet thingy of course I would ask them along.

a few years ago we had a birthday party for my dad we had lived in the house for over 10 years and some one from down the road joined the party at about 1 am as he was just coming back from his hols and heard the chatting in the garden and decided to join the party as he said he new that mum and dad would of knocked and told him about the party and invited him but he was on his hols