New neighbour etiquette

[biser]

We are supposed to have new NDN moving in soon.

Are we supposed to introduce ourselves and welcome them to the neighbourhood? Or are they supposed to knock our door and introduce themselves?

Which way is the 'proper' one? I don't want to appear overfriendly nor standoffish.
Help!

I guess it depends on the neighbour and your street. When we moved in I wrote ‘introduction’ cards to all our nearby neighbours and got welcome cards in return and invitations to various facebook groups etc. Neighbours also kept doing doorstop visits to see if we needed help. Had I not done anything then I wouldn’t have received anything - a neighbour who moved in before us doesn’t even get a hello from anyone.

I think a card popped in a few days after the move in is a good idea especially as you don’t see other neighbours much.
There’s a lot of anti social neighbours on here lol 🤣

New neighbours moved in next to us in September. We dropped a card, wine and a game round as we knew they had two young boys. Said in the card if they need anything to knock and that we had little ones too. She came round about 20 mins later and asked for a nappy as her husband had left the changing bag in the moving van! Obviously we obliged with wipes, nappies and a spare set of clothes just in case. It broke the ice quite well. We are now on friendly terms. We are a small close knit road though so know it’s quite an unusually situation.

I’d just pop a card round welcoming them.

Opposite neighbour in a previous house waited several weeks, then came and knocked on my back door. She told me that her cat had gone missing about the time I’d moved in and that was a bit too much to be a coincidence so she was checking that I hadn't taken the cat

snowdaysewday 😮

How.very.welcoming.

But it would make a great opening scene to a movie 😂

Totally going against the grain here but we lived with nightmare neighbours once and everything escalated so much she (a lawyer by profession) sent us very scary-sounding legal letters threatened to sue us for defaming her character and putting her job at risk.

It started off small annoyances that got out of hand and was definitely exacerbated by the fact we didn’t know each other at all.

When we moved out (literally four months after they moved in, that’s how quickly it went sour) we introduced ourselves to our new neighbours with a little house plant and said hi, we’re X and Y and sorry for any noise this week. About a year later, our neighbours on the left sold and we, again, introduced ourselves to the new couple with a bottle of wine.

I really can’t understand the hate for neighbourly introductions, we probably took about 60 seconds of their time and there was no pressure to be BFFs but each to their own, I guess. It has seemed to work for us personally as all three times resulted in great relationships, in fact, we still keep in touch with two of them despite moving. 🤷🏻‍♀️