you know what I miss..

the closeness I had with my neighbors in past apartments.. I lived in smaller places before, or had roomates. My 2nd apartment it was a building with just 4 tenants.. the guy next to me & I were buddies.. we'd hang out together,he'd fix my car for me, go places with me etc. Now.. I live in a complex that's 2 buildings together- 12 apartments.. I've lived here for 2.5 years and I don't know ANY of my neighbors. None of them even speak english.. I've never said more than like hello to any of them.. It's just rather blah.

I know what you mean! We lived in a very rural area and knew everyone around us. Now we are in the suburbs and none of our neighbors seem friendly at all. It sucks!

I'm not a talkitive person IRL (shocking, I know, I'm just miserable at small talk, I hate it) so even though we live in a nice neighborhood, I don't know hardly any of our neighbors.

I wish I had nice neighbors The one of my left poisoned my last dog so we had to put her down and the other one is well really wierd LOL we say hi and stuff but we don't really talk.

:blink: they poisoned your dog!?!

we've lived here for almost 9 years. I hardly know anyone. I'm shy and avoid other people as much as possible. Everyone seems nice enough though.

Yep I had a pure breed Rotty (she was the best dog EVER) and the most gentle doggy too wouldn't hurt a fly, my neighbors hated her because she was a rotty she was in my backyard one day(she goes in the backyard by herself and came back to the door when she's done) well she was suddenly really sick and had to go to the animal hospital(my hubby is an ospca agent so knows the vet's really well) they ran LOADS of tests on why her liver was failing, and they said she was poisoned(with rat poison). My other neighbor has a dog so I don't think it was them. and they were very smirk about something and after they knew she was dead they said to me. " too bad your dog got really sick eh?" when we never told them that she was.
I wish I had proof so dh can charge em.
ETA: here's my baby

We are just "Hello" friends with ours, we live in the geriatric portion of the building it seems, so everyone around us seems to be above the age of 60! LOL

I SO hear you! I live on the lamest block in the world!

its weird how you can build that bond with strangers who just happen to live near you and then how you can miss it when you don't have it. i remember apartment living before i lived in a semi-posh neighborhood where no one talks and it was nice to be able to borrow some sugar, ya know??

Even though I live in the country, I have the best neighbors ever. Our actual houses may not be that close, but they would do anything for you. It is really nice to have that. We are looking at moving back up north (we currently live in Southern Illinois and he is so needing a better job) and that is one of the things I told my hubby as to why I don't want to leave. I love our "neighbors".

I should be finding out soon if we will be moving back up to the Northern part of Illinois. He is out doing his road test now (he drives a truck). *sigh*

we seriously have the best neighbors! There daughters who are 14 & 17 just LOVE my son....and when you ask my son who is GF is he says AMANDA...the 14 yr old...hehe it's the cutest thing!! We are defiantly lucky to have them!

Funny, I wish mine were more too themselves. The neighbors on either side of us always talk. Whenever I am out in the back yard with the kids they have to come and talk forever about completely boring stuff. Drives me crazy. And if they see us out there they come out just to talk. Like he will come and start raking the lawn right by our fence watching us and waiting until he can talk. Ugh

We hang out with our neighbors to the right. They're almost my parents age but they are super nice and sweet. They invite us over for dessert and coffee often, and we play with their 3 cats.

We do live in a smaller town, but our neighbors include a phone company and a shut-down restaurant. Across the street are some houses, but those people really keep to themselves. Sometimes it is nice not having neighbors with issues and such. And there are times I miss living in a subdivision. But I love this house and wouldn't trade until we have too...lol!

Dang Micheline that totally stinks! I believe in karma so don't worry they will get theirs one day!

We have awesome neighbors. The house to the right of us has had 3 different owners, one set got divorced and moved away, the people that bought from them because some of our best friends, along with the couple on the left. We all would go away together on weekends and stuff. Then they moved to FL and another couple moved in. They were OK but a bit strange, they couldn't afford the house and sold it to a family with 7 kids. We were a bit freaked out because it's not a huge house 3 bedrooms and we were like huh? Who would do that but they turned out to be awesome and their kids are terrific kids and two of them are the same age as my two so they are together all the time. Oh and the neighbors on the left have an in-ground pool and we can use it all the time and we usually have bbq's all summer long with them. It's a fantastic neighborhood!

Micheline Martin said:

Yep I had a pure breed Rotty (she was the best dog EVER) and the most gentle doggy too wouldn't hurt a fly, my neighbors hated her because she was a rotty she was in my backyard one day(she goes in the backyard by herself and came back to the door when she's done) well she was suddenly really sick and had to go to the animal hospital(my hubby is an ospca agent so knows the vet's really well) they ran LOADS of tests on why her liver was failing, and they said she was poisoned(with rat poison). My other neighbor has a dog so I don't think it was them. and they were very smirk about something and after they knew she was dead they said to me. " too bad your dog got really sick eh?" when we never told them that she was.
I wish I had proof so dh can charge em.
ETA: here's my baby

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This is just heartbreaking to read, not to mention it makes my blood boil.

I don't even know what I would do if this happened to one of our dogs. I would absolutely flip, I know that. We are lucky the neighbours directly next to us on both sides are awesome and love our dogs. Even the jerkface across from us (the guy even the sweet little old ladies of the neighbourhood call Bob the Bastard, lol) is at least an animal lover. Our yard is completely fenced so that our 2 bullmastiffs can go outside whenever they want. Bullmastiffs are quite territorial and not particularly fond of other dogs, so they do bark at most people that go by unless they know you really well, but it's very obvious to anyone with even a bit of dog sense that they're not remotely vicious.

Most everyone around here know that they are actually big sweethearts, but there is one old couple from a couple blocks below us that are convinced they are pure evil and that we are the biggest nuisance in the neighbourhood. Yet they insist on taking a daily walk past our place... probably don't like to pass up any good opportunity to be judgemental! And we have a couple people who insist on walking their dog past our yard and letting it linger at our fence driving our dogs crazy. I swear they get off on it, and then they look all put out and give us stinkeye if they see us, not giving us any opportunity to talk to them about it. There are no end of routes that you can walk that avoid going past our house, including the nice path one house away from us that conveniently takes you to the same street walking by our house will take you to, yet these people insist on walking right along our fence nearly every day. Of course our dogs bark at all of them, no matter how many times they see them, because it's not hard to sense how confrontational they are. I just don't get some people, and it's one of my fears that some jerk like that would feel they're justified in doing something to my dogs. Even if you don't like dogs, to go out of your way to harm one is just incomprehensible to me.

We barely know our neighbors. It's partly my fault because I'm so awkward at making small talk with strangers and feel like I'm imposing when I do more than say hi. But it's not just me--everyone is busy with their own things, and I don't think any real neighborhood connection exists. We don't have family nearby, so I wish there were families with young children that we could become friends with/rely on. But everyone around has much older kids, and they're at work and school during the hours that my kids and I are outside. I've had my fingers crossed since we moved here 3 years ago that a friendly family would move in soon, but no luck yet.

my neighbor two doors down is one of my bestest friends now (although we have only really "known" each other for a year, we are so close!!). Marcie and Brent take our kids, we take theirs, the kids all play together so well!!! We travel together, hang out together, shop together, borrow things off each other, look after each other's places when the other is away. It's awesome!! And thankfully, Des gets along with them too! Normally it's Des hangin' with my friends and their spouses, or me hangin' with his friends, but we consider M & B our friends. hehehe We also get along with the family in the other half of our duplex (the people who live between Marcie and I), as well as the family directly across the street from us. Our neighborhood is quiet, and everyone pretty much knows everyone (the joys of living in a community of around 4,000 people!!).

Most of the places we have lived, we have lucked out in making friends with our neighbors. Maybe not all, but one or two.