How well do you know your neighbours?

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We watched a true crime documentary called 'The body next door'. It was set in a Welsh village called Beddau.
Honestly one of the most amazing crime cases I have ever seen!
It shows that we never can know what our neighbours get up to behind closed doors and they can have the most unbelievable life stories.
Just looking at our neighbours, observing what little of them we see and what they choose to tell us is actually often absolutely nothing of what they really are like.
 

I don't know most of them, but most whom I did get to know briefly, always turned out to be irrationally suspicious and unjustifiably belligerent. One in particular, a female, is outright mentally unstable and admitted to having a restraint order issued against her for harassment.
 

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We live in a rural area so our neighbors have farms. I cleaned a house out near us for years and knew the customers real well. They became friends after I stopped housecleaning. The people across from us have a huge farm. They moved last year and a new family lives there. We don't mingle. We meet at the mailbox for a "howdy, how you doin'" meeting. Then back home. The neighbors to our east are younger farmers, old school methods. We got into spinning wool from sheep to make clothes and such with. He is a philosopher, and keeps to himself. there is nobody to the south for 10 miles. :)
 
When we lived in a house, we got to know our neighbours .. some, just to say "hello" to .. others, on a more
friendly basis. One Indian family, we were very friendly with. They introduced new foods to us. Our picky daughter used to try their food, and we were invited to their daughter's wedding.

Living in a condo, one doesn't see neighbours very often. Our immediate neighbours are friendly, and most people say "hello" in the elevators.
 
When I lived in my house, I lived among hunting camps mostly. Then someone moved in one of them and we got to know him pretty good. Other than that one we only knew them to wave to when they drove by.

Living in a senior apartment building, I know most of my neighbors pretty well. We interact almost daily and have activities together. The ones that keep to themselves I don't know as well as others. Someone is always at my door for some reason or other. I don't mind. I like to help them if I can.
 
I know many of my neighbours.. most have lived here as long as me if not longer.

In the last 3 years we've had a small influx of new people.. really the first time in 4 decades.. due to landlords buying to let when the elders are dying off and selling ... and they are changing the dynamic , and not in a good way unfortunately.

The tenants next door are Eastern Europeans.. but they're pleasant, and he would do anything for me if I asked.. but I don't ask..
 
Iā€™ve been here 14 years.

There are 9 apartments in my section and 219 apartments in the complex.

I know one person well enough to exchange a few words and always say hello to anyone that crosses my path.

Iā€™m aware of my immediate neighbors and Iā€™m sure that they are aware of me but thatā€™s about as far as it goes.

Sometimes I think about the change of the social life in my first apartment to this one.

Forty five years ago we were building relationships and pairing off, today our social circles and family are pretty well set.

Iā€™m more than ok with it!
 
I live in a rural area too, I've lived in this area most all my life, watched new people buy land around me and build homes. There are a lot of cattle farmers and hay producing here, but many commute to the city to work. I know most all the old timers that grew up here and a few of the new ones, but with my old age I don't socialize much now with the old or new neighbors.
 
I find it best to always be pleasant and friendly but never get involved with neighbours . I certainly don't tell them anything personal. I want to be reasonable and helpful but not the subject of gossip.

Did did anyone see the drama I mentioned? It really is a strange and chilling one.
 
Della said:
I thought I knew most of mine pretty well until their political signs started coming out. :eek:
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This is pretty funny.

We have one family the rest of us viewed as eccentric. With time more and more of the others have flipped to support candidates running under the same Party affiliation that "the oddballs" alone used to vote for.

Now "the oddballs" are a different family who insists that the political Parties have not swapped constituencies... except that this family is now at war with itself as the dad and their grown children have all flipped too in the last few years.

All of us have been here at least 10 years, most 30 or more years. I think by now we've all had to help another who locked themselves outside in their underwear by now.
 
I have 3 neighbors within 6 miles of me, and they all rent from me.
One rents my pasture, one rents my farm ground and another rents a house on 6 acres.
The ones renting the land are good people, hard workers, friendly and pleasant.
The one renting the house is my stepson, so I'll keep those opinions to myself :D
Just kidding...kinda
 
quite friendly,drinks on christmas morning,,one side has key to my house,so they can let dog out if we gonna be late back,,the otherside is a farm,he cuts my hedges for free,and always ready for a chat,,and the other 5 neighbours,we chat and keep an eye out for each other.
 

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