I’m “that guy” in my neighborhood. Burgers ,beer and football are generally at my house. I invite neighbors to dinner all the time. Just this evening one of them texted a half dozen of us because their shredded cheese was moldy and they had a different set of friends coming for dinner. A neighbor i introduced to this newish neighbor walked a bag of cheese over to them.

Best part is that when everyone gets drunk, nobody has to drive. Or if I’m at a party at their house and need to poop, I can walk an extra 200 feet and use my own bathroom. I have keys to at least 4 of their houses.

Neighbor friends are the best.

I have neighbors on 3 sides of me. Neighbor to my left isn’t talkative. We wave when we see each other. Neighbor behind me is a nice older lady. She felt bad for me push mowing my lawn so she let’s me use her riding mower for free. I maintain it and do some odd jobs for her. We talk when we see each other. Neighbor on my right is a nice guy. He isn’t home a lot since he drive a semi. We stop and talk every few weeks or so. He has a German Shepard that is a good dog.

I saw them outside, invited them over for a BBQ a few weeks away. We also dropped off a Diwali present, and they dropped off an Xmas one. 3 interactions a year other than saying “hi” when we see each other out front is the exact level want.

I was coming upstairs, as they were struggling to carry a fake dead body downstairs. His back was to me, with his arms hooked under the dummy’s armpits. His buddy was carrying the legs and saw me first. He jokingly went “oh we’re filming a-… Uhh… Porno?”

I responded with something along the lines of “I’m not even gonna worry about it until I start hearing farm animals.”

They laughed. I laughed. We haven’t spoken since (because I haven’t heard any farm animals yet.)

They introduced themselves, nice people. The lady across the street drives my Mother-in-law to her appointments when we can’t.

Introduced myself the first time I saw them out on their porch. That’s what people do in my neighborhood, they sit on their porch to be sociable.

I greet my neighbors by name every day, and they me. We discuss the weather, their family, local goings-on.

My interaction with my neighbors is just to the extent of saying “hi” when we bump into each other and that’s it. They have a friendly dog and I love dogs, so I did offer them that I could dog sit for them if they ever needed it, but they never took up the offer. I’ve spoken way more to their dog than I ever did to them.

Oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I believe the era of “love thy neighbour as thyself” is long gone. Back in the day there were many reasons to interact with your neighbors, such as for keeping up with the local news and gossip, borrowing rations when you’ve run out of stuff, or keeping an eye out on your place when you’re away etc. But these days, in the era of the Internet, home deliveries and security cameras, there’s very little need to interact with your neighbors. Which is a bit sad, but I guess that’s the way the world works now.

They had known me since I was little because the place I have now used to be a family member’s, and I frequented the place when I was little. It’s very communal here.

I heavily rely on my partner for the social interactions, I’m not as social and outgoing :)
She went round to give muffins when we first moved in and got to know most of the residents.
Since then new people have moved in here and there. The newer neighbors keep to themselves, so we don’t really know them.

I just say hi and then maybe talk about their dog, my dog, or something else surface level.(“How about those ‘Sports Team Name’?”, “You see that awesome new movie/show?”, “Hey, did you hear about ‘Local Event’?”). I stop to chitchat when I have time and I usually get to know my neighbors. We keep an eye on each others places/cars/etc., have taken care of their dogs while out of town and vice-versa and one of them is an emergency contact for my kids. Its way better to make friends than just be living close to a bunch of strangers. Not everyone is super social, but I still know pretty much all their names and they know me.

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