Do you know your neighbours names?

Do you know your neighbours names?

  • Yes

    Votes: 49 70.0%
  • No

    Votes: 15 21.4%
  • Do not understand

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 6 8.6%

  • Total voters
    70
Weird hey,.I have lived in my current home for nearly 5 years,i love my privacy,but it dawned on me today when i was talking to the guy a few doors down,( i call him neighbor 3)i do not know any of my neighbors names.Its just ow ya going.Im now too embarrassed to ask their names.
 
I dont know my neighbour's names either, I usually walk down to Fingal Beach every morning and talk to the others who also walk at the same time, realised after a couple of years of talking to my neighbour 3 doors down one morning his and my ggrandfather were brothers :D
 
I know both sides (one side much better than other as they are my age vs old retired couple) and the people across the street.
 
Well, to my left there's cucumber (don't ask lol) and his third misses. On my right lives long legs. At the back there's the Hhijjabbbs (speaks with a stutter) and next to them the Steins.

Yeah, i suppose in a way I do know my neighbours' mames
 
Luckily...Yes

We live in a wonderful court. We have been here for 15 years. There are 9 houses in the court and we all regularly stop and chat to each other.

Wedding, funerals, babies, Christmas parties. You name it. We do the lot. Such a safe and wonderful environment to live in.

I am very grateful.
 
We know the whole street. The men have a regular meeting at various houses to discuss absolute rubbish, drink and eat and beat their chests. My hubby does up the official minutes which are very funny and have no bearing on anything actually said at the meeting. I'd love to put them up somewhere as a blog. He makes most of it up, and takes the pi$$ out of everybody, but they all take it well. He is one funny man :D.

We have a street Christmas party, shared between different houses, and we also get invited to a street Christmas in the next block. I love the community we are part of. Much of it is due to my husband who, as he gets older, gets more like his mother insofar as he will chat to anybody. He keeps the street ticking along, and the men help each other with carpentry and landscaping jobs.

I cannot imagine not knowing anybody in the street.
 
In my Melbourne house where I lived for 5 years I knew my neighbour to the right name and that was it. Whenever I'd walk the dogs I'd give a friendly nod or 'hello' to passers by and would get no acknowledgement.

Now, where I've been living 18 months I know a good portion of the Street, particularly the dog owners. My husband and I walked the dogs the other night and the usual 30 min walk took over 2 hours... Though my husband is a bit of a have a chat whereas I'm not the greatest at small talk.

But I must admit I know their dog's names better than the humans sometimes!
 
Kinda sorta - have known one for 20+ yrs, Mrs Havachat (in the bottom flat), Baz out the back, the guy a couple of doors down, the actress down the street, a few of the bods from the units across the road.
 
Well, to my left there's cucumber (don't ask lol) and his third misses. On my right lives long legs. At the back there's the Hhijjabbbs (speaks with a stutter) and next to them the Steins.

Yeah, i suppose in a way I do know my neighbours' mames

I won't ask about cucumber, promise.

Sounds like you could have WWIII with those neighbours.
 
Being a bit of a country bumpkin I think it's bizarre enough that people can live in a house that's 6 feet from the one beside them, not to mention not even knowing their name!

We're surrounded by national park on 3 sides and can't see any houses but still generally know who's who, particularly the old timers. Although many of the houses are becoming weekenders so you're never quite sure who's there.

My wife tells me we should spend more time socialising and that I'm turning into my old man! :eek:
 
One of my next door neighbours is a councillor, another is a local artist, so I know their names...Another neighbour is almost 90 that has been dear to me for 16 yrs, and I think of her as a relative. Some of the others, I'm confused who lives where as there's a few rentals. (3 villas in a row). So I've only met some of them when they've lost a cat and we lost our bird.
 
This is not to stereotype, but I lived in SW Sydney for 20 years and did not know the neighbours names. Now live North Sydney and know both sides and even further, weird, right?
I think the previous neighbours like their privacy, perhaps many different nationalities and limited English made that harder, whereas where I live now they know everybody and even know what everybody does?
I have never thought about it previously until now?
 
Know my neighbours,
at all sites
knowing your neighbours is good for keeping eyes on the tenants, sometimes the neighbours are faster at telling us of damage than the tenants

:edit:
some of em I like

I lived in SW Sydney for 3 weeks, a couple of years back, by then I knew all the neighbours 4 houses in each direction, the owner didn't.
In the Territory I only know 2 neighbours N, 1 W, about a dozen S, and 2 E, but that's 400km in each direction.
I know Kilcoy, been there 1 month each of the last 4 years

just try and stop me talking to people on the street
 
Sometimes yes, usually no... now in Spain yes (they introduced themselves to me). In London slightly. In Switzerland yes. In USA no. In Sydney no, except when Ken Done was my neighbor in Mosman (Sydney), I knew him but he didnt know me.
 
I currently live in a great street & know most of the neighbours, except the guy next door who is much more interested in working on one of his shitty old cars & putting more junk in his 200m2 garage. We have a street christmas party each year & this year also an impromptu game of street cricket on NYE & at the end of summer an impromptu BBQ one Sunday night. Not the whole street but a good chunk. A bunch of the kids (including mine) get out in the street & play most weekends & often during the week in summer too. It's great & I'll miss it when we move.
 
When we moved to our current place, 5 acres in a rural community, we had one neighbour who was a tenant and very friendly but the other side.... I walked up to her at the fence one day and introduced myself, she looked me up and down and said "we like to keep to ourselves" and turned and walked off. We have lived here 10 years this xmas and I have not seen/spoken to her since. The saddest thing is we have kids the same age who could have had playmates.
The farm over the back we don't know either , other than they put a hole in our nets so they can help themselves to our lychees and let their pigging dogs roam about at night. nice.
I don't have much faith in country friendliness/hospitality anymore.
 
Well, to my left there's cucumber (don't ask lol) and his third misses. On my right lives long legs. At the back there's the Hhijjabbbs (speaks with a stutter) and next to them the Steins.

Yeah, i suppose in a way I do know my neighbours' mames
Sounds like a good place too live,are the Steins into home brew..
 
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