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My neighbor’s dog is named Chip and the guy a few houses down has a Husky named Luna.
That’s all the names I can tell you from my block.
Define “know”. I know the woman downstairs from me and her dog. I know the couple actually the hall and their dog. They just had a baby and I don’t know the name. I know the guy down the hall from me. He’s a good guy. I know the woman down the hall the other way and the guy on the same side. The other two units are rented on and off. New people. I forgot the name of the two folks that just moved in. Haven’t met the ones on the other side yet.
Knowing names and small things? Is that to know someone?
There are over a million people within 15km of me, so that’s not much.
People? Some, but not a lot. Dogs, though? I recognize every dog on my street and know most of their names, even some of the ones I’ve never met lmao
very little, many moved away since covid to somewhat lcol, mcol area. and its been reverse white flight/gentrification since, and these neighbors are far less pleasant or less than sociable compared to older ones that have lived here for decades, plus they are out of state transplant, and you display your typical karen neighbors.
To many all my neighbors are flag waving Trump supporters. I am glad to hear one is moving but he probably sell to another trumper. I want to move so badly but can’t afford that right now.
I just moved to a new country but I already have a friendly relationship with neighbours on both sides, one being a family of 4, and the other is an old widow. All pretty lovely. ❤️👍
i know one of my neighbors very well because he’s a dipshit who can’t keep to himself and calls the cops on people frequently and makes passive aggressive comments everytime you see him.
I also get to hear him fight with his daughter and his wife, which explains why he’s always outside his house and never inside it. His wife is also a psycho who attacked me once when I was putting out the garbage.
I don’t know any of my other neighbors, because they are decent folk that leave me alone.
Rural area, I know all my immediate neighbours and a few people from the villages around. It’s really great to be part of a small community, and since a lot of the original population emigrated the old folks around are generally really welcoming even to foreigners like me. I got so used to greeting everyone I sometimes confuse people in larger places with too much waving and smiling where it’s not common.
Having less people around definitely makes you (and your neighbors), more interested in meeting the ones that are there.
I couldn’t tell you ANY of my neighbors names when I lived in big cities.
Depends how you define “know”. That I can name?Probably between 50 and 60 at a guess, which is working on 1 in 3 houses. I walk every day, I have kids that play outside, and I am a primary email answerer and door knocker for the neighborhood.
That I would feel comfortable letting my dog out if I were away from home? Maybe 8 or 10.
One of my coworkers lives here, and there is a guy who works at the grocery store who always says hello to me. So, 2.
You are alone, with hundreds of people around
I know all the people that live in the same floor as me, but I’m not friends with them.
This is a rural area, so more than I’d like.
Zero, I don’t know a single person on my street, I know one couple and one nice gentalmen on the next street over and maybe one other couple two streets down. 67 homes and I maybe have talked to 5 families
Why do you keep yourself alone?
They’re all very private families and I respect their privacy. I’ve lived in other neighborhoods that we would get together and do parties
I used to live on quite a large cul-de-sac and we knew most of the people, it was a really good community. Four or five times a year, and at Halloween and Christmas, we’d have street parties and everyone would come out and the kids would tear around and we’d put up tables with drinks and snacks which everyone would contribute to, though there was no pressure to pitch in. The WhatsApp group was really active and would get approx 30 messages per day, usually just people giving stuff away or asking where there kids were. My wife is really anxious about our daughter going missing usually but on that street she would come home and the kids would be playing and she’d jump out of the car and run off, and my wife was fine with it. There was always someone looking after them. We had to move because we wanted to be closer to the school, and we were renting and our landlord was a real problem, but we still get invited to the parties.
Our new cul-de-sac is smaller and it’s not the same but we regularly speak to about a third of the street and know the other third enough to say hello. People just don’t hang out on the street here like they used to at the old street, it’s more of a back garden place.
Our (large, 2 parent 6 kid) family is friendly with nine other households in our neighborhood. Meaning their kids hang out with my kids and we know each other and talk semi frequently.
I live in a suburban development in South Carolina.
