Good Neighbour Awards

[Phar Lap]

Where I live, there are three units, you enter up the driveway from the street. We have a chap in the first unit, I am in the middle and another lady at the end. We are all of similar age, although the other lady is a good twenty years younger I am guessing. No wives, husbands or partners. But there is a dog.

The chap it the first unit always brings my bin and the other lady’s bin in after they have been emptied - he does it every week and I’ve only now been able to catch him to thank him, It is such a kind, neighbourly act, and I am very grateful. I think he may be developing an illness because I noticed his right hand shaking. 

If there was such a thing as a good neighbour award, it would have to go to M.

[jimm]

That can be a nice thing about a small group of units - ppl keeping an eye out for each other.

[HalcyonDaze]

In our stairwell there are 9 units, 3 on each floor. Often the postie will leave parcels on the bottom level, near the laundry door.
The old guy who lives on the top floor will generally pick up the parcels if he sees them first, and drop them off outside the correct door

[crazycat]

We have a pretty good street. 20 houses in a cul-de-sac and we are at the mid point. A few years ago we started a street facebook page for easy communication and it's worked out really well during bush fires, covid, etc. Lots of offers to help with shopping if someone is sick or away.

We have a couple of street parties per year and did driveway drinks every weekend during lockdown. It was a good way to get to know each other.

[lisamnz]

Some of our neighbours (people who share our driveway) are shit, some are great.

People live rurally for two reasons it seems; because they're antisocial and don't like people, or because they like the peace and outdoors space but are still generally social people. We speak to the latter ones, and not to the former.

Causes problems when it comes time to get driveway work done.

[romily]

If the other lady is 20 years younger than you are she is not the same / similar age than you.

I only know the people in my blocks of 5 flats - downstairs neighbour looks after my cats when I'm away and vice / versa but can also be a pain (the company she keeps is rather dubious to say the least. I don't think the guy who cokes around is capable of using a sentence without the F word, or in proper english).

Woman above me is lovely - but she mainly lives with her parents now due to long Covid and needing help. The other two ladies I say hi when i see them in the car park, but that's about it.

[rikita]

my neighbour next door tried to be friends with me a few years ago, but i managed to avoid that - these days, i rarely see her anyway, as she rarely leaves her apartment, though i sometimes talk to her husbad when i meet him on the staircase. am friendly when i see them and occasionally we have helped each other out with something, but they aren't people i'd want to hang out with ... other neighbours in our house, some i basically just greet, some i might chat with for a bit ... most often talk to the other family with kids (two small kids and i think pregnant with the third) - they are nice and their oldest likes showing me how he manages to move the garbage bins around, as he is planning to do that as a job later on (he is four).

[Webs]

I've only seen my directly next door neighbors 3 times in the 2 years they've lived here. I don't know their names. They're not friendly, but they are MOT.

[groo]

Our garbage pickup point is some 600 metres from the house, so I frequently leave my bins down there during the week. My garbage needs are few, except when I am doing a major clean up, so I have no problem with my neighbours (very good neighbours overall) using otherwise empty bin space when necessity so demands, though it does become a little problematic when I go down on bin mornings and find that space in my bins is at a premium.

What does curdle my gonads is when they put my otherwise empty bins out but neglect to bring them back in again.

And why do they serve me perfectly adequate but low budget wine when their recycle bin deposits reveal a somewhat more elaborate cellar. I have been taken down a peg.

[sprite]

MOT? (sorry, to me that's a yearly car inspection, so my brain refuses to come up with any other possibilities.)

In my old neighbourhood, we knew one neighbour fairly well, because we bought his house. We knew a few others to say hello to, and people were generally polite.

This neighbourhood has a website and facebook group, and a resident's committee with Neighbourhood Watch. yes, very middle class! But it's really nice. We've had a couple of street parties, and I'm considering proposing a neighbourhood yard sale this year. People are always offering free/cheap stuff on the FB group, or highlighting things to be careful off such as shed thieves or lost pets/found items.

We have a bin fairy; in the building next to our, he takes out and brings back all the bins for the 6 units in his building, plus ours and our immediate neighbour, simply because he walks past them! Really lovely.

My immediate neighbours are pleasant, and of the 3 units we share the building with, we are friends with two units. We're also friendly with two other units on our street, to the point of visiting sometimes. This was all in place before the lockdowns, but during the lockdowns people really stepped up to be helpful and keep an eye out--we have a lot of elderly people living alone. I don't think I'd like to live somewhere that people ignored each other, having lived here for a while.

[tzarine]

we are having issues w the pittsburgh socialite downstairs who doesn't understand how thin the ceilings are in the city & has probably never lived beneath anyone & cant deal w the fact that not everyone works 9 - 5

we have a friend on the floor who the previous landlord was horrid to. his wife & daughter had died within a year of each other. the landlord started eviction proceedings against him. totally bogus. he's rent stabilised & pays about $500 for a 2 bedroom

most neighbours are new & tourists, living out some west village fantasy, til their next dream or til they get laid off. lots of trust fund babies. "decorators" they get tons of deliveries. i know several of the regular delivery guys