Getting to Know The Neighbours

DannyC on 30/11/2020 - 21:38
Last edited 30/11/2020 - 22:04

So moving house soon to a quiet street out in the burbs. One of the things I do is to say hi to the neighbours. Nothing too fancy, usually involves some home baked cookies or baked goods or some wino but I guess not everyone appreciates it, which is understandable.

What does everyone else do? Or you really can't be bothered? Or are your neighbours enemy number one? Would love to hear everyone's stories on the good… the bad and the ugly. I've lived in my apartment block for a few years, low density but had a few issues with the neighbour.

Let the stories roll! Cheers!

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  • askme69 on 30/11/2020 - 21:46

    Ever since we migrated from a front verandah to the backyard alfresco, neighbourhoods and neighbours have become irelevent.

  • Daabido on 30/11/2020 - 21:46
    +7

    I hope if you move in next door, you bring the cookies, not a wino. I don't want an alcoholic hanging around.

    • elgrande on 30/11/2020 - 21:53
      +3

      Agree, I thought giving people as gifts was frowned upon these days.

  • SF3 on 30/11/2020 - 21:48

    Should just be like your apartment neighbours (how did you get to know them or not), burbs are not like an alternate universe.

  • sa-ozzie on 30/11/2020 - 21:50

    Dope cookies if your in a dodgy area

    • Daabido on 30/11/2020 - 22:37

      No, because then they will break in to steal your dope.

  • brendanm on 30/11/2020 - 21:54
    +1

    Don't put up security cameras looking into someone elses house like my moron neighbours did.

  • [Deactivated] on 30/11/2020 - 21:59

    Change your cars oil on the next door neighbours nature strip 👌

  • AustriaBargain on 30/11/2020 - 22:05
    -3

    Unless you have kids and they have kids and your kids are friends, I don't see why I would want to know my neighbors. Would be handy if a found a Tindr booty call next door though.

    • This Guy on 30/11/2020 - 23:42
      -3

      Gross. Most single people in the suburbs are teenagers.

      • AustriaBargain on 01/12/2020 - 01:25
        +2

        Ew, how would you know that.

        • This Guy on 01/12/2020 - 07:54
          -1

          Double gross. I forgot the widowed elderly.

          how would you know that?

          It's common sense. You move to the suburbs when you have kids. Rents/house prices are too high, the commute is too long. Most young, single adults live in apartments.

          You have some late bloomers that live their in their 20's, and you have some single parents, but the only singles in this group I can see using dating apps would bee teenagers yet to move out of their parents house. Probably not tinder any more. Probably some new cool thing I wont hear about until I am 60.

          You have some exceptions, like stupidly socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbour hoods and suburbs surrounding universities, but it's still kinda gross because neither of these groups would say a sentence like.

          Would be handy if a found a Tindr booty call next door though.

          • AustriaBargain on 01/12/2020 - 15:57
            +1

            @This Guy: Wow, you sound like you know a lot about the people of the suburbs. Is your formal training in anthropology?

            • This Guy on 01/12/2020 - 18:31

              @AustriaBargain: And somehow managed the impossible, portraying sarcasm though text on the internet…

              Not an insult but you don't sound like you pay bills yet. It's gross, but if you are under 25 maybe lower your age limit a little (but keep it legal) to find people who are of a similar maturity to you. I remember at that age teenagers/young adults matured at wildly different rates. Or skip the phone and hit up the nursing home. Those independent living units are full of people looking for hook ups.

              Seriously though, try your local pub on a Friday night.

            • Laziofogna on 02/12/2020 - 16:34

              @AustriaBargain: Paranoia does wonders on some people.

      • Jugganautx on 01/12/2020 - 12:53
        +1

        righhht cos every single adult lives in cbd

    • Kangal on 01/12/2020 - 00:38
      +1

      Dude… were you rejected from an Arts School or something?!

  • Godric on 30/11/2020 - 22:06

    Bring them the bass

  • TheBird on 30/11/2020 - 22:20
    +1

    Pop over, knock and say Hi, I'm your new neighbour.

  • Xander84 on 30/11/2020 - 22:29
    +9

    I started an annual pre-Christmas street party when I moved into my place 5 years ago. I just put flyers in everyone's letterboxes asking them to bring a plate to share, something to sit on and that it was BYO. I held it on my front lawn and every household on the street turned up. It's been going every year since and I think most of the street know each other pretty well now and it's a great way to meet new neighbours. I wasn't going to do it last year as I was so busy but had a few people knock on my door and ask what date it was going to be on, so figure I'll be doing it until I eventually sell up.

  • salmon123 on 30/11/2020 - 22:39
    +1

    eye-wide-shut-party should work wonders for getting to know the neighbours.

  • pharkurnell on 30/11/2020 - 22:44

    I had a chat with neighbour tonight actually… i have to move soon, and freaking out about the new neighbours situation and what they will be like.
    I've been lucky - only lived in 4 places, 1 set of neighbours over 30yrs and the others - I havent had bad neighbours before,but mate has just moved into his dream home the built in berwick, and the house next door is a full drug house, parties selling the lot… The cops arent interested.

    I dont want to move now :(

  • Nugs on 01/12/2020 - 06:20

    Smile and wave. You'll know what to do next based on the feedback you get.
    .

  • Jugganautx on 01/12/2020 - 12:52

    Took me 5 seconds to realise my neighbors were f***wits. No cookies for them.

  • Blue Suby on 01/12/2020 - 16:42

    I walk the dog and wave hello to anyone that's out the front. Some will have a quick chat others just wave back. We're friendly enough with immediate neighbours to bring in their bins and vice versa (if away) and jut keep a friendly eye out if something out of ordinary happens.

  • Laziofogna on 02/12/2020 - 16:31

    My dream is buying three lots of land and build the house in the middle

  • sickllama on 05/12/2020 - 16:25

    We have lovely neighbours. Often have a cold drink with ones either side, and we had a street Halloween party and planning a Christmas party soon.

    Just a quiet suburban street in Brisbane.

    You've got to make the effort, and it helps if you buy in an owner occupied area that's a bit more affluent in my experience.

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