Do you trust your neighbours?

[Beka]

The people next door, those living in the apartment above or below you, those in your street. Do you feel you can trust them?

I began to think about this after talking with my dad (maybe I should edit that to talking at my dad :giggle ) about his childhood, his family knew everyone, they lived where they could leave their doors unlocked, their kids could run in and out of each others houses, it was propre Brady style only with less shiney teeth!

So- do you know your neighbours? Do you like them? and finally do you trust them?

[Christine]

I know my neighbors and I like them but I don't trust them at all!!

A couple years ago, one of our neighbors broke into Dave's shop, stole some of his tools and pawned them off for crack money. It's made us VERY careful.

[Lori]

I know some of our neighbors, and I trust some of them. Some of them I don't trust at all, though. Our upstairs neighbors are extremely irresponsible, and I can't say I'd put much trust in them.

[Kristen]

Yes...all the neighbors immediately surrounding us are kind, honest neighbors. We're very blessed.

I wouldn't leave my kids with most of them, but Joshua and Lisey do go play with the little neighbor girl at her house.

[Beka]

Kristen that sounds like a lovely situation to live in.

I am lucky in that I can trust my 2 immediate neighbours, where I live in a not-so-nice neighbourhood overall but one thing the bad elements do give rise to is a strong sense of community ammoungst those who do want better.

The lady who lives directly over from me, whilst I have issue with some of her life ethics (whole nother story) she is as honest as salt- very up front, nosey but trustworthy! When we go on vacation i feel comfortable leaving her to watch our home. She parents very differently to me but i still feel comfortable turning to her for child care in an emergency if needed.

The lady next door I trust her, she has major issues with marital fidelity (last husband was husband #7 :giggle ) and she has had several affairs since i have known her but, men out of the picture, she is someone I could trust.

So although our neighbourhood at large is not one you can leave doors unlocked or walk without keeping ones guard and wits about you my immediate community is one I feel watches out for me- when my next door neighbour had her car stolen in the middle of the night all the local neighbours were out to support and talk to police etc.

[Lisa]

I don't know them very well but I feel I can trust them not to steal anything. I can't trust them however to pick up their dogs crap when it uses our yard. I can't trust the other ones to only mow his part of the yard and to not encroach part of our yard to make his look bigger. LOL I have issues with my neighbors.

[Beka]

Lisa you are giving me images of "the Burbs" here with your lawn wars description :giggle

[Kristi]

Nope we don't know them other than to wave.

In Italy we knew everyone who lived on our street and liked most of them. But not here.

[wendygrace]

I think I'd mostly trust them not to steal. I have issues with one of our neighbors dd (who's in her early 20's now) as she once used our cc to get onto porn sites but mainly because I believe she has an iq of around 70ish and I think her mother is in denial about it and therefore doesn't watch her closely (I don't think she was malicious, just foolish). Our fault for letting her use our computer unsupervised though.

However, I have issues with the same neighbors boyfriend. He just gives me the hibby jibbies so I try to keep the kids from them. Hard when he tries to feed them twizzlers every time I turn around.

The neighbors on the other side haven't lived there in over a year (house on the market). The majority of the other neighbors I either don't know or trust fairly well.

[Danielle]

I don't know them well yet (it's only been 3 months) but they seem very nice.

[YourMom]

I know them all (we live in a smallish neighbourhood) and I trust them, mostly because most of them are retirees and/or they live in nicer houses than ours. LOL

They're mostly nuts, but I trust them.

[Mary]

We know most of them. Across the street is a lady that dh went to high school with. She owns the dance studio that Madalyn used to go to. Down the street is my friend, our preschool director, and across from her is a lady who's been friends with dh's family since dh was a kid. The other immediate neighbors I don't know well but they seem nice enough (they are all older) and I have no problems with them. I trust everyone in our immediate area since we do know most of them so well.

[Jeri]

I'm fine with the neighbors in my imeediate building (3 other families). The lady upstairs is lovely, talks to the kdis all the time, gave them a giant bouncy horse that her grandson never uses, etc. I don't, however, like her daughter or SIL who are over frequently - I've heard them say things to their little boy that make me want to vomit, so I steer clear when they're over. The family next door seems nice in passing, though I don't know them well. They have two teen aged boys who seem nice and respectful - I haven't had any problems with them or their friends. The other upstairs apartment is a guy in his 20s who lives there with his mom, who I'm pretty sure is housebound or nearly so - he comes home everday on his lunch break to check in on her. He was nice to me, even when I hit his immaculate car, so that says soemthing about him LOL. I don't really know anyone in any of the other buildings on our block, but I don't have any reason to suspect them of anything. I wouldn't randomly knock on their doors and ask if they'd watch my kids - I gess I don't trust them, but I don't mistrust them either, you know?

[Sam]

Hahahha

Considering they are tormenting us, bullying us etc then no I don't.

I do trust my neighbour on the other side though, shame we have to move away from him, but we are having to move on grounds of harassment.

[Beka]

Ohh Sam that sucks, I never realised you were getting any hassle- will they put you in priority banding for a move?

[Faith]

Most of our neighbors are WONDERFUL people. We are all close, know what's going on in the neighborhood, and watch out for each other. They all call Rob the "neighborhood watch" because he is always on the lookout for people up to no good. :lmao

There are a few neighbors that we don't trust and our surrounding streets have some pretty shady people that have tagged up our street or broked into people cars and houses so that is why we have "neighborhood watch" Rob. :lmao

[Beka]

LOL Now my neighbour Justine is that for us Faith- anything goes on and she knows about it! (it's quite wonderful actually, you never miss a thing!)

[Sam]

Ohh Sam that sucks, I never realised you were getting any hassle- will they put you in priority banding for a move?

Yep, well they should do.

It has been a nightmare, my friend of 20 years moved next door obviously expecting me to keep with James and be unhappy, I got with Tom and she got jealous, I got pregnant and she told me if I didn't abort I couldn't come to her if things go wrong for me. That was the end of us but the longer I am with Tom and the more she realizes we are for good she tries to hurt me. She was letting her dogs out all night long, barking all the time just to piss me off. She stopped that when the wardens got involved but now she is getting her 10 year old psycho son to follow us when we go in the garden and torment us by spitting in our garden, calling us names, picking on the kids, trying to break our property and a whole list of other things. Nightmare. I can't even let the boys play in the garden without her kids coming out and upsetting them on purpose and yesterday we spent three hours with him calling us names in the garden and crap.

[Jo]

Absolutely. Unless I am standing between my next door neighbor and some geese. He likes to throw rocks in their direction to get them off his lawn and chase them back to the pond.:giggle

We are lucky to be surrounded by fantastic neighbors and a fantastic neighborhood in general.

[Maggie]

I know a few people, but nobody that I'd ever trust in my house to let out the dog, water the plants, etc. They're nice for the most part, but I just don't know any of them well enough.

[Christi]

My neighbors next door and catty-corner across the street, I trust totally. I'd let them in our house, watch our kids, whatever! The neighbors across the street are the ones who called the police several times on our dogs, so nope, don't trust them as far as I can throw 'em!