Just wanna know if any of ya have sweet home neighbors next door, I  do!  have quite a few, but the main ones, wowie!  I was workin outside, all day, my best neighbor came over with margaritas, MMMMMM!

they have right now, fixed me a drink called painkiller. very cool neighbors I have here! WOOOH! ;)           

just wonderin if you members have cool neighbors?          

Great subject, Rebel! Our neighbors are the largest part of the reason I like living here. We live on a "Not a Through Street." There must be about 40 homes from our house to the first cross street. We know almost all the neighbors from walking the dog so frequently.

My neighbors include a professional gambler, an emergency room doctor, a retired judge and retired political science professor who live together as woman and woman, a comedy agent, a prison designer (a woman), a reality show TV writer and his music supervisor wife who's done all of Tarantino's films, a cartoon voiceover artist (she always makes Lola crazy with her high-pitched squeals), a couple who both work on the Simpsons -- one as an artist, one as a producer, an LA Unified school district union leader and his lawyer wife, a shoe manufacturer, travel agent, a drummer in a rock band, an HBO executive, a contractor (another female in a mostly male biz) who's married to a podiatrist, a nephrologist, and a new neighbor who may or may not be involved in Nigerian email scams.  But that's just speculation.  He and his wife haven't actually moved into the area as they are still building a house.  And of course, one of my favorite neighbors is the grandson of the creator of Tarzan for whom our little burg is named. 

It's as friendly a place as the one I recall from growing up in Cleveland in the 50s where neighbors would celebrate holidays together, babysit for one another's kids and help with household do-it-yourself projects. 

Saturday night we went out to dinner with a couple who live close by.  Last night a different neighbor came over for BBQ. On any given day, I might just pop over to the "girls" next door's house with my dog and chat while Lola plays with Max, Cookie and Daisy, their dogs. Another neighbor we've known for 30 years and we are close friends.

Part of me would like to move but the neighbors have been so great that I would be afraid of not having this experience in another place. There is only one house whose owners I do not know. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen them. There are two or three black Lincolns parked in the driveway most of the time. Their house would not be described as having "pride of ownership" nor "curb appeal." We always joke that they must be in the witness protection program.

I love my neighbors!

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

There's a couple that lives below Rob and I have that have a, um, healthy sexual relationship. They're pretty vocal about it.

Heh! I'll bet good & well she's an opera lady there 12 rainbow!

wow! susan, my best friend neighbors are from california :) they know how to kick  it up here in my neighborhood, I love it!

I have a single Italian grandmother living one side - behind her house is a string of houses for her children (they gave each of their kids and grandkids a block of land)...so it's son-daughter-son-daughter etc...

On the other side we have a Romanian family.  They're a fairly big family, and very friendly.  We go to each others family lunches and dinners from time to time.

Only 2 other houses on our street - 1 house of Aussies who have teenage kids, and they're ok.  The other family tend to keep to themselves the most - I think they're Polish, but very friendly whenever I have a chat with them.

Behind us I have a neighbour who reminds me of the guy on that Tim Allen show.  He's always got his head over the fence while we chat about footy, rugby etc.  He's a good bloke.

So really happy with the neighbours on our cul-de-sac.

I want to call my neighbor Lydia, because of her tattoes, but she has a beautiful smile and seems very sweet. Her name is Laura. I think she has a significant other that spends a great deal of time there, however, I don't think he lives there because she's the only name on the mailbox unless she's harboring a fugitive or something like that. I make a point of dropping her mail in front of her door if it's out of the box when I go downstairs to retrieve mine.

There a new dude in the apartment below me I haven't met formally yet.

Then. there is the lady with the "Blair Witch Kids" outsode her door. She lives nect to the new dude below me. You might recall me mentioning them the first time I saw them outside her door. I forget get they are there, so when someone who has been to my flat comes by or whatever I always get a giggle out of their reaction. Otherwise, she a pleasant enough woman although we don't talk much.

I talk to some of my neighbors on my side of the block from time to time if I see them out. There are some young folks that live in the house next door and they are all groovy cats.I had a nice chat with the dude that lives there when I was waiting for my friend Lisa when we went to the Indigo Girls concert.   

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

had a huge family get together last weekend, I cooked alot of delish dishes, fried chicken with the works, 4 homemade pies,  casseroles, lots of food!

my neighbors kids came over & ate &  hung around, they had a blast! & they are  soooo sweet!  they came over earlier today and gave me a card saying thank you for having us over & eating your delish meals!  that was so sweet!  It really meant alot to me that they enjoyed coming over & telling me they love my cooking!

Within the last six months, both the husband and wife who lived next door passed away. The husband went first just before Christmas and the wife went about two months ago. They were very old and she had been in very poor health for a long time, and he wasn't doing to well either but he took care of her all by himself every single day. They have an adopted daughter who lives in town and never came over much and an adopted son who lives in Oklahoma.

So anyway, the husband kicks it, and suddenly this flock of Oklahoma relatives descends on the house. And I shit you not, from about mid-December through mid-April, every damn night was a party over there. They were playing music and drinking beer and smoking all kinds of fun things (they even smoked meat...in a smoker, obviously). It's like they were just biding time until the wife kicked it so they could...well, apparently so they could turn the damn house into a GROW HOUSE. They think they're being sneaky but it's pretty damn obvious (they thought they were being sly by having all of their grow lights installed at like 4am, but I'm up for work at that time, so. Yeah.)  At this point I don't really care if it's a grow house, though the stoners who live on the other side of it might. The nice thing is I have this over them if they ever get to a point with their obnoxious party behavior where I feel the need to call the cops. They still gather there on the weekends to party in the backyard until all hours with Lynyrd Skynyrd on repeat. Ugh.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

my neighborhood is much changed . While I spend time at my friend's and that provides the love thy neighbor milieu complete with her family and ancillary characters.

But my crib is in an apartment complex -neither small nor large-there is the balcony tier and the patio people. Of course the balcony down two is occupied by a guy and girl I met and befriended at Deb's where i had first landed for a couple months.

A lot of "how's it goin'? ' beautiful day" exchanges but I have cultivated the neighbors who are as we used to say cool. Best friends live right across the entry door to me. The gal used to leave items by her doorway that I did not feature, but once I knew the person -it mattered not. Same as when I had a teenage kid set up a basketball hoop on my fence line. The muffled thump was off putting -until-I talked to the kid, found out he is truly a great kid,AND we shot some hoops. After that the sound was almost comforting. Know what I mean?

Haha, that sounds much more optimistic, yes...

We finally got new neighbours. They moved in last week. They seem like such lovely people...