Six Habits of Good Next Door Neighbors

A great hub about being good neighbors. Nowadays even if we want to say a friendly hello, people are not willing to acknowledge a greeting and act very cold and distant. This deters any further attempts to be friendly. But still, we try, hoping for the best.

Good neighbors "treat the other neighbor with the same love and admiration the giver will like to receive." What a true definition of the Golden Rule. We found a new world when we moved out to the country. People wave at one another from passing cars. They call if they see something suspicious going on.

I'm ever grateful for the neighbors who alerted me to potential danger when my Mom lived out here on her own. More than once I got a call from them telling me there was a strange car in her driveway. They know the right amount of interest to show without prying or getting overly friendly. I love my neighbors. Well, except for the one with the loud bass that rattles the windows. LOL

You're such a lovely person, Dora - thank you.

Thanks, Dora! Sorry I've not visited you much recently but I will catch up slowly.

Ann

Super quotes, Dora! We're lucky here as we live in a court so we can all see each other's houses. Most of us speak almost every day and we help each other out quite often, are invited to each other's houses and there's many a knock on the door to ask my partner if he has a certain item of diy (he's known for his building, mechanics, Mr fixit ability) in stock (i.e. the garage)!

I'm still catching up at weekends as the week is still taken up with renovating our new house - we'll be moving there as soon as we can but in the meantime we're finding our neighbours are becoming friends too which is lovely.

Ann

Dora, I'm fortunate to have great neighbors. We mow each others lawns, help with project, share food, party together but also don't smother each other.

One of my neighbors even taught my son how to ride a bike and tie his shoes when he was little. She considers him the son she never had. I've seen another neighbor's kids grow up from diapers to adults. It's really cool living in a neighborhood with such camaraderie.

We all need to be reminded about this occasionally MsDora. It's so easy to become wrapped up in our own lives that we forget that some people may need a smile and a helping hand now and then. Old people living alone can be particularly lonely and isolated.

I'm blessed with some good neighbours on one side of my property, and do indeed share my excess garden produce with them. We chat over the fence and very occasionally share a cup of coffee.But we respect each others privacy. I know that they would help me out in an emergency and I would do the same for them. They even attended my father's funeral - though they didn't know him very well.

Such good reminders here! Thanks for highlighting these neighborly concepts in a neat format.

Another good and thoughtful article. In a sense, neighbors are not like they used to be but at least most speak to each other in my hood. I think we help out each other out when necessary. It is hard not to be a good neighbor. Thank God for good neighbors that try their best to be their best. I'm sure you are one of the best neighbors around. Be blessed Dora...

What a great hub! It's so well written and researched - and a great reminder to be a good neighbour. The key for my car boot is with my door key and if my car is parked outside in the street, I only need to touch the car remote, even from inside the house, and the boot flies up. Although I, like many others, do not talk much to my neighbours across the road as they both go to work and are very busy,but if they see my boot open they will let me know! Your hub is a great reminder that I should try and be a better neighbour for them, too.

This is a great evaluation tool for us to check and see where we are at with our neighbors. As I stop and think, several of my neighbors have changed in the past few years, and I haven't had an opportunity to get to know them. Perhaps now is the time!

This is an excellent article, MsDora. Your description of a good neighbor makes a lot of sense and is important as well.

You kind of make us think - what happened to neighborhoods? Things are so different now. Oh, and I really liked your Arthur Baer quote. Thanks for another timely hub, Dora

I commend you on your idea of a good neighbor, if we could only get them all to comply with these ideas......

I feel so lucky to have moved into a community with wonderful neighbors here in Brazil. They have been so helpful in so many ways helping us to adjust. Whether it is knowledge about local flora and fauna, or where to buy something, they come to help us.

We swap fruits & they come over to fish and have a chat.

I know where my mother lived, she too had fantastic neighbors who checked on her. She lived in her home for 40 years and she was still the 'new kid on the block' as 3 of her closest neighbors had lived there longer.

This hub is an ideal reminder that to change something needn't be expensive, sometimes it just starts with a smile and a wave.

No matter the words I choose, they are still not enough to describe just how well-written, accurate and humane this article is.

Hopefully, articles like this may people more susceptible to becoming good neighbors themselves.

Bev and I would pass that test with flying colors. I'm not so sure about our next door neighbor on the right of us. LOL Well, we can always hope for a change, right? :)

MsDora - I hope all is well. It certainly can be difficult trying to adhere to courtesy for each neighbor especially when it comes to the noise for lawn maint. Overall people seem to be respectful of early morning or late evening yard work but at the end of the day - we are all trying to get to the same place...cheers

Love this article, MsDora. There is nothing better than having a good neighbor. It actually adds value to your property and makes life much more pleasant. You make some great points. We live on 40 acres, but our closest neighbors are nice people and we help each other out at different times..have each other's phone number etc.

She in her passing does know. Thank you.

Thanks for this insightful hub. It is unfortunate that most neighbors aren't as friendly or helpful as they used to be. My husband and I are so grateful to have wonderful neighbors who we can count on. We've had neighborhood BBQ's in the past and we are always friendly to each other. If one of us needs something and can't get to the store, we know we can always ask to borrow it from a neighbor and they will try their best to help. Having great neighbors is truly a blessing from God!

My neighbors are Asian, Hispanic, Native American , Black and White. We go to great lengths in our neighborhood in helping each one out ands have had a wonderful relationship here for almost ten years. Thank you for your nice message my friend. whonu

I needed this like so many newborns need a spank to start breathing. We need to spread the love and the best place to start is not our neighbors business but their hearts. I can do better and by golly jingles I will. Missy Dora you light a spark. A spark of good. My momma would want you as my friend.

Good neighbors certainly add peace to every day living. We bad to move from our home in the city over eight years ago because our neighbors children, who were teenagers at the time, became out of control and bringing hoodlum friends into the neighborhood disturbing the peace. A couple of times there were shots fired! I knew then it was time to go. It was sad because my children grew up there. The children next door respected me because I was kInc to them. Since moving to a small town, it has been so lovely and peaceful. We wave and speak to our neighbors.

Good hub in keeping the peace and loving one's neighbor.

Blessings

You always write on nteresting subjects. I feel very unsafe in my neighborhood. Very. One family has the cops there all the time. To. The other side I have a neighbor who is friends with the others. She has been very kind, but she's growing a forest of pot and has 9000 yippee dogs. She is considerate with keeping them outdoors for small periods of time, but they startle me when I'm deep into something. She has no filters though when it comes to language and vulgar comments. She recently disclosed to me that she was checking out the inside of my shed while out of town.

The information here is greatl. Nice work.

We have a next door neighbor who is a nice guy, originally from Iran. During 9/11 and the years that followed people were reluctant to return his waves and attempts at conversations except for my husband and I. When he had a tree fall on his fence in bad weather my husband recruited a couple of others to help chainsaw it up because the guy has a bad back. Eventually people relaxed their attitudes a bit. He puts up with our 6 cats (and any others who want to eat at our house and in exchange my husband mows the fellow's yard when he has surgery, looks after his house when he goes out of town, that sort of thing. I like all the suggestions you provide here. People have become so transient and don't know their neighbors anymore.

Neighbors really are not like they were when I grew up but I guess mine will do. Only one I have to not be overly friendly with or I have her child being a pest who really is too old for that and messing with my animals and things that I just do not like but the couple of others we are friendly and will offer a hand when need be but we are not buddies. It suites me especially since the other two are single men and I am not sure my husband would like me being any friendlier! lol

I do wish I had neighbors like in my childhood ones but many of those had kids I played with too!

Great fun and interesting article as always!