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Yep! We get together often with several families. We actually went to Turks and Caicos with our next door neighbors.

the house across the street from us has two girls, 4 years old and 20 months. They seem to keep to themselves (it blows my mind how much time they just spend inside, and the mom never leaves), but we probably play with them once or twice a month.

The house right next store is an older retired couple with grandchildren, and they have a 9 year old granddaughter who LOVES my girls. She just walks right in our house and spends hours hanging out. We love the grandparents, too, so we let our 3 year old go over there and play whenever the grandkids are visiting.

No one in our building has young children. I think the people upstairs may have tweenagers, but they might be their grandkids. I rarely see them. In our previous 2 apartments we have been friendly and had playdates with neighbors with kids.

We used to be very close with our next door neighbors. It was wonderful. Then I found out the mom had done some pretty crazy, wrong things and that ended that. Now we don't hang out anymore. It's sad, but we are not interested in having that around our family.

Yes, and it makes us SO glad we moved! The next-door neighbors have 2 girls and the people behind us have 2 kids, and the 2 youngest girls (10yo) love to come over and play with D! Our next-door neighbors hung their baby swing back up on their swingset and let us come over and use it whenever we want. They also just gave us a little backyard play castle/slide and a bike. Their kids have outgrown them, so they just gave them to us.

3 out of the 16 other houses on our street have kids near the same age as our LO and we play with 2 of the families occasionally, but the other family is not very friendly.

DH and I make a big effort to get to know all of our neighbors. We organize an annual pot-luck block party, take food to new neighbors or ones that have been sick, and most importantly -we spend time outside all the time, so we chit chat when we see them walking the dog or checking the mail. I've found that most people want to get to know their neighbors and have that type of community, but don't really put the effort into extending putting themselves out there and making the connections.

Not really. I am friends with the mom down the street who has a 6 month old, 3 year old and 6 year old. Other than that, there aren't many people on our street that come outside so we don't really know them. One house across the street has a 3 year old but they are never outside so it's hard to talk to someone when you never see them!

I'm really surprised people stay inside so much. We have a playground right by our house yet it is used by middle school kids as a hang out much more than by parents with kids who would want to play on it.

Our neighborhood is predominately older, retired people, so we made friends with the one house with a kid as fast as possible. Our husbands mountain bike together, the wife & I go shopping, we have the boys play after daycare most days, and we try to do stuff on the weekends but we get busy & it's hard to schedule. She is pregnant & due about 3 months ahead of me, so it's been really fun. We're just hoping they don't move any time soon!

We are friendly with them and if we happen to be outside at the same time we will play. But other than that...no. The house right next to us has a girl pretty close to DD's age but her parents are so helicopter-y I don't really like to hang out with them much because their parenting style drives me crazy.

I'm friendly with our neighbors, we help each other out, if needed but I don't hang out with them or playdates or anything. Not that I wouldn't but any free time I do have I want to hang out with my friends, family and DH.