We just moved and I don't know any of our neighbors. (even though this is our home town) If you've moved, how did you get to know your neighbors?
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Hm. I didn't have to because my husband had already established relationships with them before we met. However, if I had to do it over I would do a few things.
a. wave and smile when I see them.
b. if I have a minute and they're outside and seem to also have a minute I will stop by and introduce myself.
c. if you're so inclined, I would make them a batch of cookies which is also a great way to introduce yourself.Good Luck!
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It's so hard. My husband and I are homebodies and shy so we're not good at getting out and meeting people. We just ended up saying hello to our next door neighbors a few times and now we chat with them a little when we see them. A lady across the street had a baby two days before I gave birth so, I've been trying to reach out to her to chat and do playdates, as well. I stopped by her house one day and gave her my email and phone number.
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We have been in our house for a couple weeks now and we haven't met any of our neighbors. Granted we have been so busy and weather has been crappy. But I really want to meet ours. I have waved at the ones across the street when getting the mail. I waved first and then she waved back.
Our neighbors down the street just had a tree fall on their house during the storms last night. So DH and I are going to go over one night this week or weekend and see if they need anything.
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We are about to move and I think it would be nice to know our neighbors! Subscribing!
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I have gotten to know one of my neighbor by being outside a lot in our back yard! We are still training a puppy, so I'm outside quite a bit lately!
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When we first moved in, all the neighbors were curious so when they saw us outside getting mail, dumping trash, etc. they'd walk over and introduce themselves so that was nice!
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being outside doing yard work, walking our dog... although I only know the other dog walking neighbors as "Shadow's mom" and "Toby's Mom." and oddly enough we had two major car accidents on our street and we met a bunch of neighbors by just being nosy as to whats been going on.
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I just started saying hi whenever I saw them. Its also a little easier for us because we have a dog and she is very friendly.
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We lucked out because our neighbors are pretty social and organize several gatherings every year - typically a summer block party, a holiday progressive dinner and an Oktoberfest block party. We also got to know our next door neighbors (on both sides) just by chatting them up when we were outside doing yard work, etc.
I like the idea of baking some cookies or muffins and bringing them to your neighbors to introduce yourself. My brother and SIL did that in their old apartment complex, and most of the tenants ended up becoming pretty friendly as a result. I think a lot of people want to get to know their neighbors better but are too shy to take the initiative - so you can be that person! On our block, we've become friends with a super nice couple with a 9-month-old who invited us over for coffee early on and has since organized a regular "Baby Brunch" for the first Saturday of every month.
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Honestly the dog and baby have been the best ice breakers. It's remarkable how many people I know just because our dogs play at the park together. The baby has been great too. Being out and about with a stroller has made me a few neighbourly acquaintances and. LO is only 7 weeks.
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They brought us cookies! Yum.
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I'm sort of embarrassed that I've lived in my house for a year and barely know our neighbors. We only had one person reach out and introduce themselves... the rest we've had to just wave and say hi and hope they say hi back lol. We are the only young couple on the street without a kid, so hopefully when LO gets here in July we can have an easier time ice-breaking with the neighbors. It doesn't help that one next-door neighbor is only home late at night, and the other isn't very friendly! Oh well!
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@Bookworm: we're worse - 2 years, and we only know the names of one set of neighbors. ALL out neighbors on one side to end of street (about 4 houses) have kids and will sit in each others yards while kids play in summer and they never make an effort to say hi to us when we walk by so we feel awkward and don't interact either since we don't have kids. Kind of put a bad taste in my mouth that they don't want to get to know us..
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@runnerd: That's exactly us!! Isn't it awkward as heck?! I even made the effort to go say hello to the new family when they moved in, but since we don't have kids and they do, they haven't said a word to us since! Just play with the other neighbor kids :[ It's sooo crappy. Sorry you are dealing with that too!
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we really only know the other dog owners in our neighborhood, or the people who live on the same floor as us who i've said hello to when we're coming/going at the same time. especially since we live in an nyc apt, people generally are not neighborly because there are just so many people all the time, you don't know who lives there vs who is visiting or lurking sketchily
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It's been 2.5 years and the only time we've really met our neighbors is during a blizzard when everyone was out on the road helping clear it. We've met a few of our immediate neighbors while out doing yardwork. Other than that, we never see anyone around.
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