I know the people to the left and right. Saying hi is fairly common for the rest of the community.
My neighbor’s dog is named Chip and the guy a few houses down has a Husky named Luna.
That’s all the names I can tell you from my block.
I used to live on quite a large cul-de-sac and we knew most of the people, it was a really good community. Four or five times a year, and at Halloween and Christmas, we’d have street parties and everyone would come out and the kids would tear around and went up tables with drinks and snacks which everyone would contribute to, though there was no pressure to pitch in. The WhatsApp group was really active and would get approx 30 messages per day, usually just people giving stuff away or asking where there kids were. My wife is really anxious about our daughter going missing usually but on that street she would come home and the kids would be playing and she’d jump out of the car and run off, and my wife was fine with it. There was always someone looking after them. We had to move because we were renting and our landlord was a real problem but we still get invited to the parties.
Our new cul-de-sac is smaller and it’s not the same but we regularly speak to about a third of the street and know the other third enough to say hello. People just don’t hang out on the street here like they used to at the old street, it’s more of a back garden place.
I walk the dog twice a day and meet local people also walking their dogs. Sometimes we stop and chat. I don’t know them well, but I recognise some of them by sight and know some of their names.
2 in name and greeted.
I personally couldn’t tell you a single one of their names. We might even be ostracized for some reason, but honestly I wouldn’t know.
My neighbor on one side is 90+, nice fella with in-home carers. The other side are assholes who stole our grocery deliveries one time. Beyond that, no clue.
One of my coworkers lives here, and there is a guy who works at the grocery store who always says hello to me. So, 2.
3 lol. kinda sad, really
Our family is friendly with nine other households in our neighborhood
I know almost everyone in the 6 houses adjacent to mine, and there are a few people that walk past daily that stop and talk when they see us outside.
Probably about 12-15 adults, and their kids, who play in our yard sometimes.
Exactly. I don’t live on a long street but I know about half of the people on my street. I intentionally make the effort. I don’t need to be best friends with anyone but we face all the same local problems so why wouldn’t I want them to have my back, care enough to keep an eye on things as I do for them.
It takes effort to be outside and say hi and make a little small talk and learn their names, pets and kids.
Worth it in every neighborhood I’ve lived in.
Rural area, I know all my immediate neighbours and a few people from the villages around. It’s really great to be part of a small community, and since a lot of the original population emigrated the old folks around are generally really welcoming even to foreigners like me. I got so used to greeting everyone I sometimes confuse people in larger places with too much waving and smiling where it’s not common.
Having less people around definitely makes you (and your neighbors), more interested in meeting the ones that are there.
I couldn’t tell you ANY of my neighbors names when I lived in big cities.
very little, many moved away since covid to somewhat lcol, mcol area. and its been reverse white flight/gentrification since, and these neighbors are far less pleasant or less than sociable compared to older ones that have lived here for decades, plus they are out of state transplant, and you display your typical karen neighbors.
I could probably identify 3-4 people that are living in the same building. I wouldn’t bet money, on it, though.
Zero, I don’t know a single person on my street, I know one couple and one nice gentalmen on the next street over and maybe one other couple two streets down. 67 homes and I maybe have talked to 5 families
Why do you keep yourself alone?






