How did you first get to know your neighbors? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by LesserAbe@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Moved here a couple years ago, initially met the neighbors and know their names, but haven't had more than a handful of couple sentence interactions since then.

On the one hand, I do want a little distance: I'm not trying to hang out all the time or necessarily make new best friends. But still seems like the neighborly thing to know each other a little bit more, to have someone to call in case of emergency, or hey your dog got out, hey the global order has collapsed let's band together to keep out the raiders, etc.

So interested to know, if you do interact with your neighbors, how did you get started? What is the extent of your interaction?

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

One of my neighbors was super cool, from the moment I met him. He told me he was throwing a party in a week and I should come. So I did, and then from that point forward we were always inviting each other to things, and planning collaborative BBQs in the front yard.

The neighbors on the other side of my house were friendly, but never beyond a "hello" point for 3 years! Lol. Then their neighborhood buddies moved away and they started talking to us more. Eventually we invited them over for the 4th of July. Then they invited us over to a party, then a dinner, and it's gone from there. It turns out we have a ton in common, but never knew it because we hadn't talked much.

That's often all it takes, inviting each other over for dinner, or a game night, or a party, or whatever. So pick a neighbor and invite them over. Heck, invite all your neighbors and have a big BBQ. Call it a block party.

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