Do you know your neighbors well? (Question of the Day 11-20-10)

I don't know them at all. All I know is the people in the house to one side of mine have a pair of dogs which disturb the whole street with their barking.

No, the ones living next-door is a fat lesbian couple with two boys, and the mothers have a tendency to throw chairs and shit after each other.

I have two neighbours. I know both of them, but they're not exactly my bros or anything. 

not any more

No and do not want.

Nope, and I hope to keep it that way^^

I think it's sad how rarely people really know their neighbors nowadays. Although I sadly had to vote no as well. It wasn't even until a few days ago that I actually said hi to the people who live beneath me and we've been here four months now. But on my old street where I grew up and moved from, I knew all of my surrounding neighbors (including next door on both sides and the two houses directly across the street) and all are families were good friends. But us kids grew up together and my brother dated the girl across the street for about five years and the one living next door to us is the girl who I currently have interest with. 
 
Even to the people next to us though who were more recent move-ins and had their house raided by the swat team once with police presence no less than three additional times, even with them I'd always say hi to the couple that were my age and to the mother and we were all "friendly" for all intents and purposes.  

I've met several of them, but they're not close friends or anything.

I don't know any of them, but then again, I only moved into this house six months ago. 

I live like two doors away from a pub, so I guess the pub counts as my neighbour. And I know the pub very well.

I've only been here for a few months and am not staying beyond this coming Wednesday (contract work), but the people I've met here are batshit-insane so I'm mostly staying indoors until I get back home.
 
Let's see:
 
Brian, the 'recovering' meth-addict who still 'blasts off' by shooting up pills, while hiding from his girlfriend (who just gave birth to his son last Tuesday) until he comes down.
 
David 'Can I bum a square (cig), man...I'll get you back' and he never does.
 
Yavonna "I shouldn't get a ticket because no one is suppose to park here so I'm not in anyones way" with her 6 screaming, unmonitored kids, and whatever 'OG'  happens to be her fuckbuddy this night.
 
Jason "I'm smashed every night so I'll toss a football with my brahs in the parking lot full of 100 cars" who got his ass kicked by Brian for hitting his car with a football. I'm sorry, I mean his girlfriends car. Brian can't hold a job long enough to buy a car.
 
Casey "I don't feel like dealing with this shit so I won't", the complex courtesy officer who just lives up on the free rent and doesn't do shit.
 
Zack "I know the sign says pick up after your dog but dude..." and his too-happy-to-not-be-pills wife Nancy.
 
Jen, the cute air-force lady who I've never heard pronounce the letter 'R'. Also, drunk and screwing nightly.
 
And the old man on the block, Jim "I can't believe we got ourselves a n***** president, why back in my day they weren't even allowed downtown...and now the whitehouse?" who's just barely hanging on, just so he can piss a few more people off.
 
 
So, unfortunately, my answer to your question is "yes. Yes I do." But I might add "I wish I didn't."
 
Fuck, I hate people.

Don't even know their names, to be honest...
I mean, I greet them if we meet in the elevator and all, but that's about it.

Don't know them, wouldn't want to know them.
 
When we first moved here there were a few nice people, then one died and the other moved away.

Naw.

nah, this is the bronx, you don't really get to know your neighbors. 

Not really. On the one side we have an old lady, seems nice enough - occasionally gives us fruit and junk she grows.
On the other I.. Well I've not really seen them at all, I just know they are loud. Blasting music all hours of the night. Gets old. 

Yup, block parties are fun

Not really, but they don't know me either so it works out.

The neighbor directly to the left of me constantly has his douchey and ditz friends over. Even on a Tuesday night they'll be on the balcony laughing about nothing till early morning. The only time I spoke to him was when he knocked on my door looking for zig-zags. Even if I had the chance I would not try to get to know him.

I know one of my neighbors, because they are the only younger neighbors around. Everyone else is old.

No, because if I did, this might happen:
 
  

I know almost everyone around here, so.

I have neighbours? Well I'll be darned.

yeah, i know a couple of them. there are others that we don't know.

Not anymore.

Nah. 
 
Thank God, too. 
 
A rather hot girl lost her scarf out of the window and came down to ask for it, but my house was such a mess at the time that it turned out to be one of those nightmares where you're naked in the bus rather than the opening to a porno one would expect from the premise. An old lady in front of me moved out and a couple has angry sex in a foreign language next door, but only on Saturday mornings. 
 
Why would I want to interact with any of those people? 

" I've only been here for a few months and am not staying beyond this coming Wednesday (contract work), but the people I've met here are batshit-insane so I'm mostly staying indoors until I get back home.  Let's see:  Brian, the 'recovering' meth-addict who still 'blasts off' by shooting up pills, while hiding from his girlfriend (who just gave birth to his son last Tuesday) until he comes down. David 'Can I bum a square (cig), man...I'll get you back' and he never does.  Yavonna "I shouldn't get a ticket because no one is suppose to park here so I'm not in anyones way" with her 6 screaming, unmonitored kids, and whatever 'OG'  happens to be her fuckbuddy this night.  Jason "I'm smashed every night so I'll toss a football with my brahs in the parking lot full of 100 cars" who got his ass kicked by Brian for hitting his car with a football. I'm sorry, I mean his girlfriends car. Brian can't hold a job long enough to buy a car.  Casey "I don't feel like dealing with this shit so I won't", the complex courtesy officer who just lives up on the free rent and doesn't do shit.  Zack "I know the sign says pick up after your dog but dude..." and his too-happy-to-not-be-pills wife Nancy.  Jen, the cute air-force lady who I've never heard pronounce the letter 'R'. Also, drunk and screwing nightly.  And the old man on the block, Jim "I can't believe we got ourselves a n***** president, why back in my day they weren't even allowed downtown...and now the whitehouse?" who's just barely hanging on, just so he can piss a few more people off.   So, unfortunately, my answer to your question is "yes. Yes I do." But I might add "I wish I didn't."  Fuck, I hate people. "

ehh,I don't have  too many neighbors, but I've met them all. so yea, I know them all.

Yes, and I like most of them. Except for the annoying Catholics two doors down. 

On one side, an aging biker couple (pays their bills) and the family just stops over a little.We discuss gardening in the spring , and that's about it.On the other, an about-to-retire couple with some money and the son still lives at home at 30.They never get visitors,and only say 'hello' rarely. Only stuff like power outages brings conversation.

I know a few, but not that well.

" No and do not want. "

At my parent's house I know the neighbours fairly well, but we've all lived there for about 15 years. In my flat? Nope. Not at all. 
 
I've moved every year for the last 3 years and I have absolutely no interest in meeting them. Though, I'm still polite and say hi whenever I see someone in the stairwell.

I know the names of the people who live either side and I know the girl across the street is pretty hot. That's about it!

My neighbours are related to me, so yeah, I know them pretty well. Go round their house occasionally. 
The family on the other side are an older couple who are very friendly and helpful.

My old neighbors were drug dealers or were  'disreputable whatevers' at whatever they did in life.  I'm convinced that if they were in the movie "The Road" they would be the people with other people in their basement for food.   
 
Thankfully, my landlord evicted them last month.  I have not met my new neighbors, but they'd have to be pretty vile to be worse then the last ones.

" @Fajita_Jim:  Have you considered writing a sitcom? "

Nope.

Most of em. Bunch of pothead kids with soccer moms and a an old guy from Czechoslovakia that deserted the nazi army after he was drafted. 
 
The rest are pretty boring.