How well do you know your neighbors?

[lemonlime22]

Most are friendly strangers.

[tibbar]

Been here for 20+ years and only speak to 2 families every once in a while. A few others talk to us when we go for walks. Our living areas face the back so we rarely see anything going on out front.

[Tim_Barton]

For me it's mostly a "hi" and wave.

For the kiddo's its different, them little buggers are all over the place.

[JohnA151]

Originally Posted by austin-steve

I wonder if I could get some feedback on this question: How well do you know your neighbors?

The context would be, if you were to sit in your driveway 24/7 from Friday 5PM until midnight Sunday on a typical weekend, and observe everyone who walked, biked, jogged drove or otherwise ventured by, which of the following would best describe the majority of people you saw?

*) Mostly friends, acquaintances and neighbors
*) Some friends, acquaintances and neighbors but mostly strangers
*) They're strangers, and we don't know who they are
*) Other

mostly neighbors i live on a cul -de-sac

[JohnHenrySDM]

Just moved and my new neighbors are much more, um, neighborly than my previous neighbors.

[love roses]

I know mine well enough to accept a Fedex delivery for them. Had to do that yesterday because the Fedex guy said they weren't home but he didn't want to leave with the package and have to come back later or leave such a big box on their porch.

[austin-steve]

For me, it's also "Some friends, acquaintances and neighbors but mostly strangers". I know by name and will stop and talk with my immediate neighbors, but the ones driving past from down the street I haven't yet met. We wave if passing, but that's it.

I asked the poll because I'm in a debate with someone who claims that "strangers in the neighborhood" is a curse of some sort that will destroy the fabric of society and ruin neighborhoods. I maintain that most of us probably deem most of the people we actually see coming and going as "strangers", or maybe "that guy who lives on the corner", but that few of us (culdesacs make it easier) actual "know" the "majority" of who we see in our neighborhoods.

Steve