[Closed] Brilliant neighbours

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Blimey! I take it he is single?

BTW his son doesnt live at home, he has a similar setup at his house 😯

And there's an oculus rift headset hanging off the back of the RH monitor too...

You can tell that from me just posting 😯 ????
Well I never

GrahamS - Member
Blimey! I take it he is single?

Why do you ask? Fancy a date? I could probably arrange something. Do you dress up?

My neighbours include the parents of a celebrity on one side (who are lovely), and an old, grizzled long-ago immigrant from Iraq on the other side, who is incredibly patient with my family and me, who looks out for my kids when they play on the street, and with whom I have some good, albeit brief, chats.

Not glamorous, perhaps, but brilliant nonetheless.

Thread needs photos of track car

Oh, was the point of this thread the track car bit? In which case, ignore what I said above. 😳

On one side an elderly lady who we rarely see and never hear.
On the other we have 1 half of a recently split couple, she's clearly finding her feet in the dating game again based on the noise coming from the adjoining bedroom...

But in seriousness, I can't complain at all, they're spot on.

My neighbours are great. Pretty much all retired and always around so my house is under constant watch, and they all take in my online shopping crap too

In return I do the odd computery job and lend out tools/do the odd bit of slightly heavy lifting

(I'm the only one with a track car, although one has some sort of racing Ducati that's forever being fixed)

I'm not sure of my new neighbours, they’re somewhere between timid and guarded. I’d wave or say ‘Hi’ as we passed and they’d sort of smile and scurry off. Well, almost all of them – the Dad next door is very intense. He sort of appeared behind me one night when I was putting the bins out and half-demanded to know how we came to live there, why etc. He’d done the same to my wife a few hours before. I got the impression he was checking for inconsistences.
He screams at his Wife/Kid/Dog, I’m not sure which, probably all 3. I’ve made a mental note to keep an eye on him, if it transpired he hits his family behind closed doors I wouldn’t be completely surprised.

The Dad on the other side is even more introverted than me, Day 1 I rolled my bike up the drive to put it away, he looked up from his bike which was hanging from a maintenance stand being tweaked – I said hello, expecting to have broken the ice almost immediately, we’d see each others bikes, and a chat would follow – nope, he slightly raised his head, half-whispered “hi” and looked back down again.

Please note, I look nothing like The Mountain from Game on Thrones, nor do I look like I’d like to talk about God to them.

Our Old Neighbours were lovely, we miss them. 7 years living in a HA House for low income families 10 for my Wife, it was a socialist dream really. Mrs moved in before we lived together, single Mum, student Nurse, next door were a couple of warehouse workers with a little boy the same age as ours. Over the years both families worked hard, progressed in life – secure, affordable housing meant that the path to “middle class” was easier – I think either of us could have moved onto something bigger and better years ago, but we liked it there. In the end we outgrew our place, probably a long time ago and had to move. A new young family have moved in, I hope they are able to do what we did, my old Neighbours aren’t so keen – the new people are as rough and ready as they were 10 years ago, but the gap social gap it too great now, so they’re moving out too. Big house in a nice part of town, 2 cars, 2 holidays a year – probably some kind of expensive unused kit on the kitchen top to impress their new neighbours. Working Class to “Middle Class” in 10 years.

We have some good neighbours in our street but our immediate neighbours are: left, single mum with three kids, teenage daughter is an attraction for local oiks and we've had trouble with gangs, noise, broken glass and Police called. But the Mum is OK and the kids generally well-behaved.

Right: elderly couple, she has Alzheimers and he is generally very unwell and depressed. When we moved in he taught me plumbing but it's amazing how fast he's going downhill. Social services now involved but they refuse to accept any help.

Any neighbour is better than the violent drug dealer who moved in next door to us in Burnley with all-night raves, barking Alsatian and whining lurchers and litter thrown over the wall.

mine are right good. one side is a friendly couple - i go to the pub with him once or twice a month, go for dinner a couple times a year and get suitably ****ted. quiet, friendly, geeky, chatty.

other side moved in a few months ago, had a kid a month later. young, friendly, chatty, come to the pub too. I'm the middle of 3 houses, our garden fences blew down 15 months ago, we've not had them fixed yet as none of os seem to think it's much of an issue!

however, seems i may have upset someone locally, as in a 3 week period the front driveside tyre of both my vehicles has gone from perfectly well inflated, to totally flat, even though they've not been moved... i can't believe both would get simultaneous punctures both at the same time, when they've not been driven.

hey ho. one of them needed new front tyres anyway, so not all lost.

The Dad on the other side is even more introverted than me, Day 1 I rolled my bike up the drive to put it away, he looked up from his bike which was hanging from a maintenance stand being tweaked – I said hello, expecting to have broken the ice almost immediately, we’d see each others bikes, and a chat would follow – nope, he slightly raised his head, half-whispered “hi” and looked back down again.

Have you not seen all the STW "I only like to ride alone" threads?

Why do you ask? Fancy a date?

If he'll give me a go on his gaming system then yes 😀

I've lost 2 sets of neighbours in a weekend. The blokes downstairs moved out on Thursday and, I think coincidentally, the bloke next door moved out yesterday.

Maybe my drumming isn't as good as I imagine.

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My immediate neighbour is fellow stw'er, fast rider and all round good egg....

... And you're too chicken to be more honest, matt?

And the bloke just down the road from Matt is a sound bloke too - comes round ours every Xmas with his family.

Lovely old boy on one side, a tad frustrating as he's very independant. He has cut the cord of his hedge trimmer 3 times and tried pruning a huge hedge on the hottest day of the year last year (I've said I'll cut it but he won't wait!)

New neighbours on the other side are keeping to themselves and have built a lovely new wooden fence we've christen the Berlin Wall!

The day I exchanged contracts on my house, the next-door neighbour appeared in the local paper having been charged with possessing thousands of indecent images of children.

He went to prison for 18 months, and I wasted no time telling him what I though of him when he came out.

To be perfectly honest though, apart from his abhorrent predilections, he's not a bad neighbour... He's very elderly now, and whilst he gets regular visits from probation services, he's not considered a danger. His property doesn't overlook mine, and he very much "keeps his head down".

Better a known paedophile than an unknown paedophile.

Hopefully he'll die soon, but then I might end up with noisy neighbours!

Mum and 2 teenage daughters one side, who are very nice but we don't see much. Family with 1 teenage dauhter on the other who couldn't be nicer, and have been so helpful since we moved in. The dad works for the council and brings backs y good wood from jobs for me. Best bits so far are a retro wooden gym from a school. Climbing bars, balance beams etc! He thinks I burn it on the fire but I've used stacks of it round the house.

The bloke in the semi attached to us is retired , nice guy who cleans his car about 10 times a week. I went to school with his son and we used to bmx together in our teens. His wife died last year and I get the feeling he's a bit lonely.

On the other side (who we share a driveway with) are an Iraqi family. Ali works his butt off and he's a really nice friendly person who's kids are well behaved. He's Kurdish and spent the August school holidays back home fighting Islamic state.

Ours are pretty good, except they steal my parking spot but as it's a road I don't have a leg to stand on, old fashioned thinking I should be able to park outside my own house!

We have an end terraced house so the one side there's a 4ft gap, never hear a peep from them as they work nights, whole family does including there son which is a bit odd but they seem happy enough, if they take a parcel in it takes a week to get it back due to shifts. The house other side family 3 kids, 2 cars hence parking issues, old style street with no front gardens well not big enough for cars, council refused dropped curbs, the only peep we get is through them shouting at the kids, a few summer BBQs beers passed over the fence in exchange, they take numerous parcels in for us, and vice versa.

Massive difference to our flat, guy opposite was dealing drugs as was woman in flat below, police raids at 2am once a month, 4 flats per floor, the 3 ours all had kids, varying age 3-10, 7 kids in all, playing football, screaming, shouting, fighting, etc in the hallway, downstairs complained to the council several times leading to us being blamed as we had no kids. Ironic thing about it apart from the noise and issues it was a nice place to live, no burglaries or car theft as we all knew who to blame, as they say don't shit on your own doorstep!

There's something not right with that picture...

GTX 970 Gaming card - check
Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS setup - check
Multiple Monitors - Check
3.5" floppy drive - WTF?

Your neighbour knows you can get the original 1990's Falcon games from gog.com right?

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councilof10 - Member
Hopefully he'll die soon, but then I might end up with noisy neighbours!

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WTAF?!

We're a pretty quiet household, but I don't think we would get on if we were neighbours.

My only neighbour is great.

Has an autistic son who's got a great looking adult sizes trike and can get a fair clip up on it along the road.

She doesn't mind my noisy projects so long as they ain't constant and don't go on at silly times.

Doesn't mind looking at said projects.

Her son in law does the same sort of stuff as me so we get on fine.

Used to live between Gemma Massey (Google her) and a prosperous footballer, footballer was hardly ever there but would see Gem quite often, swapping parcels or waking her pooch.

Had a couple of interesting BBQs which were always a good laugh.

Current neighbours are ace, one guy is rebuilding a 19XX Mercedes-Benz SL500, other side is a wishy-washy rugby nut that starts garden projects and never finishes them, there's a JOB still in his back garden from August last year.

Gemma Massey (Google her)

Gemma Massey (Google her)
assuming you want to search for a porn star that is as I discovered when I googled

Aye, bless her. Pride of Tamworth (or Fazeley if you want to be fussy).

My neighbour is a real PITA - shouting in the early hours, banging on walls, threats, culminating in last night shouting in the street and banging on the front door at 2am.

Fortunately I was up practicing my bagpipes already, if he'd woken me up I'd have been livid.

Not really. We're end of a row so only one neighbour; he's a bit of a dick but alright, she's a fiery Portuguese lady who's pleasant enough but once you get her in conversation goes on a bit and regularly lets her husband know he's displeased her 'at volume'. Does great Piri Piri when you invite them for a BBQ though.

Next to them are two cyclists, he's a handyman (does house conversion stuff) - actually he's a joiner but there aren't as many jobs nowadays for handmade furniture, but I've been in his workshop and seen his stuff and it's :wow: - and he's always happy to help out with jobs, etc.

The trouble is that these two don't get on, an issue over who owns the land / air above a shared passageway, which N2 has built over and N1 claims it spoils his view and light, culminating in a fight with a baseball bat. Leaving us in the issue where we won't take sides, won't cease being friends with either, but it can be awkward if they start telling us about what the other one has done now and we have to firmly but politely tell them it's not our problem / none of their business.

Over the road are a lovely British Asian family, have helped them out a few times over petty vandalism problems they have (smashed plantpots on their driveway, etc.). My only issue with them (her really, the elderly mother - father died some years back) is she's always cooking and I'm sure I'm 14.5st on the back of just the smell!

You can't beat having good neighbours, we have them both sides and close by too.
We had one that was a bit of a pain for a few years, but he moved just under three years ago and the newest ones are fantastic.
I've helped them out with clearing blocked drains, sorting locks and getting a new car tyre fitted.
They've run me to the station and garage on several occasions, given us some lovely home made cake and have a relaxed attitude to the shared drive.
The other side is fine, the couple that lived there sadly separated last summer and the husband is now there on his own, not sure how long he will stay though.
What I like is that I know if the poo hits the fan I can call on them for help and vice versa.

It's time for one of those "OMG... I feel old moments!" 😯

I once caught my now 90 year old neighbour washing my car, that was about 10 years ago when he was a little bit more active. He still flies up and down his garden busy all the time. If I'm that fit at 70 I'll be a happy man. Got good neighbours all round to be honest, what they think of is and the dirty sex pool parties is another matter however...

We are really lucky with our neighbors. Young couple behind us who are lovely. He's a bit shy and DIY mad, but they let us know when they'll be hammering and drilling. Next door to the left are a couple in their 50's who are friendly and helpful.

Across the street we have the best neighbors ever. Friendly and helpful to the point you think they must be making up for something horrendous they did in the past. He also has local brewed beer on tap in his garage. They have an open house every Christmas and it's a great get together for everyone.

We are really lucky, I live in tiny rural Norfolk village, so having no public transport links at all and only a small shop with limited stock, means you know your neighbours well as you often run errands for the elderly ones and share resources with others.

One side is a couple in 70's from Manchester who moved here after holidaying here lots, they were both english teachers, so dote on my daughter especially since she was diagnosed with T1 diabetes, they regularly just pop round with a book or gift for her, i think have two grown up sons neither of which has ever married despite in 40's means they have really missed having a grandchild.

Other side is a true Norfolk gent, his wife died a few years ago and he admitted when she died, he could barely boil an egg and that he survived on beans on toast for 6 months, so my often cooks a bit extra. But he loves anything mechanical and has a couple of classic tractors he shows, but i do think my garage door may be connected to an alarm in his house as every time i open it to work on car or bikes, he appears, which usually leads to me chatting for ages and him drinking my beer!

i've only recently moved into a new flat and I've had issues with my car. Next door neighbour gave us her car keys on Sunday to jump start our car. I couldn't believe that! There's no way I'd give somebody the keys to my car if i didn't know them really well.

... or is she listening through the walls?

The neighbour we're semi-detached to is an ex-London taxi driver, now in his 80s.
He is an amazing neighbour and a top bloke - he was super helpful when we did our house extension 4 years ago, which involved removing the shared chimney between our properties.
We had him round for lunch on boxing day - great conversation about driving MPs/Lords around in the 70s/80s.

The other side is a slightly odd bloke in his 40s who doesn't appear to work, and has his mum round doing stuff for him every weekend.
My wife thinks he is unwell and unable to work - I reckon he's either a rehabilitated ex-con or in the witness protection program.
Either way her avoids all contact with us.

We're pretty lucky because where we live (expensive bungalows in Bromley) is almost exclusively populated by affluent pensioners who can still afford cleaners/BMWs.
Most of them are pretty OK and just want a quiet life.
They are also proper curtain twitchers which is fine by me.
Without wishing to sound pompous/presumptuous/or like a bit of a ****, the houses in our road are now £500k upwards, so I'm hoping this would keep out the real trash.

We used to live next door to a house rented by a haulage company, who put 4 Polish lorry drivers in there.
They were awesome - they'd rush out and help my wife bringing stuff in from the car if she was struggling with the baby on her own, invite us round for drinks on Sundays and the only sound we ever heard from them was a little bit of laughter during their Saturday night card game.

I've also lived next door to some abosolute C**ts in the past - including one couple whole used to alternate between loud screaming arguments, and loud screaming sex - often on the same day.
The final straw was him throwing her out one night about 2am, then she found a spade in the garden and smashed her way back in via the front window.
We put our house on the market the following week.

Good neighbours are a blessing.

Ours are great too.

Working from home has advantages with the neighbours.

One side helps with stuff like wood for the woodburner and general stuff. As a farmer, he is pretty knowledgeable on all things practical. His wife is the creator of epic Black Forest cakes and we like each others company in general.. dinners and social stuff, we look after their ducks, they feed our cats

T'other side work in Switzerland and commute daily so they are out at 7:30. Generally friendly, we look after their parcel delivery stuff and share garden bbq's and beers. Downside, their house has no curtains and Holgar has a thing for spending all his time indoors, wearing only boxer shorts.... Zuzana, from Hungary is a lovely girl but doesn't share this trait... apparently....

WTAF?!

We're a pretty quiet household, but I don't think we would get on if we were neighbours.

Not sure I understand this comment, is it wrong to hope that a convicted paedophile dies sooner rather than later?

If so, fingers crossed I don't get new neighbours with views like yours!

I live in Cumbria
My next door neighbour lives in Southampton, it will be a sad day when she sells up.

My neighbour spent 3 hours sorting fence posts with me at the weekend, then re-attached the panels when the cement had dried out on Monday evening while I was still at work. Maybe he just wanted to ensure there was a barrier between us. He also often does the grass out front for us 🙂

Really friendly helpful bloke.

Moved in December 2015. Bought a semi-detached house.

After living there for 15 months I have not yet met our neighbours who live in the house attached to ours!

The entrances face different ways, so don't bump into them in the street. We have invited them round for a drink, but they couldn't make it. Can't understand why they haven't made any effort at all to meet us. I guess some people just want to keep themselves to themselves.

I live in Cumbria
My next door neighbour lives in Southampton

That's a big garden.

[quote=cranberry ]I've lost 2 sets of neighbours in a weekend.

Lost one of mine a couple of weeks ago. Funeral next week 🙁 I couldn't say she was my best friend, but we got on well enough and have been in each others houses - very sad.

That's somebody a couple of doors down - not sure if most people are just doing "next door neighbours" - I guess I'd count 9 or 10 other households as my neighbours, living on a small cul-de-sac where people do talk in the street. Very happy with the neighbours we have - hopefully they cope with us. Sorry to have lost our old next door neighbours who we got on with very well - though lost in a slightly different way as they now live a couple of hundred metres away, so we still visit! Nothing wrong with the new couple who seem lovely, but we have rather less to do with them - and less in common, our kids have grown up together and used to play together a lot. Chap at the end of the road I tend to share tools with - he currently has my soldering iron - and also go on occasional bike rides with.

A couple of the other neighbours have been governors at the local school - not something I want to get into, but I sometimes get roped into things with them. Oh, and next door is also group leader of the local scouts, hence getting roped into doing stuff with them.

Older couple next door who do all of our front garden work as she enjoys it, lovely people who enjoy my quite loud music and often knock wanting me to add something I'm playing to their spotify list. Lend us tools in return for PC assistance at times. Yesterday she knocked for me holding a brand new looking Carerra Hybrid she found in the street near our houses, it was bike registered and had been stolen from a shed in the next street and the owner didn't even know it was gone. He collected it last night and gave me a decent bottle of Neuf de Pape. It's good round here - Bar the travelling bike thieves.

Do have a **** over the road who has spent three years now replacing his dead grandad's bungalow with a 5 bed mock Georgian with no end to the building in sight but what can you do.

Best neighbours we had were an old deaf couple, telly was always a bit loud but we could have our music on 11. Fabulous gardener the old fella used to keep, fruit veg flowers impeccably maintained. His Wife wanted to be nearer her relatives up north so they move, he was dead within 3 months :(. The new lot were trouble ending in their car being fire bombed 😯

South East London

We live in a semi, and to the side that is not connected to our house is a couple of young brothers, their wives and kids, they inherited the house from their parents and decided to live there rather than sell it and split it I guess, they are nice enough and let me round in to their garden when I need to get at the back of my hedges, or sure up the fence or whatever.

Other side actually connected to our house is the 93 year old lady who has been there 65+ years. She was able to show us where our boiler was, explain what a back boiler was etc, tell us the code to our alarm, when the windows were done and all sort=s of useful local info and gossip about the other residents of the street. Havent seen her for a while due to the weather. Only down side to her is that between her and her retired son keeping on top of her gardens it make mine look bad.

Then over the road in a massively extended house are a massively extended Asian family, I think there are 4 generations of people living there, they are nice and friendly and there is ALWAYS someone in so the postman never needs to take a parcel away again

Don't really know the ones on the left, an older couple, been there a long time- they seem nice but we don't have much contact. The other side are newer, they're really nice and have 2 great kids (6 and 8) that we've slightly adopted. It's not like The Old Days or anything but yeah, they're good neighbours.

Now ask yourselves, are [i]you[/i] a good neighbour? What would your neighbours say in this thread? I think the old folks would say much the same about us. The other family, well, they say good fences make good neighbours, I put their fence back up when it all collapsed so as long as I did a good job I reckon I'm in.

Mine is an arsehole. He probably thinks the same of me.

His bathroom leaked to the extent that it was coming through our walls yet he was unable or unwilling to sorting it out. In the end I get Environmental Health in and I suspect that it cost him a few quid. Tough.

We don't speak.

I don't like his cat either.

Berkshire, but not rural.

To the left, semi-retired couple in their sixties. Very nice, but seem to worry a bit.

To the right, a couple in their early fifties. Both working. Two sons, the eldest of whom is away at Uni now.

Directly opposite is a pair of semis.

To the right a retired couple, the guy is very active in the local MTB club and was the one that eventually nagged me into getting out on my bike after we'd been here a few years. He's what you might call a "professional Yorkshireman". He (thinks he) is right about everything, and everything he's done is better than anything you've done. But he knows all the local gossip and is always happy to help, and they both dote on our daughter. They have a grown-up son who's married but his wife has totally vetoed the idea of children so our daughter is a kind of surrogate grandchild.

To the left a much younger couple with a baby son. They seem nice but we don't see them very often. Much better than the previous occupants of that house, who somehow permanently had a skip in their front garden. It would fill up, get replaced with an empty one. Fill up, get replaced with an empty one. Repeat. This went on for years. I don't know where it was all coming from. I think they were doing house clearance jobs or something.

We've been told we're much better than the previous owners of our house. A middle aged couple who were constantly having massive arguments. Police often involved. Lots of financial issues. The woman was in court one time for selling her leased car. They sold the house because they were divorcing and left it in a bit of a state. Several interior doors had clearly been forcibly opened and patched up afterwards. The house was mostly filthy, the gas & electric pre-pay meters had maxed-out the emergency overdraft limit, and the garage was full of crap that took me a month of weekends to clear out. We kept getting final demand letters addressed to the wife (it was clear she was the one with the champagne taste / lemonade money problem), bailiffs on the doorstep a few times and the Police once because she'd not turned up at another court appearance. All the neighbours have said we're nicer than them 🙂

We always invite all the neighbours over for drinks at Christmas, and it goes well, but we never get reciprocal invites. Make of that what you will...

our block of terraced houses consists of 7 houses...we're near the middle.
end house - cranky old guy lives alone...hardly see him..he's ok but can bea bit victor meldrew at times
next house along - quiet couple with 2 teenage daughters and a younger son. hardly see them except in the mornings when theyre doing the school/college run or if we've accepted a parcel for them. hardly hear them through the walls unless the little boy is playing in his bedroom...the mum is very quiet but the bloke is a bit of a zz top lookalike...he seems ok though when i've spoken to him
then its us - 3 kids means we're a noisy house at the best of times
next door on the other side of us - couple and their teenage son...rest of the kids have moved out. theyre a lovely couple...she pops round now and again and they sometimes give the wife a lift into work. usually theyre very quiet unless its the weekend and theyve been on the booze or have friends round...we allow them to bo noisy form time to time considering how much noise they put up with from us
next one along - really nice old dear - very friendly and caring...lives alone but wife will go over to check on her from time to time for a chat...her son and daughter do visit regularly...she always puts our bins back on our drive after theyve been emptied
next one along - middle aged african lady - shes a nurse and shes got a couple of kids but we never really see them...think she has a partner but again we never see him either
end house - another african gentleman...owns the cleanest nissan almera ever!! i think ive only ever seen him about 4 times...never spoken to him but he seems ok-ish

both our immediate neighbours are ok...we get on with them. we accept parcel deliveries for them and they do the same for us. the couple with the children we dont see or hear form that often the ones on the other side we see a bit more of and get on with better.

funny thing is both blokes are called John...the bloke who we bought the house from was also called John

What would your neighbours say in this thread?

really nice people...but noisy f***rs...especially the kids!! 😆

We live in a central part of Bristol, with dozens of streets of late Victorian terraces.

My neighbours on both sides are also called Ben!

I think there's something naturally a bit more sociable about this design of house, as you emerge from the front door and pass only a short front "garden" before entering the shared street. Although cars are parked everywhere, it's not used as a through road and is therefore pretty quiet.

There are 80-odd houses on the street, of which I'd say we know around 50% of the households to at least say "hello" to - and we're on first-name / babysitting swap / kids playdate terms with about 30%.

We counted 27 under 5-year-olds at the annual street party back in 2011, which gives some idea of the street's flavour. Although we collectively failed to do a street party in 2016, there's been one every other year since the mid 2000s.

We also have a "playing out" session once a month, whereby our lightly-trafficed street is closed to cars and the kids...well, play out.

Follow-up to my post about my elderly convicted paedophile neighbour... He was taken away by ambulance this morning, so perhaps new neighbours might be on the horizon!

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[quote=Ben_H ]I think there's something naturally a bit more sociable about this design of house, as you emerge from the front door and pass only a short front "garden" before entering the shared street.

Is it front gardens which are the problem then? Certainly not much in the way of that here - we have a small patch of grass still, though most of the neighbours have paved over theirs for parking cars. Possibly more importantly though, there are no physical barriers at the front between about 6 house in a row we're in the middle of, and mostly fairly minimal barriers elsewhere (the one chap who put up a fence I'd consider the least sociable). Nobody at all has a fence/hedge between the front of their house and the street. I suppose it gives more of communal sense - I do have to tell my kids to keep off other people's property, but actually most people don't seem to mind too much (with the obvious exception of fence bloke).

What's more, we haven't ever closed the road to cars so kids can play out - the "road" is shared space (no separate pavements) and they play out all the time anyway.

There certainly is something to the physical layout encouraging people to interact more and increasing the sense of community - we can't help but come into fairly close contact with our neighbours regularly, whereas with a typical older suburban layout with fenced in front gardens that's much less the case.

My neighbours on both sides are also called Ben!

Please, please tell me you live on a hill.

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