I like my next door neighbour. Our other neighbours said they were “nosey and always watching out and knew everyone’s business”.
I have found out that this translates to:
1)They look out for suspicious characters,
2) putting our bins out wheb we forget
3) helping to look after our garden before we moved in (house was empty for a while beforehand)
4) knowing a lot of history about the street and who lived there
5) advising is what the original windows looked like so we could get new ones that matched
6) helping us with what plants to put in the garden and offering us free ones from theirs
7) offering use of their bathroom when we were renovating our house
8) sorting out a window cleaner for us
9) making sure tradesmen didn’t block our drive
So I’ll gladly live next to the so-called (by others) “nosey neighbour”.