Neighbours......how are yours?

[givemeaspell]

I've never been one to be in my neighbours pocket although I know the value of good neighbours.  Living in my last house for over 20 years we had some great neighbours and some that didn't speak to us at all, not even the nod of a head.  That was okay, we didn't socialise with our neighbours.  However just recently moved to a new area and our neighbours keep to themselves, although today we were accused of throwing a dead rabbit into their back yard!!!!  This horrified me, for one I am an animal lover and secondly I would never do such an abhorrant thing.  He insisted as said there is no other way it could have got there....my OH was gobsmacked....he went on to say that we had a few people over that weekend and one of them must have done it!!! OH gave him a piece of his mind so that's the end of speaking with them!!!!    We have never had trouble with them before however we had noticed they sort of stopped acknowledging us over the past 6 months...nothing happened, no inciddent...and then this....the mind boggles!

Are you a neighbourly person?  Is it important to you?  Would you have taken offence to this accusation?

[chameleon54]

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@givemeaspellwrote:

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@zanadoo_56wrote:

I don't know my neighbours very well, but in the last few years I had a couple of falls and the closest neighbour heard me calling out and rang the ambulance and stayed until they arrived.  Sometimes he has taken my bin out or brought it in.  (I'm selfish enough to wish someone did that every week as my arthritis is a real problem). 🙂

My other neighbours I haven't spoken to in years but we've never had any disagreements.  Both neighbours have dogs.  I have a cat but she isn't allowed outside except in her own enclosed run.  Much safer for her as their dogs don't like cats.

Still, I don't see the neighbours very often which is probably is just as well as unfortunately I am terrible with names and I've forgotten theirs!

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thats a nice neighbour, sounds like he doesn't want to intrude but there at the important times.   Its funny how things could escalate, in our situation, we have trees and shrubs hanging over our fence, we could be spiteful and cut them throw them over (which we are perfectly entitlted to do). However I don't want a war starting, I just want a peaceful existance.   In our last house our neighbour would bring our bins and our neighbours bins in and also mow our naturestrip, we never asked he just did.  Another thing (im on a roll) he has 2 small dogs, I have one....they bark at each other through the fence every so often, Im the only one that tells my dog to stop, never heard him once tell them to be quiet. 

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The dog thing can be a real problem. We have just had new people move into a house a few doors away. They go away for days at a time and the dogs bark regularly while they are away. A real pain.