When I was growing up, I knew everyone in my street, now I don’t even know my next-door neighbour.
218266
I think we've past the brink, and we're just starting to gain momentum on the way down.
102239
I wish all my neighbors would move away.
12078
for the most part it's true when we are young our frienships are typically formed due to geography not common interest
219698
I feel hurt but i realize they were never my friend from the begining. Il be your friend.
612269
I think you answerd your own question. It was probably past energy of people who may have lived there. I use to experience that when I was younger.
316354
Stranger? No. People I know? all the time.
495499
they weren't really your friends to begin with. friends don't "forget" about each other.
524325
wow someone else who notices this!\nI read an artical about how neighbors are not really neighbors any more they just live next to someone!\nthey polled some people somewhere! Iknow not really relable but anyway~\nthey say that over 60% of people don't know there neighbors name! \ni guess they had it right in the ol days  more friendships! \nBut there is always that execption! and from my view I don't talk to strangers but i work in Detroit I'm female with no body guard I don't think the ratio is good for me to go up to strangers and talk to them!\neven helping somone on the side of the road! again i'm playing the female card! \nBut now with most peoples mindsets they look at you like a wacko or someone who is drunk when someone approaches another!\nso i feel you to a point! but maybe if the world were not so evil then i would feel at ease talking to other peeps!\nWell \nMad luv!~
602976
Actually, I think it would be the closeness we had as neighbors and family. You could leave your door unlocked and not have to worry. If your kids got into trouble, he had already heard it from the neighbors by the time he got to you. You knew where there was a reliable babysitter. You knew where there was a listening ear, or a cup of sugar, or a spare potato if you ran out. I'm old enough to remember all this and miss it!
50332
This story goes back a few years when I was about 7. On that night my Mom told me to go upstairs to get her clothes (laundry-time). My Dad was working and both mom and my younger sibling (Karla) were also downstairs. Well, when I arrived upstairs, I saw what looked just like my sister standing in the doorway of my parent's room. Naturally, I ran back downstairs and bumped into my sister. Apparantly she was on her way to scare me when I hit her head on. For the next few weeks, my life, my sister's, and my cousin's were living hell. My sister and my cousin would constantly scream when they were alone because they repeatedly saw a laughing boy. And they also saw that mysterious girl. I have never seen the boy, and after such a long time and our unwavering fear, people began to believe us. Only just three years ago (when we moved), the new owners often complained that their daughter saw a shadow move across the doorway of her room. They too have recently moved. After almost seven years, we've not returned, in hopes of not encountering whatever that was again.
75321
Dont know them my parents and them use to be friends then they had a big fight because there kid kept hiting my brother all the time and mom told them all the time and he kept hitting my brother sooo mom said next time he heats him i'm going to let him hit him back and sooo he hit him back the next time he hit him and well they had a huge fight. And that was that!other side is kinda far away soo dont know them.But 2 or 3 neighbors on up from that are cool I known them since I was little.
467668
i am not from your area but i would advise you to take this time to get to know your new neighbors and ask around.
354912
Canada, how can you forget your close neighbour?
180970
YES!  I do get very annoyed when people are that familiar with me and they don't even know me or care about me.
422870
It's funny how people DON'T change but the way we see them does.\nGrowing up they may have snobed you but inside YOU were jealous of them. You knew you had problems but what you didn't see was that they did too. They just hid it better.  \nToday, you see the reality. You grew into a better person. Stronger, grounded and happy..  All along you faced your problems and didn't put on an act. That's what allowed you to grow and learn.\nThey are the ones who never faced their own problem and now it caught up to each one. The cousins who are messed up and they STILL can't face the reality that you have risen and they have fallen.\n\nThere isn't anymore you can do for them but pity them.
444339
I'm like that. I don't have any real friends, just guys i hang around with. I could never count on them. Probably because it's hard to trust ppl these days
50734
I am from a large family. I have lived many places. I have worked and went to school. I could not even begin to count all of my loved ones.