My immediate neighborhood seems to be going through a lot of changes lately.
I think I mentioned a few times that my Karaoke neighbors on the other side of our semi-detached put their house up for sale something like last October. Well they finally sold their house in February and the new neighbors haven’t moved in yet but they’ve been doing renovations like tearing down the ugly fake stone wall and the popcorn ceiling and stuff like that. They expect to move in at the beginning of August.
Then there’s the house beside us where my stalker oops I mean elderly neighbor Sofie lived. She had a small stroke in February was hospitalized and then she moved in with her youngest son. So her house has been empty, but the family plans to either sell it in the fall or put it up for rent. I kind of hope they sell rather than rent. I can just imagine a series of really bad neighbors if they rent the house out. If that happens maybe Chris and I will look towards getting out of here. Hey I hear Wilmington real estate is pretty nice. Now that’s an idea.
Just a week ago one of the houses across the street and one down the street from us went up for sale so that will mean two more new sets of neighbors in a few months or so.
In general we have a very good neighborhood and most of us are fairly friendly with each other. Heck, at least three of my neighbors give us food when they are celebrating. Remember the Greek Easter feast that the neighbor behind us gave Chris and I in April? Yum!
Other neighbors come over to our house or backyard to party or we go to their house to party. I think our newest neighbors who are renovating right now will be like that. The man is in a band and plays guitar and as you probably know my husband also plays guitar so they already get along famously. The wife is really nice too and I think we’ll get along well.
I just hope that the houses going up for sale end up having really nice people buy them that fit into the neighborhood well. Hey people don’t have to mingle, but hopefully they are nice and say hello every now and then.
I moved down here in FL almost 9 mo. ago. I have only met 3 of my neighbors. Everyone else around me seems to be old, real old. The three that I met…are men. So, I haven’t made any friends down here yet. I guess it’s a good thing for me about the neighbors..better not knowing them, then trouble.
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my neighbourhood basically consists of homes where ppl drive in n drive out of their homes so there is n interaction at all. thus in a way it attracts crime. i have an elderly neighbor who is gardening all the time and therefore outdoors. he is the best alarm system ever. in my opinion, elderly people make the best neighbors. they are free and keep a watch out for what is happening and sleep little.