Are you doing it to be nosy, to see how they decorated their house, or are you just doing it to get to know them? I want to know all the neighbor things. Okay, you guys, I am that neighbor. That when you first move to the neighborhood, do not expect me to become knocking at your door. I will not be baking you any type of cookies or casserole or anything to welcome you to the neighborhood. I have to kind of see who you are first
Jordan Tepper
@JordanTepper · 2:23
And at least once a week, somebody's calling the non emergency number. So, yeah, this neighborhood is not really it's friendly, but you have to be careful. It's
Nick Hydier
@NickHydier9813 · 4:09
Those neighbors who I would talk to on quite a regular basis, whether seeing them outside or even seeing them at the store. Neighbors who this would kind of go both ways in that we would help each other with problems that we would be having. We'd offer, you know, assistance whenever we'd need it. These would be neighbors who we did have over on occasion for dinner, whether it be a holiday like Christmas or any memorial service or such
Carly D
@Astroality · 0:37
So I get that we don't get very major or treaters. I live in an older, established neighborhood. It's a nice neighborhood. I would say friendly neighborhood. But we don't get very many trickortreaters either. Maybe a handful. I think people just don't trick or treat a whole lot anymore these days
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 2:31
S***. Hey. I am not friends with my neighbors. I'm acquaintances with my neighbors, my current neighbors. And when I first moved into my house, I had amazing neighbors, and we were friends, and they would help me out. I'd go over there and sit and talk with them, hang out with them. They'd come over here, help me out, cut my grass, do all the things I needed to do
Carly D
@Astroality · 1:03
And I totally understand when you see kind of, like, strange activity going on that you may not want to make friends with those people. Yeah. It's good to look out for yourself. So I totally get this. Thanks so much for responding
Carly D
@Astroality · 2:15
We would do all the neighbors things right. With each other. And I do find it a touch sad that my son, he didn't have that growing up. Like, obviously, I realized I grew up in the he grew up in the 2000s, but yeah, we didn't really have that
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Carly D
@Astroality · 1:11
It. Nick, you are the kind, sweet neighbor that helps people water their plants and things like that, which I love, and I love that you said. It kind of gets you out of your comfort zone. It kind of pushes you to make more conversation and be a little bit more extroverted rather than more introverted. And I think it's kind of like a theme that everyone's saying here. It takes time to get to know people
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 4:44
Say you can't do that. They know you're at home. They know whether you're ignoring them. Dang. We could hear through the wall, basically. But yeah, it was a lot. But once we moved from there, living in a different apartment, kept to ourselves, which was great. Then I got separated. I decided I'm going to buy a mobile home. Was supposed to be getting a mobile home and property
Renee Slay
@Renee_Slay · 3:33
And he's like, it took me a long time to work on myself and get past that. But I get why she did it, because if it had been maybe we had a daughter that was 18 that hadn't lived here and the daughter moved in. I can't say that I wouldn't have done that. And I said, you need to stop right now. Stop it. Like, you cannot you cannot sit here and tell me that
I live at such and such address and just be like welcoming to them but seeing how they move when they come in and out their house, going where they going. Those are type people, you know, not to really go up on. So that's my experience
Carly D
@Astroality · 1:36
You okay? You brought something up that's so important. Do you notice how with age, we kind of close ourselves off a little bit more? And I wonder if we do it out of habit or is it because we've had experiences that maybe younger people haven't had and we're just like, yeah, I'm not willing to go there anymore because you're right. I noticed that the younger people all use
Carly D
@Astroality · 0:41
Whoa. You definitely win for craziest experience with neighbors. Like this is straight out of a Jerry Springer show. I whoa. Oh, my God. I'm so glad that you're keeping yourself safe, that you have a million cameras around your house and whoa. Yeah, girl. I mean, I appreciate you sharing, because I was, like, on the edge of my seat the whole time, but I just whoa. Wow. Yeah. Definitely not making friends with those neighbors at all
Nick Hydier
@NickHydier9813 · 3:17
I find that especially now, in this day and age, we don't really have a lot of that where people want to help one another. And it is a shame. And I think it is something that should be brought back and done more of. And you're right about when you said about with certain holidays. I don't think people do invite others over for holiday dinners or just on any day of the year for bringing over a meal or cooking a meal for someone
I will get out of the apartment I've been living in for a really long time and find a really nice neighborhood where that'll happen, but it just hasn't happened yet. Have a good weekend. Thanks. Bye
Carly D
@Astroality · 0:51
I do love that you folks have created, like, a little bit of a neighborhood watch for each other, though. It's good that you at least know, like you said, who drives what car. And so that way, if you see anything kind of crazy happening or God forbid, something happens to one of you, you can at least give some kind of information
Kitha Larie
@chitchatwithkk · 2:46
We have older people who have retired, who stay in their apartments all the time, and then we have the people who are younger who go in and out all the time. And then you got me. I'm middle aged, and I come out and go to work, and I come back and I'm inside or I'm chilling on the weekends. Now, as far as wanting to be friends with my neighbors, I do not have any. I don't care
Carly D
@Astroality · 1:28
And I think that is one of the biggest gifts that we attain in middle age, is we stop needing to always have a crowd or an entourage with us, right? We're good with just going out to dinner. We're good with taking ourselves to a movie. Like you said, I'm good taking a quick walk around the block or whatever it is. So I love this
Kelly Thomas
@KNicole · 1:16
Hello. My name is Kelly. Short answer no. Ever since I left New York and lived in various states, I find it harder to actually have connections with my neighbors. I grew up in New York, and, you know, you basically knew everybody in your building that you grew up with, you know, but that living in different places from Georgia to Texas and now in Vegas is just not that kind of energy
Carly D
@Astroality · 0:49
Hey. Thanks for chiming in. I followed you as well. I just want you to know, like, this surprised me so much because I would think that it's easier to be friends with neighbors in states like Virginia or Texas, maybe not Vegas, because I feel like that's kind of like a transient sort of city where a lot of people come and go all the time. But this was really interesting
Kelly Thomas
@KNicole · 1:31
As opposed to, if you're staying in a house, you might see your neighbor mowing the lawn or sitting. On the porch or having that kind of environment around you where you can come in with your groceries or whatever and wave at your neighbors because they're sitting outside and the kids are playing. When you're in complexes and apartment buildings, everybody just kind of seem like they're just on the go. You know what I mean? Nobody's really hanging out like that
Carly D
@Astroality · 2:19
And then once you do it one or two times and it kind of becomes a regular thing. You start seeing each other at the mailbox, or you talk about something that you saw happening further down the street, or you talk about what's coming up for the holidays and who's going to get together and are you all coming over? That sort of thing. So I totally get what you're saying