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[Kelsea-]

During the lockdown, strangely enough, I met 2 neighbors by ear. At some point I had played around with my guitar on a few riffs in the garden, when a piano answered me through the open window in the neighboring house and shortly afterwards a trumpet from the opposite garden joined in. Over the next week, we played together every day in good weather until I was approached by the piano player in the park on a walk, who in turn had the trumpet player's phone number. So we gradually got to know each other better and better, made a lot of music together, and have become really close friends in the meantime. And this despite the fact that we are all completely different in age and nationality.

[imkebense]

Well, my experience is: the more flats in a house, the more anonymous it was.
Now i live in a street with bungalows and everybody greets. We talk to each other, try to hold our eyes open, help, meet and invite each other. I like very much. I enjoy it, because I am a single person

[fzoid]

I always greet them when I see them but don't talk much but that's me.

I once talked to a few and they asked if I just moved in.
"Yes, just right now.. 5 years ago."

My parents are very different.. both very social and know all their neighbours. I know more about their neighbours than my own. 🤷‍♂️

[andreadee]

I love the anonymity in the city. I need my private space and for me it would be challanging if I had to "fear" that a neighbour knocks at my door just to say hello. Odd, I know. Surprisingly, I found out, that my neighbour next door feels exactly the same. When she comes home from work, she doesn’t want to talk to anyone else. What a great neighbour I have. We are a perfect match. 😆Nevertheless, for me it would be impolite not to greet people, I meet in our house. Of course we greet each other and do a little small talk here and there.

[pikkozoikum]

I'm a geologist for house construction and I greet often stranger, who are passing by at the construction site. Thow that are mostly villages, small towns, rarely big cities. But even in big cities, it's often a bit outside of the large buildings. So it's mostly about the area, if someone greets or not. In villages and small towns, mostly people will greet, even if you are not a neighbour. But it always depends

[Rumpelstilzchensdaughter]

As a native islander at the very top of northern Germany, you inevitably grow up greeting everyone, at the latest as soon as eye contact is made. But I have to say that after moving to Berlin and Hamburg, I stopped making small talk with my neighbors. Of course we greet each other in a friendly way in the house, but it's like many people describe in the clip or here in the comments. It's limited to small favors and in the summer you actually have barbecues with some of them or just sit around and drink a beer or wine together. When I visit my parents, it's actually the case that you immediately talk to all the neighbors in the street for a bit longer or are approached. You just know each other. A healthy mix is probably the best solution, because privacy is also important and nobody needs negative gossip. It's like everywhere else in life, you get on very well with some people and less so with others. Sometimes it just takes time. But being open-minded and friendly towards your immediate neighbors always makes it easier.

[PotsdamSenior]

A lot of the neighbourhood children play outside together where I live. My house has 30 flats, the neigbouring ones are all of similar size.

The adults in my house? We greet each other, I greet their dogs (if they have one) which always seem happy the see me. But it's no close relationship between neighbours.

[winny]

Well, it depends. In former times people tended to be a little nosy. If you wanted to be left alone it was the best to to make too close contacts. Nevertheless there is always the intention of 99% to help, if you ask for it. Once I had to break in into my own flat. One neighbor gave me the drilling machine and another one had the best drills for my very noisy operation. It took me more than 20 years to make closer contact to two neighbors, who became very good acquaintances of mine. But: now they tend to stand unasked in front of my door, want to come in and discuss some item important to them asking me to do their redtape with the authorities. So normaly to keep the neighbors at arms length, as they are soooo close !

[DocMartens]

I'm from the countryside of Germany. I was raised to greet everyone in the 120ppl village I grew up in. Nowadays I live in another small village and greet everyone, but I'm from another village so, most of them don't give a f. 😅

[Attirbful]

of course we do! In Berlin and major cities, where you often do not know who lives in the same house, esp. if there is a bigger fluctuation, it may not be as common, but where I lived and live, in a university town, then in a suburb and now a village, we greet each other, we have parties together, we help each other out with anything like a tool, an egg, assistance in doing things, feeding pets while on vacation etc. I think this is a lot more a divide between town and smaller communities! One of my neighbors helps me install the garden water pump in spring and once in a while even mows my lawn with his sit-on lawn mower, another neighbor helps me renovate my parents‘ house etc. (albeit, I pay him for the service - but it is nice to have someone do, whom you call by first name and who lives three houses down the street!). I have very friendly relations with all of my neighbors since moving out of town (well, I should say “most“ as one neighbor is VERY demanding and has apperently plans to sue me because my insurance won‘t pay for the entire bill of a pathway between our houses that the tree roots on my grounds have lifted a half an inch in a few spots… Those trees stood there long before her house and the pathway ever existed…!). However, in small places, you greet everyone walking by etc., even if you do not know them personally….

[eastfrisian_]

There are 24 flats in our building, four to the left and right on each floor. The four of us here know each other a little, help each other, and make small talk here and there.

In my previous flat in a bigger city (but in a district on the outskirts with smaller houses), I didn't have much to do with the neighbour next to me at first. But one day, the neighbour next door rang my doorbell with blue lips, swollen legs, and he couldn't think straight, asked for help. I companied him back to his flat, I measured his pulse and knew it was a heart attack and called an ambulance right away (I am a trained first aider). I visited him twice a week in the hospital because he was all alone without any family left and when he was dismissed (heart attack was minor, but he had a lot of other health problems), I helped him ab bit (got some groceries for him when I went or made a sandwich here and then when the carer who came twice a day forgot breakfast) and some little things. I was a student back then and had my last two exams and wrote my bachelor's thesis, so I had a bit time. He died three months later due to diabetes/kidney failure, he went back to hospital, I visited last before a trip to family for three days and he sadly died that night. Friends asked me, "Why did you help the strange neighbour at all?" I was born in a village, and people help each other in the neighbourhood, no ifs, ands or buts. I was raised that way. I am not a good samaritan or a very nice and helpful person in general, but I help when I see people in my environment struggeling. Every 30th of September, I think about his death now eight years ago, and although I rarely drink, on that day I have a spirit and raise a toast to him in my thoughts, wherever he may be.

[TiborgSGE]

I live in a town of some 10.000 souls in Westerwald and everybody greets everyone here.I believe in big cities it's different.

[rickyratte]

I always greed my neighbours and I know what ppl live in my duplex. We also help each other out, I always take the delivers for them if Iam at home and so do they. Iam lucky

[MellonVegan]

Personally am from NRW (always add it for context), grew up in a small to medium sized town for almost 2/3 of my life and since then I have been living in medium sized cities. I've moved about twice as much in my life as the average German, so at least I have a few situations to go off. In short: never became lasting friends (if someone tells you to get f'ed after a couple months, I don't consider that a proper friendship; I had one of those with a shut-in; didn't work out bc, well, she preferred being a shut-in) with someone just because they were my direct neighbour after I became 6. Basically, as soon as I went to school, I stopped being friends with people just because they were the closest people available.

That said, I usually ended up becoming good friends with people who lived nearby anyways. But never true neighbours.

With neighbours, it's always a bit awkward. At least when you think you might want to actually be friends with one.
But I at least chat with my closest (as in physically, geographically, the next door) neighbour every now and then.
Goes for her or her predecessor in that flat. On the property, I also greet everyone, that's just polite. Outside of it, I greet the ones I recognise, lol


5:47 Oooh, that's not how Germans tick and she should know that. A German might be pissed off at your loud music at 10 pm (beginning of legal quiet hours) or possibly hours before but no one (well, maybe a few) wants to be the asshole immediately complaining about anything. It might take a lot for you to have a German actually man up and ring your doorbell. Keep in mind that for every old fart telling you you're using the bicycle lane wrong, there were about 100 you passed who didn't say anything.

Now banging on the ceiling like a degenerate child? That might happen immediately but only if they're *ssholes.

Actually, I used to train at home (powerlifting), informed my dorm neighbours when I moved in, so they could tell me if I was too loud and then it took 2-3 years for me to receive a complaint. I thought, like her, "they'd tell me if they could hear". Not so. After 3 years, I suddenly had 1 or 2 guys bang on my door and literally start with a stream of insults directed at one of my friends who just happened to open the door. People will tell you but late and at that point, they will f'ing hate youre guts.

8:50 Here in Münster, that question doesn't seem weird at all (if it's your next door neighbour) but before moving here, that definitely would have taken me off guard (Münster is the 2nd most bike friendly city in the 2nd most bike friendly country, for context).

10:00 Randomly reminds me of the last place I lived. I sometimes got wrong deliveries (like getting a steak, eggs and bacon burger as a vegan), which I would offer to my neighbours. In turn, a father who lived there once offered me magic mushrooms, saying he didn't like them ^^

[Joesspace]

Ah yes I forgot, if we have some good old, but functionable things that we don't need anymore, so we share it at a special place and if someone in the house needs it he can keep it away.

[lynnm]

Yes, I great my neighbors, I help both Ukrainian women with their German, one I walk the dogs together from time to time even if the language barrier is enormous. With my direct neighbor who I share the garden with downstairs it‘s difficult, because she smokes and I get it into my 1 room apartment every hour or so, but we are both trying to still be nice….sometimes it‘s better. Sometimes it‘s worse.
Then we have an old 70 year old nosy neighbor who looked into my windows when I had just moved in….on a rainy Febuary night around 10 p.m. I caught him at it….let‘s just say I don‘t talk with him…I ignore him completely

[Khalinor]

I'm the one who's lived here the longest in the house.
Everyone who has moved in after me doesn't even have the decency to introduce themselves, so I don't have to look after these ill-mannered people.

[BernhardGiner]

I usually don't greet complete strangers unless we have brief eye contact or something. But! I greet a lot of people. 
I live in a relatively large city and feel very comfortable in my neighbourhood. It started with my very first visit here. I had to wait for the train on my way home from a freelance job. I was tired sat down on one of the benches facing each other in a small square with a playground. An elderly lady sat down and started a conversation with me, then a friend of her, a one legged drinker in a wheelchair, a Polish seasonal worker, a Turkish grandma and her grandchildren, a rather old trans woman, children were jumping around -and within a very short time everyone was babbling and it was just nice. What a strange small talk situation! So I missed my train and took the next one two hours later. 😂
I have often experienced similar situations here since then - in beer gardens, pubs, on the street, in the supermarket etc. I like that. It reminds me of the village I grew up in - but everyone there knew everyone else and that's not the case here. The way it is here, I think it's almost better, it gives you that similar feeling of connection without the feeling of being controlled or judged.

[rickyratte]

I always greed my neighbours and I know what ppl live in my duplex. We also help each other out, I always take the delivers for them if Iam at home and so do they. Iam lucky