I chuckled when I read the post, I have a neighbour, don't like her, that's that! We keep ourselves to ourselves, always have done, due to mum being born in the house, we've probably been here the longest, most of the neighbours have either died off or moved away. This new neighbour moved in 4 years ago and got my back up by going for planning permission on her garden which is right next to us (not a little box either, a thumping 3 storey 6 bedder! Townies for you, move rural then think let's build! If we wanted to live by a building site we'd sell our field for building, but that would annoy the neighbours who coo over the view!) Some folk are more outgoing, that's not us, we have our ways and we're happy with our lot! Some of the other neighbours, I probably speak to them once or twice a year and it's as if it were only yesterday!