When do you cease to be 'new around here'

I'm terrified of having neighbours, especially new ones!

I live between the Town Hall and the Church Manse, which is no longer the manse but converted into small flats for people with additional needs. There are carers who sleep there but they don't live there so there is noone to discuss any issues with.
Apart from occasional loud music , I have nothing to complain about on the other side.
At the end of my garden there are other gardens and sometimes I have had complaints usually about my trees.
If I move house I'll probably need to learn the etiquette for being a NDN .

M0nica You are definitely a new kid on the block.
I hope things get easier. 2 parking tickets in 6 weeks is awful. Not welcoming at all.

Once when we moved into a new house, a company called Welcome Wagons appeared at the door with a load of special offers, coupons etc but best of all a smiley face of someone who knew the area. I believe it was an American idea but not a bad one.

friendlygingercat

Whay gets up my nose is people who have lived in an area some time and shomehow think they are superior to you because of that fact. Thinking particularly of neighbours. That cuts no ice with me.

The NDN told me she had lived there since the dinosaurs and she paid for the dividing fence. I asked to see the reciept and she got in a huff. She didnt like the fact that I had pinned up a sheet and was using it as a background for a photography session. Eventually two panels of the fence fell apart one windy night. I got my handyman to replace them, being sure to leave the rotting piles of wood by her kitchen door. After all, they were HER property. I am petty like that.

I am the neighbour that you do not cross!

Wow
I think you ve got the wrong name friendlygingercat you don’t sound very friendly to me more like nastyneighbour

We always left useful info, about bin collections, nearest doctors, chemist, bus stops, train station etc. But nobody left that for us either. I think is just a common courtesy.

Each time we moved, I left a list of GPs, plumbers and electricians, schools, etc.
No one ever left anything like that for me - barely left light bulbs, no clean house either!

That’s a question with many answers, I think. It depends on the circumstances of what you’re doing. We moved three years ago to where we live now. Although we were familiar with the general area as we’d previously lived in it before, almost everything had changed in a quarter of a century and it is a slog to familiarise oneself with the basics of life - bin day, NHS services, libraries, council offices. I think our feet are well under the table now, though, when the staff at the chemist no longer need to ask our names! Our nearby family has friends who know us, which is actually rather nice. One of them said to our dd the other day that she likes ‘talking to your mum and dad.’ ❤️

Where we previously lived, I felt at home from the day we moved in. We loved it but getting older there wasn’t a sustainable prospect so we upped sticks and here we are. We did the right thing, I think.

Wow...

Whay gets up my nose is people who have lived in an area some time and shomehow think they are superior to you because of that fact. Thinking particularly of neighbours. That cuts no ice with me.

The NDN told me she had lived there since the dinosaurs and she paid for the dividing fence. I asked to see the reciept and she got in a huff. She didnt like the fact that I had pinned up a sheet and was using it as a background for a photography session. Eventually two panels of the fence fell apart one windy night. I got my handyman to replace them, being sure to leave the rotting piles of wood by her kitchen door. After all, they were HER property. I am petty like that.

I am the neighbour that you do not cross!