Eps 1360: how to be a good neighbour
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Jordan Morrison
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One of the best qualities of a neighbour is the willingness to help you. A good neighbour will make you feel welcome in a new place by offering you help in an emergency. A helpful neighbour anticipates your needs, takes care of your children in your absence and picks up your parcels for you.
Make an effort to check out your neighbors; it gives them a sense of security that their house is in good hands. If available, provide your neighbors with HOA or neighborhood watch information and work groups of community members who are committed to keeping the neighborhood safe. Give your new neighbor a list of current HOA and community organizations and an updated meeting calendar to attend.
Caring neighbours keep up to date with community affairs and make sure they vote. Neighbours make new families feel welcome by stopping by for a friendly introduction. The positive energy of being a good neighbor spreads and creates a ripple effect of random gestures of kindness that makes the community a happier place to live.
Large neighbors go beyond that to ensure that the neighborhood is a place where people care for and want to live. A good neighbor is the one who keeps the exterior of the house and the lawn at the same level with the rest of the neighborhood. Making a neighborhood look nice is a community achievement, and good neighbors keep the space clean and well-maintained for others.
There are some basic etiquette rules that you should follow to be a good neighbor regardless of the type of neighborhood in which you live. Neighbours share responsibility for the good care of their homes. When people make the effort to be good neighbors, follow appropriate manners and have a sense of well-being, everyone knows that they are surrounded by friends.
Invitations to your home are another way to take a big step in the relationship with your neighbors. A year after we moved into our new home, we had the idea of having a small informal block party and invited all the neighbors around us we knew . You can do this with one or two neighbors at an inconspicuous time at home or organize an entire block party.
If you and a neighbor have a disagreement, make an additional effort to correct it by shaking hands or at least having friendly relations. Offer to help your neighbor with a project at home, or you can help with transporting food. Your neighbor may ask for help, and it may take some time to trust what is being said, but do what you can.
Sometimes new neighbors may not be open to interacting with someone they don't know, so consider bringing in a few other neighbors to encourage more conversations and reduce awkwardness. Good neighbors know that forcing people to communicate with neighbors can do more harm than good. This can help ensure that the new neighbor does not feel uncomfortable or pressured to have a conversation.
Neighbourhood websites, email lists and text chains do everything necessary to keep neighbours informed of what is important and what is going on. Good neighbors care about their children, invite each other to parties and events and do things that no one else does - it is the opposite of a good neighbor to endanger his neighbors. To help you inspire and practice neighborly ways in your own community, we have compiled a list of the most important things you can do as a good neighbor.
The idea is that you can clean an elderly neighbor's yard, collect garbage in parks and other public places in the neighborhood, create a community garden, organize meals, or quarantine sick families. If their community has no way of exchanging messages, they can start an email list for the neighborhood to keep in touch with neighbors in one fell swoop, and best of all, they are not the only ones who can keep up the momentum once they start. Pay attention to your neighbors "schedules and help them understand yours in order to mitigate any problems they might start with.
Keep your dog on a leash if it has a habit of romping on your neighbor's lawn, or if it has cats or dogs of its own. Keep your dog on leash if you tidy it afterwards. If you don't have a neighborhood watch to look out for, you may not know how to behave around your neighboring property. If you have a plan that affects your neighbors, minimize your plans and inform them in advance.
If you are in a townhouse or semi-detached house, share adjacent living spaces with your neighbor and keep noisy household appliances such as washing machines, tumble dryers and TV speakers away from partitions. Sitting outside with your spouse or friends on a warm summer night is wonderful but if your house is located on a small plot of land and the neighbors "bedroom windows are closed, try not to have long conversations after 10 p.m. on the back porch and let it go quietly while your neighbor sleeps. Weeds in your garden, but the presence of weeds in your garden should not spread to your neighbors "yard.