Do you interact with your neighbours?

In years gone by, our neighbours played a significant role in our day-to-day communications with others. It was not uncommon for neighbours to bond over similar interests, invite each other into their homes and even get to know each others respective families. However, as technology has advanced and life has become more "fast-paced" over time, the role of our neighbours has seemingly been on the decline.

Do you have a friendship with your neighbours and how often do you interact with them, if at all?

Admittedly, I very rarely interact with my current neighbours, although I did have regular interactions with the people who lived next door to me during the 2000s. The neighbour to the right of us was a single woman in her 70s and when my Mum had to start work early in the morning, she would come over to our house and babysit me before school when I was 7/8 years old.

If my Mum was working dayshift and my Grandparents were unable to babysit me, I would also sometimes go over to her house after school. Unfortunately, her children (both of whom were in their 40s) had to sell the house back in 2009, because the woman had developed dementia and she was required to move into a nursing home. That was almost a decade ago, so I would unfortunately have my doubts that she would even still be alive now.

Our other neighbours were a middle-aged couple with two teenage sons. I would often hang out with the youngest son after school, despite the fact that he was born in the Late '80s/Early '90s. In retrospect, it's funny to think that a 14/15 year old would choose to hang out with a 5 year old kid. We would often ride our bikes around the cul-de-sac and try to do a few tricks on our bikes, such as riding really fast around the cul-de-sac one-handed. The father passed away from a terminal brain tumour back in 2006 and the family decided to move after he had passed.