re: Introducing yourself to your new neighbors. Is this a thing now?

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Man, what the frick has this board become? Making a simple post is now considered running to the internet and asking strangers to solve all of your worldly problems? Asking a question and you're now considered weird, introverted, an a-hole ,rude and annoyed.

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The board has become weirdly hostile to most new topics for some weird reason. So then we get less new topics and more regurgitated and dumb ones.

Despite me growing up rural with no real neighbors and wife growing up suburban subdivision, I’m the neighborly one and she’s decidedly unneighborly. I tell her it’s much better to at least have some minimal baseline of politeness with neighbors. She don’t care.

This was the norm before your smartphone convinced you to ignore the real world around you.

It was nice outside yesterday around that time. When I first moved in I needed to get away from all the shite I had to deal with at my house so I walked around a little.

Also, PIIHB

Some people do. In my area, when a new family moves in the neighbors show up to introduce themselves and bring a pie, cake, cookies, casserole, etc

I’ve seen both sides of it. Some good friends lived next door for several years. Our back yards were filled with both our kids playing, jumping the fence back and forth, and it was great. The family that moved in after they left were a little younger and didn’t have kids. We knew them and had each others phone numbers but never hung out with them. They moved out about a year ago and despite me trying to engage the new neighbors they keep to themselves.

My neighbor on the other side grew up in that house. It was his parents and he had moved back into it and was fixing it up. His kids were all grown. But we looked out for each other. Lived next to him about a decade or so then he sold it. I briefly met the new owners but they’re like the others and keep to themselves.

It used to be a thing, but in reverse. People introduced themselves to new neighbors.

Of course, when I was a youngster, we just hoped someone with another kid would move in somewhere down the street. The adults didn't have a chance to introduce themselves before we made friends with the kids. Also, on a long country road at the time (not anymore).

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Yesterday afternoon around 6pm a lady knocked on our front door and said she was stopping by to introduce herself since she bought the house down the road. It's about 1/4 mile away.

Just thought that it was a strange thing to do since we are out on a country road and not in a subdivision.

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I wouldn't think this is strange. Being on a rural road, the only way you'd probably met each other is by knocking on the door. Not a bad thing to know your neighbors if there's not many people around, just in case of an emergency or something.

I think its weird to go knocking on doors to introduce yourself in a subdivision though. Neighbors in a subdivision can easily meet naturally when seeing each other outside taking out the trash, getting the mail, walking dogs, etc and strike up a conversation that way. That's how I've met my neighbors at both houses I've had.

I moved in to a new house about 3 months ago. Ive talked to the guy next door once for about 5 minutes and waved to the guy across the street once. I think we are all going to get along just fine.

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1/4 mile away.

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She's going to be all up in your business.

She probably already stalked you on facebook and knows your hobbies and habits.

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What's so weird about it?

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A 60-year-old woman walking a 1/4 mile down a rural road, up a 600' driveway and then knocking on a complete stranger's door at 6pm... nothing, nothing at all.