Are you in a friendly neighborhood or unfriendly?

[Anonymous]

Friendly, as are most of our neighbors. We live in a neighborhood full of families with young kids.

I do see a divide on our street though between those of us who have kids and those who don't. The house 2 doors up from us was bought by a late 30's couple with no kids and they are not at all friendly- never wave or say hi, were rude to a neighbor who lives directly next to them and went over to introduce herself when they first moved in.

[Anonymous]

We live close to Eastern Market and find it very friendly. We know almost all of the neighbors on our block, strangers are friendly at the playground, and we run into friends and acquaintances often.

[Anonymous]

Takoma Park. Very friendly. Houses on our block regularly host potlucks, play dates, etc for neighbors. Also, just everyday kindness..shoveling each other's walks/driveways without being asked, stopping and chatting on the street, etc.

[Anonymous]

I'm friendly but some people seem to feel uncomfortable when I greet them, so I engage as much as seems welcome. I have some neighbors with young kids and we all trade off babysitting - whether it's for a date night or just an hour so one can clean without interruption - do playdates, and lend each other baby gear. It's really nice actually.

[Anonymous]

Very friendly. Clarendon.

[Anonymous]

You can find many neighborhoods with block parties in Silver Spring. I've heard of them in 4 Corners, Forest Glen, and Woodside.

[Anonymous]

When I moved into an African-American neighborhood, I was delighted to find out it was very warm and friendly. As a white professional who had previously lived west of the Park, I was surprised when strangers said hello on the street. Neighbors always stopped to talk when I saw them outside. Best decision we ever made was to moved to that block.

Now that the neighborhood is gentrifying, it's gotten noticeably less warm. Sorry to generalize but we white DCers are not so good at getting to know our neighbors. We don't sit out in our front yards and chat. My new neighbors are nice folks but most of them are very busy. Don't get me wrong, the neighborhood is still nice but it's definitely not as warm as it used to be.

[Anonymous]

potomac - not friendly at all

[Anonymous]

I live in the east side of Brookland, in NE DC. Very friendly. I think there's only one house of renters and they've lived there several years. Many people on the block grew up there. They don't seem to mind the new folks who've moved in over the last several years (aacounting for about 8 homesout of about 28).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friendly, as are most of our neighbors. We live in a neighborhood full of families with young kids.

I do see a divide on our street though between those of us who have kids and those who don't. The house 2 doors up from us was bought by a late 30's couple with no kids and they are not at all friendly- never wave or say hi, were rude to a neighbor who lives directly next to them and went over to introduce herself when they first moved in.

We're a couple in our 30's (over 35) without children, and we are friendly to our neighbors. Maybe the neighbors you are talking about don't say "hi" because you were rude to them or somehow made them feel unwelcome to your kid-centric events.

[Anonymous]

22205 very friendly neighborhood and street. There are outliers but for the most part it's a street that has block parties, looks out for each other and is part of a broader social, friendly neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Brookland-- friendly other than a few wacky NIMBYs on the listserv.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ask because we just moved to a neighborhood where people are not friendly, do not say hi, pretend they don't see you, etc. I find this strange.

I live in a very friendly neighborhood, however, my next door neighbor has always purposely avoided me in social situations. She will purposely turn her back on me and pretend she doesn't see me. She did this to another neighbor of mine who would cry to me how mean my next door neighbor was. I assured her that is happened to more people than just her. People who pretend they don't see you are very insecure. It's them, not you! I don't believe that everyone in your neighborhood does this. You will find some very nice people to be friends with, I'm sure.

[Anonymous]

Very friendly. Forest Estates in Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Bloomingdale. Extremely friendly. Used to live in Dupont and Adams Morgan, didn't even know who my neighbors were, ever. Not friendly.

Hi neighbor! We live a little further downtown in Truxton Circle but used to live in Adams Morgan. Much MUCH more friendly here, I know everyone on our block whereas I only knew my immediate neighbors in Adams Morgan. We lived near Harris Teeter in Adams Morgan and spent a lot of time there when DC was a baby. Happy to see many of the same people at the newer Harris Teeter in Constitution Square.