I always try to make friends with neighbors. Our home should be our sanctuary. I want peace within and around my home.

I always reach to new neighbors. If they respond well, then that contributes to the quality of life of both of us. If not -- at least I tried.

I would just say tread cautiously on that matter.

Growing up in Kentucky in a small subdivision, we had great neighbors who talked and chatted in the evening when my dad and I went on a walk around the block. One neighbor was very cold and nontalkative. I asked my dad and he said he was told that it was because we had Afro-American folks stop by our house. My dad was in Community Action and they were case workers dropping things off, normal stuff. But apparently this neighbor disapproved. You just do not know what is in people's hearts. Try to reach out and be a good neighbor. One day you might need help and being supportive can be mutually beneficial. If they are like the guy who would not talk to us, then ignore them and get on with life.

Be cordial. Let friendships bloom.

Always give it a try. Ya never know when you might need their helping hand, or they yours.

To make friends. Bake some cookies, or bread, and take it over there... or buy some. Get to know them. Gads the neighborhoods I've lived in and never new my neighbors and thus the ways in which I am lacking for it.

Worse, a lot of our problems today are for NOT knowing each other. For simply not getting to know each other. How much alike we are despite our differences, and how different we are despite how alike we may seem and that all of those differences are just fine. We are still humans who care about humans.

Getting to know each other removes a lot of fears... I know, like me you may not be at all afraid but... do you KNOW what your neighbors are doing?

On the dark side: we moved into a neighborhood with a crack house across the street, and a door down... nice neighborhood with $200 K+ homes, and the home in question was just as nice as those around it (my house sold for close to $300 K in that neighborhood). I like to think that if we'd gotten to know our close neighbors, we might've been able to... I don't know but at least understand what happened in that house.

I’m so so friends with both my neighbors. One will feed my cat when I’m gone. Watch the house. We do the same. But that’s really the extent of our friendship.

My family is private and we don't like others intruding into our space. If we want you over, we'll invite you over. The only way that would change is if there was an emergency going on at their house...then, by all means, come over and bang on my door; otherwise, I'm not interested in meeting or hanging out with you just because we happened to live on the same street.

I always make it an open gesture. I'll introduce myself and let them know if they need anything to ask me. Then I let them decide if they want to be my friend

I keep my head shaved. No issues there except after meeting the guy next door, who has been nothing but nice and neighborly, he’s in a T one day and has a Swastica tattoo on his arm. Now all I can think of is “does he think I'm a skinhead?”
Ugh.
I’m ready for my daughter to graduate then I’m buying and outfitting a van and living in that spending most of my time on the west coast.

Difficult to assess someone you haven't met or spoken with.
I at least introduce myself. Anything above that is optional.

When I was young and had little kids, we lived on a quiet cul de sac, out in a little place that was out in the country, in a little area that was too small to even be called a village. We were all young, broke, and had kids about the same age. All the kids played together, and we were all very good friends. We would have impromptu cook outs, get together and play cards, and just hang out together. It was great. We always had a lot of fun, and were very close. Since I moved away, many years ago, we have all stayed in touch, but rarely see each other. Now, when I live somewhere, I am friendly with my neighbors, but don't socialize. we will stand around for short conversations at the mailbox, wave if we pass on the road, can call on each other for an emergency, but that is about it. That is fine too.

The reason I ask? LOL, I have never won the neighbor lottery. The only good one I ever had got ran off by the crazy religious guy that moved in a few years ago. One guy is in prison, the others have a 10 ft cross in yard (not the, but almost as crazy religious) as the other. I’m the atheist, liberal. Though I did chose to live in Cantonment. Fl, land of Baptist churches and meth makers.

Nope,nod my head when I see him and move on

I'd say no. You can't easily unfriend a neighbour if things turn sour.

I refer to my neighbor that I share a driveway with as "The Nazi next door." He has multiple copies of Mein Kamph and is taking the catalytic converter off of his truck to piss off liberals. I lost in the neighbor lotttery.

Why not?

NO! It never works out. People who come around randomly wanting to be friends are generally looking to get something.

When I was young and had little kids, we lived on a quiet cul de sac, out in a little place that was out in the country, in a little area that was too small to even be called a village. We were all young, broke, and had kids about the same age. All the kids played together, and we were all very good friends. We would have impromptu cook outs, get together and play cards, and just hang out together. It was great. We always had a lot of fun, and were very close. Since I moved away, many years ago, we have all stayed in touch, but rarely see each other. Now, when I live somewhere, I am friendly with my neighbors, but don't socialize. we will stand around for short conversations at the mailbox, wave if we pass on the road, can call on each other for an emergency, but that is about it. That is fine too.