Do your neighbors know you?

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My neighbours knew my parents well but since taking care of the property I have had virtually no contact with them. They have tried to connect but I was not sure how to respond and let the friendship opportunity go.

I don't know girls from my floor in the dorm. I can't recognise them, they probably can. I've never talked with any of them.

I don't know my neighbours. Some of them I recognise and I must say hello to them, but I've never talked with them too.
I hate when I walk and my neighbour works in the garden and she tells You're so big girl! and I go away. I hate this! I'm not 5 y.o. all my life, so ya, I'm big.

No, but I know their daughter who's friends with my sister.
My neighbours on the other side of the house I only met once, that was when I was about 12 and I caught the school bus even though I was supposed to be picked up that day, I panicked and I knocked on their door asking to use their phone while crying my eyes out great first impressions.

I know a few of my neighbors. Mainly because my mom is friends with them.

Yes, they do... and they are very kind to me.

kind of they have offered me some furnitures anddo know me by sigth

We have a couple next door who I know, mainly because my partner has initiated plenty of conversation with them but while I'll talk to the wife if I see her out in the garden, about the weather or their dog, with her husband it's always just an awkward "Hi, are you alright?" I feel really embarrassed when I hear the conversations they have with the couple on the other side of them, they must think I'm such a boring nonentity.

There's an old lady on the other side who I really avoid whenever I can help it. When I moved in she said to me "You're very quiet" which really wound me up the wrong way and I took a dislike to her after that. I find old people hard to talk to, because she is hard of hearing so I have to talk really loud, and I'm always scared of offending old people because they are so touchy, and she is always making judgements on me because I don't do a lot of work in the garden (I'm too paranoid, so my partner deals with that stuff) and because I don't work so she thinks I'm lazy and just probably laze around the house all day watching tele or something.

I don't know any of the other people who live around here. I try to keep to myself as much as possible.

I could give lots of excuses as to why I don't want to interact with my neighbors, but the truth is I don't know how to give them the impression of me I want them to have, so it's just easier to ignore them.

We have lived in our neighborhood (relatively rural) since 1989. We (my wife and I) went out to eat with our closest neighbors (a couple a little older than us) for the first time this past summer. However, we know them. But as far as talking to them like many neighbors do, I probably communicate with them once every two weeks to a month. The neighbors across the road from us, I have talked to maybe once or twice. And the same for the neighbors on the other side of me and behind me.

They know I am there.

I live on the top floor of a six apartment building. I sometimes run into the schitzophrenic guy who lives on the basement floor, and know his name and have met his cat. I also say hello to the lady who comes into our building to use our laundry machines (she has a white labrador retriever). Other than that, I do not interact with my neighbors, nor would I know them if I saw them.

Seeing as I live with my parents, in the same house that I was raised in, I think it's safe to say that my neighbors know me pretty well. I don't know how I'll deal with getting to know my neighbors once I move out, though.

i have lived in a rented house on a cul-de-sac for 2.25 years. the house next to me on one side has been vacant for 2 years. the other side is a quiet widower. the other 2 houses of people keep to themselves. the only exciting occurrences have happened with the house across the street. lots of parties and drug deals out of that house... police & ambulances visited fairly regularly. but they moved out a week or two ago i think.

they try to make my life hell

Mine know me very well, and they're very nice, and very good cooks.

No. They barely know me.