I don't know either of my neighbours really well, in contrast to when I was growing up when we knew both of our neighbours. The one on our left is new and we got on with her but she turned into a psycho bitch the ones on the right have changed a few times, I mean the ones that live here now have been there for a good long time now but they are hardly home and you'd never see them on the street, they used to have dogs that they'd walk but got rid of them and now you'd only ever see them leave the front door to get into their car.

I never bother with our neighbours, learnt a long time ago not to get involved. Our old next door neighbours on our left were friends for most of our life, their grandkid was friends with us and my mum was best friends with two of their daughters. Then we got involved when it sounded like the guy was beating on his wife and soon after that it was like war between us both. Then again they never complained or anything so they were better then these lot who complain about us talking in our kitchen at 9pm and distracting her. Yes we can't talk in our kitchen after 8pm according to her!

She sounds right rough though, always shouting at her kids, have guys coming in and out of her house at all times of the day/night... But what good would saying anything do?

Hahaha that sounds like a big rant about my neighbours maybe not the best topic for me .

I do think it would be nice to live somewhere were you COULD know all your neighbours though, I mean our street is a long LONG street so if you don't know your immediate neighbours you ain't gonna know the street. When everyone did the street parties for the jubilee and all that there was never going to be a chance our street would because its on a main road so we'd have to pretty much close the whole street down. It would be nice to live somewhere a little smaller then on a main road and maybe then you'd get to know your neighbours a little bit. My sister has moved into like a little square of houses and she now knows all her neighbours and she's only been there a week or two!

I live in a block of flats. Don't know anyone in the flats at all. Never been introduced, only kind of recognise any faces when I walk in and out of the building. I like it that way, I don't really want to be friends with people I don't have to be, I have enough problems in my life.

If I heard them having a fight through the walls or saw one being abusive in the hallways? Yeah I might make an anonymous call to the police. If anything if I saw or heard something I'd rather make the call then find out something really bad happened, but I'm not talking about just shouting or something it would have to be something really bad sounding or looking. If it had been going on for like half an hour and it was obviously one sided and it sounded like someone had been hit or was being hit I would call the police, if I could over hear them arguing with each other about baked beans I wouldn't bother.

I don't care what my neighbours do and don't do so no I don't snoop on them and I don't think they snoop on me, then again in a block of flats it is difficult to snoop on people anyway unless you are on the ground floor.

Sorry posted twice as my first reply didn't seem to send then it sent with the second one! The second one was much more eloquent though

I sent a message to social services on our next door neighbour when we heard her screaming at her youngest kid and slamming doors and at one point sounded like she'd slammed a door ON him. She also locks them out of the house all the time.

We didn't mention we think she's dealing drugs from the house but that was another big worry for us.

I'm not sure we had much of a thought beyond it might shake her up and stop them if they got a visit or even just a phone call or something. Don't know if they ever bothered to follow it up though, but there would have been no point phoning the police as they'd have just said it was us and they'd gotten the wrong house and we'd have had the police on our doorstep!

Well you'd think the moment someone was trying to enter your neighbours house through the window would be the moment you phoned the police

I guess it is hard. You don't want to get involved with other people's business but then again isn't it the right thing to do to stop abuse whenever possible?

When does anyone ever just crawl in through a friends window?

No I think people would be happier to know that their neighbour cares enough that if something sounded wrong they'd try and help!

Same. If we lock ourselves out (which has happened many a time in the past) my sister would crawl through the window in the kitchen. Anyone looking from their window in the back of our house would just see a random person breaking in but in fact it was my sister.

At the moment we have scaffolding up and our next door neighbours kids think it is funny to take things out of our bathroom window (thankfully they've never peered in when we've been having a bath/shower) and putting them in the window of my bedroom (the only two back facing windows that are ever open.) Now if one of those little buggers tried to crawl in the people up the back wouldn't know if they were friends or not. Technically they are neighbours as we only have a small fence (their gardens are elevated, we live on a hill) separating us and in the past when I was a kid I used to be friends with the grandkids of the guys directly behind us and both sets of kids that lived behind my next door neighbour. Now Ashley and Casey would have seen them and been like "never saw those idiots in my life I'll phone Anna see what she says" but the people living there now won't have a clue.

The likely hood of them then caring enough to phone the police?

About as much as it would be for me. Non-existent.

Is that what is wrong with the world today? Possibly, but it means very little to be honest.