I say Hello, good morning ,or good afternoon...and that's the most contact I have with them and vice versa...on the other hand, my parents have all the neighbours phone numbers, and when they are in holliday my parents keep their extra key at home in case that something happened...but they live in that building for 40 years and they already know all of them from the parents, grandparents and now the children. They even take care of the cat or the dog for the neighbour that go in holiday. But it's 40 years of trust and friendship with all the 7 floors :D

SAME. I have one neighbor's phone number and that is ir.

My (again, over 55) apartment building puts out a booklet of residents's (of those who opt in) phone numbers, apartment number, and email address. I've never used it but it's kind of a good idea for everything from, "Can I borrow some sugar" type things to "I've fallen and can't get up" ones. Not sure it would work as well for a regular, mixed-age building though.

I gave my pain in the as neighbour below me my number. I never use my balcony, but she does. Every time there's a bit of debris (once a plastic bag) or water, she complained to the landlord and of get in trouble. So I gave her my number to text me if she had an issue, I'll fix it. She's not overly picky, but it is annoying. But I get it, she wants to enjoy her space that she pays for.

I don't know his number, but one of my neighbors looks out for my sister and I. He is also on friendly terms with our dad.

That sounds lovely... and entirely unlike my neighborhood. I f*****g hate where I live and I’m too poor to relocate.

Also when I was a kid we knew a LOT of our neighbours, my brothers and I would play with neighbourhood kids. We would go swimming in one of their pools, we would climb trees and feed donkeys at another one, play with awesome toys and dress ups at another (they were very spoilt), and at my house we would play outdoor games like block off, red rover, chasey, ride bikes down the street, go to the park and kick balls, go to the strawberry farm and play in the paddock making tree houses with scraps we found etc.

as a child (55 now) we knew all our neighbours from one corner to the other (5 on our side of block, more across the road) but now l only know immediate neighbours either side and some others by sight but not by name..and THEN across the road which used to be 2 homes is now a bunch of units and would not know ANY of them at all..and l don't have numbers for ANY of them..

freaks

Stormapotamus Good response!

There are 60 apartments in my building, many of them are rented out by dodgy landlords. I know many of the residents that have been here longer as I am myself been living here for 20 years. But I don't know everyone and I have exactly one phone number from the neighbor who's kid plays with mine. Knowing someone doesn't equal having all their details. I can physically walk up to their front door, so in terms of contacting them, we're goood.

I live in an old Victorian era tenement, and I can hear my upstairs neighbour playing with his kids. I wouldn't mind ordinarily, but it just that he picks ten o'clock at night to do it when normal people (IE me) are in bed trying to sleep.