Do Your Neighbors Avoid You?

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I don't really know any of my neighbors. I rarely even see any since I barely leave the house.

That happens a lot to me, not just with neighbours, but to nearly anybody. It does make passing people feel awkward for me, because I feel if I look away I'm being cold or unfriendly, but if I smile and say hi they might not say hi back and then I feel like an idiot, even if I'm not. One person doesn't smile or say hi when I do, and I just think ''OK maybe it's not their day today''. Two people don't smile or say hi when I do and I think ''OK not everybody has to be friendly''. Five or six people in a short amount of time don't smile or say hi when I do then I start thinking ''OK is there something wrong with me?'' Especially when I walk with another person and they're greeting every stranger they pass. It kinda makes it awkward for me all the time. I would do something about it if I knew how.

I don't think so.
I don't know any of my neighbours, except the woman that lives on my same floor. I hardly see the others. When I'm on the bus with the teens of my neighborhood that are my same age or slighly older/slightly younger I don't approach them and they don't approach me. It's more like not knowing each other than avoiding me.

Yes, it's annoying - especially because I don't really feel like smiling and saying hello at all, and I'm only doing it because it's the done thing to do, and I think they will be expecting it. Then they don't even acknowledge me at all! What's the point?

I avoid them. I've lived here for over a month now, and I haven't met any of my neighbors, except the one I saw briefly when I first moved in.

If you think ignoring is bad, I went over to tell of the bad news when my cat had drown in the canal and she said it was my fault because I had let it outside, when it was my dad's idea to let it out. She also refuses to apologize. I cannot believe she used to be nice.

There is a large group of neighbors down the block who avoid us and we also avoid them. They have a society that I do not understand and am repelled by. They remind me of the cliques that formed in my high school.

Fortunately, there are other neighbors that I get along with well. One of them is a fan of table-top board games and I have been to his house for enjoyable evenings of strategic games. These neighbors seem like more rounded human beings than the other group. If the whole neighborhood was like the other group, I would have to leave.

my neighbors don't avoid me, but i avoid them.

no, i try to avoid them. especially my next-door neighbor.

This happens to me too! At my gym I noticed it a lot, especially with women. Then, others are totally fine with me. It's heartbreaking and baffling.