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Originally Posted by Aces4
You have to know the tone of your neighbors, some are the "town criers" with any information they collect shared with others. How many want it shared when their home is empty?
We know a few people who don't want to tell their neighbor this but because they are full time they get dumped on by snowbirds with requests to help them out in some fashion while they are back in their original neck of the woods.
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That's sad, it sounds like a not-so-neighborly neighborhood.
With our neighborhood we all voluntarily look out for each other. Most of us have the key to at least one other house, and emergency contact numbers, and a list of numbers for services they use. We tell each other when we'll be away, and if there's a really bad storm that blows palm fronts onto their yard we pick them up and bring them to the curb. We sometimes give each other rides to the Groome bus stop in the squares and pick them back up when they return.
We check in on each other when we get back from the hospital for a procedure and if we see an ambulance in front of someone's house, we're sure to check in on a spouse to see if they need anything while their loved one is in the hospital.
Although we always ask the neighbors if they would be able to watch our home while we're gone, we never have to. They do it anyway, because they're good neighbors.