Should You Be Friends With Your Neighbour?

68% of Brits* describe their neighbours as ‘strangers’, yet some are happy to cross the garden fence…

- Fiona Kinloch, Natalie Brown

NO: ‘I don’t have time to be friends with everyone’ Life is too busy, says mum Natalie

Should you be friends with your neighbour?

Natalie Brown, 39, lives in Hove with her husband, Rob, 41, and their three children, Bluebell, eight, Maximilian, five, and Marigold, three. As a working mum of three with baby number four on the way, it’s fair to say life is hectic. It’s a constant juggling act, there are never enough hours in the day and I don’t have the time to be friends with people who aren’t already in my circle – it’s not rudeness, it’s self-preservation!