Would You Date Your Neighbor?
Would you be mine, could you be mine, won’t you be my booty call?
You’ve got a new neighbor you see every day. She’s cute and you wonder, should I ask her on a date? But then you wonder, what if it blows up — will it make living next door to each other a nightmare?
Becoming romantically entangled with a neighbour is a high-risk but potentially high-reward gambit – get it right and you could have a marriage of love and convenience. Get it wrong and every coffee run comes with the possibility of an uneasy encounter.
But it’s also not an uncommon scenario – after all, we’re more likely to meet the people we share cafes and footpaths with.
For one UK single, it worked out great.
match with another 20-something male: Tom, her now-boyfriend. He lived 500m up the road.
“And that was honestly quite alarming at first,” she says, expressing fears of post-breakup supermarket encounters. “But I went for it and we’re still together now, and we’re moving in together in a few weeks.”
Mason is happy she rolled the dice.
“I think the fear of it not working out and then poisoning all your local areas, honestly, it’s not that big a deal,” she says. “There’s risk in everything, right?”
In neighbourhood dating, as in all matters of the heart, sometimes you have to take a leap.
Mason matched with Tom, her now-boyfriend. He lived 500m up the road.
“And that was honestly quite alarming at first,” she says, expressing fears of post-breakup supermarket encounters. “But I went for it and we’re still together now, and we’re moving in together in a few weeks.”
Mason is happy she rolled the dice.
“I think the fear of it not working out and then poisoning all your local areas, honestly, it’s not that big a deal,” she says. “There’s risk in everything, right?”
In neighbourhood dating, as in all matters of the heart, sometimes you have to take a leap.
