Dating your neighbor

He watched her cats while she traveled for business; she watered his plants when he was on vacation. Movies at each other's house, including a recent French film. He sat on the chair, and they exchanged knowing glances between the subtitles. Cons: He knows what she's up to at all hours; and she has the same perspective on his life.They catch each other in the parking lot from time to time, and quick hellos turn into 35-minute conversations about life. If he has a party and doesn't invite her, it hurts.Ah yes…I am committed to spending the end of my 20s making the mistakes that I refused to try out for so long. Not only does he live in my building, he lives on my floor. We don’t share a wall, but our doors are about 10 feet apart. I’m not even saying that it won’t end disastrously. Here are a few tips to keep this as safe and sane as possible IF you decide to take the same path. Take out your trash, do your laundry, and maybe you will run into a special man in the process. I can throw rocks in his window from my door and hit him in his bed.

In fact, a survey conducted by found that 43 percent of people are not willing to date someone who lives more than 30 minutes away from them.

Pull out your yellow legal pad and create two columns to begin scrutinizing the decision ahead of you.

There are a lot of benefits that may come from dating your neighbor.

Is this really what makes news headlines in Toronto?

Whether the answer to that question is yes or no isn’t really the point here. While there are obvious advantages to dating someone who lives within such close proximity to your front door, a certain amount of risk is involved with them being so close to it too.