Having a best friend who also happens to live down the street from you is quite the blessing. For starters, it means that you’ll always have someone to hang out with when you’re home and bored (and you don’t even have to call or text them; you can just look out your window to see if their car is in the driveway). It also means that curfews don’t really exist because it takes you about 30 seconds to get home.

If you’re as lucky as me to have your best friend (or best friends) live in the same neighborhood as you, you’ll be able to relate to this:

1. Her food is your food.

If you don’t feel like eating anything in your own house, there’s no need to whine or complain because you can simply walk down the block and see what your best friend has (this also means that whenever you decide to get crafty and bake or cook something, you never have to worry about not having all of the ingredients because they’re bound to be in your best friend’s pantry).

2. Her clothes are your clothes.

Similarly to food, you never have to worry about running out of clothes! If you start to feel like you’ve been wearing the same shirt over and over again, you can easily run over to your best friend’s house and see what she has in her closet.

3. You never have to go shopping alone.

Whether it’s to the mall, to the grocery store, or to target, you never go unaccompanied. That’s because you both are likely to show up in front of each other’s house, unannounced, and drag each other along, whether you like it or not.

4. Hangouts are never planned.

There’s none of that back and forth texting, letting each other know when you’re on your way or when you have arrived. Most of the time, you just walk on over whenever you have some free time (in my case, we don’t even have to knock–the door is always open and we actually get yelled at if we do knock).

5. There is no absurd time to hangout.

Because you live in such close proximity, it’s not uncommon to get together just before midnight and stay together well into the early morning. Sure, sometimes your parents will get mad, but at least they never have to pick you up from their house in the middle of the night.

6. You’re comfortable doing basically anything together.

When you see each other all the time, there is no need to always have something exciting on the agenda. Sometimes, you will go to their house and end up taking a nap–or you’ll wind up cleaning their room with them. In fact, it’s actually quite rare for you guys to actually have something to do/somewhere to be.

7. She is your ride to most places.

If you happen to share a friend group, you know you can always count on her to drive you wherever your plans may lead. Saves time and gas!

8. If you’re feeling sad, you always have somewhere to go.

Whether it’s in the middle of the afternoon or the middle of the night, you’re there for each other in an instant and, more often than not, already have the ice cream and junk food ready.

9. Her family is your second family.

You know that you’ll always be invited to family dinners, family barbecues, and even family vacations.

10. Distance is never an issue.

Even if you both go away for college, you know that you’ll be seeing each other every time you come home because the moment you pull into your driveway, her house is the first place you go.