I lived in MQ's as a SNCO and would not have felt very comfortable living next door to a Sqd/Ldr, or any Officer for that matter, for all the obvious reasons. However when I purchased my own house, not far from the Base, it was on a small new estate of 20 or so houses, of similar build. The residents were a mixture of Officers, SNCO's and a few civvies. Regardless of rank we all jostled along very well, especially at Christmas!