Tell me about your neighours, PS!

[Tuckins1]

My neighbors are god awful!!

Neighbor to the east- arrested for viewing and distributing child pornography. It''s a habitat for humanity house, and the people who were renting (which is illegal in itself) haven''t cut the grass. Ever. It''s over the dang fence!!! They have now moved out. The house is almost un-inhabitable. It''s falling down, dirty, trashed...

This is a nice neighborhood, it''s just that this particular family was a bunch of losers who took advantage of the system and never tried to better themselves or their position in life..

Neighbors to the west- Nice people, but have a dog who NEVER stops barking!! We have lived here for years, and she will bark and bark at us whenever we go outside, for as long as we are outside. Sometimes HOURS.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 8/4/2009 5:08:32 PM
Author: Hudson_Hawk

Date: 8/4/2009 4:59:19 PM
Author: monarch64

Date: 8/4/2009 2:18:57 PM

Author: Linda W

Date: 8/4/2009 2:13:42 PM

Author: monarch64

Hmm. My neighbor across the hall is HOT. Right above me is a nurse who works 24 hr. shifts frequently and I never see her. The other guy upstairs is a photojournalist for the local paper and I never see him either. Across the street are the Catholic church and the convent, and the priest''s home. Directly to my right is a restored historic home that was formerly inhabited by a couple from Brooklyn...they''ve since moved out and the house is for sale so no neighbors there. No problems with anyone.

Monnie, will you PLEASE get to know your HOT neighbor.

Linda, if I get to know him all the mystery and intrigue will disappear and then he''ll just be hot and BORING. It''s much more fun to make up fantasies in my head and never act upon it. LOL

Fun for you maybe, but it leaves us cold....

Ha! You guys are forgetting that directly across the street staring me right in the face every day when I walk out the front door is Jesus on a cross affixed to the Catholic church where I learned to be a "good girl" as a child. If I acted on any of my little fantasies I would feel compelled to run straight to confession, and I''m not even Catholic for crying out loud.

How''s that for irony? Put THAT in a song, Alanis Morissette.

 

[cindygenit]

I live in a unit with my FI and my neighbour is a forty something lifecoach. She has guests over in 30 minute intervals (pretty much all day long) and sometimes she screams and put the music real loud.

It''s pretty disturbing since ALL her clients are males and FI is convinved she''s not a lifecoach but something else. I choose to turn a blind eye when it comes to her shenanigans.

The couple who lives above me are cool. Really quiet tho and keeps to themselves most of the time.

 

[MsP]

Apartment dweller here.

I seem to live in a complex that attracts male bachelors-- there are few women here. Very few. It''s kind of strange. Anyways, most are either international PhD students, young professors, divorcees, or young professionals. Very few children. Complex clubhouse has happy hours, saunas, tanning beds, gym, pool, tennis courts, etc but they are always completely empty. And no playground or any child friendly activities.

It''s not very social but I do to them occasionally about light topics.

 

[April20]

Our neighbor to the left is a single woman in her 40s with an assortment of relatives living with her. We just met her for the first time a couple weeks ago and I don''t know a whole lot about her. The house on the other side of us is empty. The house across the street was empty for months and just got rented. We haven''t met him yet. Our backyards are deep, so I have no idea who lives behind me.

We used to live 15 doors down in a house on a corner. Our neighbors on the left were an older couple that have lived in the house for 40 years. They''re really sweet. Their kids are grown, but the entire family is there almost every Sunday for dinner and in the fall, all the kids and grandkids show up and rake all their leaves. When they get done with that, they barbecue. It''s nice to see.

The neighbors behind us had a fabulous yard. When I first moved into the house, they heard that I ran out of room in my moving truck and didn''t have a mower yet. They hard this from their across the street neighbor, whom I met when I moved in and had no electricity and no phone book to figure out who to call. At any rate, I got home one day and there was knock at the door. It was the neighbor from behind letting me know it was him that mowed the yard. The sad thing was I hadn''t even noticed! I was soooo embarrassed. He brought me a housewarming gift and welcomed me to the neighborhood. It made me fully remember why I love the south and was glad to be back. At the same time, he had a fabulous yard and a direct line of sight into my sad back yard. He was probably tired of looking at it, hence the mowing!

The neighbors across the street- there was a couple in the 30s. They had their first baby while we were there. When he was born, her dad came over from Poland and stayed for 6 months with them! Her mom came in the summer, but she''s still working so she only stayed 3 weeks.

Our other across the street neighbor was a multi-generatonal family. Grandma owned the house and her son, his wife and 2 kids lived there. The younger son (he was 13 at the time) would mow our yard from time to time and help out with other tasks. He seemed like a good kid and I hope he''s still holding his own- I don''t want to see him go down the wrong path.

Our neighbor to the right was a single guy with alternating roommates. He''s a brat camp counselor. The kind with kids in the woods.....

 

[HollyS]

To our left, an older couple with grown children; very quiet people. Just wish they would get the vehicles out of the driveway.

To our right, the crazy lady and her ?boyfriend? or ?husband? - - we don''t know. All we know is, she''s fine while he''s home, but rather demented when he''s away. I''ve mentioned her before, so I won''t go into the details. I told hubby she was nutso the first time I saw her; turns out I was right on the money.

Nobody across the street from us -- vacant lot. Can''t even see the neighbors behind us. They have loud pool parties every few months or so. But never at night, so we don''t get too excited about it.

 

[Ellen]

I am sandwiched between two "eggheads". Both professors at universities. They are very nice people, just, not the type you hang over the fence and chat with, or have a drink with. I miss my old neighborhood, where everyone was about our age, not overly intelligent, lol, and easy to talk to.....

 

[phoenixgirl]

I always said that the neighbors we had at our condo were more colorful than anything I''ve read in fiction. We had so many great nights sharing wine with our odd assortment of building fellows.

Now that we moved two blocks away, we still mostly have great/interesting neighbors. We "discovered" the block when we visited a friend who lived 6 doors down from where we bought, but she has since moved to England and been replaced by a couple a few years younger than us. We thought maybe they''d be fun to hang out with, but they don''t really seem to be our type.

There are 14 houses on our block, and we know everyone on our side of the street except this reclusive guy who was apparently more social before his partner left/died (if I''d ever met the guy I''d probably remember which one it was . . .). Our closest friends are a professor whom I took a class from in college and her musician/handyman/stay at home husband. They have two girls, and most nights some or all of them will come down to our porch or vice versa for some refreshments and conversation. DH and I both pretended to eat the dirt cake the girls brought us last week . . . the problem is that they are health food nuts, and so the dirt cake appeared to be lacking in the stuff that makes dirt cake actually taste good. I reciprocated by bringing them some chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies I made.

Our immediate neighbors are fine. One of them is the neighborhood tattle tale (he''s on the association zoning committee and will call the city on you if you inadvertently violate some city statute trying to beautify your home) whom no one really likes, but he''s never done anything to bother us. His wife seems more friendly but we rarely see her either. On the other side is another childless couple in their 40s/50s. We like them, but their yard is a bit unruly, their dog wakes us up (we got a bark deterrent which is a life saver), and when they used to smoke we could smell it in our house through the window A/C. Luckily they quit a month ago but I''m worried they''ll fall off the wagon! The one nuisance is that they have this obviously good-for-nothing nephew who comes over every so often. I figure he''s trying to make sure he inherits the place eventually. He''ll set off fireworks in their tiny yard, throw burning cigarettes over into our yard, and tell these really inane and creepy stories about how he got drunk and punched out a glass table. He''s 25 but is dating a woman in her 40s with a 9 year old daughter. What a great surrogate father he''d make!

We also have the requisite little old lady who''s been on the block forever. She always knows everything about everyone, including somehow knowing and telling people when my dad died and when we got pregnant . . . I don''t know how she knew! And there''s the woman who is younger than we are who rents out her spare rooms to visiting foreign language professors; they are always fun to get to know for as long as they''re here. And the guy who started a trash company in his 20s, sold it with a non-compete clause and made a whole bunch of money, and now just hangs out all the time in his 30s. Everyone calls him "[Name] the Millionaire."

Other than our friends with the two middle/high school aged girls, no one has kids, so our baby will get a lot of attention on the block! Because we live in the city, the houses and lots are small and the schools aren''t great, so a lot of people who plan to have families buy these as starter homes and then move when baby #2 is on the way or they feel like the yard is too small for their toddler. We hope to stay as long as we can. Our neighbors'' daughters have gotten into IB programs and governor''s schools, and the elementary schools are open-enrollment as long as there is room, so we can (hopefully) choose the best school even though we''re two blocks outside of the boundary. If our daughter doesn''t get in (we''re talking 2015 here so we have some time to decide), we''ll find out in February and can move to a bigger house in the right district before school starts.

 

[Lynnie]

This thread is a hoot!
Dishin the dirt on the neighbors! haha

I live on the 2nd floor of a duplex. It''s a rowhome, so we share walls with the downstairs tenant, and the neighbors on either side of us.

Downstairs is a couple. They''re really nice, and had a baby a few months ago. Thank GAWD their sex-capades have calmed down in the past year or so. They were really, um, loud. It''s funny to hear some conversations, too (I guess there''s not much insulation under our floor). One time, I got woken up by her screaming on the phone... "MA!!! Cousin Jerry''s on JUDGE MATHIS!!! Turn on your TV!! Can you BELIEVE it?!?!", etc, etc. Yeah, I turned on Judge Mathis, too

. They have a dog, Tyson... and sometimes they don''t clean up his poop off the front lawn. Overall, though, they''re great neighbors. Very nice people.

On one side of us is a married couple. The husband is brothers with downstairs neighbor. They''re also super cool. He runs a bar, she was a policewoman, but now collects disability (she has MS). She is the neighbor who knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE. She sits out front, and watches. She''s the first outside if anything *interesting* is going on, such as someone on the block moving in or out, or a car accident or something (I live on a very busy street, just a few blocks from the off-ramp of a highway. People forget that they''re not ON the highway anymore, and forget to slow down). DH goes fishing with the brothers, and we all hang out sometimes out front, we barbeque, etc. We''re glad to be friends with them.

The other side of us? I couldn''t tell you. An older couple lives there. Very rarely do we even see them. I wonder that they may be hermits. We never hear anything, voices, radios, tv, coming through that side of our walls. Occasional banging, like someone nailing a nail into the wall... weird.

A few doors up lives the drunk couple. They''re in their 50''s. Every few months, an ambulance or police car is rolling up to their house. We don''t really talk to them, just "Hi, How ya doin?"

A few doors down the other way is Gail, a very nice older lady with a beautiful collie and a beautiful garden. She decks her house out for every holiday... she has the nicest looking front yard on the block (we don''t have backyards).

I don''t really know any neighbors across the street. It''s a very wide, multi-lane street. I do know that one house houses a couple and about 10 kids.

I could tell you more. I know it all since I talk to Ms Noozy next door! haha

 

[gwendolyn]

Hmm. We've lived in our apartment building for a year and, although I tried to get to know my neighbours, most of them looked at me like I was bonkers when I just waved, smiled and said "hi." So I hardly know any of them.

The ones I know best are the ones who live across the hall from us (only 2 apartments per floor). Her name is M, is in her late twenties/early thirties and she has two really cute younger kids (who are friendlier than the rest of the building put together!). She sells Avon, so this could be why she talks to me

but also we chatted a bit when our power went out and I knocked on her door to find out if she had the same problem, since it looked like it was a bigger problem than just in our flat (and it was). We'll chat a bit when we see each other, but we haven't gotten to know each other very well--M asked James once where "his wife" was (and James, being very shy, didn't correct her, especially since it'll be true soon enough anyway).

The neighbours below us on our side yell at their little kid all the time. The baby (probably about a year old) will cry and scream sometimes, as kids do, and the parents scream back at him, shouting at him to be quiet. Poor kid.

And our neighbour above us seems to have a lot of loud sex.

 

[Diva0413]

I live in an apartment.

FI and I are still trying to figure out what's going on with our upstairs neighbor. You see, The whole line of apartments both above and below us are 1 bedroom apartments. And not too big either, about 800s square feet. So why does it sound like they've got at least 3 adults and 2 children living up there? All hours of the night we hear the running back and forth of little feet (which was cute at first, but not so much anymore), and an adult running after the babies.

Our neighbor to our right isn't home much actually, she's single from what I can tell and in her late 40's. She's very nice, especially since she keeps getting her mail and we keep getting hers (FI and her name the same first initial and last name). I suspect she does a lot travelling for her job. Our neighbors to the left moved out about 3 months ago. They needed a bigger place so that apartment is now empty.

 

[kama_s]

I love the condo we''re living in. The city I live in is known for cold, impersonal people and I''ve never known any of my neighbors in any of the other buildings I''ve lived in (I''ve always lived in the downtown core). And let me tell you, it''s not for a lack of trying on my part! I''m super friendly, I''ll strike a conversation with anyone. I''m the classic ''elevator conversationalist''! But the condo I am currently at is fantastic, it''s almost a community as three building share a club (the club has all sorts of classes, a bowling alley, gym, movie theatre, pool etc and is only open to our buildings). The club brings tons of people together, I''ve met and cultivated several friendships from people in my bootcamp or during movie nights. There are 12 units on my floor, and we know everyone pretty well. Our immediate next door is a funky mid 30''s couple with no kids, and we''ve become fast friends. We dine together every other week, meet for tea every week and workout almost everyday together. The neighbor on the other side is a single 30 year olf financial consultant. She''s smart, intelligent and so nice. Same goes with pretty much everyone on our floor. I love this place so much that we''ve decided to stay here and delay moving into a house until we''re ready to have kids. It''s really bizarre to have such a community feel in the middle of downtown!

 

[Linda W]

Date: 8/5/2009 9:43:21 AM
Author: Ellen
I am sandwiched between two ''eggheads''. Both professors at universities. They are very nice people, just, not the type you hang over the fence and chat with, or have a drink with. I miss my old neighborhood, where everyone was about our age, not overly intelligent, lol, and easy to talk to.....

Well I certainly wish you lived next door to us. We have the two Linus the pig pens there.

 

[kama_s]

Date: 8/4/2009 11:52:10 AM
Author: Italiahaircolor
I''m pretty lucky...as it turns out.

I had a falling out with my neighbor over landscaping this Spring, but we''ve patched it up and are all good again. She''s extremely nice, a single mom and a teacher. You can tell her divorce left her hurting, so we often buy her or give her things we have that she needs -- like I found out on Saturday that she didn''t have home phones...so I rushed out and bought her a set. I watch her daughter occasionally in the evening if she has a track meet...and in return she watches my dogs or waters my plants.

I would be incredibly offended if a neighbor (or anyone, for that matter) thinks of me as a charity case.

 

[Ellen]

Date: 8/5/2009 12:09:02 PM
Author: Linda W

Date: 8/5/2009 9:43:21 AM
Author: Ellen
I am sandwiched between two ''eggheads''. Both professors at universities. They are very nice people, just, not the type you hang over the fence and chat with, or have a drink with. I miss my old neighborhood, where everyone was about our age, not overly intelligent, lol, and easy to talk to.....

Well I certainly wish you lived next door to us. We have the two Linus the pig pens there.

Me too!

Because you have a pool too.

Actually, the one neighbor does too. A beautiful, heated inground, that she keeps at 93, in the summer.

 

[Linda W]

Date: 8/5/2009 12:19:09 PM
Author: Ellen

Date: 8/5/2009 12:09:02 PM

Author: Linda W

Date: 8/5/2009 9:43:21 AM

Author: Ellen

I am sandwiched between two ''eggheads''. Both professors at universities. They are very nice people, just, not the type you hang over the fence and chat with, or have a drink with. I miss my old neighborhood, where everyone was about our age, not overly intelligent, lol, and easy to talk to.....

Well I certainly wish you lived next door to us. We have the two Linus the pig pens there.

Me too!

Because you have a pool too.

Actually, the one neighbor does too. A beautiful, heated inground, that she keeps at 93, in the summer.

Does she invite you over for a swim???? We would take part of the fence off and put a gate there, so you could open it and go swimming anytime. Does that tempt you??? tee hee. ha ha ha

 

[LaurenThePartier]

Date: 8/4/2009 8:17:00 PM
Author: sparklyheart
It is interesting to see how well people do or do not know their neighbors! You can put me in the group that doesn''t know her neighbors well!

When I bought my house, I spent about 4 months redoing stuff and fixing it up before I moved in. I got to know the neighbor to the left right away and he seemed pretty nice. He''s a single 30-ish year old, long hair, long beard, kinda creepy looking, actually.. Anyways he was really friendly but the day I moved in he came out when the movers got there at 11 and was already drunk. He kept going back to his house and coming back to mine and each time he was drunker. It got really creepy because a couple times I would go to leave and he was just standing on my front porch!!! I just ignored him and walked past him. I think he got the hint because I haven''t seen him since.. and it was about 1 1/2 years ago!!

The lady on the right is a super nice old lady who lives by herself. She keeps an eye on the street and calls the city and police about anything that needs to be taken care of (ok, the street is kind of shady!).. She has a cab that picks her up every once in awhile.. She also has family/friends visit frequently but usually just on the weekends. She has a nice new car but I''m pretty sure she doesn''t drive it..

The family across the street is super nice. I really haven''t gotten past the general greetings and comments about each others yards (nice ones, not rude!). The wife works part time and spends a lot of time in the yard so we used to be out there a lot together when I had time for yardwork. They have a daughter who looks to be in high school.. She usually sits on the front porch while the parents do yard work!

That was actually the point of this thread. Some of us have nightmare neighbours, and some of us lucked out. I never talked to my neighbours when I bought my first house, and I went almost 2.5 years without knowing much more about them then they happened to all be named "Wilson" and were somehow related.

When we were building the house we live in now, the young couple across the street would literally run out of their house when they saw we were there to check on construction. I met them right before we made the final decision on which lot to build upon, and decided that we really clicked with them, and wanted to be closer to them than the nutsos who never park in their huge driveway/garage behind their house.

 

[Aloros]

I love my neighbors. To the left is a couple with two young kids. They invite our kid over sometimes to swim in their pool. They have a dog that is the same size as our dog, and with a similar temperament, so they play together sometimes. I call their dog our pup''s ''boyfriend''.

To the right is a couple with three children, eldest 13. Very well-behaved and sweet kids. They run a daycare out of their home. We give ''em veggies and eggs when we can. I''ve gotten veggies and wine from them. Great neighbors.

Behind us is a young couple that moved in recently. We''ve spoken to the wife over the fence. They seem nice. We like them better than the people that lived there prior - they kept the yard sort of messy.

Diagonal right is a house for sale.

Diagonal left is the sister and brother-in-law of our neighbors to the right. Nice people - we bought some things off of them at their garage sale and chatted with them about veggies.

A couple doors down from us is a retired couple. He was an engineer and does a lot of house projects. LOVES willow trees.

A few doors down is another couple our age. We play board games sometimes, or just drop by to chat.

Across from us we have no one - just a big green park. Really cozy, beautiful neighborhood. The people here are welcoming and friendly, the cops ticket kids for not wearing bicycle helmets, and it is blissfully quiet. We hope to stick around for a while.

 

[monarch64]

Date: 8/5/2009 12:10:39 PM
Author: kama_s

Date: 8/4/2009 11:52:10 AM
Author: Italiahaircolor
I''m pretty lucky...as it turns out.

I had a falling out with my neighbor over landscaping this Spring, but we''ve patched it up and are all good again. She''s extremely nice, a single mom and a teacher. You can tell her divorce left her hurting, so we often buy her or give her things we have that she needs -- like I found out on Saturday that she didn''t have home phones...so I rushed out and bought her a set. I watch her daughter occasionally in the evening if she has a track meet...and in return she watches my dogs or waters my plants.

I would be incredibly offended if a neighbor (or anyone, for that matter) thinks of me as a charity case.

Yeah....I would be kind of offended as well. Wasn''t this the neighbor who copied everything and asked for your blueprints, too? How the heck did she pay for all of that if she can''t afford to buy a phone?

 

[Ellen]

Date: 8/5/2009 12:22:18 PM
Author: Linda W

Date: 8/5/2009 12:19:09 PM
Author: Ellen

Me too!

Because you have a pool too.

Actually, the one neighbor does too. A beautiful, heated inground, that she keeps at 93, in the summer.

Does she invite you over for a swim???? We would take part of the fence off and put a gate there, so you could open it and go swimming anytime. Does that tempt you??? tee hee. ha ha ha

Aw, how kind of you!

It IS tempting.....

She did have me over once years back, but after diving into literal bathwater when it's 90+ and high humidity, it just wasn't, refreshing. lol So I didn't really go over swimming after that.

 

[princessplease]

I live in an apartment. Our neighbors to the right are awesome. They have two kitties and the most adorable Shiba Inu pup!!! They''re really cool. The neighbors to the left, we never see them.

Our upstairs neighbors, wow, they''re bizarre. They''re in their 50''s, and the wife is a mail order bride from Trinidad. They will stay up till all odd hours of the night, laughing continuously and loudly for 20 minutes at a time. They sometimes have people over, and will laugh uncontrollably with their company as well. They also have had audible relations in an extremely X rated manner many, many times. There''s nothing like being woken up at 3am by, ahem, ''noises''. Sometimes, I''ve wondered if they''re swingers. It''s very disturbing.

 

[crystalheart1]

Date: 8/4/2009 11:52:10 AM
Author: Italiahaircolor
I''m pretty lucky...as it turns out.


I had a falling out with my neighbor over landscaping this Spring, but we''ve patched it up and are all good again. She''s extremely nice, a single mom and a teacher. You can tell her divorce left her hurting, so we often buy her or give her things we have that she needs -- like I found out on Saturday that she didn''t have home phones...so I rushed out and bought her a set. I watch her daughter occasionally in the evening if she has a track meet...and in return she watches my dogs or waters my plants.


Our other neighbor is high up at Toyota and is hysterical. He''s super nice...always offers to help Mark with ''garage stuff''. Very friendly and his girlfriend is a peach.


The neighbor directly next to me is a doctor. Helpful, I know. He''s always very sweet (although he flooded our basement twice, grrr) and actually spends his Sunday mornings roasting coffee for all of us in the court.


The lady directly behind us is a Persian cat breeder. She''s really funny. She is always offering us kittens! I''m always accepting! Mark is always dragging me away!


A few doors down there is an older man with his wife. She is sick and I go over every week and style/cut or perm her hair for her. Behind them lives another older woman. I just found out that their children married a while ago, but sadly the son of the older couple died of a heart attack.


We consider ourselves lucky. We really do. We have big fire pits where we roast marshmellows and hot dogs, and just chat. We know that our court is ''safe'' and people are watching out for each other.

Your Neighbors sound so nice now... I remember you posting about your neighbor a few months back that flooded your basement several times. You said he was on disability but driving around on a Motorcycle with his girlfriend... and you were taking him to small claims court.
Now he is a Doctor??

 

[y2kitty]

I live in an apartment. I have 3 neighbors in my area and I only know 1, who is the building on site maintenance man. He''s really cool and I feel secure because he is around all day, watching things and making sure nobody tries to break into my place! I don''t know the other 2 really. One is a younger woman who I think might be a student and the other man must be in his late 20s he works all day and then goes somewhere at night with a backpack (more school? more work?). I try to keep a low profile, so this is the ideal situation for me.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Date: 8/4/2009 4:42:50 PM
Author: ZoeBartlett
I have a question. I think it''s a nice gesture to introduce yourself to your immediate neighbors when you first move to a new place, but my husband thinks that it should be the neighbor who knocks on the door and introduces him/herself to the new couple/family. What''s your take?

We live in a cul-de-sac with seven other families and after we moved in, four of those neighbors introduced themselves and the others did not, but rather avoided eye contact. In every interaction, the neighbor came to say hi while I was out doing yard work. Nobody came to our door except one I had already met. She came by at 9:30 when I was dressed in a skimpy lacy camisole and she saw me through the window. Talk about awkward.

I prefer not to become friends with immediate neighbors. . .I just wave and keep it at that. Outside of our cul-de-sac I know a bunch of families because all our kids go to the same school. We interact with all of them as friends, but they all are a walk down the road, not two houses down.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

Date: 8/4/2009 8:29:37 PM
Author: Tuckins1
Neighbors to the west- Nice people, but have a dog who NEVER stops barking!! We have lived here for years, and she will bark and bark at us whenever we go outside, for as long as we are outside. Sometimes HOURS.

We have a dog issue too. Next door they adopted a dog and not only does the d*mn thing bark, I think it's somehow getting into our yard and using it as a bathroom! I was checking the fence and a few boards between our yards are loose. I need to booby trap them! lol I love animals, but the pooping thing is out-of-line. If I catch the little gremlin in my yard, I'm going to dye it another color!

Oh, my only bad neighbor issue so far was yesterday I was checking the mail (our mail boxes are a block down the road) and a woman, who's house is around the corner about six houses away, said, "good afternoon," and all that. Then she began quoting the bible (Mathew something-or-other). Immediately, I cut her off and said, "have a nice day," but she wouldn't stop talking. Rather than put up with that while my kids were sitting in the car, I actually turned my back and walked away during her mid-sentence! Yikes. Thank goodness she isn't a mom from the school.

 

[musey]

I live in a small-ish apartment building (under 30 units, two levels) in a neighborhood that's mixed single-family-homes and apartment buildings (mostly apartments on our street).

Our live-in building manager is pretty great, she has a little pomeranian that's obsessed with our little dog (he's half pom - and the love is mutual) so it's always fun to run into them out on walks. She's an "actress" (I use the term loosely, because although she defines herself as such, she hasn't acted in years).

Unfortunately ours is a lower-level unit. The couple above us is nice enough, but we hear the strangest noises coming from there. Stuff dropped on the floor that rolls for way longer than it should (there isn't that much distance for it to cover in these little apts!), the guy meditates - LOUDLY - many times per day. They have a small dog that has some behavior problems around other dogs, so we meet up for "therapy sessions" with them, another tenant + her super-friendly dog, and work on some of their issues as a group. It's been really good as our dog has been having some fear-based aggression issues lately after a traumatic experience at the dog park

There's a grey cat named "Blu" who hangs out in the courtyard and soaks up any attention she can get from passers-by. She belongs to a couple (a model and I think a nightclub manager, I'm not sure of the latter) that got married just one month before us, and they also have two very overweight pomeranians... so Blu tolerates our dog, to his utter delight.

We share a hallway with a nice piano teacher (we hear lessons sometimes through the wall, which I actually enjoy) who has a cat. She's super-sweet and loves our dog. Most of the other tenants keep to themselves... I only "know" the ones with dogs, or the ones who especially like our dog because they'll stop to say hello to him.


When you have a dog, most often it takes over your neighborhood social life... people start to become defined by their pets and how they interact with your pet!

 

[Tuckins1]

Date: 8/7/2009 5:42:14 PM
Author: MC

Date: 8/4/2009 8:29:37 PM

Author: Tuckins1

Neighbors to the west- Nice people, but have a dog who NEVER stops barking!! We have lived here for years, and she will bark and bark at us whenever we go outside, for as long as we are outside. Sometimes HOURS.

We have a dog issue too. Next door they adopted a dog and not only does the d*mn thing bark, I think it''s somehow getting into our yard and using it as a bathroom! I was checking the fence and a few boards between our yards are loose. I need to booby trap them! lol I love animals, but the pooping thing is out-of-line. If I catch the little gremlin in my yard, I''m going to dye it another color!


Oh, my only bad neighbor issue so far was yesterday I was checking the mail (our mail boxes are a block down the road) and a woman, who''s house is around the corner about six houses away, said, ''good afternoon,'' and all that. Then she began quoting the bible (Mathew something-or-other). Immediately, I cut her off and said, ''have a nice day,'' but she wouldn''t stop talking. Rather than put up with that while my kids were sitting in the car, I actually turned my back and walked away during her mid-sentence! Yikes. Thank goodness she isn''t a mom from the school.

I love animals too... But this dog makes it REALLY hard to not hurl things over the fence at her! I know it''s the owner''s fault, but STILL!

 

[Diamond*Dana]

We have great neighbors for the most part. There is a family that lives 2 doors down that we have become very good friend with, one of my best friends!

The people right next door are a bit annoying. They have kids that are in their early 20''s and they are constantly having parties. I don''t mind that so much, but they are loud and like to shoot off fireworks at all hours of the night.

We have not had any problems until this week when the woman who lives behind us sent me a note in the mail. She has always been nice to us, nice to our kids...takes our oldest son out with her and her grandsons...but apparently my 6 year old asked her if she is in her "mid 70''s" and that was "mean-spirited" and "very rude" and according to her, "very bad parenting". Sigh....kids say the darndest things,ya know? Now I am a bad parent based on something that my 6 year old asked. He probably asked her because my dad just turned 70 and we had a party for him.

 

[crystalheart1]

I have nice people who live around me...but it is mostly a wave and a smile.

The couple to the right of us knocked on our door when we moved in 20 years ago and introduced them selves.

The women who moved in to the left of us a few years ago was weird when I said Hi Welcome to the neighborhood.
She looked at me like a deer in headlights and has not been too friendly. She is divorced with two young girls.
They did a lot of renovations when they moved in.. they even had a back hoe and tractor digging up the back yard at 8:30 on a Saturday morning.Plus a lot of banging and hammering late at night. Never apologized for the noise.. when another neighbor asked if I met her I said that they were waking me up Saturday mornings with all the noise.. I think it got back to her because she gives me the cold shoulder now.

 

[Skippy123]

I actually feel lucky to live in my neighborhood. Everyone is like family and looks out for each other. I just went to a party last night at one of the neighbors homes and we do the same. We also have block party's and every year a 4th of July Parade; definitely a sense of community here.

If I go away they will get my mail or I will pick up someones mail or paper and we go introduce ourselves when a new neighbor moves in.