Posted on 11/14/2010 10:49:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Left one off:
Type 6 = The ‘just leave me the hell alone’ (especially if you voted for Obama) and mind your own business’ neighbor. :O
(that would be kind of where I fit) LOL!
The new neighbor and his wife (He moved here in '68 or '69) did manage to come over to check out the flashing lights.
It's a bad, bad idea to jack with this neighborhood. Not healthy at all.
/johnny
I have excellent relations to the neighbor on my west. I know one of my neighbors to the south fairly well. I’ve never been in their house, but we talk to each other regularly. I have never spoken to the other one since they moved in. Of my two neighbors on the north, one put up a wooden slat fence 7 feet high that you can’t see though, but I can hear them when they have parties. Based on the language being spoken, yelled and screamed at these parties, they’re from Eastern Europe. The other northern neighbor’s wife called the cops on me when I built a bonfire in the backyard. But the husband and I split a few shots of whiskey and since then we say hi to each other and I’ll let bygones be bygones (the cop and I just talked for a while and then he had me put it out with the hose). I hadn’t spoken to my neighbor to my east in years, but he’s never home - he’s a doctor who also teaches. Then a tree fell over from my yard onto his house. It wasn’t neglect - it was a live tree that had a bit of a natural lean towards his house, but constant rain had softened the ground and it fell over. There were some tense moments but everyone kept a civil tongue in their head, we kept communications open, got to the point that we each acknowledged that people can speak a little abruptly when this kind of thing happens and eventually worked that and the finances out to our mutual satisfaction.
Type 7: the ones with the barking dogs who start up when you go into your back yard and don’t stop, and cats they let out at night to do their business on your deck and scratch up your cars.
Because of this type, I feel like the other poster.... just leave me alone... and your cat out of my yard and your dog quiet and your obamanation sticker muddied.
Left another one off: the nosy neighbor. Have had more than my share of those. There are just times when privacy and peace and quiet at our own home are all we want.
“It used to be that everyone knew their neighbors. At the very least, you’d meet them after the kid next door accidentally hit a baseball through your living room window, or an apron-clad housewife appeared on your back porch to borrow a cup of sugar. But that’s so 1950s. During these days of two-paycheck parents commuting and cocooning because they’re afraid to let their kids run unsupervised outside, it is becoming increasingly common to buy a house and eight years later realize that you have never met your neighbors.”
Oh, but I know my neighbors all too well. And where I live, kids run unsupervised. I could tell some unbelievable stories.
Number 8: the neighbor whose good for nothing kids keep vandalizing your property and stealing things.
Sounds like you have the same kind of neighborhood we do. Everyone knows everyone and none of us have been here more than two years.
Nobody gets on to our street without being noticed. If someone needs help with their yard, we all make a Saturday of it.
The Home Devaluers
Who they are: They’re friendly enough. They just never seem to mow their lawn more than once or twice a year, and they have a 1978 Buick rusting in their front yard.
How to handle them: Communicate, communicate, communicate,
The 'new guy' moved in in 1968 or 1969. I live next door to the house I was concieved and born in.
Try again.
/johnny
/johnny
And then there are the noisy porch-people.
Those that have a house but refuse to spend any time actually in it, preferring to live every waking minute on their porch, watching TV... scolding their children... having their family arguments... etc.
Only going inside when it’s time to sleep (well, not even then... half the time).
That can be an asset as well....better than paid security.
Guess I lucked out.. great neighbors on both sides of me 200’ to 300’ feet away.
My neighbor behind me plays their music very loud and very often. The bass alone shakes the pictures in my house. Speaking with him and his wife proved fruitless. Calling the cops was even more of a waste of time.
So, I bought a CD player and a CD of HORRIBLE bagpipe music. When they had their next party, I brought my speakers to my backyard and pointed them directly at their party. Then, I played the bagpipe music at full blast and kept repeating the same song, over and over and over...
He came over to complain and I simply said, “You turn off your music, I turn off mine; I hear your music, you hear mine. ANY QUESTIONS?”
When half his company went home in disgust, he complied.
Next, I work on quieting his barking dog.
My neighborhood is about 2/3 owners and 1/3 renters. It’s always the renters that pull that crap. The loud ones have all moved away at the moment, so the neighborhood is finally quiet. The neighbors on either side of me are terrific, though. I lucked out there.
It’s always the shaven-headed twenty somethings with their blaring stereos who’ll give you the finger if you express the slightest dislike of having their thumping bass reverberating through your house.
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