What are your red flags for neighbors?

[Anonymous]

For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Then you'd love us because we moved in two years ago and have the opposite of a manicured lawn and my DH focuses 99% on planting and tending to trees and eradicating bamboo and mows the yard very occasionally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then you'd love us because we moved in two years ago and have the opposite of a manicured lawn and my DH focuses 99% on planting and tending to trees and eradicating bamboo and mows the yard very occasionally.

That's awesome.

I want a neighbor who puts in work on their property, but not based on weird self-invented standards of artificial appearance.

[Anonymous]

Every one of my neighbors gets their lawns sprayed. Our lawn that my husband dethatches and aerates and tends to like it’s his baby, our yard looks better. With that said, you’d be wrong and my neighbors are all wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

[Anonymous]

EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's an overly manicured front lawn.

There's a difference between having a nice looking house and being psychotic about a lawn and spraying it with chemicals. Anytime you see two houses where there is a huge difference in lawn color, going in a straight line along the property line, you know the one with the unnatural green side is unhinged.

+1

I’ve had the misfortune of having two yard-proud neighbors in my lifetime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Oh Jesus, you people need to give it a rest. You don't own the street, people can park anywhere they want.

[Anonymous]

Parking on the lawn

[Anonymous]

I cannot stand people who put large political signs all over their property. It looks trashy. It’s not common where I am from in the Northeast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:EVs, healthy snacks at Halloween, white lights for the winter holidays, don’t shovel their sidewalks.

what problematic thing does all that signify?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every one of my neighbors gets their lawns sprayed. Our lawn that my husband dethatches and aerates and tends to like it’s his baby, our yard looks better. With that said, you’d be wrong and my neighbors are all wonderful.

Not if they spray their lawns. They can keep their cancer and bee deaths to themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Neighbors who have parking in front of their home, AND a driveway - but park on the street across/down from their own home, in front of someone else’s house - because their 20 yr old Toyota Highlander has an oil leak. So they park there so the oil puddles don’t stain their own driveway or street parking.


We live on larger street in a Kensington neighborhood, west of Connecticut Ave and south of Knowles Ave.

And I’m pretty sure she reads this forum.

Why do you care if they park in the street? Is that not what the purpose of on-street parking spaces is?

[Anonymous]

Trump flags year round. For years.

[Anonymous]

When they come on too strong. There is an etiquette to meeting new neighbors. The goal should be to go slow, so regardless of whether or not you can be friends, you can still have a positive neighbor relationship. The biggest problems with neighbors happen when people charge in aggressively, whether that aggression is friendly (like they are your new best friends), annoying (constant questions, little favor requests, popping over a lot), or downright hostile.

My approach to new neighbors, whether I'm new or they are, is to be friendly but keep it light and fairly surface for a bit. And that's where it generally stays. Occasionally I'll have a neighbor where we just click and over time, we might choose to socialize a bit and get to know each other better. But you have to let that unfold naturally. Most of the time, neighbors are not destined to be friends and it's best to keep people at arms length but with a positive outlook.