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Anonymous
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Yes, I'm in Ashburn and I sit out on the porch each night watching my kids run crazy with the neighborhood kids. Of the 5 houses on our court 5 are young families.
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Anonymous
| We have wonderful neighbhors, not that we're all best friends, but that we all mind our own business, yet spend the 4th of July together. We live in the Fort Hunt area, Wellington. |
Anonymous
| Live in a small subdivision in the Tysons side of Vienna. Very nice neighbors. |
Anonymous
How do you know? And, even if true, it is none of your business unless you have asked to pay their dues and back taxes. Sounds to me as though you are envious of their Lexus or Mercedes. Or, even, perhaps because they mind their own business and keep their nose of of the private lives of others. You might want to minding just your business, as well, |
Anonymous
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If nobody is paying their HOAs and therefore the pool isn't getting cleaned, or doesn't have lifeguards, and the sidewalks aren't being repaired ... guess what?! That IS her business.
If 75% of your neighbors are in foreclosure, that is abso-effing-loutely your financial business because it directly impacts your largest asset. Idiot. |
Anonymous
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I generally love the neighborhood and my neighbors in town. However, my immediate neighbors are a nightmare: dogs barking all hours of day and night, noise late at night and early in the morning, cats shitting in my garden, cigarette and weed smoking outside. Not just one house, the dogs are 4 different houses behind us, the cat owners are two down the block (related to each other, actually; every other person on the block manages to be able to respect the cat laws except this entitled family), and the noise and smoke are the next door neighbors.
So, if I could take about five families and drop them in a lake, I would definitely say yes to this neighborhood! |
Anonymous
Not the PP, but when I was house hunting I routinely read HOA board minutes and ruled out a community based on high delinquency rates for HOA dues. And yes, many of the HOA minutes I read through listed addresses of those who were delinquent, addresses of those who violated HOA rules, and addresses of those in foreclosure. And I would argue that it is the PPs business. The HOA is counting on the money, and when they have to pursue homeowners who are behind it costs the whole community money. Foreclosures in the neighborhood aren't good for the neighbors. Any chance you're behind on your HOA dues? Because you sure seemed to react harshly to PPs post. |
Anonymous
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We just moved to a wonderful community in Reston. Previously, we were in a nice neighborhood in Fairfax. But one of the main reasons we chose to move was our next-door neighbors. No supervision of their kids, no maintenance of their home and lawn, etc. I knew it was time when they started parking their extra car in the yard. That was last straw and when I reported to HOA, I found out about the ongoing problems they were having with these neighbors as well.
Since we've moved, it's been heaven. I wonder why we tolerated it for so long. |
Anonymous
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Current neighbors are fine. Friendly, not intrusive.
Best neighbors we ever had were the 4 years we lived in Georgetown. We still are in touch...they raged in age from older than my parents (90's) down to our age. We had never been invited into so many ppls homes before. It was very tight-knit and exactly the opposite of it's reputation and what I was expecting. When we go back over there we can't go more than 2 feet before getting stopped and tied up in chit-chat with the former neighbors. |
Anonymous
| LOVE my Takoma Park, MD neighbors. They will probably keep us in this house. |
Anonymous
| We're in Merrifield, VA. (close-in Fairfax.) I don't particularly like the renters on one side of my townhouse (constant turnover, and they're loud at late hours), but I like my other neighbors. My neighborhood is pretty friendly, overall - it's very diverse, and people are always out walking so I've met just about everyone in the 'hood who has young kids and/or dogs. I don't really have friends in the neighborhood (which is why I want to move back to Arlington) but I do feel like we're surrounded by nice people. |
Anonymous
| We live near downtown Silver Spring and love our neighbors. My only complaint is that on our block, very few people have children at all, and of those who do, very few are anywhere near our kids' ages (12 and 10). It makes for a too-quiet neighborhood. |
Anonymous
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"the cat owners are two down the block (related to each other, actually; every other person on the block manages to be able to respect the cat laws except this entitled family)"
What are the cat laws? |
Anonymous
| Chevy Chase, DC. We have awesome neighbors. Some of them have become our closest friends. We had originally planned to buy a bigger house in a better school district, but we're so happy where we are that we're going to add on to our house and go the private school route. |
Anonymous
| Can't stand my neighbors and will end up moving b/c of them. To the left you've got the hoarders - mounds of junk (and I know it's junk b/c I see them walking up the sidewalk with it or unloading it from their cars) covered in tarps all over the place, random tires, old electronics, etc. scattered about plus rusted vehicles in the driveway and backyard. To the right the angry lady who tisk tisks the kids bikes in my backyard but doesn't freak about her own crumbling property. |