Likes and don'ts about your neighbor/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SFH. Suburban development of late 1960s homes - same house for 20 years. Complete turnover now 2 cycles. When we bought, multiple original owners still remained. I think there are now 2.

Relevant because we went from moving in at the wave of similar aged young families and a full school bus with ES kids. Yes, we all knew each other through school and sports. Now the families like us who remain are empty nesters.

One renter lives next door. We text ICE (can you grab a package? It’s raining! Or, can you bring our trash cans in?) Other neighbor more of same but we trade house keys and relevant info (tree workers might be working in early a.m./we are gone for the weekend FYI).

No socializing. Maybe annual block party but admittedly don’t enjoy w/o kids.

Problems are: dogs (one neighbor’s dog is always bolting out the door and literally chasing cars, trotting around everyone’s yards) and just as bad or worse, dogs on extended leashes who get walked over, across and around everyone’s -ESPECIALLY OURS yards. I mean so close that I routinely would scoop poop from a few steps from my porch!( We have never had a dog.)

I’ve PP in related threads but this I don’t understand: why, all of a sudden, it seems that
dog owners allow their leashed dogs to urinate and defecate all over other people’s lawns. All ages owners/dog breeds/not just in my neighborhood. We have a newer camera and several neighbors have caught and shamed scofflaws. I got a very nice keep off the grass sign that seems to help. Infuriating and outrageous - so disrespectful, gross and entitled. We also have a nice pocket park that sits unused (never seen a dog get walked there) and within sight of our house. Why then do the neighbors go down private driveways and let their dogs poop all over the place?

Yep this is a problem I hear from friends in DC, MD, NoVa and other cities and suburbs around country. It's gotten worse with more dogs after pandemic. Didn't notice as many walking around in suburbs before. But the dogs are in almost every public AND indoor private spaces these days so it extends beyond the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

^ for which there is a thread in the Pets forum

[Anonymous]

Depending on what is cooking, the smells especially in apartment/condos.

[Anonymous]

We like both of our neighbors. We wish they chatted more or at all. 5 minutes per quarter of the year, is all, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ for which there is a thread in the Pets forum

PP w/o pets and never read threads there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We like both of our neighbors. We wish they chatted more or at all. 5 minutes per quarter of the year, is all, lol.

Sorry, I mean, they don’t even do that. We used to when we first moved in. Got to know their names.

But we don’t chat hardly ever anymore. Not really overlapping kids ages. So though we meet people in the neighborhood, and become friends, we aren’t friends with them.

[Anonymous]

Like: everyone is friendly
Dislike: I have numerous neighbors that keep their trash cans in front of their house and you can see them from the street

[Anonymous]

Mr Rogers did not adequately prepare me for the people in my neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mr Rogers did not adequately prepare me for the people in my neighborhood

Nothing could

[Anonymous]

Live in a Brooklyn NY apartment with 5 other apartments. All neighbors are quiet and respectful. Biggest complaint is if there is paper or something on the floor in the hallway or out front nobody will pick it up.

I don't get it they live here don't they want it to be clean.

[Anonymous]

I have a bunch of great neighbors, and a few who aren't all that great, but overall, the neighborhood is fairly quiet.

The good neighbors look out for each other ("Hey, you left your lights on." "This got misdelivered to mine." "I'm having a party this weekend. Feel free to join or not, as you please." "I'm heading out of town, could you grab my mail?" "I made way too many cookies. Want some?"). The few who aren't so great mostly just get in the way (leave stuff in common areas/clutter up the space, obnoxious about pets/boundaries, lots of booze bottles piling up before trash day...).

It could certainly be worse.

[Anonymous]

Are some cultures more picky about their lawns than others?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you like about them?
Do you know them? Friends with them?
Any pet peeves, annoyances and have you communicated with them about whatever it is that you don't like?
Do you live in an apartment, condo, townhouse, trailer, duplex, single family home, extended stay inn, group home etc.?

Live in an apartment. Never communicate with any of them. Don't know them, couldn't pick any out of a lineup. I dislike the guy who sprays half a bottle of cologne because the scent seeps into my apartment, and dislike my next door neighbors because one time when I was very very sick and coughing through the night they banged on the wall, fake-coughed and then laughed. Of course I didn't want to be coughing and had taken medicine! But their aggression made me scared.

Snowflake

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My neighbors in an apartment are inhumane. The weed stench is unbearable they all refuse to open a window. They steal my packages, have loud parties and loud music. They leave trash in the hallways and leave their junk mail on the floor, they double park me in and go out of their way to be jerks like practicing musical instruments in their apartment which is against the lease. Living in the city of Alexandria is not for the faint at heart. Now we all know why its thel least expensive (and least classy area) of NOVA. Horrible lesson learned.

[Anonymous]

Neighbors allow their dogs to pee and poop in our yard. Sometimes they pick it up and other times not. Then it attracts other dogs to poop there, too. Another neighbor’s cat is always hanging out in our front and back and under our car. It, too, pees on our bushes and killed one.