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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I'm in my 50's and my kids are about raised. I never had a neighbor try to tell me how to tend to my yard or raise my kids. And no way do I have any interest in telling younger women how to raise their kids or keep their homes. Not my monkeys, not my circus.

The only time I would notice is if your yard had become an eyesore or your kids were doing something that affected me/my family/my property in a negative way."

DP here.  Now that you mention it, I have definitely seen women of a certain age try to tell younger neighbors how to do things.  I guess the neighbors they were talking to might have looked young for their age, but they were not stupid, so I could see how that would rub someone the wrong way.  They already have parents!

The best/most entertaining happening was when the neighborhood kids (not my neighborhood, a nearby one) were playing what used to be known as "ding dong ditch".  The older women neighbors were positively furious!  I do think some people try to exacerbate a situation - they just like drama.  Not too many younger women have time for that busy body crap.[/quote]The older neighbor critic thing only happened to me once when I lived in Fredericksburg.  A neighbor so sweetly told me that garden tour week was coming up and people generally tried to fix up their houses for that - as she looked at the peeling paint on my house!  It took me awhile to realize that she was complaining about the condition of my house.  She was a nice older daughter of Old Virginia![/quote]

Ha.  I can see a nice older daughter of Old Virginia saying saying something in a tactful way like that.  Conveying a concern with grace, tact and manners instead of gossipy intrusiveness (public shaming) is becoming a lost art.

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+1. And also, you don't need to have a "concern" about someone else's house unless there is something truly dangerous, like structural damage, that they might not be aware of. Peeling paint is not your "concern," do you get it?

You Southern women all think that we don't know you're being bitchy.  Being bitchy with a smile on your face is still being bitchy.  Nice daughters of Old Virginia are particularly good at being racist with a smile on their faces and classist, and thinking that we don't know that you're being racist and classist.  Bless all your little hearts!!![/quote][/quote]

I'll bet that neighbor was trying to spare the pp the embarrassment of having her run down house picked apart by the sight seers.  What she said sounded more like a heads up than anything else.  It's not like she got on the horn to the HOA demanding that they send her a warning letter. [/quote]

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