Anonymous wrote:OMG1 Our neighbors are so rude when they have people over. The PP's parking and spotlights reminded me. Boy, won't. they be p*ssed when my spotlights shine into their bedrooms As for the parking, they have to park on the lawn and no the street? Really? How in your face rude. I can be too. Well, I won't be in your face, they probably won't' even know what hit them, which will be the fun part!

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OMG1 Our neighbors are so rude when they have people over. The PP's parking and spotlights reminded me. Boy, won't. they be p*ssed when my spotlights shine into their bedrooms As for the parking, they have to park on the lawn and no the street? Really? How in your face rude. I can be too. Well, I won't be in your face, they probably won't' even know what hit them, which will be the fun part!

The usual b.s.: loud music all night, drunk people piling into and out of the house at all hours, fights in the yard in the middle of the night, cats shitting in my garden, dogs left alone on a screen porch howling and barking in the middle of the night, motion detector spotlights mounted high on the house so they flood our yard and blast in our windows, elderly people telling our friends not to park on the street in front of their house when they come over for dinner, not shoveling their sidewalks thereby creating sheets of ice, putting their dog's scooped poop in our trashcan at the alley on trash day after the truck has already been through, causing limbs to fall off our trees by badly pruning branches that overhang their yard despite my repeated requests to just ask me to trim them so the tree isn't damaged, leaving their dogs in the yard to bark at 4am and also at 11pm on a regular basis, and I'm sure other things I'm forgetting. These aren't all the same neighbors (although a fair number are the house next door which our local cops tell us is one of two problem houses in town), and we've lived here for nearly a decade so they aren't all at once, either.

But yes, coming from a place where people keep their pets in their own yards, bring them in when they bark, scoop their poop, and ALSO gladly shovel their own walks and their neighbors' who haven't gotten outside yet because snow is fun: I really can't fathom some of these sadly common behaviors.

We've been pretty lucky that we have had decent neighbors and growing up my parents never said a bad thing about our many neigbors, hmmmmmmmm?

Why are people here so f*cked up about snow? Just shovel your own property. If there is a sidewalk, shovel in front of your house. In most other areas that have snow (we do, but deny it every single year), there are actual sidewalk trucks that come through and shovel neatly and cleanly. People are civil and reasonable, and snow shoveling actually brings them closer together, if you can believe it. People do for each other. They are not lazy, they do not leave their snow.

But then again, you are required to have a sidewalk within a one mile radius of a school.

We have neither here.

I got the city to get rid of the rude neighbors a few years ago. To be fair, they weren't the typical crazies. They were just a dozen or so young immigrant men who were likely recent arrivals, likely each paying a few hundred bucks a month for a shared room, and didn't know how to behave in this country. They blasted music, cooked on hotplates, threw trash around, catcalled the young women of the neighborhood, etc etc. I don't think there was any real ill will going on. Just cluelessness. But the house was a complete menace, given that it's a rowhouse and we shared a wall. The bugs and smells were bad enough, but I was really afraid of fire.

The city inspected, fined the slumlord owner for each and every violation, and eventually forced him to sell. The house went to a flipper who fixed it up in the most boring way possible, and sold it to some truly boring people. Boring is good.

Now, I'm in a great situation. I have many lovely friendly neighbors, and all the rest are quiet and courteous and mind their own business. It's pretty much as good as it gets, in terms of city living.

We have the most inconsiderate neighbors ever on one side. They put in a patio and the workers did all the setup on our side lawn, literally just outside our windows. The workers were out at totally weird hours, including 8am on Xmas morning. The neighbors on the other side called to complain, evidently it was all unpermitted. The same family promised to put in a fence because they have multiple pets but never did - as a result their dog and cat are constantly in a backyard and leave their poop everywhere. Another cat was killed in front of our busy street; my husband had to go tell them and they just closed the door in his face - other neighbors ended up moving the carcass out of the street. The last straw was last year during the big snowstorm, a large tree on our property had a lot of damage. The branches were mostly all on our lawn and roof, but I caught the neighbors moving all the branches from their lawn to our doorstep so we would have to deal with the cleanup. On some level it didn't matter, I know - either way, we had to pay a tree company to come in and clear it all out. But the fact that they would dump their mess on our doorstep, when we were sitting in a freezing house with a damaged roof and two small kids, made me really want to go out and throttle them. The plus side is that our neighbors on the other side are the nicest people ever!

This was a long, long time ago but when I lived in a rural town our neighbor shot and killed our beloved 12 year old family dog because she crossed over his property line. This was a frail, elderly dog that was not dangerous in the least. Mind you this guy had also spent a good amount of time in jail.

We used to have druggies next door. Their water got cut off and they poured buckets of human waste between our houses. They were finally evicted.

Anonymous wrote:my former (renter) neighbors were idiots. they were fresh out of college and clearly had no idea how to live like adults. they would hammer nails into the shared wall behind my bed at 2:00 in the morning on a tuesday. They would play their stereo really loud until 3:00 a.m. and then pretend not to be home when I'd walk outside and bang on their door to tell them to shut the hell up. They once left a bunch of beer bottles lined up on the line between our parking spaces - I had 4 brand new tires and almost drove right over the bottles because a couple of them rolled into my space. They never shoveled their walk EVER. I've never been so happy as when I sold my house and moved.

Have some like that now. Some girl and guy kept yelling, "Happy New Year", and laughing hysterically outside for a good half hour at about 4am.

my former (renter) neighbors were idiots. they were fresh out of college and clearly had no idea how to live like adults. they would hammer nails into the shared wall behind my bed at 2:00 in the morning on a tuesday. They would play their stereo really loud until 3:00 a.m. and then pretend not to be home when I'd walk outside and bang on their door to tell them to shut the hell up. They once left a bunch of beer bottles lined up on the line between our parking spaces - I had 4 brand new tires and almost drove right over the bottles because a couple of them rolled into my space. They never shoveled their walk EVER. I've never been so happy as when I sold my house and moved.

The snow shoveling stories remind me about the bat shit crazy lady who lived across the street from us at our old townhouse. After snowmageddon everyone was out shoveling sidewalks. Her neighbor had done his whole walk and was starting on some of the common area sidewalks. Crazy lady didn't feel like doing her own long walk. So she proceeded to shovel a small path from her front step, across neighbors flower garden and connect to his path. Cut her shoveling in half. Needless to say her neighbors were pissed about the damage she did to the flower beds and lots of shouting ensued. I'm sure the cops were happy to have to show up nd deal with that mess. Thoroughly entertained me while I was waiting for dH to dig us out.

My upstairs neighbor is doing P90X =/

dude, so happy I live on 1+ acres. No issues ever.

Anonymous wrote:My "helpful" and "nice" old neighbor french kiss me! I am still mad thinking about it. Should I tell his wife?

whaaaat? How did he manage to do this...twist your arm lol? or did he seriously attack you? in which case I think I would press charges!