Poll: So I just met my lesbian neighbors...

[gbemery]

I know of my neighbors and I know a few. There is the cranky old man across the street who yells at everything, his wife is nice though. There is the cranky old woman who lives next door who yells at everything, her daughter and grand kids are nice though. There is the child rapist down the street, seriously he's on the sex offender's list for raping like a 6 year old. Then there is my brothers army recruiter down the street who is real nice and his daughter is too . Then the nice old guy who keeps to himself mainly, rides his harley and says hi to me. Well and ofcourse my landlord down the street...nicest landlord I have ever known.

 

[Dango]

I don't know any of my neighbors, I don't even know their names.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

even if lives were on the line I couldn't come up with anything names or otherwise about my neigbors...thats these days anyway....like Dags I used to when I was much younger know many people in my neighborhood.

 

[Von Strimmer]

The only one of my neighbors that I really know is the crazy man next door.

He's been decorated for Christmas since the eighties.[footnote]I don't mean just a string of lights, either. There's a fully decorated (non plastic) tree in there.[/footnote]

He kneels for hours in his garden 'talking' to the plants.

According to an acquaintance of mine from high school who worked at a convenience store, he'd go into the store every day at the same time, buy cigarettes, coca cola and scratch off lottery tickets, lose on the tickets, and then proceed to go on an hour long rant on how it's the fault of the Democrats.

He thinks the weather patterns are a conspiracy against him.

Is your neighbor Prince Charles?

I know my immediate neighbors (since one of them got me a job) but everyone else I'll nod and say hi but thats about it.

Also I think you should provide intel on the lesbians...

 

[AusGamer44]

This thread depresses me.It shows everything wrong with modern society.Like the rest of you,when I was a kid,all the kids in the street played together,and our parents socialized.And when I lived alone,I always made friends with at least a few neighbours to avoid being too isolated.
My sister came to live with me when her marriage ended,and bought her little girl,who's now 5.My niece was having some separation & anxiety problems after the breakup,and began crying all through daycare,so my sister was forced to take her out.Now the little girl is much doing better,and is much more her little friendly self again.She's waiting to start Prep(Australian pre-school year before Grade One) in a few months.We live in an estate of town houses,and there are kids here,but the parents seem to keep the kids away from the others here.We've met new neighbours with kids and plans have been made for play dates or morning tea,and then they make excuses and nothing happens.My niece and another little girl here became great friends,but once the (fat,plain)mother met my very good looking,slim,single sister,it was obvious that she felt threatened by her and that was the last we ever saw of them.My niece was heartbroken.Sure,she has her friends at church & her art group & other activities,but as a single child it gets lonely for her at home sometimes.It seems if kids want friends to pay with,they have to go to organized activities to get them.Ridiculous when there are kids next door.People are so suspicious of each other,or they decide their friend roster is full,and don't bother reaching out to other people.Yet they'll join online dating agencies and have a 1000 'friends' on Myspace.Weird.

 

[Yokai]

In my old neighborhood, we lived on a quiet drive with four or five houses along it. Everyone knew everyone, and most of my childhood friends lived within a block. In the neighborhood I've lived in for the last six years, all we know is that the guy to the north is fifty-something and lives with his mother, the people behind us support Sarah Palin for president, and the house to the south is a rental that people never stay in for more than a couple months. Oh, and I think there's a meth lab down the street.

I want my old neighborhood back.

 

[lobster1077]

Just moved into a college dorm yesterday and I'm the only one here so far so no. =D

 

[blankedboy]

I talk to my next-door neighbours occasionally (they're in their 60s, for the record) but other than that I know nobody. I live in a pseudo-urban area with shit-tons of people.

 

[AusGamer44]

i met my neighbor once...

i hate him
he's the garden-obsessive, "make the neighborhood look good" type. so one day i'm sleeping in and he wheels our bins back up behind the house. another day i forgot to pick up the papers and he put them all behind the house...

small things... annoying things... things that make me want to SALT THE EARTH AROUND HIS HOUSE!

Gee,you're intolerant.
Did you ever think he was doing you a favour & trying to save you the trouble of wheeling your bin back? I had a neighbour who was heavily pregnant and her husband was on a business trip overseas.I returned her bins after garbage collection because I didn't want her to exert herself.Later when I was ill for many months her husband did the same for me-without asking.It's called being neighbourly.
Oh,and if your paper stays out on the lawn all day,it can get pinched.We used to be slow to go out and pick up our paper,and if we didn't bring it in by 8AM,it would get stolen.Moving it behind the house minimises the chance of that happening.
God help you if you get a REAL neighbour from hell.
Some of mine from my 44 yrs of life :
When I was a kid the nymphomaniac/rage-oholic who lived next door would scream all night during sex,scream abuse at her many boyfriends,throw and break objects during her rages,and cut all the heads off our flowers.
-the teen drug addicts who regularly broke into my house & stole stuff when they needed money for a fix
-the weirdo druggie that had a crush on me and began stalking me
-the elderly couple who lived the longest in my apartment complex and felt they had the right to tell everyone how to live.They'd complain if you left washing on the line for more than an hour;complained if you ran a washing machine before midday;told the owners your friends looked like undesirable criminals(they were university students,FFS!),complained if you had a shower after 10 pm.Total control freaks from hell.
If the worst you get if a bit of bin & paper shuffling,be grateful.Personally,if I have neighbours who aren't standoff-ish or functionally insane,I'm giddy with delight.

 

[TakeyB0y2]

My neighborhood is INCREDIBLY anti-social. It's really only the kids that hang out with others. My neighborhood is also slowly becoming apart of the nearby ghetto, and on rainy nights the strong, skunk-like scent of marijuana grow-ops fills the air.

... I really need to get the hell out of here.

 

[thatcanadianguy]

Yeah, I know most of them. "Most of them" being the farmers and the sheep who live next door.

just HOW well do you know those sheep hmmm?

i know who most of the people on my block are, but most of them are crazy. one of em tried to run my sister over with their van!

one nice old gal i give her a drive to the store when she need's one. and one older fellow who lives alone, i often drive him into town if im going.

 

[Tanfastic]

I know most of them... My neighborhood used to be so cool. Kids running around playing with each other, parents out doing yard work, kids staying out late playing games with the entire kid population, awesome neighborhood parties, etc. Then all the kids grew up and apparently the parents stopped liking the outdoors. A lot of the kids moved out or got married... Sad day when I drive down the street and the only kid I see out is running from the car to the house.

Seriously hardly any kids in this neighborhood and all the adults and teenagers like inside too much.

 

[Eisenfaust]

i met my neighbor once...

i hate him
he's the garden-obsessive, "make the neighborhood look good" type. so one day i'm sleeping in and he wheels our bins back up behind the house. another day i forgot to pick up the papers and he put them all behind the house...

small things... annoying things... things that make me want to SALT THE EARTH AROUND HIS HOUSE!

Gee,you're intolerant.
Did you ever think he was doing you a favour & trying to save you the trouble of wheeling your bin back? I had a neighbour who was heavily pregnant and her husband was on a business trip overseas.I returned her bins after garbage collection because I didn't want her to exert herself.Later when I was ill for many months her husband did the same for me-without asking.It's called being neighbourly.
Oh,and if your paper stays out on the lawn all day,it can get pinched.We used to be slow to go out and pick up our paper,and if we didn't bring it in by 8AM,it would get stolen.Moving it behind the house minimises the chance of that happening.

yeaaaaah, first of all i acknowledged it was an over reaction, so calm down there

and yeah, maybe it's the neighborly thing to do, unless i'm neither ill or pregnant, in a neighborhood where our papers never get stolen. his first comments to us when we move in was that he hoped the neighborhood stayed looking nice (with the tone of voice heavily implying we need to make sure it does), and every action i mentioned is more geared towards making the place look pretty, which somehow justifies him opening our gate/going behind the house? yeah, hell no. it's an insufferably smug, self-righteous thing to do (as in calling someone intolerant for justifiably hating a neighbor in a thread about neighbors, by the way...), especially in a neighborhood that doesn't look that great anyway. it's a perfect example of how he thinks he's superior because his yard is slightly tidier (hence wanting to salt his earth to destroy the thing that warrented his "superiority" in the first place)

i'm not about to dismiss something as "being neighborly" just because it might have saved me some minor effort when it primarily benefits him, he's a jackarse

don't just assume that because you lived next door to some crappy neighbors that everyone else is obligated to be happy with/suffer through every little slight against them

 

[brodie21]

considering i live in a dorm/ apartment complex i consider myself lucky i know the girls across the hall. unlike my roomate who WATCHES VIDEOS OF VIDEO GAMES.

can someone tell me why he does this instead of actually playing them?

 

[spacecowboy86]

I don't have neighbors... true story

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

We know the neighbours on either side of the house, and directly opposite. A couple of families down the road too.

It's a friendly neighbourhood, but not a particularly social one a lot of the time. Nothing in the way of parties, but the occasional friendly chat does pick up when passing by. I know them well enough to pick them out from a crowd with ease, could tell you how much family they have, and list notable factors in their lives, but that would hardly be appropriate on a public forum now, wouldn't it?

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

My house is a renovated auto shop so all the buildings around me are businesses and I don't really have neighbors.

 

[NinjaOnXTC]

I only have one neighbour, and they are about the most pretentious fuckwits I know...
Only been inside their mansion once.

 

[superbatranger]

My roommates and I just know the people below us. Barely.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I've only got a few neighbors because I live out of town, so everybody pretty much knows each other. My parents are good friends with all of the closest neighbors (despite they live about a kilometer away in either direction) and I used to hangout with their kids before high school. I don't miss living in town at all I hated the idea of living around lots of people I didn't know.