No one knows their neighbors any more

[Telecaster]

...and it's probably better that you don't. We do have some decent neighbors, but we found out the couple on one side appear to be sociopaths. They feed wild ducks, which congregate at their house, then come **** in our carport. We asked them to stop, and they tried to spin it around where we were the bad people. Just another reason to move to the boonies.

OTOH, I know a guy who moved to the boonies, then someone bought the property next to him and built a house right up against the property line. He told me he built a Trump wall to block them and regain privacy.

Anyone want to make some duck soup?

 

[Rudi]

Wait till the geese show up.

 

[Telecaster]

Oh, we have Canada geese in the area! They don't wander the neighborhood though. Their droppings are almost as big as mine!

 

[Skwirl]

I had some of those disgusting geese show up a few years ago under a **** apple tree.
One died there, not sure why.
But, they never came back.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

One side is a house of immigrants from Bermuda, they are very nice, but the sixty-esh brother and sister live together with their senile mother. Their father passed away ten years ago. The other side is an airline VP, beautiful home, great landscaping and a nice pool, but they are never there. Son off to college. The maid and lawn service come and go, but I only see them every six months. Chinese family across the street. Seven of them in a house the same size as mine (2400 sq ft). Very nice, but keep to themselves. The NASA family with triplets lives at the end of the cul de sac, he was laid off ten years ago and since then has been posting pictures of squirrels on the internet. She has been working. Two other newer families moved in the last few years with small children replacing the older neighbors who now include me.

 

[robvious]

I know some but not all of my neighbors... some won't even wave back when you go by... most others are friendly, chat over the fence or bushes.. others apologize because their dog got into my yard... still live in a town where we can ask for a roll of T.P. and can expect to get it...
been here for over 26 years... we are now the old people on the block

 

[Telecaster]

23 years, we're one of the long term residents. A lot of houses became rentals after their owners passed away.

 

[The Analyst]

Most of my neighbors have been decent but occasionally there is one who can be a challenge. People come and go. As the old saying goes, "you can't choose your neighbors."

 

[Gunslinger808]

Ha, my neighbors and I stand around with beer in our hands about once a week.

Looks like the opening scene from King of the Hill.

 

[Buzzzer]

Lot's of people are never at fault anymore. They are always right and it's always someone else's fault. Or because someone else did this/that, that's why they did this/that, therefore, it's still the other persons fault.

No accountability/personal responsibility is taught anymore...

 

[bigwheelzip]

Best block of neighbors I've known was the one I grew up on in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. Great neighbors there as a kid, and still great when we went back in 2018 for 8 months to renovate. We were outside all the time fixing the place up, and a diverse group of people would regularly come over to be sociable, often bringing food and drink.

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[steelslaver]

To the east of me is a retired judge. He is OK, keeps the "perfect "yard. Mows just so etc. Don't complain much about my over grown hedge that separates us. Only time he did was when heavy wet snow cause some branches to break and bend down onto his place. Easy fix with a saw. He complained once that "my deer" were eating his wife's flowers. Ha, this spring he was telling me about throwing apple slices at the same deer.

Other side is a 40ish couple with some kids. Them and kids are fine. Their house is actually the closest to mine. Maybe, 50 apart but staggered, theirs closer to the road than ours. We shoot the breeze a little once in the while. Back 1/2 our yards separated by chokecherries kept as bushes then his shop and mine with a walk way between them on my side, then a high board fence and my 4' chain link around my front yard runs along his driveway.

Behind me the hedge is so high and thick I have never met or see those people.

I have met and speak to most of those close to me as there is a rown of about 8 mailboxes by the road in front of part of my property. Guy 2 houses down the road that Ts in there installed my furnace when I built my house. Guy a few bit up the street has a small engine rebuilt shop and redid a set of cylinder heads fof me.

But, here the"lots" are approximately and acre in size. The only guy thgat became a neighbor hood problem is on his way to the state pen. Basically went goofy and decided he could do what ever he wanted.

 

[BearBio]

We are pretty good. We all say "hi" to each other. Except for one family at the other end of the block (You know the type=have lawn parties during the shutdown, don't talk to people, go skiing in big groups, etc. Yard looks like cr++.). Most of us know each other by name and a little about each other. Several trade veggies during the summer and one has shoveled snow for us (I am 70 and crippled up from several knee injuries). His kid has run across the street to help me unload my truck and cut up trees. Know several people on the street behind us. Have had BBQs and had the neighbors over.

Took us 2 years to make friends after moving to a small town. (How small? One black family and 3 Asian families!). Becoming a Freemason helped as well.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I'm in the middle of a 400 unit condo complex. The couple to the south of me talk with, and watch out for us. The late 20 something blond to the north, will say "hi" and allow me to help her move in huge deliveries, but she's been there almost 2 years and never ask or said a name! I know one other name of the 400 (2 doors south), and that's it. We see many people over and over at the gym or pool, but 20 and 30 somethings don't assonate with Grey Hairs! (Bad for their image) My current mustache is older than most of them!

Ivan

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

One nice thing about living in the National forest is no real close
neighbors. As the crow flies one is about 1/3 mile and the one
on the other side is about 1 mile. Both are good folk and we will
talk on occasion. If a dozen cars/trucks pass my place on any
given day, it's a heavy traffic day.
This is just the way I like it.

 

[ContinentalOp]

I live in an apartment complex. I would say I'm friendly with my immediate neighbors. If we see each other we might smile, wave, say "hi", or hold the door open for each other, but it doesn't extend beyond that.

Being the introvert that I am, I like that. I'm the guy that would probably end up being described as, "He was quiet, kept to himself, never bothered anyone." Unfortunately, that description doesn't usually end well.

Other times, moving to a shack in the middle of the woods has a certain appeal to it.

 

[ladder13]

I do. The majority are transplants. We have a core group of folks our age who we are close with, funny how the older folks all bought houses on the same street. Then there's a bunch of younger folks who are pleasant, but have different interests and challenges.

We are diverse in age and race, just the way I like it.

Our lots are about ~ 1/3 acre, just enough to keep distance. Everything we need is within 5 miles, including most importantly, high quality healthcare.

Of course there's always some who want to march to a beat of a different drummer.

I'm not going anywhere.

 

[prairieviper]

Living way out in the sticks with no close neighbors and enough land to form a good buffer is just the way we like it.

 

[pawngal]

28 years ago when we moved here we were the "youngsters". Next door neighbor was a peach of an older fellow that I actually knew from years previous when we both worked at a local hospital. Strong sense of neighborhood back then. Summertime nightly gatherings with drinks in hand and dogs playing together in his backyard. We shared garden produce and I baked pies and other goodies for him. His wife was in a care center with Alzheimer's. Now all the old folks have passed or moved to senior housing areas.
Current neighbors are mostly so-so, one is a retired bar owner, we visit on occasion. Other side is a current bar owner and the woman behind me is a strange one. Both of them have called LE multiply times for my loud aggressive dog. Whatever.......hardly the only dog in the neighborhood that barks.

 

[Chief Wiggums]

Best block of neighbors I've known was the one I grew up on in Bensonhurst Brooklyn. Great neighbors there as a kid, and still great when we went back in 2018 for 8 months to renovate. We were outside all the time fixing the place up, and a diverse group of people would regularly come over to be sociable, often bringing food and drink.

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love this photo....
could be a scene from a movie...