are your neighbors good/bad/whatever?

[Thelxi]

I got 2 other apartments on my floor.

In one of them lives an elderly couple with their 40yo son, who likes to go out on the balconies in his underwear and smoke cigars. The elderly woman is very nosy and posh.

In the other lives a 30-40yo couple that both have very loud voices but thankfully you can only hear them when they are in the hall/elevator. Very kind people.

[Foosha]

I live in an awful place for neighbors. One of them is a huge family and have a bunch of parties, and they are mainly chill, but they do so much god damn construction it gets irritating.

The other family next to me are a bunch of self-centered a-holes, my dog was chasing a fawn and went into their yard, I rushed over and the assholes chased both of them off with a broom and swiped at my dog a bunch of times even though he's the most calm and good natured dog I have ever seen (besides chasing rabbits and other animals).

The worst however is across the street, they have this hippie camp or some shit and play bongo drums and sit in a semi-circle and play into the night for like 6 hours and chanting shit. Awful

[randomone05]

I live in townhouses (walls are connected, essentially) so even my really good neighbors can drive me nuts with sound.

To the right is this really awesome guy who is quiet and keeps to himself. He's a nice guy, mows our lawn for us sometimes if he gets the time, shovels the snow on the sidewalk for the whole street in the winter. He also always seems to have a new car every other week (I believe he repairs them for a living.) Sometimes he goes away on long trips and we take care of his garden which is in our shared backyard.

Across the street is this RIDICULOUS couple. I grew up in this neighborhood and their kids always hated me (as well as the kids next door to them) because I came here in about fourth grade and wasn't part of their friend circle (they were all born there.) But the parents are constantly screaming at the top of their lungs and I'm fairly sure there have been incidents of domestic assault as I've seen daddy and big brother escorted out by police before. Next door to them, the grandma seems to be carted away in an ambulance once every month.

Two doors down to my left is this extremely nice lady with her Alzheimer's-patient mother. They love to give my dog treats and it's kind of them, and I'm too nice to tell them to not feed my dog because he's allergic to a lot of foods and is on a diet for being a little overweight. Their grandchild/child loves to come out and pet him, too.

And then... there's the people to my right. They have arguably the best house in our little slot because it's the one that has the biggest backyard, also with a fence, and a nice break between houses which gives them extra yard space (which I'd kill for for my dog but the landlord won't even let us install a fence.) What do they use it for? A broken trampoline and a rotting, disgusting kiddie pool. They never move either of those things, even in the winter.

The other horrible occupants of their backyard are these two obnoxious little shih tzus that they leave outside ALL DAY (I'm currently unemployed so I get to deal with that) that bark CONSTANTLY. They just don't fucking quit barking. They also don't leave them food or water out there so I've opened up their fence and dropped a bowl of water for 'em once in a while, but holy crap, these people should lose their dogs. If they were thinner I'd definitely be calling the SPCA, but at least they're well fed (I assume at night because they never go inside until it's dark out.) When I let my dog into my backyard to pee real quick in the morning and take him for walks in the afternoon, they make sure to bark and harass him the whole time. And since we were here before those neighbors, my dog marked up their fence with his smell, and now if he even approaches the fence they'll try their best to stick their ugly little smooshed faces through the slats and try to attack him. Those awful little things just snarl and bark and are non-socialized nuisances. And this is coming from a dog lover!

And that's just their god damn dogs. The neighbors themselves are worse. Being a townhouse community, we all have just two parking spaces. The spaces are marked <Numberofhouse> A and <Numberofhouse> B. They aren't reserved, as in, you won't get towed for parking there and not living there, but it's courtesy to let the people who live in those houses park in their spots. Since, you know, the spots are RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE TO WHICH THEY BELONG. But our neighbors don't give a flying fuck about that. They've got 2 people who live there - A young woman and her daughter (this woman is very close to being white trash) and their elderly mother (also close, but not quite.) But they constantly throw parties. I mean, like, every two days, they have 6+ people in their house. And they park in our spots. If we ask them to have their guests move their car out of the one spot we use (we only have one car) they pitch a fucking fit and refuse to do it. So we end up parking, a lot of the time, on the complete opposite side of the street which is REALLY obnoxious when you have groceries in your car and you have to leave your trunk open on the other side of the street and walk back and forth to get your now-melted ice cream into your house.

And on top of all that, they are EXTREMELY loud. During the day, like I said, they throw parties. And I can hear every single thing, because my room is connected to their wall. And at night? Either they have a poltergeist or they don't like the layout of their house, because it seems like every night they decide to move ALL of their furniture around. But at least they're green, right? How do I know that? Because they must unplug every appliance they own, as well, because at night I get to hear the constant scritching of people plugging outlets into walls and missing.

But I get back at these people by having really, really loud sex during their parties. I hope all their friends get weirded out and never come back.

UGH. I HATE these people. I just want them to go away. Who the hell throw parties every other night in a god damn townhouse anyway?!

Edit: We also have a lot of kids in the neighborhood, so from 2PM-4PM I get to listen to children walking home and SCREAMING bloody murder. And their humor is really off, because I have heard them yell "HELP I'M BEING RAPED" before. On that occasion she got in trouble because someone actually called the cops. But they just... I don't understand. They scream. At the top of their lungs. High schoolers, guys. Why the fuck? I sure didn't do that and it was only about three years ago that I was a high schooler. Is this some new fad or something? >.>

i can relate on a few of your woes lol. im also unemployed(but might be starting at wal*mart soon ). i have been since the shit hit the fan back in '08. and my neighbors in front of me have(or had, i think it finally ran off the other day) a black lab. and last summer and winter, it barked at pretty much every molecule of ANYTHING that would go near their fence. same thing with the last family behind me. had some small yip-ing dog. they never fed him. never let him in (he had one of those doggie-igloo things just barely his size). and the black lab would also get the joy of being outside in severe thunderstroms and blizzards.

i feel for ya. that sounds alot worse than what i get to deal with. if i had it my way, there wouldnt be a soul within a half mile/mile of my property. i can see myself being one of the old men sitting on his hover-porch(assuming back to the future is right lol) and telling the kids to "GET OFF MY DAMN HOLO-GRASS!!!" lol.

[Deleted]

Live in a regular house, since I'm also mostly up during the night and rarely even go outside even during the day I next to never neither see nor hear from my neighbors. They don't disturb me and I don't disturb them, that's the way I like it. I know a bit about some of them who has been living here longer than I have, but I don't really ever talk to them, at all. Really hope I will have a similar experience when I move to an apartment, noisy neighbors is probably what I fear the most when it comes to moving.

[icedwarrior]

I have no complaints at all with my neighbors. I have a very quiet Canadian couple (I only mention Canadian because that's about the only descriptive term I can use with them. Pretty boring couple. :P) on one side, and the other is, again, a quiet couple with a kid that plays Basketball. That's about as noisy as it gets, I love my neighborhood. Very quiet. No complaints whatsoever.

[cottoncandiy]

My neighbors are HORRIBLE. The bad thing is, I don't know if it's the ones beside my apartment or the ones upstairs, but my husband and I are up at night, and we try to be nice and stay quiet. We watch tv at a level that WE can barely hear at all.. and wtf do the neighbors do? They pound on the walls constantly. If we are talking(and I talk very quiet), they pound on the wall. It's like, if they hear the slightest bit of noise they flip and pound on the wall/floor. I can't stand it, and cannot wait until we move in September..

I'm just going to say, if you expect complete and total silence, DO NOT MOVE INTO AN APARTMENT! The walls are usually not good sound barriers and you need to expect a bit of noise. I'm not talking about constant loud noise, just remember that sometimes people lead a different lifestyle than you, and if they are trying to be courteous(like we are), cut them some slack. >_>

[Packers]

One of my neighbors is nice, but they are those kind of people that uhh hmm idk exactly how to describe it, they are like hmm very white? idk they are like what a white person would be on the Chappelle Show, like very stereotypical and uptight about rules I guess.

The other one is fucking OBSESSED with his yard, and he doesn't have a fence, if you touch it, you might aswell have raped his wife.

[Kivimetsan]

Mine is a creep. He has security cameras and watches movies on max volume. He's also my landlord and has no respect for the law. Basically when we started renting the house, we were told that the landlords friend lived in the area. Several weeks after moving in, we let out our two cats to have some fresh air in the backyard, did this for a few days. Then this black ugly cat started coming around pissing on the veranda (my cats are girls, he wants to sex em). Then they had a fight, landlord told the real estate that my cats were attacking his and wanted us to move out.

We still live here and keep our cats inside... his cat lives outside, I don't think he even feeds it, poor thing.

[Crackleslap]

my neighbours are good, and one of them is incredibly hot, hes just so gorgeous!

[herpderpslurp]

lived here 17 years and yet i wouldn't recognize any of my neighbours if i passed them on the street in town. whether you consider that a good thing or a bad thing just depends on your perspective

[IIamaKing]

No poll option for "nice guy but annoying as shit because he likes to just wander into my garage while I am doing work to waste my time with inana chatter fro 20 minutes."

I honestly feel trapped sometimes. Like you wana pop your head over the fence and say hello, talk about the weather or some shit fine. But come on dude you are my neighbor not my best friend. Not even my best friend pops over to my house unannounced.

[belfpala]

I'll limit myself to 5 neighbors... 3 are great, no problems.

1 lies about everything. No problems, I just ignore him.

1 threatens to sue me for any and everything. I was out doing some lawn work a few days ago, and he walked onto my property and poked me in the chest while he was yelling something about a tree overhanging his property. The irony didn't go unnoticed. I called the police and told him to gtfo.

[Luko]

I dunno. Never spoke to them.

[Neodymie]

I don't really know mine. It's two Mexican families and a couple in their forties. They all pretty quiet and don't cause any problems so good in my book.

The worst thing they do is BBQ some really good smelling food out front.

[speehs]

My neighbors across are really nice, they're both 4H people. Don't really talk all that much, but there's a general understanding that we have each other's backs when shit goes down or anything is needed. Everyone else on the street I don't really know well or speak to.

[Drakain]

I'll limit myself to 5 neighbors... 3 are great, no problems.

1 lies about everything. No problems, I just ignore him.

1 threatens to sue me for any and everything. I was out doing some lawn work a few days ago, and he walked onto my property and poked me in the chest while he was yelling something about a tree overhanging his property. The irony didn't go unnoticed. I called the police and told him to gtfo.

Unless the tree is hanging over his house and likely to fall off, tell him to f off.

[starkey]

Our closest neighbors are 3km's away and they are nice

[bekilrwale]

On one side of me are my neighbors who only come here in Winter. These neighbors throw constant parties (not the keep you up at night parties), and afterwards if they have unused pastries they let us have as many as we want. Usually 10+ pies are left over after each party so its pretty sweet. The neighbors on my other side also only come down during Winter. These neighbors are not bothersome at all and during Christmas they bring down their children and they bring their children, including one hot 17 gal who enjoys video games, although she sucks at Halo. Across my street are neighbors who, you guessed it, only come down for Winter. Usually I go say hi when they come down to live here, but after that I don't see or here from them till they are leaving so nothing negative. And behind me is a golf course with no neighbors.

[ryotte]

They're good. We don't bother each other much, but all our interactions have been positive. Mostly we wave and keep going about our business, which is fine with me.

[Sound911]

Most of my street are really nice, but one family really doesn't like me. To be honest, i hate them now too..

Story time!


I had a couple of my close friends over for a BBQ and a few beers for my 18th birthday which was all fine at the time, it ended at about 11pm, then we were gone (we went out to the clubs lol)

The next morning i was awoken by a woman smashing at my door, i asked what was wrong, she asked to speak with my parents..

She accused me of doing burnouts, doughnuts and revving my car on the street..(I Don't own my own car lol) She then went as far as to say that i broke into her house and smashed her plant pots and APPARENTLY i threw the plants at her... (lol)

I asked to see the tyre marks on the street, i also explained that it was impossible to do a doughnut on the street as you can hardly fit even a 4x4 down it it's that thin, and i was called a "F*cking stupid child" after asking to see proof of me "breaking in and smashing things."

By now i was pretty pissed off, i told her to fuck off and went inside. 2 hours later police are at my door questioning me about the "burnouts and such..." i calmly explain that it is impossible to do a doughnut on such a small street, the fact that i don't own my own car, and the fact that i am still on my learner licence, thus it being illegal for me to drive by myself, and after showing them the road with no rubber marks, and the woman refusing to let us see the things i have broken, they then apologise to me, warn her to never harras me again, hop in their patrol car and leave.


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i love all but 1 neighbour.