Neighbors!!

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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Any complaints about your neighbors? I have a new neighbor or two. One seems fine and reasonable. The other has a kid who is loud and seems to throw themselves on the floor. I have been trying to be tolerant but it got the best of me tonight. I turned my music on to drown out the noise and it got worse. My music wasn't very loud. I turned it down and they got louder or so it seemed. So I turned mine up a bit. Anyhow I hate neighbor problems.
 
I haven't had any neighbor problems since my divorce 35 years ago.
Back then, we bought a house in a "quiet" neighborhood, not knowing that the whole family next door were drug dealers.
Normally that wouldn't bother us - until some customers pounded on our door when they felt ripped off, mistaking us for their dealers.
On one such occasion, it almost ended up with a homicide. Police arrested everyone & they were back home in a few hours......

ETA: I posted about it a few months ago:
When I got married in 1980, we bought a house in a "quiet" neighborhood. We couldn't have known that our next-door neighbors were drug dealers. I'm relaxing one evening & a loud motorcycle parks in front. I watch a guy around 6'10" & at least 400 lbs walk up to my front door & he starts pounding on it - really pounding, the whole wall is shaking.

Without opening the door (of course), I ask "Who is it?"

He yells, "Open the f-----g door or I'll break it down." (Obviously, he could - easily)

I grabbed my 12 Gauge, went back to the door & chambered a round (makes a loud noise) & yelled, "Did you hear that?"

He says, "Yeah, & I don't give a f--k......nobody rips me off."

That gave me a clue - he mistook my house for my next-door neighbor's house where he felt they ripped him off on a drug deal.
I said, "You don't want to die for nothing; you got the wrong house; your dealers are next door....leave while you're still breathing."
He went next door & I heard lots of yelling, then police showed up.
 
win231 said:
I haven't had any neighbor problems since my divorce 35 years ago.
Back then, we bought a house in a "quiet" neighborhood, not knowing that the whole family next door were drug dealers.
Normally that wouldn't bother us - until some customers pounded on our door when they felt ripped off, mistaking us for their dealers.
On one such occasion, it almost ended up with a homicide. Police arrested everyone & they were back home in a few hours......
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Lord almighty! What an adventure.
 
Neighbor problems are a real mess. They never go away. You always have to live next to them.

Really have to do elaborate diplomatic dances to constantly keep the peace.

That has been my general experience. Moved here 3 years ago. First nice neighborhood without deeply wacky idiots ruining everything.

Wish I could say...what a nice group of "Americans."

Next door neighbors...one side from South America..other side from Spain. Neighbors across the street are Portugese...

pretty much starting to think it is us "Americans" who are the jerks ruining everything...
 
One man's noise is another man's music.
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When I moved out here 20 years ago, my nearest neighbor was almost a mile away. Since then, 2 people have bought property and moved out here. Only one has ever been a problem. First off, he stole my stock dog, then he turned 2 small chidren loose on the neighborhood with an atv. Then, there's the "target practice" for hours at a time. This idiot is a county sheriff deputy. At least he isn't REAL close.
 
I've just been out cutting the hedge back in the front lawn.. and the neighbour over the road.. called out as he was doing his own hedge, and we chatted for a minute or 2 and I offered to lend him my long reach hedge trimmer, he accepted because his hedge is very high and he's 80 odd.. but still fit...

The neighbour on my right came out and chatted on his way out.. he's the only young guy around here , in his early 40's.. Eastern European.. wife and kids.. usually at work but home today , he offered help whenever if I need it with anything now that my o/h has gone, and the neighbour on the left of me ( female spinster of this parish in her 50's who lives with her sister ) pulled up while we were chatting, and shouted a hello..

Last month ..she and another female neighbour further along helped me lift the big heavy mirror you all saw that I got for my birthday from dd... after the neighbour had taken delivery of it while I was out..

I have to say that the latter is annoying because she allows junk to pile up in her garden, until eventually I have to say something... and the kids on the right are kind of unchecked for noise, they're allowed to run free but they are extremely polite.. .. so I really don't have a lot to complain about here
 
We haven't had neighbors in many years but we do now. There's a mix of younger and older (like us) people and everyone keeps to themselves. The younger couple next door on one side of us are very unfriendly. Hubby was in the front yard last week working at playing pick-up sticks (we had a windy day and small twigs blew off our trees) and the guy came home. My husband spoke to him but he didn't even look at my husband and just "grunted". The older couple on the other side of us are nice and friendly. Maybe it's the age difference between us and the younger couple. Maybe the former owner of our house was a "pain" (so we've heard) and the younger couple didn't get along with him. IDK.
 
Back in the 70s, a person going through documents in Albany, NY, ran into 70,000 pages in medieval Dutch. Turned out that they were records from New Amsterdam, the colony that later became New York City. A lot of the records were court records.

This project turned into a book called, "The Island at the Center of the World" --- which is a wonderful history book.

Re Neighbors, in those records is the actual dialogue between two disputing neighbors. Apparently, one would annoy the other, by giving him a sentry's warning call. Basically, taking a gun, standing a post and yelling out, "Who goes there?" Whenever his neighbor (who he knew very well), would pass by. You know, threatening him with a gun for absolutely no reason.

The neighbor getting harassed, finally could not take it any more, and in medieval Dutch (as quoted right in the court record)....replied with, .....yes, .....the medieval Dutch version of "UP Y*URS!!" :) :) :)

Just can't make this stuff up. Great book. Lot of real history and also fun anecdotes like that one.

I had not known that "Up Y*urs" was a phrase in Medieval Dutch. But now, I do know! Maybe this is the origin of the cursing New Yorker!?! :):):)

Some day in history, they are going to find an inscription by a caveman from 50,000 years ago, that says the same thing...
 
Pepper said:
The only neighbor noise I can stand is from kids. I don't mind their noise. I make a lot of noise too--I play the radio loud and the tv as well. I like loud rock & roll and loud Howard Stern so I can hear it wherever I wander in my apt. Besides, I'm getting deaf.
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naa.. kids noise can drive me nuts... the screaming.. jeez it's become a habit for youngsters to scream as tho' they're being murdered. I've said all along this is why no-one takes any notice if children are being abused, because they're allowed to scream at the top of their lungs while playing..
 
No complaints here ... lucky in that area, as my apartment neighbors are quiet and respectful of each other.
After 4 years here, it only can get noisy if people have grandkids visiting and those kids run down the halls. But hey, I can understand that...

... and yes, like Holly said, they also like to scream when they run ..lol
 
last neighbor was meticulous and always willing to help / watched house etc ......
New people moved in and they do not seem to start the day til mid afternoon ..........
start yard projects then abandon them have stuff falling into my yard ..... ruined the whole front of house because they could not seem to turn into the driveway ... the 82 year old woman who lived there before did not have trouble.

I think Mr. Magoo each time they drive hope pedestrians can jump out of the way....
Another neighbor who has a former drug history and now counsels people thinks the NEW neighbor is "not all there and most likely lost more then a step........ years smoking weed......"
 
I love hearing kids. Can't say I've heard screamers. When I want to read outside I've taken to going to the playground around the corner from me (I played there as a kid) as I like being with kids. I love going to parks & playgrounds with my grandson, too.

I like kids better than grown-ups!
 
We had a nice neighborhood for years, in the city. It was a new subdivision, and most of us were in our 30's, with young kids. We frequently got together for neighborhood parties, etc. Then, as the kids grew older, many of the original owners started moving away, and some of the 2nd owners weren't nearly as nice. We stuck it out until I retired, then we moved to the boondocks, where things are nice and quiet.
 
win231 said:
I haven't had any neighbor problems since my divorce 35 years ago.
Back then, we bought a house in a "quiet" neighborhood, not knowing that the whole family next door were drug dealers.
Normally that wouldn't bother us - until some customers pounded on our door when they felt ripped off, mistaking us for their dealers.
On one such occasion, it almost ended up with a homicide. Police arrested everyone & they were back home in a few hours......

ETA: I posted about it a few months ago:
When I got married in 1980, we bought a house in a "quiet" neighborhood. We couldn't have known that our next-door neighbors were drug dealers. I'm relaxing one evening & a loud motorcycle parks in front. I watch a guy around 6'10" & at least 400 lbs walk up to my front door & he starts pounding on it - really pounding, the whole wall is shaking.

Without opening the door (of course), I ask "Who is it?"

He yells, "Open the f-----g door or I'll break it down." (Obviously, he could - easily)

I grabbed my 12 Gauge, went back to the door & chambered a round (makes a loud noise) & yelled, "Did you hear that?"

He says, "Yeah, & I don't give a f--k......nobody rips me off."

That gave me a clue - he mistook my house for my next-door neighbor's house where he felt they ripped him off on a drug deal.
I said, "You don't want to die for nothing; you got the wrong house; your dealers are next door....leave while you're still breathing."
He went next door & I heard lots of yelling, then police showed up.
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Had a knock on my door at 9:30pm a few months ago. I ask who it was through the door and he said some mysterious things that didn't really make sense and I told him I would not open the door and he said he wanted to show me something. I racked the slide on my Remington shotgun near the door. He left and I never heard from him again. The noise a pump shotgun makes says you are serious, every time.
 
My neighbor across the street is the one I trust. The rest either have a criminal history, or are just the wave and say hi to type. I've found the less involved I am the better. I live in a rural village, one road through with a stop sign at either end. Now that it's getting close to summer, the neighbors behind me will be out yelling and screaming again. Wish they would quit drinking or move away. They are far enough away that I shouldn't be able to hear what they are saying to each other but I do and I am half deaf.
 
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