Neighbors, Everyone Has Them

[Skiptown]

Unless you live on your own island, we all have neighbors. Just curious how others get along with theres. We are very lucky to have good ones on three sides of us. The ones to our north bought the house about two years ago. Our long time (18 years) widow lady died and when the house was for sale I got a call one night and the realtor asked if I could let a family in to look at it. He new I had a key as I had been helping to take care of our elder friend. He was pretty sure they would not like it so I said sure I would let them in. The family, mom, dad and two kids were from El Salvador. He left after serving in the army (didn't ask which one). We hit it off well and I showed them all of the great stuff about the well built older house. They bought it and we are great friends. He is a chef and a very good one. We share vegatables and food back and forth. By the way I didn't get so much as a thank you from the realtor for selling the house for him.
The ones to our west are the best we have had there since we bought here. For several years it was a rental and had some very odd people there at times. One guy was a drunk who liked to play hi guitar loudly in the back yard and he was a lousy player. The more he drank the worse he got. This family has been there for about four years and is a very good hispanic family. He works for Fidelitis winery as a vineyard supervisor so we get to taste a lot of great wine and share our smoked stuff with them.
The family to the south is very starnge and do not come out much. She has o/c behavior and he mows the lawn in 100 degree heat with sweats on and rubber elbow lenght kitchen gloves on. Strange but probably harmless.
The family across the street is the one I do not get along with. I called the cops several years ago when I saw there 16 year old gang banger boy unloading several guns from his car to another and I knew they couldn't be his. I am pretty sure he was involved in a burglary at both our house and our elderly lady neighbor to the north. Since then I have been a bigot racist bastard in there eyes. I could not care less tho. I would do it again as he has done hard time over the years so I was right and he is still a gang banging piece of crap.
I think if you can have two or three good neighbors you should consider your self pretty fortunate. Anyone else with great or not so great neighbors?

[xqqzme]

We have a 'nosey' neighbor across the street ... the good kind. He's retired and we kind of think of him as our own private security company. He knows what cars should be at our house and what ones shouldn't so his kind of nosey is great

[fireinmn]

We've got great neighbors on 3 sides as well, but since we live on a semi busy street we don't really call the people across the street our neighbors

To the north we have an unemployed IT guy in his 60's who is our local security guy/squirl shooter. He's a whoot.

To the south we have a nice young (early 30's) family with two small kids - nice to have kids our kid can play with. Before them was a nice widower who could also be counted on to watch over the neighborhood.

The house just south of them is a college house and can, at times, be a tad noisy, but it never lasts too long and I remember being their age.

Behind us in the alley we have an entire block of good neighbors - not one of them would I complain about for anything...cept that one house where they never say "hi" or even way hello...that's wierd.

So, if it weren't for the busy street we live on (yes, we knew that when we bought) we might have the perfect place.

[Susie Q Roo]

It's interesting here since many of our neighbors are winter people, here only a few months between October and May. Others, like our immediate neighbors to the north, are here only in summer and holidays, as she is a school teacher with young children. My biggest complaint with any of that is that many of those people think of this as a party place, rather than "home." For us, it's home, and a constant party is not really what I'm here for. Rick will have to speak for himself on that one. Of course, it's a party place for some of the full-time neighbors, too, but what are ya gonna do? Mostly, everyone looks out for everyone else and doesn't get TOO much in others' business, thank goodness. It's all give and take, of course, wherever you live.

[Doggiemom]

On one side is "creepy cop" don't ask....... the other side is a nice woman and her bf, we watch each others houses when out of town and my dogs bark like idiots at her 2 teeney ones!

[Andiline]

Since I live on the 5th and 6th floor, I only once talked to the neighbours to the right shortly before they moved it. The one to the left is a guy I went to school with so we've known each other for ages. The neighbours below me are my parents which comes in handy as they can get my mail and my newspaper out of the mailbox when I have to go to Switzerland. My parents are away very often so we take turns in watering plants etc. The other neighbours in the house are my sister (she's rarely here though), a couple in their early 60's who have lived here for about 30 years, a young student, a young couple (I know only him as he is the grandson of the woman who lived there before she died) and one elderly lady who recently lost her husband and I've known her all my life as she used to work in the pastry shop my family has had for about 90 years in this building (my dad closed it 35 years ago but he still can make pastries and cakes *yumm*).

[attaboy]

We have a mix of partiers and those that keep to themselves and are quiet. The partiers are all 50ish. Our newest neighbors are a yound couple that moved here from New Jersey and they are on the quiet side. Luckily we have good neighbors to watch the house and take care of Zoe, our dog, while we enjoy Playa this next week.

[PlayadelSoul]

Most of my neighbors are Mexican. I might as well live in Mexico. I do have one French neighbor. He shares my love of football, so we usually talk about it once a week, for a solid hour. Family across the street has three kids that are the same age as ours. They do the Little Rascals thing in their makeshift clubhouse. Two employees of Sol live on the street, as well. They like to drink what they sell, but are not too noisy for Mexico. All in all, its a quiet neighborhood.

[hrlydavison]

Originally Posted by Skiptown

I saw there 16 year old gang banger boy

Since then I have been a bigot racist bastard in there eyes.


he has done hard time over the years so I was right and he is still a gang banging piece of crap.

Check the first sentence of the definition:

Bigotry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sorry...I cant help myself...majored in Sociology

Its all about being tolerant of one another. But then again... a crime is a crime and the guilty should be punished if proven so.

[CaroleLB]

There are 4 units on my floor and two are occupied by two sets of brothers aged from early 20s to early 30s.

Brother unit #1: Clean cut hard working big brother and college going younger brother. They enjoy partying and playing the Wii in surround sound. It doesn't bother me a bit and they have a dvd collection they very kindly share. Younger brother likes to make brownies... the special kind. He borrows my brownie pan and returns it with samples. The brownies are very tasty.

Brother unit #2: The Stoner Brothers (can you sense a theme in my building) crack me up. Younger brother knocks on my door one evening.
Me: "Hiya Tommy"
Tommy: "Duuuuuuude, I got a date tonight and look... I got a huge zit - do you have any of that makeup sh*t you chicks use?"
Being the kind neighbor I am I hooked him up with some super duper concealer.

A coupla weeks later I get home and my puzzled daughter tells me that Tommy came by looking me. "Duuuuuuude - Your mother hooked me up with some good sh*t" - seems he had another date and another zit. I got Tommy his very own stash of concealer.

I love my neighbors - good folk, all of them.

[ami]

I like most my neighbors, I live next door to an artist and his wife and they're very charming. On the other side are a couple of doctors and their 3 kids, really nice people, and their kids are quiet too Across the street I have some professors from Rice University living there, and they're really neat people....our cats exchange Christmas gifts each year. There's also an attorney that's never home, but was kind enough to give me a gun during Hurricane Rita when Houston evacuated.

Only one I don't like is the creepy family that lives across the street with the husband staring at me

[TAPPY]

I am on a dead end so I only have on neighbor. A rich (semi good looking) older bachelor guy who has a new girlfriend every other month. He has lots of $$$ guy toys. I see his old girl friends still stalking his house late at night !!!

In the back of my house is an older man who just lost his wife. I see him out puttering in the yard, so I go and try to talk to him. He looks so lonely.

My neighborhood is overrun with small children so I am glad I live on the quiet end of the street.

[Nerak936]

All of my neighbors in the building (6 units) are my tenants, and I can't WAIT to get outta here in September. I like them all, except for the a-hole who sued me a few years back. It's gonna be soooooo nice to not have to see his car parked in the driveway every single day and be constantly reminded of the pure hell he put me through.

To my north is a 3-unit rental house, and some of the current tenants have thrown some loud, rowdy parties over the holidays (Memorial Day and 4th of July), but for the most part they're pretty quiet (except when someone is waiting in the driveway in a car with that rap crap playing so loud that it makes my walls vibrate and my windows rattle). But when compared to the jerks who have lived there off and on during the past 25 years (some real DOOZIES!), they're a walk in the park.

To my south is the bank parking lot and next to that is The Soapy Dog, a do-it-yourself dog wash place. I will not miss listening to the symphony of dogs barking their fool heads off every Saturday all day long during the spring and summer months!!

I sure hope I have nice neighbors at my new place. The seller's mother informed me that the neighbor living to my west is "an older gentleman whose wife passed away a few years back. He's a very nice person. A church-goer." My reply was, " Oh, I hope he doesn't mind the wild parties I'll be throwing here!" Her response, "Oh, invite him over! I'm sure he'd have a GREAT time!!" She didn't offer up any info on the other neighbors, but as some of you might recall, I've already named the dog across the street "Barky the Beagle".

[jamesblonde]

We only have 3 neighbors that border us. The one's on the south are a retired school teacher and his wife who is the chief of police. Fabulous. The other side a great couple our age with kids. They are just as great. Good drinkers too!!! Then there is the wicked witch of the west and her wimp a$$ husband. They are actually about 50ft below us, due the topography of the area. We have a great view of the valley and can see all of downtown Tacoma and the lights on the narrows bridge. Their lot slants up to the back of ours. This biatch has planted fir trees up near are property line. They are now to the point that within a year they will begin to block our view.

We asked her if we could top them and she just cackled - yes an actual cackle and said no. Then she went on to talk about how we had "high house" syndrome and she was tired of us looking down on her. She is the neighborhood pain in the arse and is constantly having problems with other neighbors. Kevin offered to have a landscaper come in and plant trees that would allow her privacy but wouldn't block our view and she said no.

Long story short, this was a few months ago. And lo and behold.......those trees are starting to die. One at a time

[Sol]

Right now, we are living in Dave's house until the projects on my house are finished.
His neighbors to the left are very nice. The ones to the right do not speak to us. I am guessing that it is because they hate dogs. The neighbor across the street is wonderful. She has one-year old twin boys and a five year old little girl. Dad is in Iraq.
At my house, the neighbors across the street are awesome. They are an attorney and his wife; in the house next door to them live a jr. high school teacher and her husband who works as a producer at a local TV station. A computer programmer lives next door to us...he is quiet but very nice.
I live on a corner so to the left of my house, across the street is an old 1920's house that is a rental. It has six units. An artist lives in one of the units. He is very nice and a helpful neighbor. A young woman occupies another unit and a young couple lives in the unit next to her. An ex-homeless man lives in one of the units that faces my house. The other two units are occupied by single guys.
The problem neighbor is the ex-homeless man. His friends come over on a daily basis and start drinking at around 3:00pm. When they start getting loaded the music goes up as well as their conversations. At around 1:00pm, they start fighting with each other and that's when someone calls the police. It starts getting freaky when they start telling jail stories and or bragging about how many people they have robbed or beat up. The landlord is worthless and pretty much let's this guy stay because he pays rent on time. I haven't had problems with them because I leave them alone. Their trash ends up along my fence so, I pick it up and put it back into his small yard. Also, occasionally, one of this guy's guests will ask if we can get them some beer while we are at the store and we always say no.