Do you have weird neighbors?

[Road Runner]

I was just discussing this with my son.  I have lived in a lot of places in my life, and it always seems that there is at least one weird neighbor that everyone dislikes or hates.  (not me, I hope)

I have also always had at least one great neighbor, usually living right next to me.   Someone seems to be stacking the deck.  

How about you?   Great neighbors or weird fanatics?

[Razors Edge ★]

Yes on both accounts.  The "weird" one just recently moved, and as further evidence of his odd behavior, he just moved about a dozen or so homes away.  Slightly bigger place but he is SINGLE and retired. And he had been bitching about wanting to get rid of stuff, not about getting a bigger home with space for more stuff.

[sheep_herder ★]

When were you talking to our neighbors??

[shootingstar]

Not always. 

One neighbour declared our provincial govn't, as "Commies". (whenever I hear that in Canada it makes me laugh ironically. People have no idea what a Communist govn't is truly like..rule like military, etc.) He likes his shiny motorcycle, pickup truck and is angling to do little jobs for money in our condo bldg. I think he found out he would blast the condo's budget to bits. The other neighbour seems to be opposite of him in personality. 

[ChrisL]

I have one neighbor who is a PITA and she rents out rooms without really vetting the people so she brings riff raff into the neighborhood.  

All of my other neighbors are super cool and I like them all, even if they are weird in their own way. I'm sure they say the same about me!

[sheep_herder ★]

14 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Yes on both accounts.  The "weird" one just recently moved, and as further evidence of his odd behavior, he just moved about a dozen or so homes away.  Slightly bigger place but he is SINGLE and retired. And he had been bitching about wanting to get rid of stuff, not about getting a bigger home with space for more stuff.

You think that is weird?

[Road Runner]

In the early 80's, I lived in a suburban community, houses right next to each other.  One afternoon, I hear loud popping noises.  WTH?  I go out to investigate.  My wife said not to, but I was young and stupid.  My next door neighbor is firing a small caliber rifle in his backyard!  At what or why, I never found out.  I told him that it was against the law to discharge a firearm in the city limits.  He wasn't happy with me, but he stopped.  

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

I am that neighbor.

[Razors Edge ★]

14 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

In the early 80's, I lived in a suburban community, houses right next to each other.  One afternoon, I hear loud popping noises.  WTH?  I go out to investigate.  My wife said not to, but I was young and stupid.  My next door neighbor is firing a small caliber rifle in his backyard!  At what or why, I never found out.  I told him that it was against the law to discharge a firearm in the city limits.  He wasn't happy with me, but he stopped.  

Effing HOAs! Killing Merica!

[JerrySTL ★]

Yes and so do my neighbors.

One home next to us have never used there garage for cars. They moved there in 1993 and still have the moving boxes in the garage. The inside of their house is like a hoarder's where it's difficult to navigate due to all the crap. The wife has a PHD in Math but was kicked out of most the local colleges as a teacher. The hubby is about 15 years younger and was a former student of hers. Including the youngest daughter, all three living there are at least 100 lbs overweight and the Schwan’s delivery truck brings most of their meals that they don't get from fast food places.

Our back yard neighbor is a cat lady who feeds at least 5 stray cats and a raccoon or two. We have a local epidemic of distemper in raccoons and I'm sure that the cats haven't been vaccinated. OH! She 'forgot' to pay the IRS about $50,000 in taxes over the last few years and got caught recently. Forgot?

The guy next door is a jerk and is also the neighborhood gossip. For example: He had his ex-wife arrested under trumped up charges the night before the custody battle for their child during the divorce. He also calls the cops on his other neighbor if that guy parks a car in front of the jerk's house or if he is having a party. The guy cut the jerk's front lawn for an entire season when the jerk broke his leg. There's more that I won't go into except he retired from the military after 20 years as only an E-5.

The neighbors across the street are from Jordan. There's about 8 of them in a 3-bedroom duplex. Most of them don't speak English. But guess what? They are great people and I'd rather have them stay than the other neighbors.

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

1 minute ago, Razors Edge said:

Effing HOAs! Killing Merica!

Um, it wasn't the HOA, it is a city/county ordinance.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, Old#7 said:

Um, it wasn't the HOA, it is a city/county ordinance.

Effing government!!! Killing Merica!

[Parsnip Totin Jack ★]

3 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Effing government!!! Killing Merica!

That's more like it. Factually accurate rants are preferred by 4 out of 5 tinfoil-capped crackpots.

[Page Turner]

...my next door neighbor is not weird.He's just an asshole.   Normal, regular, garden variety asshole.

[Road Runner]

Just now, Page Turner said:

...my next door neighbor is not weird.He's just an asshole.   Normal, regular, garden variety asshole.

I'm sorry.  I didn't know we were neighbors!   

[BuffJim]

26 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

In the early 80's, I lived in a suburban community, houses right next to each other.  One afternoon, I hear loud popping noises.  WTH?  I go out to investigate.  My wife said not to, but I was young and stupid.  My next door neighbor is firing a small caliber rifle in his backyard!  At what or why, I never found out.  I told him that it was against the law to discharge a firearm in the city limits.  He wasn't happy with me, but he stopped.  

My Dad did that in the 70's. Shooting rabbits out the back window in our suburb of 100,000 people with no discharge of guns allowed.

He does not like rabbits in his garden.

[Road Runner]

4 minutes ago, BuffJim said:

He does not like rabbits in his garden.

I'll bet the rabbits weren't too happy with him, either!   

[Road Runner]

I met a woman recently named Kathryn, who claimed that her neighbor was totally insane.  She finally sold her house and moved away because she was so afraid of the next crazy thing he might do.   

[Longjohn ★]

1 hour ago, Old#7 said:

Um, it wasn't the HOA, it is a city/county ordinance.

City/town ordinances are killing America 

[maddmaxx ★]

Yes I do.

[Further]

I call the one guy Woodchuck, he retired a few years ago and now watches television pretty much non stop. He and his wife tried to quit smoking, and got the house interior cleaned and painted. She succeeded he didn't, so now he pops out onto the deck, smokes a cigarette and dives back into the TV room. Reminds me of a woodchuck, popping out of his hole & diving back in.  

[Road Runner]

6 minutes ago, Further said:

Reminds me of a woodchuck, popping out of his hole & diving back in.  

I have a guy across the street that does this exact same thing.  Maybe the nicotine patch would be better than all that coming out and going back in crap.  

[Wilbur ★]

4 hours ago, Road Runner said:

How about you?   Great neighbors or weird fanatics?

I don't know.  None of them have made it across the moat. 

[maddmaxx ★]

My neighbors even have weird neighbors.

[Dirtyhip]

We are the weird neighbors.  

[AirwickWithCheese]

Not really.   

[goldendesign]

I have a great neighborhood. Overall. We are a gated, HOA, security patrolled, idyllic suburbia. We have lines miles long for Halloween trick or treating, Christmas light golf cart parades for charity, a volunteer lawn mower brigade to help out our older members, and an extremely receptive, active clubhouse at the golf course. 

Do I have a few wackos? Of course! I know to never ask Mark any politics or else I'll be there listening to dark-web, frog people conspiracy theories till the sun sets. The Mitchell's always offer to pray with you instead of candy on Halloween and have a gloriously tacky Jesus Christ baby for Christmas in the front yard.

Do I have great neighbors? Beyond a doubt. My direct neighbors are like family extensions. Raj and I spend hours on the back porches working on programming together when I was going to school. When i started the job hunt he offered to add me as an employee to his company and gave me 4 years experience, no questions. Paul and Mary both were at the baby shower and we watch football games together with cook outs most Sundays. 

I can go on, easily. I knew of this neighborhood years before we could move here. We scrounged and saved for years. We had the most patient realtor who was with us for 3 years while we waited and watched the market implode so we could actually afford to live here. We may be one of "poorest" people living in here, but we are enriched by the community.

Tl;Dr: We have some weirdos, many awesome people, and love it here.

[shootingstar]

I only described earlier my present neighbours. Previous neighbour were a couple who worked internationally in Cuba, Jordan before settling in our city for a few years. We liked them, down to earth, responsible and decent.  They went back to Cuba and will retire in their home in Australia.  They are Canadian.

I think various neighbours in our buildings have worked and lived in other parts of Canada/world before settling down in our bldg. 1 condo neighbour and also on strata board, is full time property manager for a co-op and also co-partner in a local business where they do odd jobs for seniors....landscaping, etc. They have a roster of over 100+ local customers. She was a poster person for the local biz in Vancouver before moving. 

[Longjohn ★]

My Amish neighbors are all good, really nice people. There have been a few non-Amish neighbors on our road that were a bit whacko. The lady that lived with her husband and son in the woods behind our property seemed nice, she was a cute blonde with a slim body and she was the secretary at the gated community a few miles away. Somehow she got hooked on crack and lost her job and quit taking care of her house and family. I guess they had taken out second mortgages and home equity loans and eventually she left and about a year later her husband and son walked away from the property and it went up for tax sale. The other non-Amish neighbors were two brothers and a sister that rented the house down in Skunk Hollow for 27 years. None of them worked, they played the system for whatever kind of free money they could get. They never bothered anyone but what a miserable way to live. When their landlord passed away his brother who lived in Aridzona inherited the place and sold it without ever seeing it. The bums moved out and a single 25 year old guy bought it. He is in the process of renovating the place, on the weekends he has loud parties. He has a helicopter parked in his front yard and a bucket truck and a ski boat out back. He likes to shoot guns late at night but overall he is an improvement over that last neighbors. 

[Ralphie ★]

Just now, Page Turner said:

...my next door neighbor is not weird.He's just an asshole.   Normal, regular, garden variety asshole.

I had one of those who moved away a couple of years ago. :)

[Road Runner]

7 hours ago, Page Turner said:

...my next door neighbor is not weird.  He's just an asshole.   Normal, regular, garden variety asshole.

I hope people don't start growing them in their gardens.