Neighbours from ...Heck...👿
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Used to have this recluse couple houses down the street. Would rev up his chainsaw every morning around 4AM and would put hang nooses out on display hanging from this weird contraption in his backyard. Miss ya Tex!
Also, how well do you know your neighbours?
Yep.
Used to have this recluse couple houses down the street. Would rev up his chainsaw every morning around 4AM and would put hang nooses out on display hanging from this weird contraption in his backyard. Miss ya Tex!
Also, how well do you know your neighbours?
Yep.
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My old neighbors sold drugs and one time someone did a drive by shooting. 🤷🏻♀️
Some other place I lived got shot up too and I'm pretty sure someone died.
I've never gotten to know any of my neighbors.3 -
It wasn't the neighbors that were the problem. It was my little sister who would go around and visit the neighbors telling them everything my folks said. She told one woman, 'My mother says you look just like John Denver' and many other things like that made a mess out of everything. Took us awhile to figure it out.7
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I just went on vacation with 3 of my neighbors. They've become one of my closest friends. My other neighbors are really good friends of ours too and we all get along and watch out for each other. Except for the one at the end of the block. Her son got released from jail due to covid. He sells meth. So now we see meth heads in our neighborhood and it's disheartening. We have collectively talked to the police about the activity so there's more police activity in our little section of the neighborhood. I feel truly blessed to have my neighbors be one of my best friends.6
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the guy who used to live next to me screamed a lot.
"NO"
"AHHHHHHHH"
"WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
it was just random as far as i could tell. like he wasn't watching football or nothing i don't think.
he got deployed a while back though. the lady who lives there now is okay. shes a police dispatcher and shes super quiet.
the only problem is when she does her laundry the smell bleeds over into my apartment and she is a huge huge fan of old lady powder scented detergent8 -
i had neighbors when i first moved into this neighborhood that were not great
a couple that always fought, dad would take off for a long time, older boy who sold drugs and got arrested in front of house, and then a little girl kinda caught up in it.
they always had car up on blocks or when the dad was gone the older kid had his friends over and they partied all night and their *kitten* was in my yard and woke up my babies
there are a few cops who live in the neighborhood that hated em so like they were always getting noise complaint visits and i think that’s what led to the older kid getting arrested. i never called police bc i just dont by principle but one time when there was a real knock down drag out fight between the parents i thought about it
anyways the little girl was like 6 when i moved in and i was always friendly to her and felt so bad for her bc i know its hell living like that as a kid. she come over to my yard and play bc her yard always had so many cars in the driveway, and loud friends of her brothers. i would like get some chalk or markers or whatever she could play with but didnt talk with her a lot
after a few years she got older and around ten she started hanging out more with her brothers friends, he was still at home tho like 20 now. she was so little but started dressing like she was going to a club or something and the guys around kept checking her out and its like i could see her whole life laid out, all the bad *kitten* that was goin to happen, it made my stomach hurt
about a year later the parents finally divorced and they moved and the house was fire sale bc there were holes kicked in doors and punched in walls and it was a wreck inside
now a nice Indian family lives there, they fixed up the house to perfect again. they make amazing curry and their kids play with mine. idk at all what happened to the other family or the girl
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Dang.... I guess that I'm the neighbor.5
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My neighbors are my in-laws so7
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My husband has asthma. The worst trigger for him is smoke from a wood-burning fire. We had some new neighbors move in next door who LOVED bonfires. Like, not occasionally on a fall weekend, but nearly EVERY NIGHT. Where I live, the lots are small, so the houses are very close together. Their fire pit was right under our bedroom window, and the smoke would infiltrate our whole house, even with the windows closed.
After a few bad asthma attacks, I spoke with them. I explained the effect this was having on my husband's health, and how dangerous it was for him. They expressed sympathy and said they would move the fire pit and use it less often. They moved it 20 feet (small yard, as I said) but continued to have fires on average about 5 nights a week. I talked to them again, and they just blew me off and basically said it was my problem now.
It was so bad and causing us so much stress that we started to look for a new house, but found out quickly that we couldn't afford to move at that time. We had to deal with it for about 5 years. Some bad nights, my husband and I would go stay at my parents house to avoid the smoke. The neighbors finally moved out and we got our lives back.
They had every legal right to have those fires, but you would think, on a human level, they would do the kind thing for another person. I know I would.7 -
@SuzySunshine99
There's a neighbor down the lane who has a cat house instead of a chicken coop. She has cats cooped up in there and they've never been out of there for any fresh air or exercise. I hate it. Just plain nuttier than a fruitcake. Everyone has called the authorities to no avail. Every cat has their shots and their own cage. OMG, makes me sick as I write this. She keeps them in the chicken coop and they have never ever been out of there.
The elderly woman is sick but the new caregiver is allergic to cats. All of the cats were recently removed. This has been going on for years and years. I can't handle cruelty to animals or critters. There must have been 20 or 30 cats in there.3 -
Hmmm, some of my neighbors have dogs and a couple of them allow their dogs to use another neighbor's yard for their poop spot. I feel bad for the neighbor who has poop all over his lawn.
BUT he's also the neighbor from hell, to me.
I've shared thoughts about him before. I don't think I've shared these 2 though; one day he came over disgruntled because his shoes and clothes smelled of skunk...right after he had sat down on my new couch. WTF And so many times his topic of conversation revolves around his health, as do a lot of elderly people which I understand and do try to be sympathetic. BUT he goes into lots of detail about his colostomy. Eek. 4 -
My one neighbor is a great guy. Offered to shovel snow and go to the grocery store for us after my husband had a stroke some years ago. Does the elderly neighbor's yard just to be nice. Is always cheerful and pleasant. AND he keeps a perfectly manicured yard all year long - it is gorgeous and decorated for the season with cute planters and assorted statues. I actually saw him out there the other day with scissors trimming up around his walkway. Puts my yard to shame. I really hate my neighbor.
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I'm at the end of my street so I only have one close neighbour. When I moved in there was a lovely older couple next door, friendly but not intrusive, and meticulous about their house and yard. I would see her out in her garden at 6 AM and she'd be sweeping at the curb when I drove off to work.
The husband became terminally ill and they decided to sell the house. It was sold to another older couple who moved their son and his wife and kids into it.
The back yard soon looked like a landfill site. I swear every bit of scrap metal in town lived in that yard at one point. The dad would show up once a year and make the son clean it up but that didn't last long. He likes to store junk in the front yard too, there was a mattress standing upright at the front door for a few months.
Every now and then he has some kind of temper tantrum and hurls metal debris into my yard. I have to walk it inspecting for hazards before I can mow because some of it has been large enough to screw up my mower. When he had a dog he'd also throw dog feces in my yard. No idea how often that happened since I have two dogs of my own, but they certainly weren't flying up to crap on top of fences and border walls.
The best part is that he's a coke dealer. Pretty low level, middle-class, under the radar coke dealer so he's evaded legal consequences quite successfully. The wife took the kids and left. The parents continue to enable him by allowing him to live there but their asset has depreciated so badly since he moved in they'll never get their money back now.4 -
Bless your hearts.
Neighbors can be the worst. I prefer them to be the better part of a mile away.5 -
When my daughter was in kindergarten, new neighbors moved in and their son was in her class. One Sunday morning beginning of winter, the kid knocked at my door in bare feet, crying that he woke up and nobody was home. Got him in, put some clothes on him and left a note on their door about where he is. Mother came 4hours later and said she left the kid with her sister and the sister promised she won’t leave until they came back. A month later the sister came to offer babysitting services 😂😂 and was shocked when we refused.2
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brustmannzwei wrote: »Bless your hearts.
Neighbors can be the worst. I prefer them to be the better part of a mile away.
...... it just turns Trick-or-Treat night into a half-marathon.2 -
Motorsheen wrote: »brustmannzwei wrote: »Bless your hearts.
Neighbors can be the worst. I prefer them to be the better part of a mile away.
...... it just turns Trick-or-Treat night into a half-marathon.
Not if the local fire station grills burgers and offers hay rides to the kids1 -
@ythannah Oh my I think you win for one of the top ten worst neighbor awards.
I am so sorry you have to deal with that $H!t, literally and figuratively.
Well I don't have drive-by shootings and at least he doesn't come over, hang out and talk about his health issues.
We do have drug gang related homicides here though. His truck and the SO's truck are the same make and colour, just the SO's truck is a year younger. There have been times the SO's truck has sat in my driveway when he's been away for work and it's always made me a little nervous that somebody would plan a hit on the neighbour but the doofus would get confused between the houses because of the similar trucks and shoot up MY house by mistake.
One time he was hanging out the door of his truck at a really weird angle and not moving (I think he was doing something in the back seat) for so long, I was convinced somebody had come by and shot him, left his body dangling out there. I was even planning a celebratory cake and everything. It was really disappointing when he moved.4 -
Motorsheen wrote: »brustmannzwei wrote: »Bless your hearts.
Neighbors can be the worst. I prefer them to be the better part of a mile away.
...... it just turns Trick-or-Treat night into a half-marathon.
Not if the local fire station grills burgers and offers hay rides to the kids
@CacoEther
.... why do I hear the theme song of "Green Acres" as the soundtrack to this post ??1
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