Let's talk neighbors!! Anything unique about yours?

[Kitty 34]

Probably the fact that the neighbors to my left and right are family members is probably the most unique thing I have to say.

However I can say that the neighbor across the street (not related) has been remodeling his house for 17 years now!!!:p

What's something "unique" about your neightbor??:)

[JerseyJanice]

Can I say that I love all my neighbors truly? That they are wonderful people and I consider us very blessed to have bought a home on a street filled with such terrific and caring individuals?

Well, that's what I'm saying. I guess they're uniquely fantastic.

[snoopy]

My next door neighbors are rather unique. They are older, probably in their late 60's. We've lived here for 9 years and have only met her once, the day she decided to leave her house (the first time in 9 years) and came barrelling down the road in reverse and slammed into our car. Poor dear, she seems a bit unstable.

Her husband appears to be a bit unstable as well. We see him in the morning getting the newspaper and ocassionally tinkering outside. The unique thing about him is you never ever see him without his hard hat. He'll be out in the morning getting the newspaper in his robe and hard hat. I think he was once in construction, or I can only guess that was the case. :)

[TigerBear]

My next door neighbor is a older, female Rabbi from South America! How is that for unique!! :D

[newmousecateer]

He'll be out in the morning getting the newspaper in his robe and hard hat

I honestly have sympathy if they are both a little unstable, but I pictured what you said and just had to LOL

[Robinrs]

Well, my favorite neighbor is a 70 year old woman who is just a HOOT! And get this... she's taking care of HER mother! Her and Mom take a walk like clockwork everyday at 3pm. They're more athletic than I am! They just LOVE my son, and whenever he has a new video he goes to their house and watches it with them.

The other neighbors, ::shudder:: are a strange, biracial couple. He works on furniture day and night and she spends most of her time speaking another language, she's African, LOUDLY on a cellphone. She looks like she's HALF his age and he looks like a dirty old man... :p Needless to say they're the old ladies' favorite topic of conversation! :rolleyes:

[Tinkbell]

My next door neighbor is the ultimate cat woman. I really don't know how many cats are in that house.:D I have lived here for a year and I have only seen her about 10 times, but I have never seen her without a cat. She seems very nice and is about 60 or so. The cats seem happy and taken care of.

I called the neighbor next door to me when I was growing up "grass man". If we stepped foot on his grass, even if only for a second, a voice would scream out, "Get off the grass!". I think he just sat by the window and waited for us to go on the grass.:rolleyes:

[tater bug]

well, the lady that lives straight across from us survived a burst brain aneurism (sp?) and the subsequent surgery to remove 3 more. Her memory is shot so every time we talk to her we have the same conversation. The people living next to us just moved up from Orlando and there is 5 of them living in a 2 BR house. I don't think I could do that. Other than that I don't know any of the neighbors.

[beachbunny]

I've got an amazing set of neighbors.

One neighbor is a very high ranking elected official. He's got 24 hour security posted at his house. His frequent parties are a veritable who's who of local and national politics and entertainment.

I've got another neighbor who thinks her house is the most classy and elegant structure on the block because it was recently in some home and garden magazine. It's got pink marble everywhere (floors, columns, kitchen, bath, etc...) and tons of gold fixtures. Very tacky.

Another neighbor is just awful. They've got a dog who they keep tied by a short chain to the roof of their garage 24 hours/day. They call it security. I call it mean but the local animal shelter says there's nothing illegal about it. They're kids hang out in the garage playing loud music and smoking (yes, they're under age) at all hours of the day. They have had a stream of renters (they rent out one room of the house -- I don't think they could afford to live in their house if they didn't rent part of it out) who look like transients. The last renter didn't even live there. He just used the garage as an autobody shop. The noise and smell were so bad that I reported it to the city. Turns out that operation violates our residential zoning ordinance and both the renter and the owner were cited. That renter was evicted.

[Stephen's Mom]

OK, the most unique thing about my neighbors is that the husband is a moron. He's unfortunately one of our trades we use at work so I have to see him at work and at home. Not has he screwed up practically every job he's had for our company, he's also an idiot at home. He backs over our front lawn, so we built a planter out of concrete blocks between our yards to prevent this. He's backed into that twice and knocked the blocks over. And this is gross so stop reading now if you like cats (which I happen to adore), he actually backed over his cat's tail which separated from the cat when the poor thing ran off (told you it was gross). The cat by the way is doing fine without a tail and is the friendliest sweetest cat who loves to come visit us (I would too, just to get out of that house!).

Good news is that their house is for sale!

[Kitty 34]

Originally posted by Stephen's Mom
OK, the most unique thing about my neighbors is that the husband is a moron. He's unfortunately one of our trades we use at work so I have to see him at work and at home. Not has he screwed up practically every job he's had for our company, he's also an idiot at home. He backs over our front lawn, so we built a planter out of concrete blocks between our yards to prevent this. He's backed into that twice and knocked the blocks over. And this is gross so stop reading now if you like cats (which I happen to adore), he actually backed over his cat's tail which separated from the cat when the poor thing ran off (told you it was gross). The cat by the way is doing fine without a tail and is the friendliest sweetest cat who loves to come visit us (I would too, just to get out of that house!).

Good news is that their house is for sale!

Oh my! That poor kitty!!!

LOL Robin:bounce:

[Disney Doll]

With the exception of one, I have essentially nice, and relatively normal, neighbors.Next door to the right is a cute family with 2 young kids who are well behaved. Diagonally behind to the right is another nice family with 2 young kids who are nice and well-behaved. These 2 "young kids" families backyards touch, so the kids all play together and it seems to be great! Right behind me a is single woman, deaf teacher, wonderful neighbor, one of my dearest friends. Diagonally behind to the left are the least favorite neighbors. They used to live in a condo and when they first moved here, they thought they'd run the neighborhood like the condo complex...NOT! You don't pay my mortgage, you don't tell me what to do with my house;) .To my left is a wonderful single woman who is a marriage and family therapist who works out of her home. Across the street is a church and a cemetery, so those neighbors are the quietest of all;) !

[Beauty]

Robin and Snoops I am ROTFLOL at you two. Robin those 2 old ladies are going to be my mom and grandmother soon. My mom is 60 and my grandmother 86 and they live together!!

On my left side the house is empty and for sale. Across the street on the right is a family with a teenage son. Very nice people. John-Cole even plays with the son every now and then. Hes a young teenager 13 and J.C. is 10. Right across from us is a young girl with 3 kids who just got married and is pg again. Their yard is a mess and they keep 2 dogs tied up out back and have one inside. They have only bothered us once and thats when they had a party and fireworks which they shot off in every direction. We didn't say anything to them and they haven't done anything since. Next to them is an older couple with a gorgeous yard. I liked them from the moment they told me their dog's name was Flower...from Bambi!

Now my weirdest neighbors are right next door. She is younger than me...probably 27 or so and he is probably 45 or so. They have ducks, geese, rabbits, dogs, cats, and goodness only knows what else. They keep them clean and fed though and take good care of them. She has a daughter which she lets run wild around the neighborhood which scares me to death. The little girl is about 5. She pregnant and due anyday and is still working in the garden...scares me to death. Anyway this got long...thats my story!

[allicat]

yes- the husband and wife across the street like to start drinking on the weekends at about 8 am so that they are plastered by about noon. They sit in their screened in porch and yell at each other- mostly incoherently!
Otherwise, I have a nice neighborhood!

[cinlee3]

My neighbors are all pretty unique on my little block. The man next door will duck into his house if we happen to be going to get the mail at the same time. I have actually never spoken to him in 12 years.

One day the FBI knocked on my door. They were conducting a security check on the my neighbor. I didn't really know what to say except that I had lived next door to him for several years, had no idea what his name was or anything about him.

Another neighbor only talks to me when she wants me to babysit her son (at the last minute and for overnight). The other one swore her baby could talk at 3 weeks old.:rolleyes:

[Saffron]

Uh oh. I can't think of anything unique about our neighbors. Does that mean ........... that we ................

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[amid chaos]

I have an elderly neighbor next door and I have more than once got a call in the middle of the night..."I've fallen and I can't get up". Yes, she is sweet and I go over everytime!

Across the street lives the almost retired elementary school principal...yes, Norah loved it when we moved across the street form the principal. They are very nice people.

Also Next door is the elderly couple, also very nice, but I cant keep up with the guys mowing schedule and my yard always looks like crap next to his.

We do have the new neighbors (well, a year and a half). She was a doctor, lost her license due to drugs. She went into several houses last summer and helped herself to narcotics.....got caught and got a slap on the wrist..!:mad:
How many times can someone commit a crime involving drugs and go to rehab instead of jail...for her so far it has been 4....no jail time yet.

[hulabird]

Mine are the nicest people and will do anything for you, but they are the odd couple:

the woman is like 4'9, skinny and is Chinese
the man is like 6'2, round and fat, and is polish

but they are good people and great neighbors

[Serena]

On one side is my inlaws. Yes, they are controlling and I'm not quite good enough, but they try to be nice and they don't come over often.

They other side is pretty nice, I don't hear from them much. She went into hiding when she stopped smoking and gained weight. He works alot.
She was married before and they got into fights all the time. Frequently things would be thrown out of their house, front door, and back door.
They had a pit bull terrier, but it didn't kill my cat when it had a chance. In fact the cat was in his mouth at the time. My dh said his name and he dropped her like a hot potato, or a clawing cat, whichever.
The neighbors behind me cuss my kids out on occasion. We have a privacy fence up and all.
Across the street we have nice neighbors for the most part.

A few houses down the street had some really interesting people. One day I was doing dishes and looking out my window toward the front when I see two men fighting in the middle of the street. One had something that looked like a pipe, but it didn't look like either one was being hurt much. I figured it would get worse and it did.
I called the police and they wanted to know the address but I didn't have it. I told them that the people were not hard to see, they were in the middle of the road. It kept getting worse and I see people walking/running menacingly towards the house and cars pull up and people start really doing some damage about the time the police cars show up. It was perfect timing.

[Lars624]

Most of my neighbors are fairly normal........except this one family across the street. It's a man, his wife, their daughter & his 2 kids from 2 other marriages. They FIGHT loudly and outside. My 4 year old (now 6) learned some really inappropriate words in the front yard as these 2 "adults" had a shouting match of mostly BAD swear words. I wasn't home at the time but DH rushed the kiddies inside fast.

[cindala]

The most unique thing about one set of our next door neighbors, is that one of their 3 sons, the 20 year old, spits on our cars parked in the driveway!!!!!!! We haven't caught him in the act on camera, but we have seen him spit out the window, and there is always some phlegm or something on our cars in the morning.

We have tried moving them, but this happens at night, he works late hours for UPS, and I can't stay up all night trying to catch him! DD just got a new car, so we park that one in the garage. They are a VERY envious, and nosey family. This son was a behavior problem in school. Just disgusting!!!!:(




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[disykat]

The most unique thing about my current neighbors is that they evidently haven't paid their mortgage in about 1 1/2 years and they still live there! Their house was supposed to be auctioned off in June, but they're still there. Now they have another family living with them. Also - Their septic tank is overflowing (I can actually see stuff seeping out of it). The stench is unbearable and they're not doing anything about it! I called the health department on them today. ARGH!

[beachbunny]

Cindala, Totally gross!! I'd call the cops if you have evidence. Also, if he has something like Hepatitis, you could be at risk.

disykat, Double gross!!

You guys make me happy knowing I'm not the only one with bad neighbors. ;)

[smiley]

We get along with all our neighbors, but probably the most unique thing is that both neighbors on either side of us have dogs. The neighbors to the right of us have a dog that only barks when they're gone, which seems like a lot. Interestingly enough, the neighbors to the left have two dogs who only bark when they're home. :rolleyes: figure that one out!!!!

[browneyes]

99.9% of my neighbors are my SO's family.:rolleyes: I'm surrounded.:(

[cindala]

beachbunny,
You know I never thought of hepatitis!!! I'm always out there with the Windex! I think I may need to mention this problem to the mother, but I doubt it will get any results!!!:(




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[tiggerlover]

We have only lived in our neighborhood for three months and the house next to ours is being fixed for a couple who is marrying in September. We have only spoken to these neighbors on a few ocassions because they do not live here yet and they speak Italian (only a little english) and we speak english (a little Italian). Anyway, they went on vacation to the Seychelle Islands and asked us just to watch out for the house, which any good neighbor would do. Today we received a postcard in the mail from them....very thoughtful. We were surprised it reached us because it had the wrong house number and only our first names, but very nice of them to think of us.

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[Kitty 34]

Originally posted by browneyes
99.9% of my neighbors are my SO's family.:rolleyes: I'm surrounded.:(



My DH could answer this thread the same as you!!!:jester: My Mom lives to our right, my sister lives to our left, my one brother lives on the other side of my sister and my other brother (None are named Larry!!!!) lives behind my sister. I'm sure it drives him nuts some times because even tho they're MY family, they drive me nuts!!!:p

[Curly Q]

I have a neighbor who collects bedpans and displays them on racks on his porch :crazy:

[Jingle]

We have one neighbor who put up something similar to crime scene tape (only it was orange) all around his yard during our annual summer festival. We live real close to the park where this festival is held. I guess he wants to make sure that nobody walks in their yard or sits at the end of their yard for the parade.

This festival just happens to start tonight. I wonder if their yard will be taped off when I get home.

This person also questionned my kids and called the police because supposedly one of their garbage bags was taken before the garbage truck came around.

I still think they are nice people. Just very private.

[browneyes]

Originally posted by Kitty 34

My DH could answer this thread the same as you!!!:jester: My Mom lives to our right, my sister lives to our left, my one brother lives on the other side of my sister and my other brother (None are named Larry!!!!) lives behind my sister. I'm sure it drives him nuts some times because even tho they're MY family, they drive me nuts!!!:p
To my right there are 2 brothers' houses, behind me is his dad (his oldest brother and a cousin live there too), another brother lives next door to his dad. Also behind me is his uncle, and his cousin. From my bedroom window I see his nephew's home. His sister and other nephew live next door to them. His cousin lives 2 doors down from his other nephew. His uncle and another cousin live next door to that cousin. There's 3 other houses on that road, and all are his sister's inlaws. Down the road, there's 2 uncles houses and 3 cousins houses. There's another group of family members (there were 13 kids in that family and 7-8 of them live right there). I counted up one day and within a 1/2 mile radius there were around 75 of his family members that live RIGHT there. When I say I'm surrounded, I'm VERY surrounded. (he has 5 brothers and 1 sister, only 1 brother doesn't live there-he lives 15 minutes away.)

[Figment and I]

:smooth: They only come out at night?????:rolleyes:

[mhopset]

Lets see... I have a neighbor on left that is single and has 2 kids that DRIVE ME NUTS!!!!! they also have everyting coming and going, (lice, ringworm, who knows what else). The lady on the right is ok, but she does get into her moods. In the front of us is an elementary school, and in the back I have no idea who the people are.

[mrsapalm]

When my DH and I moved to Houston in '99, we actually had our very own Ugly Naked Guy. He was grossly large and apparently was allergic to clothing. He always had his blinds up AND always watched porn on his big-screen tv that faced the windows - did I mentioned that he always fast-forwarded to the good parts? We used to laugh about it, and if we had guests, that was part of our entertainment for the evening. There weren't any kids within view of his place, or else I would've talked to mgmt. about it. He had this tiny doggie that he showered with attention and was so proud of... he would sit on his terrace (shorts on) while the doggie did his business... just like a proud Dad. Too bad we moved since then, I miss the big, nude fellow!
-MrsAPalm

[goofygirl]

My street is occupied by Russian and Indian immigrants. I am American, and I'm the minority.


I've got a neighbor who plays loud Russian music, and another neighbor who cooks with a lot of curry and smells up the block.

I have been living on my street 30 years, we've only had one fire on the block. The house on the corner sat boarded up for a few years, but recently got remodeled and looks 100% better!

My street was on local tv news once- when a freak tornado hit the area and did some real damage.

[Dodie]

Our neighbor talks to himself constantly when he's outside in the yard. Not mumbling... TALKS LOUDLY to himself about EVERYTHING!

He has a loud voice anyway, but the talking to himself thing just cracks DH and I up!:cool:

[Kitty 34]

Gosh! Some of you are making the movie "The Burbs" look normal!!!!!;) ;) ;)



Browneyes......my DH sends his sympathy!!!!:jester: :bounce:

[Boots]

Actually everyone just about in my neighborhood is related except for us. The people across the road (we have lived across from them for almost 29 years) let my children when they were little call them Aunt and Uncle like their nieces and nephews so mine wouldn't feel left out. And my children still do even though they are in their 20's and DD is getting closer to 30!

[wdwnutze]

The neghbors to the right of us have a dirt backyard and "sweep" it before and after they have cookouts. They are a strange couple in their 50's. On the other side is the neighborhood funeral time so it is usually pretty quiet there!

[UHF44]

My next door neighbor is totally mad it has got to the point that we are considering constructing a 12 foot fence with razer wire mine field and gun towers to keep hir out.Cant mention hir name
because she is on the DIS boards.But i can give you a clue to hir name it is the stripey character that pals about with Pooh bear.
No just jokeing.My next door neighbor is %100 mad but %100

[Goofyposter]

Let's talk neighbors!! Anything unique about yours?


Groosch....wart dew YOU think???

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LOL! nope...actually a great group! :)

[Sonya]

I live in an old neighborhood with lots of old neighbors. However I have 2 "not-normal" ones. My next door neighbor works for the local rock and roll radio station and has his own band. His parties are interesting, but are always over at 10pm. Great neighbor! We don't know his name, but his dog is named Boog, short for booger, so we call him "Boogs dad".

The other strange one is 2 houses down, very nice guy, abour 70 y.o. I think. He is on his 2nd marriage and has 2 little girls about 3 and 4. Go neighbor!

[Lucky4me]

Can I say I love my neighbors too? It's unique in a neighborhood with homes as close as ours, that we get along so well. I think it's because while we do chat from time to time, we have an unspoken rule about no gossip. Some of us are closer than others but we don't talk about the ones who aren't. Everyone does their own thing and we respect each others privacy. I feel so secure knowing I have people around me I can turn to when I need them and that I am here for them as well. Sometimes I hate my money pit house and want to move so badly, but only if I could take all my neighbors with me!

[cotye]

Nothing unique I suppose, but I've got a wacky neighbour who likes to dress up in heavy clothing to garden, even when it's boiling outside. Hottest day of the year, she's outside in her garden with a sweater on, gloves, the whole nine yards. I'm just cringing watching her... can't imagine how hot that would be. This is the same neighbour that accused me of taking my dog over to her yard to do it's business. Yes, I would have to physically walk all the way around to her house, open a locked gate and take him inside to do it. Either that or I slid my dog's bum over the fence or even threw the stuff over. LOL....