Neighborhoods evolve; Remember why you picked yours.

[DawnCt1]

I was noticing that the next generation of kids is starting to play out in the street, but it isn't like it used to be. When my kids were out playing, the parents would hang out and talk as well or at least pop out now and then to check on things. The kids were taught to not throw "hard" balls near the cars, to not run their bikes into someone elses stuff...basically to respect other peoples property and to be curtious of the time of day. This next set of kids has no parental supervision, no respect for property and no respect for early mornings...(someone was riding a power wheels up and down the street at 5am this morning)

I guess, some might say I am getting old because I have been known to complain now a days, but it is not the good old fashioned fun and noise I am opposed to. I just miss the days of respectful children.

The mom is a stay at home mom who supervises her children and her dog. Her children are respectful, and nice kids.

 

[DawnCt1]

Well, I love the kids playing around the neighborhood, and I have no kids.

I do have that "one" neighbor...when they first moved in (and I mean 'first'...they had lived here about 2 weeks literally) the wife called my house one afternoon at about 2pm to complain that my dog had barked at a squirrel...3 barks...woof, woof, woof. Apparently she counted. I told her that when my dog was barking at a squirrel at 2 o'clock in the morning then she could call me. A while later she felt the need to comment on how we landscaped our yard...she didn't care for the 2 lovely ornamental plum trees that I put near my fence because they blocked her view of my house when she looked out her window (which was the point! ). Apparently she had been President of her condo association prior to moving to our neighborhood, so felt that she should have the same "authority" here in the neighborhood, where BTW we had no kind of HOA, because she had "experience dealing with these types of things". I told her when she paid my mortgage, she could tell me how to landscape my yard. She told another neighbor that she didn't like her landscape lighting, so that neighbor changed it. Me, I would have added more...my house and the Great Wall of China would have been the only 2 things visible from the moon!

Needless to say, if some neighbor told me that they didn't like my kids' toys being out in the yard, guess how many toys would be out in the yard?????

That would be my reaction as well. I do understand however, how this mom might feel "outnumbered". She has one of two young families. The rest of us have been here since the neighborhood was new and the "kids" are in college or out by now.

 

[Randi]

This is probably what most of you will think is really dumb, but 40 yrs ago when we were looking for a house, we choose our neighborhood because it was a new development & there wasn't any gas being put in the houses.

My husband chose to commute an hour each way since all the new developments nearer to his work were being constructed with gas heat & gas cooking. Both of us were/are terrified of gas explosions and wouldn't have been able to sleep at night knowing the neighbor's house could blow up.

But it has been a good neighborhood with lots of kids and a good mix of ages. There are younger families moving in now, & next year I will be selling my house and moving on. But there are still some of the original families living here.

 

[flying_babyb]

I have a funny irrated neighbor story. He was a eldery guy and lived with his wife right next door to the house we were renting. When my aunt was little he turned the hose on her cause she ran through his yard (my grandma lived near our rental). Well, my best freind and I were amature film makers at the time (high school kids) and we decided to make a movie about aliens (x files fans) and well we had to film a night scence. Well apparently two kids laughing and calling each other mulder and scully and holding maglights was worthly of calling the police. The police just LAUGHED and asked to be in our movie.

 

[DawnCt1]

I have a funny irrated neighbor story. He was a eldery guy and lived with his wife right next door to the house we were renting. When my aunt was little he turned the hose on her cause she ran through his yard (my grandma lived near our rental). Well, my best freind and I were amature film makers at the time (high school kids) and we decided to make a movie about aliens (x files fans) and well we had to film a night scence. Well apparently two kids laughing and calling each other mulder and scully and holding maglights was worthly of calling the police. The police just LAUGHED and asked to be in our movie.

That is funny!