What do you have that your next door neighbor's don't?


Nothing that I can think of - we have similar houses, yards, kids, dogs, cars... Only been in their house once.
 
Solo living. There are huge families living all around me. I'm the odd man out (pun intended).
 
I have the largest house in the neighborhood. It belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church before I bought it. Prior to that a Doctor lived in the house and used it as his office as well. I have a Bunsen burner spigot in an alcove that I use as a pantry that he must of used for lab work.

Very interesting older home. It is about 100 years old, how old I cannot be sure. I have all of the property titles going back to the 1870's and some of them mention buildings on the property, but they do not describe them. In the alcove I mention above there is a closed-off staircase that went to the second floor. Upstairs it terminates in a huge closet I have in the master bath. The two upstairs bathrooms are decorated in wonderful art deco tile work and fittings. I have left that intact.
 
EDIT: Remembered something I have that many of my neighbors don't. My hearing. I live among a lot of older retirement aged folk (still working) and disabled folk. Lot of them are deaf, which makes interesting yard conversations for the old man behind me that I regularly "talk" to. He's a hoot of an old scraggly man.

I'm only 7 years old compared to them as I started over with just my car, clothes, bike, and tools.

Tools, that's it. I have a lifetime of collecting tools to work on the cars and the house. Never took the car to a mechanic in 20 years and never had someone else work on my house.

I pull in after work and see my neighbor out with his motorcycle tore apart. I check on him and he says it wouldn't start. I look and see he essentially only has a hammer, screw driver, ratchet, and 3 odd-ball sockets for the ratchet. So I open up my shed and it's like a Snap-on truck in there. Grab my tool bag that has a copy of most of the mechanical tools and help him out.

Funny thing is, the first thing I ask is if he has gas for his lawn mower. He looks at me, "No, that's not it..." Threw the tank back on temporarily and threw a splash of gas in it and it fires right up. I put the bike back together for him and told him to take it to the gas station, LOL. He came back 4 hours later after a 100 miles or so ride.
 
Very fitting considering what it looks like outside my window right now. A snow blower. One side is a mid twenties woman that bought the house in November, other side is a mid thirties guy that bought the house from his parents that moved south. 5 inches so far with another 10 expected overnight.
 
A heat pump. Our house stays nice and cool thanks to the a/c, theirs is a sweat box 😳
 


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