Are your neighbors nice, or do they drive you crazy?

@JoyfulOne (6232)
United States
October 26, 2006 9:30pm CST
Everybody has neighbors, some good, some bad, and some just plain strange. Do you have a neighbor who just drives you up a wall? Most of mine are pretty nice, but I have lots that tresspass into my woods to poach animals without asking. What do your 'nutty' neighbors do to keep you entertained??
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
22 Nov 06
I live in town, and have had to put fencing on the side where the house has become a rental, sometimes the tenants ( different ones of them) do not keep an eye on their kids. Our neighbor to the south is the salt of the earth and a regular good ole boy, in a positive sense. I think he is a better neighbor to all of the rest of us than we are to him. Directly behind me across the alley is my churches parking lot. That was a problem when I first bought the house, but I did finally convince people that my driveway was not a public street or walkway. It helped a lot when Dairy Queen moved to a different location, not across the street fromme anymore. Across the street is a real estate agent, a blade sharpening service, a physical therapy clinic, and the American Red Cross.
@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
22 Nov 06
Sounds like you live in a pretty nice area! I only lived in a town once, had to do the fence bit the same as you because of the neighbors (renters) always being in our yard. I had to laugh, they got mad because we stuck the fence up because they could no longer come into our yard to sunbathe! (That was one of the main reasons I stuck the fence up, lol) Sometimes we just have to do whatever we have to do to maintain the peace. Have a nice Thanksgiving!
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@caribe (2465)
• United States
21 Nov 06
I have pretty nice neighbors where I live and I am counting on them to help me through any rough times I might have in the future with regards any government upheaval here. It is much better though since I built a guard wall around my property because they had a phone business where people go to make calls and people here don't respect others property and I had people lounging around talking on the rental phone in front of my house in my chairs, etc. They say fences make good neighbors.
@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
22 Nov 06
That's good you have pretty good neighbors that you can count on. Must be kinda scary with all of the upheavals that have been going on. It's a shame you had to build a wall, but sometimes you just have to do what makes your home and property safer. Wishing safety and peace for you!
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
31 Oct 06
We have generally nice neighbors, but we do have one neighbor that does get vary annoying. We refer to her as the wrinkly lady, cause she's all wrinkly from being in the sun so much..she'll like sleep while laying out in the sun. But anyway...this summer when I was in the pool with my radio on, not too loud but loud enough that I could hear it...Wrinkly lady turned hers louder so I couldn't hear mine.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
31 Oct 06
That's too bad! Just be comforted by knowing that someday she'll have more wrinkles than a shar pei dog. Sounds like she's competitive or something doesn't it? I can see where that would be annoying.
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
27 Nov 06
oh yea every time I turned mine slightly higher, she'd get out and turns hers up...guess she didn't like listening to Christian Rock.
@beckyomg1 (6756)
• United States
21 Nov 06
mine are ok we live in country so they are not that close.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
22 Nov 06
I live in the country too, and my neighbors are not close either. I think that makes a big difference!
@hdbueg (611)
• United States
21 Nov 06
My neighbors are pretty nice where I live.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
22 Nov 06
I'm glad to hear that! Makes life a little sweeter, doesn't it?! Thanks for sharing!
@scribe1 (1203)
• United States
18 Jan 08
Overall, my neighbors are pretty nice, except for the pesky ones who live in the corner house across the street. A few years ago, the lady of the house decided that she needed to rearrange the leaf pile in front of my house to accommodate her car. She even threw trashy papers on my lawn and worst of all, told HER next-door scumbag neighbors untrue stories about me....not that I care. They are ignorant, malicious, and just plain stupid, not worth my time or regard. I simply ignore them and pretend that they don't exist.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
18 Jan 08
That's too bad you have neighbors like that! Bad enough with the other stuff, but telling untrue tales takes the prize. That's probably a good idea to just ignore them.
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I am one of the lucky ones. I have super neighbors. Friendly, helpful, respectful, guiet, and they don't get in your business. Most of the people that live on my block have been here a long time. If I could pick my neighbors, I would pick the ones I have.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
30 Oct 06
That's great Polly!! Everybody should be blessed like that! I don't really have any close neighbors here in the country, but most of mine are really nice (there is one however...lol!)
• United States
27 Oct 06
My neighbors happen to be my boyfriend's family, so I'm lucky They're wonderful people.
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
27 Oct 06
Lucky you!!! That's nice that you have them for neighbors. Thanks for replying!
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@tsmeesa98 (576)
• United States
31 Oct 06
I am lucky enough to either have neighbors that don't bother me at all or neighbors that I get along well with. I live in a quiet neighborhood and my only complaint is when some of the people speed up and down the road (usually people visiting not the ones who live here)
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
31 Oct 06
That's good you have nice neighbors! Too bad about the visitors racing through with their cars though. You see that so much anymore, people seem to think speeding through a development is OK even though there's bound to be lots of kids there. Thanks for your response!
• United States
30 Oct 06
It seems like all my neighbors I get are crazy I don't know why now I have some that lives above me and they stomp when they walk and blast Latin Music and station all times of the night all types of weird things are going on up there. I love Latin Music and all types of music but not all times of the day!!!
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@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
30 Oct 06
That's too bad! Lots of times upstairs neighbors have absolutely NO idea just how loud their walking (stomping) around is to the person that lives below! I like Latin Music too, but I don't think I'd be too happy with it playing in the middle of the night or something! Thanks for writing!
@soulist (2985)
• United States
7 Jan 08
Most of my neighbors are pretty nice. The ones to the right of us do get on our nerves sometimes because they don't properly clean their pool or moved their grass as often as they should, but we don't let it get to us.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
1 Jan 08
My neighbors on one side are nice but they drive me crazy. The husband is obsessed with gardening! He is always out there doing something to his roses or mowing his lawn. He makes me feel very inadequate. I know I have no gardening skills, but he is just ridiculous.
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• India
7 Jun 07
i have been very fortunate to have a very friendly neighbour hood..... but i can understand the agony of bad neighbours as my brother has one..
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• United States
9 Jun 07
theyre nice they greet me and my family a lot. :)
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
4 Feb 08
I don't deal with my neighbors, I don't trust anyone of them. I would like to move away from hee, my husband likes it here but I don't. We are suppose to move in the summer. I can't wait to move away from here!
@stellarjade (1238)
• United States
12 Dec 06
I live in an appartment, and have a mixture of both. Some of them are very nice. but i have some really noisy ones that live above me. i can understand being noisy occasionally, but its all the time. they always have parties late at night, always have on loud music, jumping around, pounding on the floor. ugh.
@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
13 Dec 06
That would drive me nuts having people living above me making noise like that all the time! At least there's a few nice neighbors, but still, it doesn't make up for all the lost sleep and quiet you probably don't get. Thanks for writing, I hope it improves for you!
@vhansen (2029)
• United States
28 Nov 06
Living in a large city is abit taxing.My neighbors are mostly nice but the kids wandering the neighborhood aren't.We've had random vandelism and lots of noise.
@JoyfulOne (6232)
• United States
12 Dec 06
I'm glad your neighbors are mostly nice. I can see where kids, noise, and vandalism could be a problem though! (I responded to this quite a while back and was surprised to see it wasn't here! Don't know what happened, but almost all of my replies from that week were erased or something?! Oh well, lol!) Thanks for your post!
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
23 Mar 08
I am not a people person, and i dont mingle much with our neighbors. We dont know each other that much cause we dont see each other very often. WE live in an apartment, have a few his and hellos when we see them by the parking lot... but i do not know their names!! heheh I just know they are my neighbors from their faces.
@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
19 Apr 07
I have neighbors on one side who are fanatics about their yard and plants. They are always out there doing something. They have these horrid spotlights in a circle of stones with flowers and a tree. One of the spots is aimed so it shines in my living room. If I wanted to be difficult, I could make them move their circle thing because it is 3 feet on my side of the property line, I found this out when I bought the house. I have no idea if they know it.
@cream97 (29086)
• United States
7 Apr 10
Hi, JoyfulOne. My downstairs neighbors drive me up the wall with the constant banging on their ceiling, to get our attention. And my other neighbors are okay, they don't bother me and I don't bother them. The lady that lives across from us, does take the time and effort to speak to my family when she sees us. Everyone else does not. My husband did speak to our downstairs neighbors, but they never spoke back though.. I really don't personally deal with my neighbors. I will either speak to them or just go about my business.